procuratress

Example Sentences

• "So much may suffice for her person; there is something due to be said of her Practise, and to this part I must invite none but Mercuriallists and the Procuratresses of the Colledge of Venus, who have long desired and expected the Works and Memorialls of this Virago, as deserving a place in the Rationale and Account of Time, as well as Oliver, but farre beyond Prince Crispine and his Lady, and the rest of that Leud Rout, and band of Knight Errantry."
• "Consider fourthly, how here is verified the saying of the Psalme: Suscopimus Deus misericordiam tuam in medio templi tui: vve haue receiued thy mereie, ô God, in the middes of thy temple: for God the Father by the Priest, his publike Minister deliuered vs againe his onely Sonne from of the Altar of the Temple; vvhere the Virgin Mother as our procuratresse receiued him in our name before vvitnesses old Simeon, Ioseph, and the holy vvidow Anna;"
• "The first Grate Sister Sʳ Constantia Massy who dyd in yᵉ Octʳ following, & was by Rᵈ Father Crosse’s orders succeeded in office by Victoria Fortescue. first Ms of yᵉ schoole Sʳ Mary Catharine, Whence it is to be observed yᵗ in this Election were yᵉ offices of Grate Sister & Procuratresses instituted."
• "procuratrice procuratreſs or pr.’s lady"
• "The wily procuratress, on several pretences, declined answering the question;"
• "A carriage is overturned in a stony road, near the little town of Gondrecourt. It must be set to rights; but there is much to do, and few to do it, and consequently the delay will be long. Besides, there is no accommodation in the place; the judge, the curate, the bailiff and bailiff-ess, the procuratress-fiscal, and in fact all the best company, being in the country."