Sentence examples for marvellous lady from inspiring English sources

Mr Ainley, who described Mrs Johnson as a "really marvellous" lady, said she had been suffering from cancer for a number of years and passed away peacefully at a hospice with her family present.

She was a marvellous lady, a television producer who listed translating Noddy books into Latin among her many achievements.

Here he made the acquaintance of a "marvellous eccentric," Lady Mary Coke, who divorced her boorish husband, slept in a dresser drawer and was convinced that the Empress Maria Theresa was trying to steal her servants.

There was a marvellous story told by the lady who used to be on Radio 2 before Wogan [the presenter Sarah Kennedy] about two former BBC executives in a bar in Glasgow.

Marvellous play by Kenny Dalglish..."...

Nicholas Maw's The Rising of the Moon (1970) gave her, as Lady Eugenie Jowler, "the most marvellous fun I've ever had on stage".

But he was equally good as a Richard III, full of bustling energy and self-loathing: I remember his astonishment at realising that Lady Anne found him "a marvellous proper man".

The 1,000 troops have witnessed some marvellous scenes, he said: "There was one lady who was stuck at the bottom on her Stannah stairlift after the electrics failed who tried to get the troops to rescue someone else before her".

I thought I was going to get a marvellous part as the old cook but I got the lady of the house.

Such is the nature of fairy tales: they make us want to live in our imaginations — and how marvellous it had been to dream that a nice old lady wanted to make tea for me and whisper her secrets.

And, at some leafy point along the way, I will no doubt remember once again the encounter with the lady in black, which has become mythic in my mind: that marvellous old woman, laughing, laughing, laughing.