Sentence examples for respectable lady from inspiring English sources

A woman who grew up on the streets of London dreams of becoming a respectable lady.

At the time, of course, smoking was considered beyond the pale for any respectable lady.

"She wanted to expand the idea of what a respectable lady could do," said the granddaughter, the Rev. Kathry Piccard, who works in a parish near Boston.

She said she was a respectable lady, a good mother and "a pure innocent person" falsely accused of a non-existent crime.

Mother is funny, clever and kind, but she is invariably a respectable lady, even though jam AND butter on the same piece of bread now represents "reckless luxury".

There could hardly be a more apt theme for a novel of manners than the struggle of a prominent and respectable lady to disguise her inflamed feelings in order to meet the conventions of society.

Vizard masks were worn by virtuous and vicious alike; respectable ladies followed fashions set by courtesans".

Wondering why she should be so drawn to the 62-year-old hand-wanderer, she consulted her brother, alleged babydaddy Boris, asking him what attracted respectable ladies to apparently repulsive males.

At the height of cocktail culture, in the late nineteenth century, the United States had boasted one saloon for every two hundred and fifty people, but few respectable ladies ever frequented those establishments.

In fact, Akunin, whose real name is Grigory Chkhartishvili (cause enough for a nom de plume) and who previously translated Japanese literature for a living, has said of the origins of his own career: "I decided to write the kind of detective novel that respectable ladies wouldn't be ashamed to read in the Metro".

Maybe the suggestion that two respectable ladies should break into a man's rooms and go through his things in a misguided attempt to protect the reputation of the Prince of Wales, a character we absolutely don't care about anyway?