"Madam" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had paid her court, and used to ride over to see her, and how she was even pleased to put on her best cap, with ribbons of salmon colour, and her yellow gown of tru-tru levantine for him; but how, later on, she had been angry with the gentleman neighbour for his unseemly inquiry, "What, madam, pray, might be your fortune?" and had bade them refuse him the house; and how it was then that she had given directions that, after her decease, everything to the last rag should pass to Fedor Ivanitch. And, indeed, Lavretsky found all his aunt's household ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... things, the musico-mania is attacked as having reached the highest acme of absurdity. The Covent Garden proprietors are very roughly handled, but not more roughly than they deserve, for hiring Madam Catalani at the enormous salary of four thousand pounds sterling and a free benefit for the season, with a provision annexed, which is thought insolent, degrading, and unjust; no less than that of her French husband putting ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Volume I, Number 1 • Stephen Cullen Carpenter
... Doris and her third- or fourth-cousin will make a match?" Madam Royall said one evening when they had been playing morris and she had won the rubber. "How can you ...
— A Little Girl in Old Boston • Amanda Millie Douglas
... grasp me in his holy embrace, madam," said he, "if I am lying when I says that word. It is my most ...
— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains
... "At your beck, madam." "O Puck my goblin! I have lost my belt, The strong thief, Robin Outlaw, forced it ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
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