The dowager Duchess had the building converted into a library in 1761.

The Dowager Duchess went on to survive her husband for 27 years.

Nor is she likely to be murdered by the Dowager Duchess.

I saw her across a room forty-deep in dowager duchesses and that was it.

The Dowager Duchess remained in favour after her husband's death.

Then he added slyly, "And what about the lady in conversation with the dowager duchess?"

The dowager duchess of Kinvale watched the door close.

The Dowager Duchess hasn't stopped talking about it yet.

As a secondary seat the house was often allocated to a dowager duchess of Northumberland.

You met the dowager duchess, I believe.

The dowager duchess and her children returned to Wolgast Castle.

The death of the children's father left them entirely in the care of the Dowager Duchess.

It would be like undressing a dowager duchess.

The dowager duchess shrank back in her chair.

On all matters of taste and deportment, the dowager duchess's opinion holds sway.

The Dowager Duchess, however, turned him down too.

In real life, the dowager duchess would have surely cut her granddaughter dead for her loss of virtue.

The Dowager Duchess of Quirm also sent him five dollars.

Miriam craned her neck; it might be the dowager duchess, but she couldn't be certain.

This was paid for by the Dowager Duchess, the widow of the 10th Duke.

The old lady smiled at Harry like a dowager duchess greeting her granddaughter's suitor.

She became the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire at this time.

At this, cousin Violet, the Dowager Duchess, rises from her chair.

They had married two months later, much to the dismay of the dowager duchess and most of the British peerage.

Ekka, the dowager duchess of Kinvale, was long since past indulging in dancing herself.