The portress peered at him through the grille, and asked his business.

The portress brought me into her presence all unprepared, I could neither speak nor move.

The portress fell on her knees, as though fainting.

"Well now," continued the portress when she had served the supers, "is it the little dark chap out there you want?"

The portress was up with the child at first light, clucking to him sleepily and walking the tiny round of her cell.

When he arrived at the monastery, Mother Colette was made aware of his situation by the portress.

'Miss Minnie is not down yet, gentlemen,' said the blushing portress, as they all came together in the garden.

Wondering irritably why a deaf portress should be put at the gate, I raised my voice a little, going closer to the grille.

There was a portress there with a broom!"

Bordenave lowered his voice and furiously reproached the portress for having allowed the Tricon to come in.

And whilst they were carrying on, behold, someone knocked at the gate, and the portress went to see what was the matter there.

Rosine: the unprincipled though pretty portress at Madame Beck's boarding school.

Now when the portress heard her second ode, she shrieked aloud and said: "By Allah!

At that moment Mme Bron, the portress of the theater, passed by the door with an immense bouquet in her arms.

He went to the portress and asked her: "Does one of your tenants happen to be acquainted with Baron Repstein?"

Then said the portress, "By Allah, O my sister, come to me and complete this service for me."

Even yet, if he knew there was a child-" "He'd never touch such an innocent," protested the portress incredulously.

Then quoth the lady portress to the lady cateress, "Come in from the gate and relieve this poor man of his load."

It occurs early in the Arabian Nights narrative, being started during night 19, after the Tale of Portress.

In her first years in the monastery, she worked in the kitchen, infirmary and sacristy and also served as portress.

There was 5 of these domes joyn'd together, the outmost being less than the rest and serving only as a hall where the portress stood at the door.

The portress eyed him narrowly, and saw a young face soiled and drawn with travel, a young man alone, and in dead earnest, no threat.

But, suddenly, as the portress was breaking into lamentations and calling for help, Lupin flung himself on her and shook her: "Stop that!

Then the cateress crowned a cup and gave it to the portress, who took it from her hand and thanked her and drank.

Ja'afar replied, "I hear and I obey," and knocked at the door, whereupon the portress came out and opened.