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Examples
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In fact, I was pleasantly surprised by Stuart's young-lady looks.
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Only one suite of rooms on an upper floor was tenanted; and from one of these, the voice of a young-lady vocalist, practising bravura lustily, came flaunting out upon the silent evening.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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Mere young-lady talk, when controuled by those they hate.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Indies — practised by all young ladies, and laid aside by them when they marry, exactly as their young-lady names and young-lady habits of various kinds are laid aside.
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A half-tone portrait of the "prudish 'young-lady' proof-reader" (what a lacerating taunt!) is printed in the Bret Harte Memorial Number of the
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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The proof-readers have not dealt kindly with The Luck of Roaring Camp; but the first of that ilk to mutilate the story was also the worst, to wit, the aforesaid "prudish 'young-lady' proof-reader."
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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There was the mother, sharing her responsibility with the neat and pretty young-lady daughter.
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Lydia's young-lady friends gave her their works in oil or water-colors done in a fine, free-hand style that may one day form a school of its own.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Every author who deals in fiction feels it to be his duty to contribute towards the payment of the accumulated interest in the events of the war, by relating his work to them; and the heroes of young-lady writers in the magazines have been everywhere fighting the late campaigns over again, as young ladies would have fought them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various
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A girl of fourteen when her father bought the house, she was at the time receiving her young-lady education at the
The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford
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