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‘Anselmo remained amazed, and almost besides himself, hearing his friend Lothario so unexpectedly to acquaint him with those things in a time wherein he least expected them; for now he esteemed Camilla to have escaped victress from the forged assaults of Lothario, and did himself triumph for glory of her victory.

The Fourth Book. VII. Wherein Is Prosecuted the History of the Curious-Impertinent 1909

Wherever we went, we found traces of her passage: cemeteries and charnel-houses to bear witness that she was the great victress.

The Frontier Maurice Leblanc 1902

And the tug of music was there, and the tug of those words of the baroness about salvation -- the thought of achieving the impossible, reserved only for the woman of supreme charm, for the true victress.

Beyond John Galsworthy 1900

And the tug of music was there, and the tug of those words of the baroness about salvation -- the thought of achieving the impossible, reserved only for the woman of supreme charm, for the true victress.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

For if one examine it carefully, against the king that trophy was set up, and the victress was vanquished, and the beheaded was crowned, and proclaimed victor, even after his death shaking more vehemently the hearts of the offenders.

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

Queen of Scythia, appears, not yet in her more or less historical part of victress of Cyrus.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

'I wouldn't have given it him, but it is _rude_ -- it is _bad manners_, not even to ask!' the supposed victress was saying to herself, with quivering lips, her eyes following not the Trinity freshman, who was their latest captive, but an older man's well-knit figure, and

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

'I wouldn't have given it him, but it is _rude_ -- it is _bad manners_, not even to ask!' the supposed victress was saying to herself, with quivering lips, her eyes following not the Trinity freshman, who was their latest captive, but an older man's well-knit figure, and a head on which the fair hair was already growing scantily, receding a little from the fine intellectual brows.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

It is because in the moment of triumph the brow of the young victor -- victress, don't you say? no, of course, victor -- will be crowned with a laurel wreath.

A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School L. T. Meade 1884

We look with prophetic eyes over all the tumult, and see in the distance the radiant form of Liberty, bearing in her left hand the olive branch and in her right hand the sword, the holy victress, destined by treaty or conquest to bring the whole world under her sway.

Prisoner for Blasphemy 1882