find the lady
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It takes the rest of the evening to find the lady and make her confess.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next morning I put the jewelry in a cigar box, gave it to my partner, and told him to find the lady and return it to her.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol
At an hour when she was sure to find the lady alone, she went and solicited alms, weeping and bemoaning her sad fate at being a lonely old woman whose husband was long since dead.
From Told in the Coffee House Turkish Tales by Cyrus Adler
Now that I have got the stone I am, as you may well believe, more than anxious to find the lady to whom it shall belong—again, as I suppose you would say.
From The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension by George Chetwynd Griffith
He had been contrasting her with his sister, greatly to the disparagement of his home life; and he was disappointed to find the lady break down where the actress would have succeeded so well.
From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw
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