Example Sentences

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Emma, Lady Hamilton did not start as a lady, and according to Biographer Bowen, achieved ladyhood only technically.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smoky-eyed Lucile Barrow Turner is the poised, ingratiating, slightly helpless-seeming epitome of Southern ladyhood.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I coaxed you into ladyhood, Ophelia. I taught you the ways of the court, and watched you grow into a clever and learned woman.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

With the respectability of my ladyhood thus impeached, and lest I infringe upon the cast-iron code of box-factory etiquette, there was nothing to do but yield.

From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Richardson, Dorothy

When she grew to young ladyhood she often left Green Valley for wonderful trips to the ends of the world.

From Green Valley by Reynolds, Katharine