Example Sentences

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The man to be so bashful; the woman to want so much courting!—How shall two such come together—no kind mediatress in the way?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Peter of Blois declared that the Virgin was the only mediatress between Christ and humanity.

From The Evolution of Love by Schleussner, Ellie