Geoffrey Hughes in Swearing: A social history of foul language, oaths and profanity in English ( Blackwell, 1991 ), points out that " by my lady " is not an adjective whereas " bloody " is, and suggests that the slang use of the term started with " bloody drunk " meaning " fired up and ready for a fight ".

The toasts of the Kit-Kat Club were famous at the time, and drunk to the honour of a reigning beauty, or lady to whom the Club wished to do particular honour.

In his personal life Alfred did not drink alcohol because his mother was treated so badly by his Father who was a drunk, Alfred was also a atheist mainly because his Mother was a strict catholic who had a very hard life and died a terrible death with cancer, Alfred said if there was a God he would never have let a strict catholic and kind lady like his mother be treated like this and die in such a way.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

The English lady really wanted to put a wreath on the Garibaldi monument on the 30th of April.

I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??

A tall lady, with a ruffled collar very low on her bosom, turned insolent green eyes upon him.

Designers and manufacturers have produced models for purchasers who run the gamut from a nautical version of the elderly Pasadena lady who never drove more than five miles an hour on her once-a-month ride around the block, to the sportiest boatman who insists on all the dash, color, flair and speed possible to encompass in a single boat.

The policeman got a confused, funny look on his face, and he had answered kind of politely, `` Now, look here, lady: I know you got to entertain these kids and all.

There she walked to the far left and leaned on a vacant section of banister, while the vendor picked himself another well-dressed American lady, carrying a camera and a handsome alligator bag, ascending the steps alone.

President Bill Clinton ( center ), first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ( right ) and their daughter Chelsea Clinton ( left ) wave to watchers at a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1997.

The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names, was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century.

Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

They are heavily cloaked, as is the lady, to protect themselves from the hot climate and dust on the road.

On knocking on one door the lady of the house, presuming him to be a sailor in search of " horizontal refreshment ", directed him to the local brothel several doors down the road.

In an elaborate festival held on the anniversary of the revolt that brought the monarchy to its knees, David's Hercules figure was revealed in a procession following the lady Liberty ( Marianne ).

The Southern belle was bred to conform to a subspecies of the nineteenth-century " lady "... For Scarlett, the ideal is embodied in her adored mother, the saintly Ellen, whose back is never seen to rest against the back of any chair on which she sits, whose broken spirit everywhere is mistaken for righteous calm ...

George liked this lady very much, and her words, " You must learn all you can, then go back out into the world and give your learning back to the people ", made a great impression on him.

Fox married Margaret Fell of Swarthmoor Hall, a lady of high social position and one of his early converts, on 27 October 1669 at a meeting in Bristol.

Stoll's portrait of himself, his lady Martha, and his friends at Berkeley and on the Internet paints a marvelously vivid picture of how hackers and the people around them like to live and how they think.

( The-tzin suffix was the Nahuatl equivalent of " sir " or " lady " bestowed on them by the Tlaxcalans.

" She wrote in her memoirs, " I don't think I was as bad, or as extreme in my power or my weakness, as I was depicted ," but went on, " owever the first lady fits in, she has a unique and important role to play in looking after her husband.

He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.

You had grown up at a time when the most distinguishing mark of a lady was the noli me tangere writ plain across her face.

There was, of course, more to the portrait of a lady you carried in your mind's eye than the sine qua non of her virtue.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

`` Um '', said the old lady, and brought her eyes down to the tray.

Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

She presented the character as a bold and eccentric old lady, different from the prim and birdlike character Christie created in her novels.

The story is told that one of the Abencerrages, having fallen in love with a lady of the royal family, was caught in the act of climbing up to her window.

An 18th-century broadside ballad: The tragical ballad: or, the lady who fell in love with her serving-man.

Halfway through filming Chaplin fired his leading lady, Virginia Cherrill, only to ask her back a week later.

Their relationship brought him much happiness, and Chaplin intended to use her as his next leading lady.

He designates a neighboring farm girl as his lady love, renaming her Dulcinea del Toboso, while she knows nothing about this.

The combat ends with the lady leaving her carriage and demanding those traveling with her to " surrender " to Don Quixote.

Salvation, previously found in the hands of the priesthood, now came from the hands of one's lady.

A lady washing her hands c. 1655

Later she goes into the restroom to wash her hands and the cleaning lady there insists this is her second time there.

:" it seems most strange that ... the Creator of Heaven and Earth resorted to the womb of a certain Jewish lady, grew there for nine months and was born as an infant, and afterwards grew up and was betrayed into the hands of his enemies who sentenced him to death and executed him, and that afterwards ... he came to life and returned to his original place.

Man shaking hands with women can be considered impolite, since hand-kissing is preferred as a ritual for greeting a lady.

Robert Jenkins hands a dismissive Prime Minister Robert Walpole his severed ear, as his companions lift off his wig to show the scar ; one of Walpole's associates displays total indifference, preferring to converse with a lady.

* Paavai vilakku, a brass or bronze lamp in the form of a lady holding a vessel with her hands.

A November 6, 1971, cartoon in The New Yorker by Whitney Darrow, Jr. shows a cleaning lady on her hands and knees scrubbing an office floor while saying to another one: " I'd like to see George Plimpton do this sometime.

* Madame Yes-In the fifth season episode " Doctor Sinister " Fred and Barney meet Madam Yes, a seductive lady spy who manipulates them into aiding her in her covert activities, repeatedly landing them in trouble and then quickly escaping saying " I'm too important to be captured " leaving Fred and Barney in peril at the hands of the villains.

One pamphlet related a story of his elopement with a lady to Spain, where he fell into the hands of the Inquisition.

Don Quixote describes her appearance in the following terms: "... her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her ; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare.

The following letter was found upon the table near the late Damien Marchesseault, addressed to Mrs. Marchesseault ; and was place in our hands for publication by the friends of that lady:

The foods of the world lady: A woman who works at the Anthropology Museum ; she hands out different food samples from around the world.

A flash-forward shows the lady who passes Lola in the hallway later settling down with the cashier who hands Lola the money at gunpoint.

The Presentation of Buddha was purchased from a German lady by another famous Chinese artist, only to end up in the hands of the Japanese.

A Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ) Chinese ceramics | Chinese ceramic figurine of a Lady's maid | lady servant in a standard formal pose with hands covered by long sleeve cuffs in the traditional fashions

# Both starting with the left foot, take four steps forward ; on the fifth step, change position, the man crossing over behind the lady without releasing the hands or losing a step ; three more steps forward and then cross back again ; then three more steps forward.

Prof. Johnston's son, Chris ( Paul Walker ) is more infatuated with Kate than digging, until Marek shows him a sarcophagus of a French knight with a lopped ear, in an unusual position, holding hands with his lady beside for eternity.

His family soon discovers that these spirits include a a wailing lady, clutching hands, a floating head, a fiery skeleton, an Italian chef murdering his wife and her lover in the kitchen, a hanging lady, an executioner and decapitated head, a fully grown lion with its headless tamer, and Dr. Zorba himself who are held captive in the eerie house and must find an unlucky thirteenth ghost to free them.

When any of these three ' suave ' hands are produced, it is common for all players to shout ' property of a lady '.

: The head lady and foot man advance, join both hands straight across and make one complete turn, then return to places.

In the centre is shown a life-sized lady wearing a dress with tight-fitting body, low in the neck, laced from hands to waist with tight sleeves, full skirt and reticulated head-dress.