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    courtesan


    1. mentioned that the Master kept a courtesan in town


    2. imagining the sort of dwelling where a courtesan would entertain her patron


    3. courtesan unwrapped them, she could envelop Theoton


    4. She wondered if she paled in beauty next to the courtesan


    5. have a courtesan in town


    6. evenings with his other courtesan


    7. What’s more, becoming his courtesan would remove her from Lady Phyllis’s spiteful reach


    8. But the difference between a temple courtesan and a tavern whore was like the sparkling Elysian Fields compared to the


    9. Still, Nerissa thought it strange that this had come so soon after he’d offered to make her his courtesan


    10. He’d wait until she healed, then honor his promise to make her his courtesan

    11. Come to think of it, Thea once mentioned that Theoton’s courtesan in town was beautiful, but barren


    12. Or if she’d become Theoton’s courtesan, would the bond have been a fraction as secure as this?


    13. Ensuring she was spotlessly clean he examined her and instructed her to stand this way and that, bend over, life her arms, never touching her, when she was dressed he made her twirl around and display herself like a courtesan, strutting around the barn


    14. Saigon had become the classic example of the abandoned courtesan reduced to abuse in the hands of the lower caste


    15. They will follow their goblin and orc Captains with a greater degree of loyalty than they did the troll woman imposter and her winged courtesan


    16. Her daemon courtesan, Guardon, was forced to return to the Plane of Chaos through a breach in the gorgon-protected fortress


    17. After writing her first novel, it took her twenty-seven years to achieve publishing success with her book Claiming the Courtesan


    18. Darrell - You had several years of writing before finally breaking into the big time with Claiming the Courtesan


    19. Anna - I actually finished my first historical romance after high school and it was twenty-seven years after that that I sold Claiming the Courtesan to Avon in New York


    20. The thing that made a difference between Claiming the Courtesan and my previous manuscripts is that I’d finally learned to write emotion

    21. Where should he search first, in the limited time at his disposal? The priest he had overheard babbling to a courtesan had said the treasure was hidden in the palace


    22. He looked like a high-priced courtesan


    23. And suddenly he heard a low scream from a woman on the other side of the street and somewhat ahead of him—a naked courtesan wearing the tall plumed head-dress of her class


    24. The fact that Ulysses stays with Circe for a year seems very similar to what Herman Hesse describes in his Siddhartha, where Siddhartha goes for a certain time to stay with a courtesan


    25. " She paused for a while, "You know I was so angry, I literally told him, it's because I'm my mother's daughter, that's why he saw me as some kind of royal courtesan to ensnare you between my legs


    26. Her mother was a courtesan, while her father’s name is


    27. to the role of courtesan, until the age 38


    28. As long as this female courtesan of his was alive: she managed to give him some good advice on how to rule his Empire


    29. “No, she was a courtesan, and they fell in love


    30. Dorothea turned red at Sancho's words, for the truth was that her husband Don Fernando had now and then, when the others were not looking, gathered from her lips some of the reward his love had earned, and Sancho seeing this had considered that such freedom was more like a courtesan than a queen of a great kingdom; she, however, being unable or not caring to answer him, allowed him to proceed, and he continued, "This I say, senor, because, if after we have travelled roads and highways, and passed bad nights and worse days, one who is now enjoying himself in this inn is to reap the fruit of our labours, there is no need for me to be in a hurry to saddle Rocinante, put the pad on the ass, or get ready the palfrey; for it will be better for us to stay quiet, and let every jade mind her spinning, and let us go to dinner

    31. "That, Sancho," returned Don Quixote, "reminds me of what happened to a famous poet of our own day, who, having written a bitter satire against all the courtesan ladies, did not insert or name in it a certain lady of whom it was questionable whether she was one or not


    32. When he was coming she filled the two large blue glass vases with roses, and prepared her room and her person like a courtesan expecting a prince


    33. A beautiful courtesan has been my teacher for a long time, and a rich merchant was my teacher, and some gamblers with dice


    34. But maskt, I could be all Things to him; all Women: French Courtesan or Turkish Harem Slave, Venetian Lady or Provençal Peasant, Spanish Nun or English Trollop


    35. She was no Whore pretending to the Manners of a Duchess, no Courtesan masquerading as a Countess, no Harlot claiming to be Queen


    36. Fortune is frankly a courtesan, Rapp


    37. "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chaeronea if he could bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in Greece and in Egypt


    38. He has a high-priced courtesan in to visit discreetly, once a week


    39. In her day she had enjoyed a legendary career as a clandestine courtesan who deserved her nom de guerre, Our Lady of Everybody


    40. A Greek courtesan who sat to Praxiteles for his statues of Venus

    41. At the present time they no longer make war because a prince was disrespectful to a courtesan, as such things happened in the time of Louis XIV


    42. While, on moral grounds, we may inveigh against the courtesan, when we meet her in everyday life, the fact remains that for the stage there is no character in greater demand by “star” actresses and “romantic” playwrights


    43. If, in ransacking history, they are lucky enough to discover a courtesan who can be billed as a “king’s favorite,” they appear to smack their lips exultantly


    44. As soon as the playwright has excavated a courtesan, he begins to think of the best way of whitewashing her


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    Synonyms for "courtesan"

    concubine courtesan doxy paramour harlot whore mistress

    "courtesan" definitions

    a woman who cohabits with an important man