Baker who was an activist, an actress, a dancer, a singer, and a spy, but not, as far as I know, a baker

Usage examples of josephine.

He had the damndest Irish-English way of talking for a man whose family had lived in France since the Empress Josephine.

Though she attempts at first to charm them, it is quickly evident that nothing can defang this nest of vipers with their thinly veiled insults regarding the six-year difference in age between Josephine and Napoleon, he being twenty-six and she thirty-two at the time of their marriage.

Bonaparte wished to give his stepdaughter to Duroc, and his brothers were eager to promote the marriage, because they wished to separate Josephine from Hortense, for whom Bonaparte felt the tenderest affection.

DUMB SHOW From a private corridor leading to a door in the aisle the EMPRESS JOSEPHINE enters, in a shining costume, and diamonds that collect rainbow-colours from the sunlight piercing the clerestory windows.

Josephine Middleton announced to the head ostler, every other ostler in the innyard, every servant and guest at the inn, and every inhabitant of the village beyond.

But as the quads were going to bed Josephine found what Sol Campito had pushed among the things in her hand luggage.

He resigns the Presidency of the Council of the Five Hundred--He is carried out by grenadiers--He harangues the troops--A dramatic scene --Murat and his soldiers drive out the Five Hundred--Council of Thirty--Consular commission--Decree--Return to Paris--Conversation with Bonaparte and Josephine respecting Gohier and Bernadotte--The directors Gohier and Moulins imprisoned.

At the outset of the journey to Italy she was such a favourite with Josephine that she dressed like her mistress, ate at table with her, and was in all respects her friend and confidante.

Tom Shaughnessy had trailed off when he saw Sylvie perched on a chair opposite Josephine, a basket of sewing demurely on her lap.

Josephine was surprised that her daughter was conducting the literary tour herself today, though it no doubt had to do with shorthandedness during Mardi Gras.

Delphine, who was the yawper, also jumped to her feet and Josephine sloshed her own coffee with chicory into its saucer.

Scott, in her rocking-chair at the French window, when Josephine reentered the parlor as her sister walked briskly away.

From this childishness of our people Josephine too has profited since the beginning.

Josephine Aout had vanished utterly, and there was not even the suggestion of a clue to her movements after she left the hospital.

Since none of the latter circumstances fitted the case of Josephine Aout, all the odds were that of her own free will she had gone to live with some man, probably in another city.