Dignified women

Usage examples of matrons.

An embarrassed Captain Jounine spent half an hour apologizing to disgruntled matrons, some of whom seemed all the more irascible for being squeezed into armor meant for younger, lither versions of themselves.

At such times, the normal hierarchy on Stratos was known to reverse, and mighty matrons from great holds went pleading leniency from lowly men.

Clan matrons have long complained about the climbing summer birthrate, but do they act to stop it?

Practically speaking, if the grand matrons of Caria sought something, it was doubtful two poor virgins on a frontier coast would stumble across it.

She got a partial answer later, after the matrons of Starkland Hold departed, when an altercation broke out at the temple gates.

In many cases, the matrons of great clans were accompanied by younger cloneling daughters and nieces, too callow for real power, but the right age for procreation.

Maia sensed attention not only from stately matrons, but quite a few male onlookers, as well.

Among the records found, then, it was learned that the Matrons, each commanding the equivalent of a modern city, had gathered to meld their disparate ambitions.

To gauge something of the desperation among the Matrons, one need only travel south on this continent, to a place called Morn.

I drew the parcel to me and tried to undo its strings, I found the matrons had tied them too tight.

I wondered if these frigid matrons would also be embracing a lover in some garden recess, and if my pliant beauties were not waiting merely for my departure to plunge again into some interrupted quarrel with a housekeeper.

Whether sincere or not, the official eulogies and epitaphs continue to attribute to our matrons those same virtues of industry, chastity, and sobriety which were demanded of them under the Republic.