What is "dammers"

Usage examples of "dammers".

This was Alicia Dammers, the novelist, who ran Women's Institutes for a hobby, listened to other people's speeches with genuine and altruistic enjoyment, and, in practice the most staunch of Conservatives, supported with enthusiasm the theories of the Socialist party.

Fielder Flemming, a short, round, homely - looking woman who wrote surprisingly improper and most successful plays and looked exactly like a rather superior cook on her Sunday out, nudged the elbow of Miss Dammers and whispered something behind her hand.

Miss Dammers conveyed the impression that if that were so, she personally had no further use for it.

Everybody knew that Miss Dammers had been the only woman (so far as rumour recorded) who had ever turned the tables on Sir Eustace Pennefather.

Alicia Dammers, with her good looks, her tall, slim figure, and her irreproachable sartorial taste, had satisfied his very fastidious requirements so far as feminine appearance was concerned.

Morton Harrogate Bradley, (4) Roger Sheringham, (5) Alicia Dammers, and (6) Mr.

Bradley and particularly Alicia Dammers (to these three he gave credit for possessing the best minds in the Circle) before irrevocably committing himself.

Roger murmured with a smile to Alicia Dammers, turning a hundred words into six, '"I decided to employ inductive methods.

One was to gather that to Miss Dammers it was immaterial whether her own mother had been mixed up in the murder, so long as her part in it had provided opportunities for the sharpening of wits and the stimulation of intelligence.

I have not the pleasure of Lady Pennefather's acquaintance, but Miss Dammers who knows her well, tells me that in almost every particular the estimate given us by Sir Charles of her character was wrong.

President," said Alicia Dammers, with her usual brisk efficiency, "I have a proposal to make.

He knew quite well that Miss Dammers no more believed in Sir Charles's guilt than he, Roger, did himself, and he knew that she was only pulling that eminent counsel's leg.

Miss Dammers professed herself a strong believer in seeing the other side, and held that it would be a very good thing for the cat occasionally to find itself chased by the mouse.

This was the first time he had succeeded in provoking Miss Dammers to snap at him, and he was rather pleased.

Bradley," said Miss Dammers with irony, "that Sir Eustace's standard of honour falls a good deal short of his own.