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Jessamy (1967) is a children's book by Barbara Sleigh, author of the Carbonel series. It sheds light on English life and childhood during the First World War, through an effectively drawn pre-adolescent female character and a time slip narrative.
Usage examples of "jessamy".
Jessamy had descended from the landaulet, and, with an awkward gallantry, helped her to climb down from her seat, when she expressed her intention to enjoy a comfortable cose with his sisters.
Reassured by Dulchesse, and gently briefed regarding what to expect when Sief finally came to her bed, Jessamy had endured her wedding night with reasonable grace.
Whatever his original intentions in marrying Jessamy, Sief would have regarded royal poaching on his marital prerogatives as, at very least, a breach of the feudal oaths that he and the king had exchanged.
Coming from a Nonpareil, these words reduced Jessamy to stammering incoherence.
Jessamy did her best to see that her young charges were included in appropriate activities, along with her own children, but Alyce found that the turning of the new year only marked the uncertainty of what lay ahead.
Drawing aside, Jessamy nodded to her daughter, who urged her pony through the opening, then gestured for Alyce and Marie to follow.
Meanwhile, Jessamy and the maid followed behind Alyce, Marie, and Jesiana, and the servant with the pack horse gave its lead over to a nun who led it through the doorway.
As Jessamy removed the dried floral wreaths from both bowed heads, the girls with the veils performed their offices, bidding Alyce and Marie to hold the front edges of the veils in place while rainbow-plaited fillets were bound across their foreheads, entirely suitable for the lives they were to lead for the next few years.
His lordship quelled the riot without the smallest difficulty, ordering Felix back to the sofa, requesting Jessamy to call off the Baluchistan hound, and adding that when he felt a desire to be deafened by a couple of gabble-mongers he would inform them of it.
When I left Hertfordshire Felix was sitting out of bed for the first time, playing cards with Jessamy.
Jessamy and the king as he briefly folded back the coverlet, for both knew that the remark had included her Krispin as well as the two trueborn princes.
In answer to a dry enquiry, Jessamy said that however much at outs he might frequently be with his senior he had never doubted Harry’.
His lordship had not forgotten his promise to take Jessamy with him, when he drove his new team of grays to Richmond—or, rather, it had been recalled to his mind by Curry, his head-groom, who had formed a very good opinion of Jessamy—and he called in Upper Wimpole Street one morning to pick the boy up: thus subjecting him to a severe struggle with his conscience.