What is "nieces"

Usage examples of "nieces".

Madame Orio, her nieces, and the procurator Rosa, who sat together in the room adjoining the hall, and whom I had been permitted to introduce as persons of no consequence whatever.

Rosa brought Madame Orio and her two nieces to witness it, and I had the pleasure of treating them all to a good dinner in my room.

I ordered Le Duc to stay in the ante-chamber, and when he had left the room my Paduan count told me that I had been with his nieces, and had treated them as if they were courtezans, and that he was come to demand satisfaction.

We turned back into the town, and I let myself be led up to the third floor of an ill-looking house, and in the meanest of rooms I saw the pretended nieces of Peccini.

I gave her two kisses, which evidently satisfied her, for she desired me to perform the same ceremony with her nieces, but they both ran away, and Angela alone stood the brunt of my hardihood.

She lived alone with her two charming nieces, the eldest sixteen, and the youngest fifteen years of age.

After supper, the aunt told her nieces to shew me, to my room, and, as may well be supposed, we spent a most delightful night.

Madame Orio and her lovely nieces shed many tears, and I joined them in that delightful employment.

His nieces overwhelmed me with caresses, and seemed to confirm the idea that we were old friends.

Not that that would matter, for all your nieces are discreet young persons.

She was rallied upon the circumstance, and told that nieces were not usually so emotional.

HONOURED MADAM, The occasion of my writing this will perhaps make a letter of mine agreeable to my dear aunt, for the sake of one of her nieces, though I have little reason to hope it will be so on the account of another.

Her nieces were independent young women, and it was not often that she was able to help them.

But if the truth had been known, she found her visits to Wickham Place twice as amusing since Wickham Mansions had arisen, and would in a couple of days learn more about them than her nieces in a couple of months, or her nephew in a couple of years.

She was going back to Swanage on the morrow, just as her nieces were wanting her most.