What is "songstress"

Usage examples of "songstress".

He was getting tired of waiting for the Songstress to reveal her true identity, to confess the truth.

The dark haired sister was definitely his Songstress, not the blonde haired sister.

The singing appeared to me mediocre, but the songstress in her peignoir interested me much.

The songstress then gathered up her hair, which hung very low, in her two hands and twisted it in the air, just as the washerwomen do.

As on the previous evening, the fair songstress sat down at her piano, then proceeded slowly to make her night toilette.

In the screen, a barely clad songstress sat under a palm tree near a beach, plucked a ukulele, and looked seductive as she crooned.

I lifted the lid and showed Beatrice that the one-time songstress, the handmaiden of Amen, slept there no more, and the case was empty.

It was the golden casket of Ta-Nezem, but its occupant was more beautiful than the poor, shriveled Songstress of Naam.

Pricker can sooner force a camel through the eye of his needle than make a songstress of his daughter.

Yes, I am going, and nothing shall remind the proud songstress of me, neither my presence nor any of my possessions.

I am dead, and the lawyers come and read my will, which I gave them to-day, then you will know that I have left my fortune to the poor of the city, and not to this great songstress, who does not need it, as she has a million in her throat.

Four live musicians softly blew and strummed old jazz instruments, while a single amber spotlight shone on the coffee colored, deceivingly languid songstress, whose sequined dress went all the way to her wrists and chin.

The mute songstress of these deeds was a statue of Heroic Poetry who stood upon the cupola.