What is "stewardess"

Usage examples of "stewardess".

The stewardess went on to say that she had again gone to the cabin door, but still finding it locked, supposed that Mrs Bedo had had a bad night and was sleeping late.

She was aware of Barbera also eating on the other side of the cabin, saw him speak to his stewardess who turned and came across.

The stewardess returned and spoke to Barbera who nodded and raised his champagne glass in salute and smiled.

Leo Zane would travel beyond the maroon curtain in first class, with the free liquor and wine and champagne, and the prettier stewardesses, and the wider seats with more legroom, and the spiral staircase to a bar and lounge on an upper level, while Dortmunder and Kelp would travel in economy: the cattle car, here in back.

It was a thoroughly unpleasant scene and when it had been cooled down and the man had been found another seat as far away from Eva and the quads as possible, the stewardess went back to the galley.

The stewardess, her arm in a sling, was making tea over a spirit-lamp, and Elsa was helping her.

Tutting like castanets the stewardesses glowered as the group left the plane and the Spanish pilot came from the flight deck to view them and to stare accusingly at Nicholas.

I stretched out, calling piteously and frequently to the stewardesses for codeine and cold water.

I was taking no chances this time, so I carried with me the big searchlight with its portable battery and another torch, and gave the stewardess an armful of bamboos.

The stewardess, and her sign languagethe hard old dame of the middle air, nearing retirement, her systems warped by the magnetosphere, and by disuse (he understood disuse), like a madam summoned out of deep retirement for the last thing she wanted, going through the motions with the hand stroke, the knee bendthe cursey curtseys of the stewardess.

The woman took out a capped baby bottle and gave it to the stewardess.

Waiting for my connecting train to downtown, I fingered a winged name tag I had begged from the airline stewardess as a souvenir for Anna-Louise (hello, my name is:.

Shortly thereafter a stewardess showed up who was collecting exposure meters and passing out sleeping pills.

Whenever I travel aboard a plane except when on holiday -- which is about once every five years -- I hand the stewardess a small sealed envelope for transmission to the plane's captain and the captain, usually as anxious as the next man to impress a pretty girl, generally divulges the contents to her, which is a lot of fol-de-rol about complete priority under all circumstances and invariably wholly unnecessary except that it ensures one of impeccable and immediate lunch, dinner and bar service.

Then Powell took the Fortnighter back to Earth, and Dishonest Abe was inspired by a pretty stewardess to disgrace him.