What is "wardress"

Usage examples of "wardress".

The wardress let out a shrill shriek of laughter, and Claudia felt tears of despair fill her eyes.

The wardress deliberately stepped onto the white maize cake, smearing it into the dirt.

The rays of sun no longer penetrated to her cell, and the heavy gloom of evening was on her before she heard the wardress at the door.

Claudia forced herself to wait until she was certain the wardress had truly left and was not watching her through a spy hole.

The wardress picked up the mangled carcass by the tip of the tail and glanced back at Claudia with a measure of respect in her dark eyes.

The wardress prodded her in the small of the back and gave an order in Portuguese.

But the wardress prodded her painfully in the back and urged her toward the screened latrines at the rear of the stockade.

When they reached them, the wardress made hand signals for Claudia to empty her bucket into the communal pit, then turned away to chat with one of the other war dresses who had sauntered across to join them, AK-47 rifle over her shoulder.

She heard the voices of the wardress and her colleague still chatthig outside, and she pursed her lips and tried a soft, unconvincing imitation of the whistle.

She had spoken too loudly, and she heard the wardress call out and her footsteps at the entrance.

The wardress pushed her down the stairs, but without the viciousness of before.

Claudia replaced the sewage bucket in the corner, and when the wardress pointed at her wrists, she held them out obediently.

Once Claudia was manacled the wardress seemed to recapture her harsh mood of authority.

The wardress backed out of the cell with a muttered but unconvincing show of defiance and dragged the door closed behind her.

And when the wardress held her shoulder, it was seen that she tried to shrug off her hand.