Mrs Western, having drained Mrs Miller of all she knew, which, indeed, was but little, but which was sufficient to make the aunt suspect a great deal, dismissed her with assurances that Sophia would not see her, that she would send no answer to the letter, nor ever receive another; nor did she suffer her to depart without a handsome lecture on the merits of an office to which she could afford no better name than that of
procuress.--This discovery had greatly discomposed her temper, when, coming into the apartment next to that in which the lovers were, she overheard Sophia very warmly protesting against his lordship's addresses.
'Tis something of relief even to be undone by a man of honour, rather than by a scoundrel; but here the greatest disappointment was on his side, for he had really spent a great deal of money, deluded by this madam the
procuress; and it was very remarkable on what poor terms he proceeded.
Von Honthorst in particular: 'His paintings are like a play,' he says, with a picture such as the museum's own The
Procuress showing a buxom girl, a
procuress and a young man with a bag of money (Fig.
In particular, visual effects in Vermeer's paintings reveal his use of a mirror in The
Procuress [1656], a concave lens in A Maid Asleep [ca.
Even though it is clear that he has some money (he owns a house, several slaves, and was able to shower Rosie's
procuress with gifts), it is likely that most of what he says about himself is a gross exaggeration.
Let the tomb of the
procuress be an old amphora with a broken neck: assault it from above, wild fig tree.
Of course, Ecclesia cannot be lost, and the procession of images from
procuress to mother needs a virgin to complete the transformed perception.
In a regime of economic laissez-faire, which had at its heart the repulsive excesses of Edward VII, the fact that Mrs Warren was a
procuress with a consequently large bank balance through trading in flesh, was somehow indulgedor whitewashed over by those who had money in her business, and were looking for a good return on their capital.
True Mandevell Sincoup--Husband Interrupts Settee Siesta--Rector's Daughter Divorced." HUSH Free Press, 12 October 1935: "White Slave Lures: Sinister Servant-Girl Snare Used by Convicted Montreal
Procuress, Mme.
Wolfe's charged descriptions bring to mind paintings by Otto Dix and George Grosz illustrating the degradation resulting from cupidity and lust, such as Dix's old and scheming
Procuress (c.
[...] I was an aborting ragpicker, a pox-promoting
procuress, a lynch-promoting janitress (Queneau 2003: 308).
An extended representation of the performative nature of balconies occurs in the Histrion's Prologue to Il Marescalco, in which he impersonates a wife approached at her home by a
procuress who spotted her in church.