Adventureress

[…] but since the unfortunate embarrassment of Colonel Breckinridge, attendant upon his being made, as he believes, the victim of a shrewd adventureress and schemer, he has been, and still is, unwilling that his name should be further used, until Colonel Breckinridge and his friends, one of whom Mr. Bronston claims to be, “shall have had full opportunity to restore him to that confidence which his past official career, brilliant attachments and personal integrity have so richly deserved.”

Third race 4 1-2 furlong Parthenia, 115 (Tribe), 1 to 2, 1; Adventureress, 115 (Godfrey), 8 to 1, 2; Jolly Bov, 118 (Murphy), 8 to 1, 3; time, 1:17 3-4. Waywayonda, Vexatio geld, Berwick, Prince Marie, John Rudden, Boonton, Delia M. also ran.

Mr. Strong, of Lebannon, who introduced the bill, said several scandals had resulted in this vicinity from marriages into which adventureress had inveigled the sons of rich parents.

A recent extradition case at Hamburg, the person involved being a clever adventureress who passed herself off in Berlin and elsewhere as the Archduchess Theresa d’Este, and victimized several persons to the amount of 200,000 marks ($40,000), is the direct cause of reopening the negotiations for a revision of the treaty.

The adventureress, failing to win the injured lover’s attachment, pools her issues with those of the male villian till more and striking complications ensue.

C. M. Martin, the horseman, identifies them as two adventureresses, who “worked” the coast a few years ago.

He declared in his speech that he had been victimized by the bold adventureress with whom he had become infatuated.

And, Archie, don’t tell your mother what you have just said or she will be imagining Miss Lester an adventureress of the deepest dye.

This delightful adventureress yet claims that her trunks and other baggage that has been lost will come around all right and that she will be able to prove that she is whom she claims to be.

The princess, deserted and alone, shamed her parentage by joining the legion of adventureresses at Budapest, and fell lower and lower as her beauty gradually faded.

J. I. White assumes the role of villain, and with Alma Chester, who plays the part of the adventureress, receives hisses enough to suit almost anyone.

Gilbert is also a Russian spy, and carries on an intrigue with a Russian adventureress (Miss Isabel Norman).

Since the arrival in Philadelphia nearly fifty years ago the “Countess de Beetancourt,” found dead and supposed to have been murdered on Tuesday, has established a record as an adventureress as inexplicable as it is unequaled.

There are more adventureresses and blackmailers who are willing to go into court than there are respectable women who will ask a court to estimate in dollars the compensatory damages due to the possessor of a broken heart.

Sensations abound in this exciting melodramatic production dealing with the life of a French adventureress, madly in love with a counterfeiter, whom she betrays when she learns he has secretly wedded a famous female detective, only to aid him to escape when the officers are about to arrest him.

A Decade of the Lives of Porter Charlton and His Murdered Wife Tells a Thrilling Story of an Adventureress’ Life and Teems with Love, Intrigue, Revelry and May End in Italian Dungeon.

The prattle of an innocent child, the tears of an old blind mother, the strong love of a simple country girl, the passion of an adventureress, the truth of a half wit, theh^([sic]) love of an old negro and the tender memory of a dead mother of the past Governor or Arkansas, are all cleverly intermingled by the deft hand of the author of this absorbing tale of the Arkansas Hills.

For long it was the custom upon the stage to dress every adventureress, every woman of the half world, in clothes of this shade.

We have no patience with her, we detest her a political hag, an irresponsable^([sic]) adventureress.

The engagement will open with a production of “The Adventureress,” which is said to be a splendid play.

WHO KILLED OLGA CAREW—Two part Imp drama, with a photographer, an artist and an adventureress; […]

This is the story of a successful adventureress: Two weeks ago the manager of the Hotel Biltimore—which is the newest plush lined pile in town—spoke to the cashier.

Fogg falls victim to an adventureress and becomes married.

Decidedly she must be saved from the mean schemes of the adventureress.

Mrs. Layton posed as Jordan’s daughter, but it would seem that she is an adventureress of the worst type and that she and Jordan planned to kill Layton and gain possession of his money.

[…] a beautiful woman, who tells the novelist that she is the wife of the railroad president, but who in reality is an adventureress with designs on the $200,000 and a crooked mayor and his man, who also claim the hidden wealth.

Maude George, one of the cleverest of actresses who play the adventureress and the conniving woman, is another handsome woman found in congenial circumstances.

Because a well bred and beautiful girl objected to her father marrying, his second wife, a Parisian adventureress, she paid dearly.

Many adventureresses have been marrying several American soldiers each, in order to get the allotment of pay granted by the government to wives of soldiers.

He must guard himself from beggars, cranks, curiosity seekers, matchmakers, adventurers and adventureresses and people who want to sell him things.

At the Columbia Theater starting today, Rex Beach’s “Recoil,” a drama of beautiful adventureresses, featuring Betty Blythe and Mahlon Hamilton with a large cast including Europes^([sic]) ten most beautiful women.

She must be at heart a bad woman; one of those adventureresses.

All ages have had ther charmin’ women, but they’ve been mostly sorceresses, an’ adventureresses, go-gitters, an’ the like.

Adventurers and soldiers of fortune, adventureresses and ladies of fortune, drift in from many lands.

Now this one ‘A Woman Must Not Lose Her Heart;’ this one, ‘Madame Felicia, the Mill Girl Smarted Herself Into the Royal Court;’ this one, ‘Racquel, the Spanish Adventureress Came Near Turning Over an Empire;’ this one, ‘Titina Emptied Three or Four Country Treasuries;’ those were the women.

“Rony Brace, bride of the proud invalid. Eric Chatonier, goes with him to his home in New Orleans, where she is made to feel an interloper and an adventureress by the strange members of his family. Her unhappy position is complicated still further when two murders are committed in swift succession.”

Crooks, desert drives, and all sorts of adventurers and adventureresses play big part in “Fugitive Lady,” which will come to the Riviera Friday and Saturday.

The adventureresses had indeed fared well. They arrived at Okanogan with twenty-six horses, fathoms upon fathoms of higua, deerskin garments, and buffalo robes uncounted.

Scarlet ladies, gambling women, adventureresses; they’re all magnificently represented in this most readable history book that tells it like it was.

Among them were adventureresses, professional gamblers and wom-[…]

The heroine of this author’s writing is The Baroness who appears to the outside world as simply an international playgirl. Those in the know (which now includes you) soon find that she is a top adventureress-agent à la Modesty Blaise.

Born in Rome on August 26, 1880, Wilhelm Apollinairis de Kostrowitzky was an illegitimate child; in “The Thief,” he says that his “father was asphinx and his mother a night.” In reality, his mother was a Polish adventureress of noble ancestry, Angelique Kostrowicka, known in Paris mostly as Olga.

“Hmmm. You two start breaking camp,” the adventureress ordered. “I’ll fetch him, and we’ll be off. I’m not inclined to hang around here.”

To fill out the sixteen-page section, [Will] Eisner created two backup features for the Spirit: “Lady Luck,” a glamorous adventureress, and “Mr. Mystic,” a reworking of his “Yarko, the Great Magician.”

Eager to make amends and fed up with the cheap noodleries, Chinese restaurants and pricey, trendoid Thai places that all claim to serve good food from that enchanted land but don’t, I returned to this old haunt with a favourite adventureress.

[Oscar] Wilde, being a first-class subversive, implies that the Wicked Lady, an unshamed adventureress and serial lover, ought be admired for the courage of her convictions: by contrast he mocks the aristocrats as immoralists desperate to be caught in a good light.

As far as I was concerned, bubbly little Aunt Nell was mustard (nice hot stuff). She’d married early – an English butcher who died soon after, leaving her enough money to set up as a global adventureress, with occasionally stints as a teacher in exotic places, like Kenya and California.

Kazan often calls Loden “a bitch”, and saw her as bold, fearless, a sexual adventureress, maybe a golddigger – while her close collaborators, Nicholas (Nick) T. Proferes who shot and edited the film, and Michael Higgins who played Mr. Dennis to her Wanda, perceived her as “insecure” and “sensitive”.

“This encyclopedia begins where all the figures who haunt us today seem to have begun: right in the middle of Victoria, where the monsters began to flourish, and the adventureresses, the swashbucklers, the great detectives, the savants, the evil financiers, the exiles, the spies, the courtesans, the thuggees, the vampires, the heroes who do not die, the brave boys who invent[…]”

Lilith (dracula’s daughter) FIRST APPEARANCE Giant-Size Chillers Vol. 1 #1 (June 1974) REAL NAME Unrevealed OCCUPATION Adventureress BASE South of France HEIGHT 6 ft WEIGHT 125lbs EYES Red HAIR Black

“If she [Lisa Freeman] were a man, you could say she has a lot of testosterone,” he [Luther Freeman] said, smiling. “She’s an adventureress. She white-water rafts and snow skis, scuba dives and does all sorts of things, and she decided back several years ago that she wanted to skydive.