lady superior

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The lady superior read the note, signed by Dr. Seignebos.

From Within an Inch of His Life by Gaboriau, Émile

For, even though the King himself bid thee come, yet is thy obligation to thy lady superior to the command of the King.

From The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Pyle, Howard

This was Michaelmas: on that day the press was to have followed Lenette's Salzburg emigrants, the napkins, as their lady superior; but nobody in all the town would have anything to do with it.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

They followed, in adopting this measure, the advice and the example of the lady superior.

From King Alfred of England Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

Many would have thought the matured charms of the lady superior to the innocent-looking beauty of the girl; but no one could have come to such an opinion who saw them both at that moment.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore