1. "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress.

2. The old portress who had served him was among the number.

3. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last long.

4. The portress had "done up" his room; only she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened by the fire.

5. There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha.

6. The portress told me that he could not come to-day.

7. As he strode over a gutter, he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand.

8. It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the principal lodger, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who had let him the lodging on Christmas eve.

9. The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were audible in the corridor.

10. Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the factory, whether the mayor had returned(sentencedict.com/portress.html), and if he would not come to the infirmary soon.

11. That when he went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told the portress not to expect him that night.

12. He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress.

13. There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or of some work-woman.