"Porteress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Old Jocunda, the porteress, never failed to make a sensation with her one stock-story of how she found the child standing on her head and crying,—having been put into this reversed position in consequence of climbing up on a high stool to get her little fat hand into the vase of holy water, failing ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various |
