I danced with everybody in sight - sleek young beauties, elderly dowagers and twice with a giggling Mrs. Pumphrey.

She seems to enjoy the cracking energy of the street, the admiring looks from pedestrians, an unexpected greeting from a sanitation worker high in his truck or an elderly dowager in fur.

I saw Javanne and Gabriel move, smiling, onto the floor; the Regent bowed to an elderly dowager, one of Callina's distant kinswomen, and they moved into the sedate measure.

Performances began in 1932, at first for elderly dowagers in the area.

Even her jewellery was modest, a few small intricate pieces; making the elderly gem-bedecked dowagers in the queue seem absurdly gauche in comparison.

And so was Lady Ashton, she thought, as the elderly dowager gave her a sudden wicked grin that was oddly like Alex's.

My father was being polite to elderly dowagers on the sidelines.

I cried with the skittish accent of an elderly dowager.

Lady Tressilian, an elderly dowager confined to her bed, annually invites several guests to her seaside home of Gull's Point for two weeks at the end of the summer.

Miriam noticed another familiar figure, an elderly dowager in a blue twin-set and pearls.