That wasn't always the way they treated respectable ladies.

At the time, of course, smoking was considered beyond the pale for any respectable lady.

Find a respectable young lady of good family, get married and settle down!

They thought the stage no life for a respectable lady.

It was hardly a situation in which any respectable lady would wish to be seen.

He had not spent his adult years cultivating the good opinion of respectable ladies like her.

He looks down on her and even mentions that they have no right to exist if not as a respectable young lady can speak.

The girl hiker who reported the crime was a most respectable young lady, games mistress in a well-known girls' school.

"You want to get married' TO a respectable young lady?"

This one was looking for a nice respectable lady, he said.