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ancient marineress
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A reference to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which an old mariner corners a reluctant wedding guest to tell a story of a horrific voyage.
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ancient marineress (複数形 ancient marineresses)
- An old woman who bears some resemblance to Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, especially one who has an unfortunate history or insists on telling her story.
- 1879 March 5, [Rose Terry Cooke], “Dr. Parkers’ Patty”, in Nanaimo Free Press[1], volume V, number 92, Nanaimo, B.C.:
- Further than this mystic demonstration none of them had gotten, so far, for Mrs. Parker kept her glittering eye on them like an Ancient Marineress and “The boldest held his breath for a time!”
- 1917 March 1, The Herald of Gospel Liberty, volume CIX, number 9, page 212 (20):
- Two humorous numbers were given. One by Mr. G. C. Donovan, Lexington, N. C., which was entitled, Breakers Ahead, and in which he depicted Elon life and society in the year of grace 1950. The other was an original impersonation by Esmond R. Riedel, Holland, Va., to which he gave the title, The Ancient Marineress. It was a graphic portrayal of one of our “evening sisters” making her maiden voyage to London.
- 1952 February 25, Daily News, number 17,821, Los Angeles, Calif., page 17:
- 1953 April 19, Fanny Butcher, “The Literary Spotlight”, in Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume CXII, number 16, part 4, page 11:
- The worst of this lot of frustrated authors was a trembling old woman who insisted that he must read her manuscript immediately or it would be stolen by her enemies. . . . Unable to shake off this Ancient Marineress, he took her into his office, opened the huge ribbon tied manuscript, and found only blank pages.
- 1979, Financial Times[2]:
- 1998 June 7, Mark Rozzo, “The Writing Racket”, in Newsday, volume 58, number 278, page B11:
- For her part, as Ruth navigates her way through public readings, interviews and a cranky widow who keeps popping up like an unwelcome Ancient Marineress, she is, as Irving puts it, “almost pathologically afraid of her readers, because she’s associated all of them with the potential that lurks in her most obsessive and crazed fans.”
- 2016, Mike Westphal, Cloud of Expectation; Book One: The In America Series, Xlibris, →ISBN:
- “Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.
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