Cecilia

Examples

• Not a vestige of the entry which recorded the marriage of Sir Felix Glyde and Cecilia Jane Elster in the register of the church! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The self-sacrifice of Cecilia reveals a pure and womanly character, very seldom equalled, never surpassed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Sir Pitt is not what we silly girls, when we used to read Cecilia at Chiswick, imagined a baronet must have been. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I wonder whether Cecilia Metella had a fortune and paid for hers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have now in my pocket a letter from your sister Cecilia, received this morning--received three months after her marriage, poor child! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Cecilia Jupe, by name,' said Mr. Gradgrind, with something of a stricken look at his friend. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Good-bye, Cecilia! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In the catacombs were buried St. Cecilia, St. Agnes, and several other of the most celebrated of the saints. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And your sister Cecilia has a fine brave spirit of another kind, a spirit of pure devotion, a beau-ti-ful spirit! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was one day at Rome when we had ridden out together to the tomb of Cecilia Metella. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So, Mr. Gradgrind and his daughter took Cecilia Jupe off with them to Stone Lodge, and on the way Louisa never spoke one word, good or bad. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• You are not, Cecilia Jupe,' Thomas Gradgrind solemnly repeated, 'to do anything of that kind. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Call yourself Cecilia. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• She was described as Cecilia Jane Elster, of Park-View Cottages, Knowlesbury, only daughter of the late Patrick Elster, Esq. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Edited by Abraham