Adela

• “You mean she's had a note with the word Adela on it the whole time and she's too stupid to Google it?”

  Ask Matt: Crime-Show Upheavals, Dancing and Killing and More!

• “I wish you to give me your word Adela may live here with you for as long as she wants, and that you’ll not force a marriage on her, no matter what the circumstances.”

  Simon & Schuster: Honor’s Splendour

• “Some pozole recipes call for cooking the corn and the meat separately; however, I prefer the method presented in Adela Fernandez 'La Tradicional Cocina Mexicana.”

  Basic White Pozole: Pozole Blanco

• “‘The girl that was stabbed to death in Loma Grande was called Adela, not Gabriela.’”

  Simon & Schuster: A Sweet Scent of Death

• “She said she believed that Adela -- she called her Adela -- that Adela took the loss of her jewels as a punishment for her sins.”

  December Love

• “These meals were good, and washed down with plenty of spirits and water, the two servant-like women and the so-called Adela waiting on the party, everything being a matter of wonder to the prisoner, who stared wildly at the well-dressed, lady-like, girlish creature who busied herself in supplying the wants of the gang of four bricklayer-like men.”

  Begumbagh A Tale of the Indian Mutiny

• “They had all called her Adela in that house, and he had learned to do as others did.”

  The Bertrams

• “For a negotiable fee, viewers can call Adela and be threatened with violence.”

  Anorak News

• “My little helper "Adela" has been ironing all of my little Mexican poncho's and now she is threatening me with the vacuum noise to get off this computer.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “Craven shrank inwardly as he heard Miss Van Tuyn say "Adela," but he only nodded and tried to return adequately the expression in her eyes.”

  December Love

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