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  • proper noun A female given name, a less common spelling of Matilda.

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  • Technically "innocent" of the "looks and language of unlawful and monstrous passion," Mathilda is well-versed in their literary manifestations via her familiarity with Alfieri's

    Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

  • "unreadability" of her narrative, as it is manifested in Mathilda's alienation from the poetry she cites and the literary world it embodies as personified in

    Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

  • Natalie Portman’s Mathilda is a surface tough cookie who has had the entire foundation of her life ripped away, and no amount of guile in the world will make up for the very simple need for her to have a safe, loving home.

    Top 10 Weirdo & Unlikely Couples » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • The popes, in temporizing, gained more than the emperors in exerting their authority; and in time these Cæsars became so weak that the popes finally obtained the succession of Mathilda, which is now called the patrimony of St. Peter.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • [41] This sentence, not in _F of F-- A_, recalls Mathilda's dream.

    Mathilda Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824

  • As a result, 'Mathilda' was made, and photographed constantly for months---every day a horde of people with camera phones, a celebrity in her own right.

    Bakeries From Beyond 2010

  • Her 'Mathilda' is a snivelling, insufferable affair.

    A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871

  • 'Mathilda' is his most popular kaiso of all time, released in

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • 'Mathilda' is his most popular kaiso of all time, released in

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • 'Mathilda' is his most popular kaiso of all time, released in

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

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