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- From the Latin meaning "the ninth". She was prayed to in the ninth month of pregnancy. (Wiktionary)
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“I've read the web letters and I take part of the "blame" for exclusions in Nona's piece.”
“That was the word Nona had said she was going to have for her own.”
“Nona or whatever the Italian word is for grandmother might work for some, but I’m half Irish.”
“Then Howel laughed as if he had a jest that would not keep, and he cried: "Why, Nona, that is a mighty pretty speech, but surely one asks a sick man of his health first.”
A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex
“Of course, it's easier to realize that "Wicked Teacher" isn't my real name than to realize that "Nona" is a pseudonym.”
“I looked away, busying myself with peeling the label off Nona’s beer bottle.”
“She was the loving "Nona" to her three grandchildren: Meredith, Lauren and Matthew.”
“Do nothing of the kind," said Don Quixote; "remember the true story of the licentiate Torralva, that the devils carried flying through the air riding on a stick with his eyes shut; who in twelve hours reached Rome and dismounted at Torre di Nona, which is a street of the city, and saw the whole sack and storming and the death of Bourbon, and was back in”
“Do nothing of the kind," said Don Quixote; "remember the true story of the licentiate Torralva that the devils carried flying through the air riding on a stick with his eyes shut; who in twelve hours reached Rome and dismounted at Torre di Nona, which is a street of the city, and saw the whole sack and storming and the death of Bourbon, and was back in”
“We all know women's golf has come through a tough time," says Ms. Sorenstam, talking to The Wall Street Journal from her home in Lake Nona, Florida.”
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