Emmeline

I also knew that if Stephen wanted to see Prissy again Emmeline must know nothing of it, and I told him so when came down the next evening – to borrow a hoe, he said.

Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

The "stone man" was the name Emmeline had given the idol of the valley; and sometimes at nights, when her thoughts would stray that way, she would picture him standing all alone in the moonlight or starlight staring straight before him.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

The boys called Emmeline a clumsy ox and a few other rude things under their breath.

Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

The younger girl, the child of this story, who was called Emmeline, of all names -- pronounced Em'leen, of course -- was just fifteen at the time of my visits to her mother.

Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900

The rector had a daughter called Emmeline, of so sweet and simple a nature that her beauty was discovered, measured, and inventoried by almost everybody in that part of the country before it was suspected by herself to exist.

A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884

At one end of the procession was a framed oil-painting of a cat's head, at the other end was a head of a beautiful young girl, life-size -- called Emmeline, because she looked just about like that -- an impressionist water-color.

Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

Jonathan Pell, the artistic director of the Dallas Opera, says he was blown away when he saw "Emmeline," by Tobias Picker, at Santa Fe in 1996.

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Picker, who was to compose the canceled new work for Washington, had a big success in 1996 with "Emmeline" at the Santa Fe Opera, but the work has hardly been performed since.

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Last year, he created a version of "Emmeline" for smaller forces: The Cinnabar Opera, another small California outfit with 100 seats, staged it earlier this month.

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"Emmeline," meanwhile, has remained strikingly underperformed.

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