Eveleen

Eveleen spoke with the pride of bated breath of the ferocious unforgivingness of their men.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

She had sisters Adeline and Eveleen, and brothers Osric and William, and she had a cousin a prizefighter.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

Now that the familiar scenes were beginning to wear their original features to me, my dread of personal hideousness was distressing, though Eveleen declared the bad blood in my cheeks and eyes 'had been sucked by pounds of red meat.'

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

The girl Eveleen came in sight, loitering and looking, kicking her idle heels.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

Eveleen cried, and finding herself in the wrong track, volubly resumed: 'That they didn't, for they hadn't time, whether they meant to, and the night black as a coal, whoever they were.'

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

Eveleen and the old mother had searched for me upon the heath, and having haled me head and foot to their tent, despatched a message to bring Kiomi down from London to aid them in their desperate shift.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

Eveleen was my informant when the dreaded Kiomi happened to be off duty for a minute.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

An Eveleen had carried him farthest to imagine the splendours of an Adiante, and the announcement of the coming of an Eveleen would perchance have sped a little wild fire, to which what the world calls curiosity is frozenly akin, through his veins.

Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

With the silence of profound resignation, I handed back to Eveleen the curious fragment of her boudoir, which would have grimaced at Helen of Troy.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

She added for my comfort that nothing was broken, but confessed me to be still 'a sight '; and thereupon drove knotty language at Eveleen.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868