Ninna

Customs — Baal fires, on May eve, in Irish Ninna-baal-tinne; funeral wakes, or cup of consolation, forbidden to Israel when they sought to copy after the

The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild

The honoured priest of Ninna Temple and the court priest of Mii Temple were summoned within.

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

Tessa, who had hitherto been occupied in coaxing Ninna out of her waking peevishness, now sat down in her low chair, near Romola's knee, arranging Ninna's tiny person to advantage, jealous that the strange lady too seemed to notice the boy most, as Naldo did.

Romola George Eliot 1849

"Ninna is very good without me now," began Tessa, feeling her request rising very high in her throat, and letting Ninna seat herself on the floor.

Romola George Eliot 1849

Quite forgetting that she had thought her speech rather momentous at the beginning, Tessa fell to devouring Ninna with kisses, while Romola sat in silence with absent eyes.

Romola George Eliot 1849

A little red cross would be pretty to hang up over her bed; it would also help to keep off harm, and would perhaps make Ninna stronger.

Romola George Eliot 1849

Romola went to look at the sleeping Ninna, and Monna Lisa, one of the exceptionally meek deaf, who never expect to be spoken to, returned to her salad.

Romola George Eliot 1849

I was so glad, and since then I have been always happy, for I don't mind about the goats and mules, because I have Lillo and Ninna now; and Naldo is never angry, only I think he doesn't love

Romola George Eliot 1849

"They are sweets for Lillo and Ninna," she said, as Romola carefully lifted up the light parcels in the basket, and placed the ornaments below them.

Romola George Eliot 1849

Ninna was a blue-eyed thing, at the tottering, tumbling age -- a fair solid, which, like a loaded die, found its base with a constancy that warranted prediction.

Romola George Eliot 1849