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How to use Dorothea in a sentence

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Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine, the daughter of an alcoholic Methodist preacher who was the black sheep of a wealthy merchant family.
In 1699, at the age of fifty-two, she embarked for Surinam with her daughter Dorothea Maria.
The film features quarrymen actually employed at Dorothea Quarry at the time of filming, some of whom have been identified and their recollections of the filming noted.
But the third and potentially worst problem of all is that Dorothea is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and we divers appear to be exceedingly gullible!
What drew you to write about a photographer like Dorothea Lange and her most famous subject?
I based the characters of Mary Coin and Vera Dare on Dorothea Lange and Florence Owens Thompson, actual people in history.
As much as is known about Dorothea Lange is as little that is known about Florence Owens Thompson.
A poignant retelling of this event based on what Goethe had personally witnessed can be found in his long poem Hermann and Dorothea.
After divorcing Douglas, her third and final marriage was to Henry Stewart, with whom she had another daughter, Dorothea Stewart.
His parents, Robert Rookwood and Dorothea Drury, were wealthy landowners, and had educated their son at a Jesuit school near Calais.
Among these were his 1516 studies of Jakob and Dorothea Meyer, sketched, like many of his father's portrait drawings, in silverpoint and chalk.
Dorothea Kehler has attempted to trace the criticism of the work through the centuries.
Their migrations, of course, survive in the writings of novelist John Steinbeck and the iconic images taken by photographer Dorothea Lange.
His other early works, including the double portrait of Basel's mayor Jakob Meyer zum Hasen and his wife Dorothea, follow his father's style.
Dorothea noted the star was close to the galaxy NGC 3147, but was absent from a plate of the same region exposed in 1895 as well as from the Greenwich Astrophotographic Chart.
She was confined to Ahlden House and denied access to her two children, George and his sister Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, who probably never saw their mother again.
Holbein also painted the occasional portrait in Basel, among them the double portrait of Jakob and Dorothea Meyer, and, in 1519, that of the young academic Boniface Amerbach.
Examples from Classical Literature
Dorothea was holding a torch, the liquid droppings of which fell upon her hands.
He corresponded in French with Archduchess Maria Dorothea, who became the patron of many evangelical causes in Hungary.
To Dorothea this was adorable genuineness, and religious abstinence from that artificiality which uses up the soul in the efforts of pretence.
The Lady Dorothea Dosewell had proposed a seventy-fifth remedy.
When we got back to camp, Dorothea laved the burns for me with cool milk.
Brooke's Middlemarch projects, revealed clearly enough that the undeclared motive had relation to Dorothea.
The complete unfitness of the necklace from all points of view for Dorothea, made Celia happier in taking it.
My Father seduced by the false glare of Fortune and the Deluding Pomp of Title, insisted on my giving my hand to Lady Dorothea.
Robert took out a little sprig of verbena, which he gave to Dorothea.
Why does not Dorothea give the real reason for her desolateness?
What, to those of our own, is such an angel of mercy as Dorothea Dix?
Dorothea was at a loss to know what had happened to the child.
Will Lady Dorothea be likely to view the matter in this light?
Dorothea had little vanity, but she had the ardent woman's need to rule beneficently by making the joy of another soul.
Casaubon turned his eyes very markedly on Dorothea while she was speaking, and seemed to observe her newly.
As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly.
Thou hast conquered, fair Dorothea, thou hast conquered, for it is impossible to have the heart to deny the united force of so many truths.
Will only thought of giving a good pinch that would annihilate that vaunted laboriousness, and was unable to imagine the mode in which Dorothea would be wounded.
Sir James Chettam was going to dine at the Grange to-day with another gentleman whom the girls had never seen, and about whom Dorothea felt some venerating expectation.
But Dorothea remembered it to the last with the vividness with which we all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
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