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How to use Gertrude in a sentence

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Yet still others, like Gertrude LaRance of the Little Shell band of the Chippewa, had nothing but fond memories of their years at Fort Shaw.
In September 1926 Joe married Gertrude Shepperd who was working as a tailoress for the Akaroa tailor, Mr Morkcom.
Polonius reports that he will spy on Hamlet's visit to Queen Gertrude by stowing himself behind an arras in her bedroom.
Djuna Barnes was one of the bohemian set in 1920 and 30s Paris, and her creative circle of acquaintance included Gertrude Stein.
Gertrude of Helfta was a nun at the convent of Helfta, a centre of Benedictine learning and piety, from the age of 26 until her death.
That may sound odd, considering that the heirs of Gertrude Stein have long made outrageous wordplay a central part of their practice.
For her part, Gertrude knows her Hamlet's unroyal condition makes Ophelia a satisfactory match.
The garden designer Gertrude Jekyll was a great fan and favoured naturalistic planting companions such as heaths Erica and rock roses Cistus.
Having won the fight, Hamlet married his brother's widow Gertrude who acquired the status of jointress rather than that of queen dowager.
Gertrude has many strings to her bow, guardian angel, seasonal fairy, a confidant and occasionally freelancing for Hugh someone.
One of the pre-eminent landscape architects of her day, Gertrude Jekyll, did the landscaping side of the work.
Gertrude was brought up to be physically fearless and intellectually confident.
Instead, Queen Gertrude seizes the chalice and drinks to her son's good fortune.
The spirit begs Hamlet to avenge the foul murder, but to leave Queen Gertrude unharmed.
We got a glimpse of another lake on the right, Lake Gertrude, which unlike Lake Dora, is landlocked.
Gertrude reports that Hänsel and Gretel were misbehaving and that she broke the milk jug trying to punish them.
Head to nearby Gertrude Street for specialty books, hip clothes and a string of drinking and eating spots.
This work was written by St Gertrude and by another sister of Helfta and has a unique story.
We first meet Hamlet at the royal court of Denmark where his mother, Gertrude, has just married her recently deceased husband's brother, Claudius, who is now king.
Another, with pebble-spectacles, trug and boots, was the ghost of Gertrude Jekyll, whose principles of gardening first informed the place.
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The next forenoon, as Azuba was blacking the stove, Gertrude entered the kitchen.
Gertrude glanced up at him, then at her father, and then at the blotter on the desk.
Miss Gertrude Lindsay, in pale sea-green, had a small head, delicate complexion, and pearly teeth.
A rotating cast of 12 actors play the various roles, from Gertrude and Ophelia to Polonius, Claudius, Laertes, Rozencrantz and Guildenstern.
Little Gertrude is cross-eyed, but dear and affectionate and generous.
Sir Charles waited in the booking office to purchase a ticket for Gertrude, who went through to the platform.
Andrea Parsons was, as the duchess warned Geoffrey, worse than a trollop, although Gertrude wasn't sure if anything could be worse.
Frau Kirschner had brought a flask of tokay wine with her for Gertrude.
We were to have been three sworn friends, and Gertrude and I were willing, but you wouldn't swear, and so the bargain was cried off.
Gertrude Wilmot, a tall thin woman of fifty who worked in the Winesburg post office, came along the station platform.
Merely that the expanse of stars above us is not more illimitable than my contempt for Miss Lindsay, nor brighter than my hopes of Gertrude.
Gertrude reddened a little as the possibility of her having raved indiscreetly occurred to her.
Gertrude had never been in Persia, but had seen some Eastern billiard cues in the India museum.
I would have brought your Newmarket if I could have found it, Gertrude.
This worried him until the thought came to him of hiring a servant for Gertrude and of buying a bicycle for Marion.
The nation's favourite rose title went to Gertrude Jekyll, with rich pink old rose blooms, superb fragrance and disease resistance.
New English roses such as the wonderful Gertrude Jekyll are bred to match the character of old roses, but have a longer flowering season.
The first deaconess was Gertrude Reichardt, the daughter of a physician.
But upstairs, Gertrude was telephoning for the district attorney.
Happily, Gertrude, though she sees as yet but darkly, feels that Miss Lindsay is her bitterest foe.
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