Agnes
"Agnes" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Her name was Agnes then.
In the movie, "The Good Earth", the American actress Agnes Moorehead played the part of a Chinese woman, which would be criticized today as representing cultural appropriation.
My name is Agnes Black.
According to the novel Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, it was considered unladylike to call a horse a mare.
Agnes is a geographer.
You don't look well, Agnes.
In late October 1912, 15-year-old Agnes White, left her home on the St. Regis Mohawk reservation in northern New York to begin five years of vocational training at the Carlisle Industrial Indian School in Pennsylvania.
In September, just two weeks into her fourth outing, Agnes died of appendicitis.
There's a Thomas Jackson in the novel Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë.
Agnes speaks Mandarin with astonishing fluency.
Why do you call Mrs. Stone Aggie? Agnes is such a beautiful name, it is a shame to nick it in that way." Then, quickly regretting his impatience, he added, "You would not have been jealous, would you, Jenny?
Right then and there in her mind she had christened it Agnes, the only name she knew elegant enough for such a peerless creature. - - - She held the doll so her brothers could see. "Look, isn't she beautiful? Her name is Agnes.[...]Agnes? Agnes?" Jack gagged realistically. "What a soppy name! Why don't you call her Margaret or Betty?
I found myself wanting to explain it to her, this middle-aged woman with the kind of haircut you call a hairdo, which needed to be set in rollers every night, who had a name like Agnes or Harriet, a name that even predated my mother's generation.
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