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Agnes

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Agnes
Saint. ?292--?304 ad, Christian child martyr under Diocletian. Feast day: Jan. 21
Agnes
young girl, affects to be simple and ingenuous. [Fr. Lit.: L’Ecole des Femmes]
See : Naïveté
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But I know that when I saw her turn round, in the grave light of the old staircase, and wait for us, above, I thought of that window; and I associated something of its tranquil brightness with Agnes Wickfield ever afterwards.
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We heard the chuff of the motor in the porch, and the first to enter was Agnes Strickland, whom the Infant makes no secret of adoring.
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, through his brother, Pierre, Seigneur de Beaujeu, who had married the king's eldest daughter, and to Charles the Bold through his mother, Agnes of Burgundy.
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