Olivia

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Olivia

“abjured the company and sight of men.” [Br. Lit.: Twelfth Night]

See : Isolation

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Belch, Sir Toby
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
Conceit
de Havilland, Olivia
Dench, Dame Judi
Foster, Stephen Collins
Irresponsibility

Isolation
List of Shakespeare's Plays
Malvolio
Manning, Olivia
Sage, Mrs. Russell
Sage, Russell
Terry, Dame Ellen Alicia

When the story opens Olivia is just eighteen, Sophia seventeen, and they are both very beautiful girls.

English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context

Uncle Roger and Aunt Olivia and the Story Girl came over early for the day; and Peter came too, with his shining, morning face, to be hailed with joy, for we had been afraid that Peter would not be able to spend Christmas with us.

The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

And there are Olivia and Sophia Primrose, and Corinne--they may be said to have fallen in love with new men.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

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