Desdemona

As soon as she disappeared, Carmine was calling Desdemona.

TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

While in many ways stereotypically pure and meek, Desdemona is also determined and self-possessed.

November 1st, 2002 2002

It was in Cyprus under this last regime that Shakespeare laid the scene of his tragedy of Othello; and one may still see Othello's Tower at Famagusta, where Desdemona is supposed to have been murdered and Othello to have killed himself.

The Cyprus Question 1958

And what could better illustrate those defects of hers which make one wince, than her repeating again and again in Desdemona's presence the word Desdemona could not repeat; than her talking before Desdemona of Iago's suspicions regarding Othello and herself; than her speaking to Desdemona of husbands who strike their wives; than the expression of her honest indignation in the words,

Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

But no imagination could put Miss Constance in Desdemona's place, when Othello complained of his headache – you remember, Charlton, –

Queechy 1854

In fact, she laughed when I asked, said I could call her Desdemona because she'd been living with a black guy, a dangerous sort of man who would have killed her if she stuck around.

The man who killed Molly Bloom - Act II 2010

'Othello believes that Desdemona loves Cassio', we will call Desdemona and Cassio the _object-terms_, and loving the _object-relation_.

The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1921

The mansion reportedly was modeled after a residence in Venice known as Desdemona's House, referring to the heroine of Shakespeare's "Othello."

chicagotribune.com - 2010

The mansion reportedly was modeled after a residence in Venice known as Desdemona's House, referring to the heroine of Shakespeare's "Othello."

chicagotribune.com - 2010

Ross, the man on the phone, had some kind of relationship with their manager, an Englishman named John Hewlett, who back in the heyday of Mods, had been in a band with T. Rex's Marc Bolan called John's Children (their one big song, "Desdemona" is pretty darn fab, actually).

Binky Philips: I Audition for Sparks in London, 1974 2010