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- proper noun US A female
given name derived fromEarl .
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Examples
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Earline is repeatedly depicted as someone ignorant, and more ruled by emotion than by intellect.
Archive 2008-03-01 tanita davis 2008
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Earline is a freed slave and a student at Oberlin College in Ohio, who, on trips to the South, pretends to be Alex's slave, working as his assistant and giving him access to the slaves on the plantations.
Archive 2008-03-01 tanita davis 2008
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Earline, knowing the peril that they, as abolitionists, face in the South, nevertheless meets, falls in love, and in a secret slave ceremony marries a White carriage driver they encounter halfway through the journey.
The WritingYA Weblog: More Elusive Than A Scarlet Ibis tanita davis 2008
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Worse, it is all too easy to pretend that Earline is her slave.
Archive 2008-03-01 tanita davis 2008
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He, together with his assistant, Earline, is going to the deep South.
The WritingYA Weblog: More Elusive Than A Scarlet Ibis tanita davis 2008
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Earline is a freed slave and a student at Oberlin College in Ohio, who, on trips to the South, pretends to be Alex's slave, working as his assistant and giving him access to the slaves on the plantations.
The WritingYA Weblog: More Elusive Than A Scarlet Ibis tanita davis 2008
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Earline is repeatedly depicted as someone ignorant, and more ruled by emotion than by intellect.
The WritingYA Weblog: More Elusive Than A Scarlet Ibis tanita davis 2008
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As they journey, Cece is troubled to discover that she is both repelled by and afraid of Earline.
The WritingYA Weblog: More Elusive Than A Scarlet Ibis tanita davis 2008
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Worse, it is all too easy to pretend that Earline is her slave.
The WritingYA Weblog: More Elusive Than A Scarlet Ibis tanita davis 2008
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He, together with his assistant, Earline, is going to the deep South.
Archive 2008-03-01 tanita davis 2008
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