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- proper noun A female
given name , a Scottish variant ofElizabeth .
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Examples
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And slowly, holding back tears, she told them. chapter Eighteen ELSPETH This was, possibly, the strangest land Elspeth had ever crossed.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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And slowly, holding back tears, she told them. chapter Eighteen ELSPETH This was, possibly, the strangest land Elspeth had ever crossed.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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"Niffenegger's writing can be wearyingly overblown, but she has a knack for taking the romantic into the realm of creepiness, and she constructs a taut mystery around the secrets to be found in Elspeth's diaries and the lengths to which she will go to reunite with her younger lover."
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger: Book summary 2010
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Elspeth is a newbie hooper and our first from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Make decent show of reluctance, and then resign while Elspeth is out of the room.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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The interview also says Elspeth is pleased that Ming intends to stand at the next election.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Make decent show of reluctance, and then resign while Elspeth is out of the room.
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I am engaged to the woman we both know as Edie, but who back then was known as Elspeth.
Her Fearful Symmetry AUDREY NIFFENEGGER 2009
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If you will take it, I give you the name Elspeth k'sheyna k'valdemar ...
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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If you will take it, I give you the name Elspeth k'sheyna k'valdemar ...
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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