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LUCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Australopithecus afarensis (fossils found in Ethiopia; from 3.5 to 4 million years ago)
Holonyms ("Lucy" is a member of...):
Australopithecus; genus Australopithecus (extinct genus of African hominid)
Context examples:
I have never been able, continued Lucy, to give him my picture in return, which I am very much vexed at, for he has been always so anxious to get it!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Lucy was very restless all night, and I, too, could not sleep.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
‘Tell me, dad,’ said she, looking, I thought, a little disturbed, ‘did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out to-night?’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To be sure, continued Lucy, after a few minutes silence on both sides, his mother must provide for him sometime or other; but poor Edward is so cast down by it!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Then, too, Lucy, although she is so well, has lately taken to her old habit of walking in her sleep.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Lucy is monstrous pretty, and so good humoured and agreeable!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Thank God, Lucy's health keeps up.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"We can mean no other," cried Lucy, smiling.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Lucy and I sat awhile, and it was all so beautiful before us that we took hands as we sat; and she told me all over again about Arthur and their coming marriage.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"Did not you think him sadly out of spirits?" repeated Lucy.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
