How To Use Penelope In A Sentence
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As in Homer, after further tribulation, he will eventually reach Ithaca, kill Penelope's suitors, and live with wife and son until a peaceful death in old age.
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Penelope-like, she both weaves a narrative and contextual account of Lippi's life and work and unpicks her handiwork, creatively frustrating the reader's expectation of biographical closure.
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Among the distinctive bird species in the hotspot is the aforementioned white-winged guan (Penelope albipennis, CR), which is found only in the dry forests at the southern extreme of the hotspot.
Biological diversity in Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
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Two gates there are for dreams," said Penelope to Odysseus after his ten years' wandering had ended. "One made for horn and one of for ivory.
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She was obliged to obey, and she called Menelaus in her own voice, and Diomede in the voice of his wife, and Ulysses in the very voice of Penelope.
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
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Jan, Eve and Penelope were all ready for the off as we went to say goodbye.
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Penelope and Helen had, during the week, decided that my rooms were a most apt place to sojourn during the hot afternoons, and the best place to try on dresses.
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And definitely dressed for the occasion were mother and daughter Pamela and Penelope Gahan.
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Penelope will be down for dinner later this afternoon, assuming she has remembered!
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Experienced British thespians Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton have supporting roles as the matriarch and patriarch of the Hewitt clan.
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For instance, in the Odyssey, while Odysseus is away, Penelope keeps weaving and undoing and reweaving a funeral shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes; she is doing this to postpone a task she does not want, that of giving up on Odysseus and choosing from among her pesky suitors.
Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
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The angry atmosphere lay thick in the megaron, and Penelope forced a smile.
Shield of Thunder
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But against this untimely weakness Lady Penelope was guarded, by the strong shield of self-conceit.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Famous for dressing stars such as Rihanna, Blake Lively, Naomi Campbell and Penelope Cruz in their fairytale-esque creations, the British design duo behind the label couldn't resist the opportunity to make over the Playboy bunny in Marchesa.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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In Greek myth, weaving is how women tell their stories, whether it is Arachne, Philomela, Helen or Penelope.
Texture : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Penelope" tells the perfectly -- well, imperfectly -- inane tale of a snouty young woman from a snooty family.
Two heads better than one in 'The Other Boleyn Girl'
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In the opinion section, Lisa Cochran of Freeville writes to say that "A child can learn respect, compassion, responsibility, and how to love unconditionally from a home in which the parents -- either same-sex or not -- are in a stable and loving relationship," in response to a July 19th letter from Gabriel and Penelope Carpenter of Dryden.
Living in Dryden: August 2004 Archives
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The new cover showed Penelope Gates dressed in tweed hacking jacket, knee breeches, lovat stockings and brogues, standing on a heathery hillside, looking down at the village of Drim.
Death of a Scriptwriter
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The sense of his insufficiency was the more vexatious to Mowbray, as he was aware he would find sharp critics in the ladies, and particularly in his constant rival, Lady Penelope Penfeather.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Don't miss your chance to experience the magic Penelope.
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I loved it as it always bothered me that Penelope seemed so uncomplaining and patient in the face of her husbands extended absence and persistant infidelity.
Maggie O'Farrell - An interview with author
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In his _Penelope's Web_ he writes: "They which smiled at the theatre in Rome might as soon scoff at the rudeness of the scene as give a plaudite at the perfection of the acting.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
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Penelope went to the top deck of the bus and lit a cigarette.
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Naturally, the way to Penelope's heart is to show off a prowess in shooting, roping and riding.
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‘You have to excuse my room mate, she is a little delusional it looks like,’ I heard Penelope plead.
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I seized the porcelain basin from the nightstand, getting it to Penelope’s lap just in time.
On Desperate Seas « A Fly in Amber
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Famous for dressing stars such as Rihanna, Blake Lively, Naomi Campbell and Penelope Cruz in their fairytale-esque creations, the British design duo behind the label couldn't resist the opportunity to make over the Playboy bunny in Marchesa.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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About 70 youngsters attended the children's party which saw appearances by St George, James Bond, Lady Penelope and other glitterati in the King's Hall.
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But the ardent and active spirit of Lady Penelope, still athirst after novelty, though baffled in her two first projects, brought forward a third, in which she was more successful.
Saint Ronan's Well
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This morning I went to take Penelope shopping but she was not at all up for it.
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And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, and his dainty birdsnies, lady Penelope Rich, a clean quality woman is suited for a player, and the punks of the bankside, a penny a time.
Ulysses
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Two gates there are for dreams," said Penelope to Odysseus after his ten years' wandering had ended. "One made for horn and one of for ivory.
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As the money-hungry youngsters fight to claim an early inheritance, Penelope embarks on a journey of peace and order to save the family that is fragmenting about her.
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Lurking in the shadows before the upstairs parlor door, Luc wondered as Portia's and Penelope 's apparent lack of awareness.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, and his dainty birdsnies, lady Penelope Rich, a clean quality woman is suited for
Ulysses
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With spare language taken principally from the translations by Robert Fitzgerald and Robert Fagles, and with intricate pencil and watercolor illustrations, Mr. Hinds re-creates Odysseus 'turbulent voyage across "the wine-dark sea" from the ruins of Troy to the island of Ithaca and his long-suffering wife, Penelope.
Highbrow
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This immediacy is due in no small part to another artist I'd never really taken seriously enough: Penélope Cruz.
GreenCine Daily: Essay. Almodóvar.
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Presumably, then, Penelope would need to "derepress" her rape memory, or at the least to accept its buried existence, before overcoming her symptom.
'Victims of Memory': An Exchange
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If Penelope is using you to find her husband, why are you dreaming of the Franklin expedition?
On Desperate Seas « A Fly in Amber
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Penelope had at first hoped to tire them out.
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Penelope does not sleep much and prays to Artemis that she be killed rather than marry one of the suitors.
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Something about the way Georgina said that made Penelope feel uneasy, her stomach performing a small flip in the pit of her belly.
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Dialogue between the Duke of argyll and the Earl of Angus, and the character of his own first wife under that of Penelope.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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Penelope's fingers curled and uncurled nervously in her lap.
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Penelope plays Harriet Jones, who becomes caught up in an alien plot to bring about the end of the human race.
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Penelope began an inane conversation about a recent best seller she had read.
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Tamara, still smarting with pain, just cried as Penelope walked out of the house in jealous rage and did not return.
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Penelope, 30, also admitted she is so impressed with her new muscles she can't stop admiring them.
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McLeish grinned at him and told Catherine to organize Penelope Huntley, hoping he had struck the right brisk note.
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“Good Heaven! how unfortunate!” said Lady Penelope, with a deep sigh, and sinking down on one of the little sofas in an attitude of shocking desolation, which called the instant attention of Mr. Pott and his good woman, the first uncorking a small phial of salts, for he was a pharmacopolist as well as vender of literature and transmitter of letters, and the other hastening for a glass of water.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Penelope took her eyes away from Adam to ring for a maid, and to ask for tea when she arrived.
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A number of waterfowl species including goldeneye Bucephala clangula, goosander Mergus merganser, wigeon Anas penelope, teal Anas crecca and bean goose Anser fabalis breed in the area.
Virgin Komi Forests, Russian Federation
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When the door closed, Penelope reached for a cigarette in her drawer.
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How could she in her persistence follow him so - even into the bed he'd shared with Penelope.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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Northumberland, and he begged a seat in his caroche; and Madam Penelope stuffed the caroche with all the cushions that were in the house, and a hamper of baked meats, and wine, and a great fur mantle to lap your
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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The avifauna comprises 333 species, representing 63 of the 74 families in Guatemala, and includes ocellated turkey Agriocharis ocellata (LR), Sarcorhamphus papa, Crax rubra, Penelope purpurascens, red macaw Ara macao, jaribu stork Jaribu mycteria and many others, including crested eagle Spizaetus ornatus.
Tikal National Park, Guatemala
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While he was off rusticating in the country, it was left to Penelope and his supporters to keep his cause alive with Elizabeth.
Archive 2009-04-01
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The most numerous species are wigeon Anas penelope (39,000: 112,000 in the1970s), common pochard Aythya ferina (120,000 in 1971) and coot Fulica atra (36,000: 188,000 in 1973).
Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
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He's a stark contrast to the new men in Penelope's life: though Herb fancies himself a man's man, his total admiration of Harold results is his becoming a sycophantic lackey who takes on the role of surrogate wife.
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In the trial issue Jonathan Holland chats to Estrella Morente on singing for Penelope Cruz and following in her father's footsteps; Liz Silvester investigates saying 'I do' in the sun and why fight over sun loungers at a hotel when you can rent some of the most fabulous villas in the Balearics?
Spain via Exact Editions
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In her 1995 novel The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald pays tender homage to Novalis's romanticism, but tells the story of his love for Sophie in a language very different to the poet's own.
Love in literature
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The soft fabric hung perfectly from Penelope's curves and the bright white complemented her dark skin.
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‘Tue-tête means Pénélope is singing as LOUD as she can,’ she explains in a decidedly schoolmistressy voice, cranking up her internal volume dial to better illustrate her point and eliciting a groan from The Boy, who is sleeping in the bedroom, a few metres away.
Cover up
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Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, has been waiting many years for his return from the Trojan War.
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We see Penelope waking up alone in a bed filled with discarded gauntlets, greaves and breastplates.
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We may accompany Odysseus from the victory at Troy, over his different stations on his way home, as well as we become more closely acquainted with Telemachus on his different expeditions and with Penelope in her difficult position in Ithaca.
A Single, Homeless, Circling Satellite: Derek Walcott, 1992 Nobel Literature Laureate
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That was a truly delicious piece of pork," he said. "Yes, wasn't it?" echoed Penelope.
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The film is continually suggesting trios; the ménage à trois is its underlying structure, from the title forming a threesome between the girls and the city, to the shifting romantic dynamics between the girls, Juan Antonio, and his wild, passionate ex-wife Maria Elena Penélope Cruz.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Penelope purposefully marched into the throng of suitors, looking for the familiar and somewhat exasperating figure.
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So saying, she sat down to her wheel, and seized, while she spun, her jet-black cutty pipe, from which she soon sent such clouds of vile mundungus vapour as must have cleared the premises of Lady Penelope, had she not been strong in purpose to share the expected confession of the invalid.
Saint Ronan's Well
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But one by one, the stars made their escape from the red carpet, and soon Bardem was hanging out on the loading dock smoking corner alongside girlfriend and Oscar winner Penelope Cruz and The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner.
Onstage drama and backstage delight at the Academy Awards
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More than 50% of a child's exposure to toxins will come from the indoor environment," Penelope informed me, "and many toxins, especially flame-retardant chemicals, are found in dust.
Nancy Chuda: As TSCA Collapses, Toxic Baby Fights Back (VIDEO)
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Angry mack, will never win cuz hes a wack, he will lose by a landslide, the democrats to victory they will glide, Amen. penelope posner
Voter tells McCain his temper is 'something of concern'
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Penelope sat out of the porch of the house smoking a Lady Fair Light, watching the removal men load the families furniture, antiques and complete life onto seven large trucks.
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Living in the substanceless Void, the immortal Mr g, with the help of his kibitzing Aunt Penelope and Uncle Deva, decides to create the universe.
Jane MacEyre? Updating an Orphan-to-Nanny Classic
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Penelope supposed that she shouldn't have poured the tea on her like a child and instead said something cool and witty to discompose Evelyn.
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The most numerous species are wigeon Anas penelope (39,000: 112,000 in the1970s), common pochard Aythya ferina (120,000 in 1971) and coot Fulica atra (36,000: 188,000 in 1973).
Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
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Penelope became the aggressor, tactful, knowledgeable, sure as the lover.
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In the trial issue Jonathan Holland chats to Estrella Morente on singing for Penelope Cruz and following in her father's footsteps; Liz Silvester investigates saying 'I do' in the sun and why fight over sun loungers at a hotel when you can rent some of the most fabulous villas in the Balearics?
Spain via Exact Editions
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‘I never started explaining,’ Penelope pointed out belligerently.
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But Alan turns out to be the only truth-teller—"Nobody cares about anything outside themself," he tells Penelope bluntly, if not grammatically—and the others bear him out by baring the hostility that stokes their desperate souls.
Stylish Spectacle Makes This 'Mission' Possible
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Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of Harrods, is the laird of Balnagown Estate in Ross-shire, while actress Penelope Keith has a home in the Black Isle.
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To give it, at the same time, a degree of novelty and consequence, Lady Penelope Penfeather had long since suggested to Mr. Mowbray, that the more gifted and accomplished part of the guests might contribute to furnish out entertainment for the rest, by acting a few scenes of some popular drama; an accomplishment in which her self-conceit assured her that she was peculiarly qualified to excel.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Penelope herself was beginning to feel rather flushed with success at the table.
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A mischievous comic tone is also set right away, so that by the time we meet eccentric shut-in heiress Penelope Stamp (a luminous Rachel Weisz), it fits right in.
The long con of “The Brothers Bloom” » Scene-Stealers
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Penelope came forward and embraced her sister.
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Among the bird species the following are the commonest: military macaw Ara militaris (VU), rufescent tinamu Crypturellus cinnamomeus, spot‑bellied bobwhite Colinus leucopogon, great curassow Crax rubra, crested guan Penelope purpurascens, blue‑winged teal Anas discors, roseate spoonbill Ajaia ajaja, thick knee Burhinus bistriatus, jabiru Jabiru mycteria (VU), ibis Eudocimus albus and laughing falcon Herpetotheres cachinans.
Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
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Two gates there are for dreams," said Penelope to Odysseus after his ten years' wandering had ended. "One made for horn and one of for ivory.
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Two gates there are for dreams," said Penelope to Odysseus after his ten years' wandering had ended. "One made for horn and one of for ivory.
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She will discuss the transracial adoption of her daughter Penelope.
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Penelope; “a déjeûner à la fourchette — we know, Clara, you would die of doing the honours of a formal dinner.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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Penelope came forward and embraced her sister.
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Among the bird species the following are the commonest: military macaw Ara militaris (VU), rufescent tinamu Crypturellus cinnamomeus, spot‑bellied bobwhite Colinus leucopogon, great curassow Crax rubra, crested guan Penelope purpurascens, blue‑winged teal Anas discors, roseate spoonbill Ajaia ajaja, thick knee Burhinus bistriatus, jabiru Jabiru mycteria (VU), ibis Eudocimus albus and laughing falcon Herpetotheres cachinans.
Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
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He likes to casually bang Cameron Diaz, but he falls in love with the less attainable Penelope Cruz it is a credit to Cruz that she makes this situation seem plausible; Penelope is so cute in this film that I found myself siding with Cruise and thinking, “Why the hell would anyone want to have sex with a repulsive hosebag like Cameron Diaz?”
Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television
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As popular career blogger Penelope Trunk advised her Brazen Careerist readers recently, "You are not worth less in the world because you are paid less in your job.
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Peninnah Penelope Anne, although restored to private life and the maternal domicile, having retired from statecraft and the functions of linguister to the embassy, did not altogether escape public utility in these bellicose preparations.
The Frontiersmen
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The rambling house remains in the name of his wife, Penelope, after it was bought for them by her parents in 1994.
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Over 375 birds have been recorded, notable species being king vulture Sarcoramphus papa, harpy eagle Harpia harpyia (LR), great curassow Crax rubra, crested guan Penelope purpurescens, scarlet macaw Ara macao, green macaw A. ambigua and military macaw A. militaris.
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
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Over 375 birds have been recorded, notable species being king vulture Sarcoramphus papa, harpy eagle Harpia harpyia (LR), great curassow Crax rubra, crested guan Penelope purpurescens, scarlet macaw Ara macao, green macaw A. ambigua and military macaw A. militaris.
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
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Mr. Andrews has succeeded in casting singers who are particularly skilled actors, especially Mr. Randle, whose baritonal tenor is almost crooner-like, and Pamela Helen Stephen as Penelope, Diana Montagu as his old nurse and Ruby Hughes as Minerva.
Mirror-Image Operas Enjoy Identical Good Results
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Under a Greek moon, Penelope Cruz sits at a scarred wooden table, haloed in white light.
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I made him pose as my significant other at Penelope's party on that ill-omened day.
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As he says this, a sudden chill descends on Penelope Wilton's hitherto friendly Sonya as if he has trodden on her soul.
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The actor is a mite more cagey, however, as to his involvement with co-star Penelope Cruz.
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Penelope stamped down on his foot, which probably hurt her more, since she was wearing dancing slippers.
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Eventually the statuesque and barely made-up Helena Pikon, often resembling a caryatid in her straight-and-narrow stance, takes on the persona of a sorrowing Penelope from the "Odyssey" as she makes her mark as something of a loner in this community, often trailing tristesse in her wake.
Tides of Memory
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It no longer sounds implausible when ancient Greeks write about the intricate textiles made by legendary weavers like Penelope and Arachne, or about historical weavers, like the women of Athens who created a new dress, or peplos, for the statue of Athena Polias on the Acropolis.
Women Artists Win!
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He had left his wife, and the mother of his two children, Penelope Chetwode, for Elizabeth Cavendish, a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret and daughter of the Duke of Devonshire.
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Penelope describes what this means and the agony and pleasure of streams of jabberwocky issuing forth from a man of words.
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Good Heaven! how unfortunate!" said Lady Penelope, with a deep sigh, and sinking down on one of the little sofas in an attitude of shocking desolation, which called the instant attention of Mr. Pott and his good woman, the first uncorking a small phial of salts, for he was a pharmacopolist as well as vender of literature and transmitter of letters, and the other hastening for a glass of water.
St. Ronan's Well
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With great ceremony, she held the door open for Penelope.
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Penelope had the same colouring and generally romantic air, but was shorter and dumpier with rather fat legs.
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a wheen sketching souls, that ye may see perched like craws on every craig in the country, e'en working at your ain trade, Maister Francie; forby men that had been in foreign parts, or said they had been there, whilk is a 'ane, ye ken; and maybe twa or three draggletailed misses, that wear my Leddy Penelope's follies when she has dune wi' them, as her queans of maids wear her second-hand claithes.
St. Ronan's Well
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But he conjectured probably, that where people lived so remote from each other, it was likely to be a domestick art; as we see it was among the ancients, from Penelope.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Penelope Cruz Full video with a naked celebrity!
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Since my name was Penelope, my other Afghan at the time was Popiya, and my van was called Pegasus, I asked if he could be called Pasha.
When Animals Speak
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These absurd philosophical abstractions continued to bother him once brought to a head by Penelope 's searching questions.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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Among the bird species the following are the commonest: military macaw Ara militaris (VU), rufescent tinamu Crypturellus cinnamomeus, spot‑bellied bobwhite Colinus leucopogon, great curassow Crax rubra, crested guan Penelope purpurascens, blue‑winged teal Anas discors, roseate spoonbill Ajaia ajaja, thick knee Burhinus bistriatus, jabiru Jabiru mycteria (VU), ibis Eudocimus albus and laughing falcon Herpetotheres cachinans.
Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
