"The Secret History" novelist Tartt

Usage examples of donna.

Donna Ignazia gave me a hasty proof of her affection, and I escorted her home, assuring her that she would be the sole object of my thoughts as long as I stayed at Madrid.

La descrizione di John, degli uomini in China che fanno ogni servizio di donna in casa, mentre le mogli vanno in barca remando e portando in un panno dietro le spalle i bambini, faceva ridere smodatamente le belle interlocutrici e tutta la comitiva quando la traduzione ne veniva fatta da una di esse.

I thought it said that BellaDonna was mad, but now I realize that Bella came at the end of one line and Donna at the beginning of the next one.

She runs errands and does the hems and picot edgings and her life centres round her fiance and his fire engine, a prima donna of a machine now threatened with mechanization.

Donna Lucrezia presented me to her youngest sister, only eleven years of age, and to her brother, an abbe of fifteen, of charming appearance.

Subito dietro alla Camilla, erano entrati alcuni dei giovani rimasti di guardia al di fuori e al loro capo raccontavano come quella donna al chiarore del lampo li avesse scoperti, come si fosse slanciata verso il loggione, senza che fosse stato possibile, in modo alcuno, trattenerla.

Martha Sherve and the much younger Donna Bjerke tried to hold it on his face.

You are yet young, Signore Soranzo, and the Donna Giulietta is of rare beauty!

Karen Davy, Darlene Delillo, Gail Dubov, Tom Egner, Seth Fleischman, Josh Frank, Jane Friedman, Lisa Gallagher, Cathy Hemming, Angela Leigh, Kim Lewis, Brian McSharry, Judy Madonia, Michael Morrison, Gena Pearson, Jan Parrish, Chadd Reese, Rhonda Rose, Pete Soper, Debbie Stier, Andrea Sventora, Bruce Unck, and Donna Waitkus.

Karen Davy, Darlene Delillo, Gail Dubov, Tom Egner, Seth Fleishman, Josh Frank, Jane Friedman, Heather Gould, Brian Grogan, Cathy Hemming, Angela Leigh, Kim Lewis, Selina McLemore, Brian McSharry, Judy Madonia, Michael Morrison, Jan Parrish, Shelly Perron, Chadd Reese, Rhonda Rose, Pete Soper, Michael Spradlin, Debbie Stier, Andrea Sventora, Bruce Unck, and Donna Waitkus.

Pol told Donna Alvarez as he grabbed the wax-layered cardboard box filled with old produce from the Val-U Supermart on Michael Way, half a mile from the mission.

A prey to grief I spent the day without taking any steps one way or the other, and I went to bed without supping and without the company of Donna Ignazia.

On May 7, the primary looked even more winnable when Senator Gary Hart, who had almost upset Vice President Mondale in 1984, withdrew from the race after his relationship with Donna Rice was exposed.

Wolfgang had formed a project for helping the Webers by undertaking a journey to Italy in company with Aloysia and her father, with the object of writing an opera in which Aloysia should appear as prima donna.

I felt this was an occasion for a little gentle management, and I answered good-humouredly that the love he thought he noticed was wholly imaginary, and that he was wrong to entertain any suspicions as to so virtuous a girl as Donna Ignazia.