What is "sophi"

Usage examples of "sophi".

On the far side of the bridge, set amongst the crowding sycamores on the raised bank opposite the Community proper, is the small turreted house where Mr Woodbean and his daughter Sophi live.

I am fond of telling people Sophi is a lion-tamer, though her official title is Assistant Animal Handler.

This was also how I came to get to know Sophi Woodbean, who is probably my best friend (before even my cousin Morag), even though she lives mostly amongst the Blands and - like her father - is what my Grandfather would call Only Half-Saved.

Mrs Woodbean took this as a sign that the modern world was too saturated with technology and cleverness for its - or her family's - own good, and decided to renounce the majority of her worldly goods and devote her life to Faith (and allegedly to having another child at all costs, an ambition which was fulfilled years later, when she gave birth to Sophi at the age of forty-three, though at the cost of her own life).

I have asked myself if I love Sophi and I think the answer is yes, though it is genuinely the love of a sister, not a lover.

There had been something about the tone and cadence of that voice… Sophi held the phone away from her ear a little so that I could listen in, my cheek against hers.

I was vaguely aware of disturbance and a warm kiss, but when I awoke properly Sophi was long gone and I was alone with an already half-aged day of brightness and showers.

I had already decided I would be departing for somewhere in the morning and, tempted though I was to stay again with Sophi, I felt it appropriate and fitting to spend a night - at last - in my own old hammock in my own room in the Community, after so long away from it.

I gave Sophi an edited version of my short but eventful travels with Uncle Mo, my meeting with Morag, my audience with Great-aunt Zhobelia and time spent with Brother Topee.

He looked at Sophi and Ricky and then stared at Morag, who was half sitting on the teacher's desk, arms folded.

The Sophi commanded that, whatever he might say, nobody should dare to contradict him.

Then the Sophi himself came and, besides giving Candide his hand to kiss in the customary manner, actually deigned to strike him violently on the mouth.

After taking leave of the Sophi, who honored him with a few final endearments, he set out for Sus, the capital of his province.

The uncommon favors that the Sophi had heaped on him had only intensified the storm that was shortly to burst over him.

His baggage, camels, slaves and white and black eunuchs, as well as thirty-six women whom the Sophi had given him for his private use, became spoils of the victor.