What is "winifred"

Usage examples of "winifred".

The Abigails were a perky group: girls of good family, training to be future Winifreds.

Winifred was playing with a little rivulet of water, absorbedly as if nothing had been said.

Foregate, between the abbey forge and the messuage of Thomas the farrier, together with the garden and field pertaining to it, for an annual rent, during my lifetime, of one rose from the white rosebush growing beside the north wall, to be delivered to me, Judith, upon the day of the translation of Saint Winifred.

Winifred on her part had ceased to find my fecklessness altogether convenient.

I had been left, and Richard, and Laura herself, and Winifred, who had been a matron of honour.

It was a task Abbot Radulfus kept jealously to himself in the ordinary way, for he was proud of his roses, and valued the brief moments he could spend with them, but in three more days the house would be celebrating the anniversary of the translation of Saint Winifred to her shrine in the church, and the preparations for the annual influx of pilgrims and patrons were occupying all his time, and keeping all his obedientiaries busy into the bargain.

As usual, I was struck by the relationship between her surroundings, the surroundings Winifred had chosen for her—the dainty prints, the ribbon rosebuds, the organdies, the flounces—and Laura herself.

Winifred Coburn Brant, forty-one, semantician, practical nurse, stores officer, historian.

If it should appear, as I think it will appear, that he also represented Winifred Laxter, the Court will hold as a privileged communication anything which Winifred Laxter may have said to him.

Hugh and Prior Robert had arrived at the priory late in the evening, paid their respects to the prior, attended Vespers to do reverence to the saints of the foundation, Saints Oswald and Wulstan, and taken Herluin and his attendants into their confidence about the loss, or at the very least the misplacement, of Saint Winifreds reliquary.