Daughter of William the Conqueror

Usage examples of adela.

When he entered the house again, he met Adela at the foot of the stairs.

CHAPTER II The cab which had passed Adela and her brother at a short distance from Wanley brought faces to the windows or door of almost every house as it rolled through the village street.

It was jokingly uttered, but Adela replied with some earnestness, as if to remove a false impression.

Neither of the two happened to be regarding Adela, or they would have seen a look of dismay flit across her countenance and pass into one of annoyance.

When the talk had gone on for a few minutes Adela interposed a question.

As his imagination was working on the hint, Adela herself addressed a question to him.

At the sight of Adela the youngest of the three slipped down from her seat and ran to meet her with laughter and shaking of curls.

As she spoke Adela became distressed by perceiving, or seeming to perceive, that the cause which had led her to this step was quite inadequate.

Mutimer kept his seat, and Adela could not leave him to himself, though for the moment he seemed unconscious of her presence.

Alfred came towards them, announcing that tea was ready, and Adela gladly moved away.

On the way home after service, Adela had a brief murmured conversation with Letty Tew.

Really, Adela, you must remember that a girl of your age has to be mindful of her self-respect.

The little scene was just well over, and Adela had taken a seat by the window, when a gentleman who was approaching the front door saw her and raised his hat.

Waltham cast a side glance at Adela when she heard the outer door close.

That lady had begun to talk to him, when they were alone together, in almost a motherly way, confiding to him this or that peculiarity in the characters of her children, deploring her inability to give Adela the pleasures suitable to her age, then again pointing out the advantage it was to a girl to have all her thoughts centred in home.