Beatrix Potter's Puddle-Duck

Usage examples of jemima.

Jemima, who had no cousins or close relations of any sort, would make do with Randall Birley for a cousin if she were able to choose one.

It was only at this point that Jemima recognised the voice of Randall Birley, since he had never bothered to announce his identity.

Jemima had not figured Randall Birley as at all political, unlike Millie Swain, but perhaps he had been persuaded by Millie to do a commercial for the Labour-Liberal coalition.

It was Jemima Shore, not Charley Baines, who was the unwilling witness to the subsequent colloquy between Randall Birley and Millie Swain.

Where Randall Birley and Millie Swain were concerned, Jemima was still at this point unaware that they had not arrived together.

Yes, Jemima knew where Randall Birley was: at the Irving Theatre, at least he would be there until 10.

He stupidly buried Iffy over Jemima, but he only dug down about three feet.

After all no one at Megalith, not Jemima Shore and certainly not Cy Fredericks, wanted to be confronted by the sight of Franklyn Faber, emerging from obscurity alive and well, and flanked by libel lawyers.

Larry instead of going after Jemima, like every midlife hormone he had was urging.

Afterwards I remembered that he was the tinsmith, and Jemima stayed to chat with him for a few minutes, but Rubens and I strolled on.

I waved mine, and then Jemima, having parted with the tinsmith, came up, and we went home.

Jemima, and she married to Jim Espin the tinsmith this six months past.

She knew now, as well as words could have told her, that not only had the old feeling of love passed away from Jemima, but that it had gone unregretted, and no attempt had been made to recall it.

When the mainspring of her life her love for Burgo Smyth had been broken, for reasons which were still obscure to Jemima, Imogen Swain had somehow ceased to exist.

Jemima wondered whether Lady Imogen had also talked to her doctor about one not-so-strange man from the past: Burgo Smyth.