Actress Moorehead: 1906–74

Usage examples of agnes.

Juliana asked, and, when Agnes agreed, waved a dismissing hand to let them pass.

When Agnes glanced up at Rhys, he nodded back, but the sour expression remained affixed to her plump face.

Juliana could object, Agnes had her stripped of her filthy gown and standing in the tub.

A moment later, light threw shadows on the embrasure as the nurse lit the candle, and Agnes calmly instructed a page to set down the fresh tray before fetching Marta to straighten the mess.

At the questioning glance thrown her way, Agnes nodded her head for emphasis.

I push Agnes away, and in my own room I look about me for some cool thing to put upon my face.

My sister, Agnes, was peering round the doorpost and had shaken her head at my response.

Frans and Agnes and I had played in that star since we were old enough to run to the market.

As we peeked over I tightened my grip on her hand, as I had done years before with Frans and Agnes whenever we stood next to water.

I taught the girls games I had played with Agnes and Frans, and they taught me games they had made up.

Sitting between Agnes and my mother, I felt my back relaxing into the pew, and my face softening from the mask I had worn all week.

When we were children Frans and Agnes and I would throw stones to shatter the thin ice until every sliver had disappeared under water.

As Agnes, standing waiting upon the tennis-ground where Dora had left her, suddenly caught sight of Tom Raymond, her heart gave a little throb of exultation.

Yes, it was Tilly,--Tilly with the racket she, Agnes, had flung down,--Tilly standing in her place and--and--serving the ball back to that girl!

Well, she would see, they would all see, that Agnes Brendon was not a person to be snubbed and disregarded in this fashion, nor a person to be forced to make acquaintances with vulgar or common people against her will.