O. Henry Award-winning Truman Capote story, or either of its main female characters

Usage examples of miriam.

He never went past the pits at night, by the lighted lamp-house, the tall black headstocks and lines of trucks, past the fans spinning slowly like shadows, without the feeling of Miriam returning to him, keen and almost unbearable.

The last thing Miriam needs is the fanciful perspective of a sleep-deprived and overstressed husband.

In one of the silences, Miriam turned to Spence and asked him if he had seen Mr.

Bradshaw of Manchester, old acquaintances of the Spences and of Miriam.

But had it a connection with that curious surmise she had formed during the first hour of her conversation with the Spences, and with Miriam herself--that an unexpected intimacy was coming about between Miriam and Mallard?

On the following day, the Spences dined from home, and Miriam, who had excused herself from accompanying them, sat through the evening in their drawing-room.

With a miserable sense of humiliation, Miriam compared her own insignificant utterances and that bright, often brilliant, talk which held the attention of every one.

This, of course, will not do in the case of fools, but Miriam Baske, all appearances notwithstanding, did not belong to that category.

Miriam, as chief breadwinner, handles the finances with an efficiency Saul could never match.

Saul alternates between being relieved and appalled that life continues as it always has despite the fact that he and Miriam only see each other at dinner and then only if she arrives home in time to eat.

He has never felt so divided, wonders if Miriam has secretly intended a crash course in mind/body separation.

That both Candy and Melanie were nicely tanned, with obvious white patches of skin where their bikinis had covered their boobies and bottoms, seemed not to faze Miriam.

Miriam then loosened the ties of Melanie's camisole at the top, where it covered her boobies.

It wasn't, Miriam confessed that she could not get the caning cut o under thirty strokes.

After a century of subjective time, for both Michael and Miriam, the Cauchy would complete its circular tour and return to Jovian orbit, lost in Michael's future.