(Greek mythology) the wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity

Usage examples of penelope.

When the stories arrived of curses laid on the Achaian kings, Penelope felt no surprise.

Here Ernie had lived with his mother and father, and down these alleys Doris and Penelope and Nancy had come on wartime winter afternoons, to call on old Mrs.

And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, and his dainty birdsnies, lady Penelope Rich, a clean quality woman is suited for a player, and the punks of the bankside, a penny a time.

After dozens of phone calls, she and Penelope Briggs had managed to put together a consortium of parents, alums, local businesspeople, and miscellaneous Travelers who wanted to buy St.

He supported his argument by asserting that the writer was clearly more familiar with homelife than the sea and contending that Nausicaa used the story to frame portraits of the great Greek heroines: Calypso, Circe, and Penelope, for instance.

And when Penelope and Odysseus are about to go upstairs to their first night in twenty years, the house is sounding with the guileful music of a pretended wedding, a truly Odyssean accompaniment.

She did mention in her last letter that Lady Rhodine was coming out in the carriage most afternoons, and she was getting used to Penelope, but still had no liking for horses.

I could check in on Clytaemnestra and on Penelope, on Telemachus and Orestes.

In those days she used to sit here during the hours of sunlight and watch that balcony beneath for the tall, red-haired young man who had so strongly attracted her that she wove whole fantasies around him, pretending he was King Odysseus of Ithaca and she was his faithful Queen Penelope, waiting for him to come home.

Featherington held out hope that Penelope might still make a match, since it had taken both Prudence and Philippa five seasons to snare husbands, but Penelope knew that she was destined to remain a spinster.

It was obvious to Penelope that neither Prudence, Philippa, nor even Felicity had ever had a chance with a Bridgerton.

Ulysses, unknown to Penelope, slipped a letter into my hand for Calypso, at the island of Ogygia.

What great coarse asses' throats these Kastrians have, thought Penelope, pursing her lips.

Penelope was never more than ten yards away, acting the part of her shill, collecting her money, urging bypassers to seek her services.

She said nothing, and after a glance toward the regions where Penelope might conjecturably be lingering, he held aside the portiere for the Laphams to pass, and entered the room with them.