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adah

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n. 1 The wife of Lamech 2 The wife of Esau. 3 (given name female from=Hebrew).

Usage examples of adah.

Celia or to Chloe, which sounded just as fine to him as Effie and Minnie sound to young people now, as Musidora, as Saccharissa, as Lesbia, as Helena, as Adah and Zillah, have all sounded to young people in their time,--ashes of roses as they are to us now, and as our endearing Scotch diminutives will be to others by and by.

The watchers who assembled after dusk in the meetinghouse consisted of the Rowley family--Paul, the watch master, and his four daughters, Amana, Leah, Adah, and Timna, all of them over the age of fifty.

Ire expIieln cemma apsgoari, ilyasonlffe adahs theierovnn Eamor wTuaseend,tbmautlat palyasonlffeity.

The watchers who assembled after dusk in the meetinghouse consisted of the Rowley family--Paul, the watch master, and his four daughters, Amana, Leah, Adah, and Timna, all of them over the age of fifty.

Then Adah would fly home, and Leah and I would drive as far as Brazzaville together for safety’s sake, although if you ask me two women traveling alone are twice as much trouble as one.

But Major Gideon Withers, for some reason or other, married a slender, sensitive, nervous, romantic woman, which accounted for the fact that his son David, "King David," as he was called in his time, had a very different set of tastes from his father, showing a turn for literature and sentiment in his youth, reading Young's "Night Thoughts," and Thomson's "Seasons," and sometimes in those early days writing verses himself to Celia or to Chloe, which sounded just as fine to him as Effie and Minnie sound to young people now, as Musidora, as Saccharissa, as Lesbia, as Helena, as Adah and Zillah, have all sounded to young people in their time,--ashes of roses as they are to us now, and as our endearing Scotch diminutives will be to others by and by.

And truthfully, if any of us was disposed to use curse words, it would be Adah, who could not care less about sin and salvation.

In our efforts to eke the most mileage out of a scissors step or whatever, my sisters and I sometimes forgot to ask (or Adah to mouth) “.

A principal less observant would have placed Leah in Gifted, and Adah in Special Ed with the mongoloids and all six of Bethlehem’s thumb-sucking, ear-pulling Crawley children, and there would I remain, to learn how to pull my own ear.