Juliet or Cordelia

Usage examples of heroine.

It is, possibly, the aptest contrast with the seriousness of our hero and heroine.

The hero and heroine of the story, named Arg and Gogogoch respectively, tried to smash their machine at birth, but this resulted only in fissiparous replication of the monster.

Meanwhile, the poor heroine, a sort of everywoman of Florentina, suffered the trials of living in a patriarchal society, where men were so numerous and primitive that life could only have been a kind of hell.

Comparing those about her with such highfaluting heroines, she thought the only emotion she possessed was pity.

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.

The heroine sang a lovely song of loss and longing, meditating on her faithless lover, and it was difficult to imagine how any lout, no matter how louty, could be faithless to such a desirable creature.

A nice titbit to send to his mistress in England the heroine of many a similar story and one which would naturally be told and retold against the Queen of Scots.

I was very happy when at the end of two hours I saw her calm and determined upon bearing misfortune like a heroine.

After we had talked and laughed together we sat down at table, and the heroine Therese gave me a delicate supper accompanied by exquisite wines.

In this frame of mind was our heroine, when Beulah made her appearance.

The ancient keep of Blackhouse on Douglas Burn may have been the home of the heroine, if we are to localize.

In the course of Lent the abbe introduced me to all the best dancers and operatic singers in Bologna, which is the nursery of the heroines of the stage.

We are not, therefore, ashamed to say, that our heroine now pursued the dictates of the above-mentioned right honourable philosopher.

Lakelands, music, public affairs, the pardonable foibles of friends created to amuse their fellows, operatic heroes and heroines, exhibitions of pictures, the sorrows of Crowned Heads, so serviceable ever to mankind as an admonition to the ambitious, a salve to the envious!

That alone, that they killed those two heroines, will be all the Exterminationists need.