Girl in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers"

Usage examples of leila.

There was character in Leila Lynch, and she had lived an interesting life from a certain point of view.

I was Leila Pierson once upon a time, and I often think of you and wonder what you are like now, and what your girls are like.

The scenic sense derived therefrom had a certain poignancy, the more so because the tall child whom he met there did not drink it, and her father seemed but to wet his lips, so that Leila and he had all the rest.

But Leila, who hated dining by daylight, had soon drawn curtains of a deep blue over them.

He remembered Leila brewing Turkish coffee--very good, and how beautiful her white arms looked, hovering about the cups.

When Leila found herself with Fort in that loneliness to which she had been looking forward, she was overcome by an access of nervous silence.

IV When Leila opened her door to Edward Pierson, her eyes were smiling, and her lips were soft.

And, going to her little sideboard, Leila stealthily extracted a pint bottle of some champagne which Jimmy Fort had sent in, and took it with two glasses and a corkscrew into her bedroom.

From the look on her face rather than from her words, the full reality of her meaning came to Leila, vanished, came again.

We had Leila in to dinner again on Saturday, and a man called Fort came too.

She passed the church opposite to the flats where Leila lived, and running suddenly into a tall man coming round the corner, saw Fort.

One day, in a queer access of compunction, he had made Leila an offer of marriage.

How could he have been such a base fool, as to have committed himself to Leila on an evening when he had actually been in the company of that child?

And Leila soothed him, innocent as he was of any knowledge of her latest aberration, and perhaps conscious that she herself was not too happy.

He had not even the feeling that it was his duty to try and save Leila by persuading her to marry Fort.