Character in "La Bohème" and "Rent"

Usage examples of mimi.

Father and Mimi, plus Mother, Manette, Grandmother Sannois, even Da Gertrude.

I told the innkeeper, Madame Mignon Lodi-Clarion, a cross sort, and thin as a stick, that I wanted Mimi with me, that I needed her help during the night, with Father, but Madame insisted.

She informed me that I treat Mimi too much as a familiar, that in order to command the respect due my station I must observe correct forms.

In the dressing room, Mimi helped me out of my gown and into a new lace-trimmed chemise, which was lovely, although scratchy.

After my baby was taken from me Mimi bound my breasts, but even so, one became inflamed, my milk blocked.

I returned from my clothier, Mimi rushed to me in the most terrible state, crying out in the African tongue.

Mademoiselle Mimi was hurriedly getting ready an improvised supper, midnight struck.

And he narrated the story of his union with the charming creature who had brought him as a dowry her eighteen years and a half, two porcelain cups, and a sandy haired cat named Mimi, like herself.

Then, like a musician, who before commencing a piece, strikes a series of notes to assure himself of the capacity of the instrument, Rodolphe drew Mimi onto his knee, and printed on her shoulder a long and sonorous kiss, which imparted a sudden vibration to the frame of the youthful beauty.

Then I loved her too, your Mimi, and saw no danger in your loving her.

At the time he met Mimi he was leading that broken and fantastic existence that we have tried to describe in the preceding chapters of this book.

Mademoiselle Mimi was very taking, not at all prudish, and could stand tobacco smoke and literary conversations without a headache, they became accustomed to her and treated her as a comrade.

But what contributed above all to make Rodolphe madly in love with Mademoiselle Mimi were her hands, which in spite of household cares, she managed to keep as white as those of the Goddess of Idleness.

The variable opulence of some of her new friends caused a forest of ambitious ideas to spring up in the mind of Mademoiselle Mimi, who up until then had only had modest tastes, and was content with the necessaries of life that Rodolphe did his best to procure for her.

During this period Rodolphe was a score of times on the point of separating from Mademoiselle Mimi, who had for him all the clumsy cruelties of the woman who does not love.