1816 novel set in the village of Highbury

Usage examples of emma.

In a flash, Maximilian, Clementine, Telzey, and Emma had surrounded Ake and were licking his face and putting their massive paws on his shoulders.

In regard to Chatterford, I shall send Nola and Avis back with you -- and possibly Emma Burke with the duke no longer a threat -- as walking testimonials for the next batch.

So I shall rouse Avis, Pelly, Nola, Arleigh and Emma on Saturday morning if the orgy still continues.

They are Nola Aimee, Avis Prentice, Pelly Carpenter, Emma Burke, Beth Orville, Molly Thomm and Peavy Green.

Is it true, all these things that Avis and Nola -- and Emma -- had to say about Joy Hall?

The Emma had been called in by aviso from her station off Rodriguez, but he had not looked for her sooner than Thursday.

There was no one about--though a vague murmur of voices from the kitchen indicated that Tante Emma and Mevrouw Blom were doing something about supper--Maartje would be with Tante Marijna.

May skies waxed bluer and the marsh grass grew thick and green, and Emma Tremayne went back to the house on Thames Street.

For long seconds Elias stared at Emma, his bushy eyebrows arched questioningly high above his steel gray eyes.

His bushy graying eyebrows arched questioningly, disbelievingly above the sharp glitter of steel gray eyes, and then Emma saw him burst out laughing as he ran toward her.

So too thought Emma, for there had come a lightness on her life, and she sang whilst about her work, except when in the cow byre or the yard.

Rupert, with Choc behind him, came in from the larger room whose fresh decorations Emma had displayed so proudly earlier in the day.

Aunt Emma spotted a look in your eyes when you were observing Paula at the christening two and a half years ago.

I am especially grateful to my editors, Betsy Mitchell of Del Rey, and Jane Johnson and Emma Coode of HarperCollins UK, for their insights and excellent advice.

The solicitor paused to take a sip of water, and went on to explain that Emma wished the Faberg6 object of art to be auctioned, the money returned to her grandchildren who had purchased it for her as a gift for her eightieth birthday.