"Gone Girl" wife

Usage examples of amy.

Very slowly, in between deep breaths, she had explained to Amy that mobs had taken over Paris, that the king and queen were prisoners, and that Papa and Edouard were very much in danger.

If anyone happened upon her, Amy explained that she was preparing amateur theatricals.

From the papers, Amy learned that the Pimpernel had spirited Papa out of prison disguised as a cask of cheap red wine.

French for that, and Amy could already feel her native tongue beginning to slip away under the onslaught of constant English conversation.

Greek would do her no good in her mission, but Amy read them anyway, in memory of Papa.

League of the Purple Gentian to whom Amy planned to offer her services.

At times Amy considered running away to Paris, but how would she even get there?

Jane hurried after Amy into the airy white-and-blue-papered room they had shared since they were old enough to abandon the nursery.

If Amy had been around for the creation of the world, Jane had no doubt that she would have chivvied the Lord into creating the earth in two days rather than seven.

Jane reached around Amy to pluck a locket on a blue ribbon off the dressing table.

In his Nile green frock coat, he looked like a particularly foppish frog, thought Amy disgustedly.

Bertrand, Amy noticed, with the dawning of delight, was visibly weakening.

As for Aunt Prudence, if she had been a younger woman, Amy would have termed her expression positively coquettish!

Where his collar gaped open, Amy could see the strong lines of his throat.

He looked, Amy thought, like an illustration she had once seen of Horatius at the bridge, defending Rome against all comers.