Title role played by Hilary Swank in a 2009 biopic

Usage examples of amelia.

And with that unrepentent and unremorseful thought, Amelia stopped before another giant hoarding outside a cheap movie house.

I swear, all those people down South have these stupid double names, so Amelia Blue has to make them up for us too.

One thing that had made it so hard for him to be found was because Amelia Blue and J.

Such as Amelia Blue, who knew that forever fixed in the mind of her stepson were one or two little incidents that would be best forgotten.

When that awful little man who claimed he was a detective had tried to blackmail her, Amelia had paid him off, read the report on Honey Belle, and burned it.

Whether she Was upset about Amelia or merely bored with the questioning difficult to say.

But this particular paper was skirting much too closely around the edges of that pool of blood in which lay the body of Amelia Farraday.

Why, he scarcely had time to moor his vessel at the below London Bridge, having just returned West Indies, when Amelia had sent word for him go at once to her home where his father had taken critically ill.

Earl of Landale had been w attracted by the generous dowry Amelia had brot him--that his love for her had been only luke warm.

It was several days later that Amelia and Katherine, accompanied by Thomas, one of the grooms, rode down the busy main street that ran through the centre of Appleby, which was flanked on either side by small thatched cottages.

Katherine lowered her eyes so that Amelia would not see the pain her words had caused her, saying a silent prayer of apology for the fierce joy she would be sure to feel if his marriage did not take place.

Feeling that Amelia was being kind to spare her feelings, Katherine sighed wistfully.

Katherine scoffed, caring not that she goaded him further, for to her mind his refusal to let her go to London with Amelia had turned him into a monster puffed up with ruthless pride.

The following day Henry returned to Oxford and Amelia and her husband left for London without Katherine, whose mind was filled with confusion over what had transpired the previous day.

Although Blake had been against her going to London with Amelia, she could see that now it would be unwise for her to remain at Ludgrove Hall close to him.