Trollope's ''Lady ___''

Usage examples of anna.

Over the years, her argument remains the same, that Anna should have had an adrenalectomy and her ovaries removed, as she had.

Perhaps an adrenalectomy at the beginning would have helped, says Anna, but it is too late now that cancer has spread.

Anna trotted, wind at her back, up the dock and onto the shore of Amygdaloid Island.

By the time the armadillo had nosed and waddled around the bend in the road, Anna was less than thirty-six inches from the gray and scaly hindquarters.

Finally wised-up, her armadillo scuttled ahead, winning back the ten yards Anna had so cunningly eaten up.

There were shouted greetings and a great deal of laughter: Axel and Anna, Martha and the McGarritys, the Kaes girls trailing beaux, and most of the children of the village, many of them masked.

Morvan and Anna, David and Christiana, Duncan and Aymer, with Ian bringing up the rear.

She felt sure that if Christiana and Anna had not been present, Aymer would have struck her at several points in the heated conversation.

George in Madras, Government used to pay a reward of one anna for every bandicoot killed within the walls.

Lysara, Resor, Cens, Barat, Hoede, the pale blonde Ytrude, and Secca, the youngest redhead, sitting on a stool in the corner, her eyes darting to Anna, and then away.

Anna thought, that this kindly, lovable benefactress should have that one flaw: she would never let her forget that she had an obstacle to surmount, that there would always be this obstacle, but it was not surmountable.

So after being perfectly outmaneuvered by committee and bumped upstairs to Commander of the new Starflight Agency, there was nothing left for him except bitching to Oscar and Anna about losing crucial people at critical times because they were needed to establish a duplicate facility at High Angel.

Anna let the silence draw out slightly, knowing she was being petty, bitchy, or worse.

Anna had some sly reason for taking Andrew and Bitten to the cemetery island of San Michele, I had no doubt.

The low words seemed to hiss through the gray of the early morning, and Anna bolted upright in the narrow and lumpy pallet bed, not that she had slept that well, with nightmares of various shadowy figures chasing her through improbable settings, none of which she could remember clearly.