European capital named after a saint

Usage examples of sofia.

Anne aarzelde even, maar omdat Emilio en Sofia hun spullen nog moesten pakken mompelde ze een excuus en ging achter Jimmy aan.

Smyrna, people in Sofia, people in Belgrade, in Adrianople, in Paris, in Lyons, people all over Europe, who could answer them.

As a boy he had trailed along with his mother and Sofia through the mountain valleys gathering wild herbs, silk dalea, rock daisies, and the sweet sand verbena.

Jimmy had zijn interesse al geruime tijd eerder opgebiecht, zonder te weten dat Sofia op Emilio precies dezelfde uitwerking had gehad.

Yarbrough in gedachte voor Sofia Mendes: zulke moeilijke omstandigheden dat ze de kans zou krijgen haar eigen grenzen te ontdekken, haar capaciteiten aan te wenden en trots op zichzelf te zijn.

Hij voelde met een bijna lichamelijke pijn wat het zou betekenen af te zien van zijn laatste kans Sofia te beminnen, haar de vrijheid te geven van Jimmy te houden, die haar beslist net zo zou koesteren als Emilio dat zelf zou hebben gedaan.

Manuzhai had de krans van bloemen en linten gemaakt die Sofia om haar hoofd droeg, met lange linten in veel kleuren die in de kroon waren geweven en overal om haar heen tot op de grond vielen.

Sofia doing surveillance on a ex-Montenegrin secret policeman who was involved in selling Russian air-to-surface ATASM missiles from Transnistria through the Bosporus to the John the Baptist Liberation Army, Iraqi Mandaean separatists who operated out of Cyprus.

Ze onderzocht Marc en Sofia, zag Marcs inschatting als leek van hun toestand bevestigd en deelde D.

Merrick with five of the mushiest apples she could find, then she ducked behind a hay cart, where Sofia had dragged a basket and was pummeling her husband.

XX THE DEVIL TO PAY When it was all over, when the gravelled drive no longer crunched to wheels that bore away the man Nogam to answer for his misdeeds, when the household had quieted down and the most indefatigable sensation-monger had wearied of singing the praises of the Princess Sofia and, tossing off a final whiskey-and-soda, had paddled sleepily back to bed, lights burned on brightly in two parts only of Frampton Court, in the bedchambers tenanted respectively by Prince Victor Vassilyevski and his reputed daughter.

Her inability to play up to the relationship in which she stood to Mama Therese in the manner prescribed by sentimentalists worried Sofia more than a little.

So it was rather exasperating when, his absinthe having been served and the customary platitudes passed on the weather and their respective states of health, the conversation was continued in a tongue with which Sofia was not only unacquainted but which sounded like none she had ever heard spoken.

What with keeping an eye on Papa Dupont that prevented his drinking himself to death seven times per calendar week, and an eye on Sofia that was fondly credited with being largely responsible for her failure to run away with each and every presentable man who ogled her, and browbeating the waiters and frustrating their attempts to cheat the house out of its fair dues, and supervising the marketing and the cuisine: believe it or not, Mama Therese led a tolerably busy life and deserved whatever gratification she got out of it, to say nothing of highest commendation for industry, fidelity, and frugality.

If I do a Sofia Coppola out there, the thought of being a small-time character actress might seem pretty far-fetched.