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Sci-fi author __ K. Le Guin
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ursula
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Word definitions for ursula in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Latin Ursula , diminutive of ursa "she-bear" (see ursine ). The Ursuline order of Catholic women was founded as Brescia in 1537 and named for Saint Ursula.
Usage examples of ursula.
The Camperdown Sector lay on the far side of the Ursula Sector from Esterhazy, directly in the path of the Melconians.
Pablo Pech and of Ursula Pech, here in this town of Chac Xulub Chen, to serve God and our great ruler, the reigning king, in order that I may govern the town at this place Chac Xulub Chen.
Adam emerged from the Hellhole with Ursula Shipton, who had disposed of her rags and now wore a black jump-suit and red sandals.
Her bedroom was full of cups and trophies awards that Ursula felt sure would have been given to her daughters, if only they had been given the right horse or pony to ride.
Ursula and Gudrun, both very unused, were mostly silent, listening to the slow, rhapsodic sing-song of Hermione, or the verbal sallies of Sir Joshua, or the prattle of Fraulein, or the responses of the other two women.
When they all took their candles and mounted the stairs, where the lamps were burning subduedly, Hermione captured Ursula and brought her into her own bedroom, to talk to her.
And Hermione came near, and her bosom writhed, and Ursula was for a moment blank with panic.
Ursula looked all the white at Hermione, as she spoke in her slow, dispassionate, and yet strangely tense voice.
Both women watched him, Hermione with deep resentment and pity for him, Ursula very impatient.
At moments it seemed to him he did not care a straw whether Ursula or Hermione or anybody else existed or did not exist.
The little Italian Contessa wore a dress of tissue, of orange and gold and black velvet in soft wide stripes, Gudrun was emerald green with strange net-work, Ursula was in yellow with dull silver veiling, Miss Bradley was of grey, crimson and jet, Fraulein Marz wore pale blue.
It could not justly be said that Sister Ursula warmed to Alfie and Naomi at first glance, not even after it had been explained to him that they were neighbors and quite harmless.
And he wanted to be with Ursula as free as with himself, single and clear and cool, yet balanced, polarised with her.
She replied to Ursula, an ex-prostitute in Dortmund, and entered an online discussion about a potential Mexican source of thalidomide to relieve the ulcers in her mouth.
In Ursula the sense of the unrealised world ahead triumphed over everything.