What is "marceline"

Usage examples of "marceline".

Old Sophonisba always shewed reverence whenever Marceline came near her, and one time I saw her kiss the ground where her mistress had walked.

Blacks are superstitious animals, and I wondered whether Marceline had been talking any of her mystical nonsense to our hands in order to overcome their evident dislike.

Marsh and Marceline as they rode up or down the drive on horseback, or played tennis on the court that used to stretch south of the house.

When the matter had blown over, and Marceline had forgotten about her new infatuation, it would be time enough to have Denis on hand again.

Marsh and Marceline might have been riding, but someone ought to have been getting dinner in the kitchen.

It was wrinkled Sophonisba, the ancient Zulu witch-woman who had fawned on Marceline, keening from her cabin in a way which crowned the horrors of this nightmare tragedy.

His last panting words were something about the need of wiping out everything that had been connected with Marceline, either by blood or marriage.

I pretended that Denis and Marsh and Marceline had gone back to Paris and had a certain discreet agency mail me letters from there - letters I had fixed up in forged handwriting.

I had the deaths of Marsh and Denis reported during the war, and later said Marceline had entered a convent.

He was to painting what Baudelaire was to poetry - and Marceline was the key that had unlocked his inmost stronghold of genius.

It was the ultimate fountainhead of all horror on this earth, and the symbolism shewed only too clearly how integral a part of it Marceline was.

I saw that Marceline was watching me craftily out of those monstrous, dilated eyes on the canvas.

No wonder she owned a link with that old witch-woman - for, though in deceitfully slight proportion, Marceline was a negress.

Stephanie realized with a start that Marceline Chambers had asked her a question.

Erik said good night and went after her, leaving Sir, Marceline, and Brian looking after them.