What is "melion"

Usage examples of "melion".

But, although this meant that all were confined below, none of the women interfered with either Melia or herself.

Jenny and Melia for protection, rather than a desire to make herself useful.

She was a strange girl, Jenny thought, years older in worldly experience even than Melia, cynical and disillusioned, yet oddly cheerful, accepting hardship as her lot and seldom complaining-as most of the others did unceasingly-of the poor food and the restrictions on their freedom.

The old hag stooped down, cursing, to retrieve her weapon, and as she did so Melia wakened and called urgently from her upper bunk.

When they had gone, happily carrying the precious cask, Melia leaned down from her upper bunk.

The young doctor eyed her searchingly but did not question her decision, and on November 3 she was transferred with Melia, Polly, and four of the others to the Lady Penrhyn, the bunks they had occupied broken up, in order to make room for thirty Cape ewes.

Jenny, with Melia, Eliza, and Charlotte, did what they could for the exhausted Dorcas but she was heartbroken by the loss of her child, and despite all their attempts to console her she slipped into unconsciousness from which it was impossible to rouse her.

Nevertheless, after two days of being battened down in the hold with the women back to their old habits, Jenny took every opportunity to exercise that she could, sometimes with Melia but more often alone.

On the bunk above she heard Melia weeping, and her conscience pricking her, she sat up.

When it had finally run out, Melia had been pregnant with his child, and deeming this the moment to make his approach to her father, the young man had spent the last of his slender stock of guineas on the hire of a post chaise to take them to her home in Bodmin.

There was nothing Jenny could say, no consolation she could offer, and after a brief silence Melia turned to face her, dabbing at her tear-filled eyes.

As she followed Melia into one of the overcrowded longboats Jenny saw that Mattie Denver and a number of others were very far from sober, although, for once, the effect of the liquor they had consumed had been to dampen, rather than raise, their spirits.

Tom Jenkins went to his company commander, Captain Tench, and twenty-four hours later Jenny, with Melia, Polly, and Ann Inett, were offered a choice of plots, and after inspecting these, they settled on one on high ground near the head of the next cove, to the east of the main colony.

She had foraged in the bush for edible plants and fruit bushes, had brought them back, planted, and nurtured them with a zeal not even Melia had equaled.

And Melia herself, working their meager supply of flour into dough, which was cooked on a stone placed among the smoldering embers of the fire.