What is "tilly"

Usage examples of "tilly".

Mrs Ross swung round so quickly that the skirt of her grey alpaca dress formed itself for a moment into a bell and it looked to Tilly as if she were about to run down the steps and across the lawn.

Simon made no reply, he just stared down at the tiny elfin gure below him, searching the brown face, the black eyes, the straight hair for some resemblance that would connect her with Tilly.

Wallenstein or such men as Tilly and Pappenheim, however, Holk did not have any significant victories to his credit.

Then she spoke of earlier times, how in her middle twenties, still in the bloom of her youth, in breeches and on horseback, she had served under Tilly and -- at the Battle of Lutter -- taken a Danish captain prisoner.

Mike knew, from what Mackay and Lennox had told him, that if Tilly himself and his entire army had been here, the oncoming tercio would have been one of sixteen or seventeen such units.

And I can tell you this, Tilly, they were mostly for the stand you made, for you know, like the way Shields feels about Newcastle, Pelaw and up the line feel about Shields, and the villages.

And I can tell you this, Tilly, they were mostly for the stand you made, for you know, like the way Shields feels about F Newcastle, Pelaw and up the line feel about Shields, and the villages.

The half circle was broken by the rolley way that led down into the drift from the level land above, and John had to make way for Tilly as she walked it until the way was blocked by waggons and the women crowded to the side of them.

Tilly caught him with a powerful whomp, and he lost his balance and spun down.

I cursed Tilly for beaming at us like a yenta delighted to have knitted together another happy couple.

I watched the newscast, stunned by what they were saying, that Tilly Dunning, daughter of Congresswoman Marsha Dunning, had shot a coworker during an office party at the world-famous Mandrill Institute.

I had learned from a late newscast that Tilly had been cleared, that Mandrill was being accused of attempted murder.

If Merv and Cathy had some kind of past, it seemed from the blandness of her reaction that Tilly knew nothing about it.

Tilly thought wryly, as she wondered how her mother had managed to mentally banish the various sets of stepfamilies she had collected via her previous marriages.

Tilly made the acquaintance of Lucy Bentwood one day towards the end of June.