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Lois

American  
[loh-is] / ˈloʊ ɪs /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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The Synna flows from the settlement of Cluain meic Nois to the estuary of Luimnech, in which the island of Cathi stands.

From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by MacAlister, R.A. Stewart

Du Nois, my Alice, rise—spare me this trial.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice

The hand Of Count Du Nois will be the recompense Of her consent; and is not this a prize To tempt the breaking of a word she ne'er Intended to observe?

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice

Cluain maccu Nois, the "Meadow of the Descendants of Nos," now Clonmacnois, stands on the right bank of the Shannon about twelve miles below Athlone.

From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by MacAlister, R.A. Stewart

The French knew they were beaten, and therefore, instead of fighting, abandoned the famous stronghold and Crown Point, and retreated down to Isle aux Nois, whither Amherst should have followed them.

From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Hawthorne, Julian

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