Hepzibah
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I recognized this as the purely fictional place where Hawthorne’s Hepzibah Pyncheon opened a store in the opening pages of his novel.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
Slay: People haven’t “slain” each other since they wore raiment of fine linen and had names like Ham and Hepzibah and Jehoshaphat.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2018
Last week 4,500 Manhattanites paid $12,000 to cram the Metropolitan Opera House while Yehudi Menuhin and his pretty 17-year-old sister Hepzibah played Beethoven's C Minor Sonata for violin and piano.
From Time Magazine Archive
Desist also acquired a chic French wife, who bore him two sons, and a taste for la vie as it is not lived in Hepzibah.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Helga Hufflepuff’s, as you very well know, you clever boy!” said Hepzibah, leaning forward with a loud creaking of corsets and actually pinching his hollow cheek.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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