Shelley

[ shel-ee ]

noun

1. Mary Woll·stone·craft (Godwin) [wool, -st, uh, n-kraft, -krahft], 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).
2. Percy Bysshe [bish], 1792–1822, English poet.
3. a male or female given name.

Shelley

/ ˈʃɛlɪ /

noun

1. ShelleyMary (Wollstonecraft)17971851FBritishWRITING: writer Mary ( Wollstonecraft ) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. ShelleyPercy Bysshe17921822MBritishWRITING: poet Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia

Example Sentences

Although the novel follows loosely the life of Shelley, the book begins to feel a tad directionless.

From Washington Post

Shelley’s book introduced him in 1818, and the movie “Frankenstein” starring Boris Karloff came out in 1931.

From Washington Post

The second district is an open seat, vacated by Republican Shelley Moore Capito to run for Senate.

From The Daily Beast

There were multiple interactions with Shelley Winters in particular.

From The Daily Beast

Shelley Long, Cheers Shelley Long left Cheers on a high note after winning awards, in search of a film career.

From The Daily Beast

Shelley, who had left her apartment and had to wait a month before moving into her new one, delightedly agreed to a long vacation.

From The Daily Beast

Back in Detroit, Shelley called her mother to recount the fight, but she omitted any mention of group sex.

From The Daily Beast

In this respect, if I remember aright, the family of Shelley were particularly distinguished.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes he attended the week-night entertainments and gave a reading from Shelley or Whittier or some other poet.

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"'King Lear' may be recognized as the perfect model of the dramatic art of the whole world," says Shelley.

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But he was not more Christlike than Wagner when he realised his soul in music; or than Shelley, when he realised his soul in song.

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He had scarcely arrived at Geneva, when he became intimate with Shelley.

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