Calpurnia
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Before “Happy Birthday” and “Fire From the Hip,” Wolfhard released a total of two records and an EP, plus a whole bunch of singles, with his previous bands, Calpurnia and the Aubreys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The play’s power, though, resides in the dignified stoicism of its morally righteous characters, Yaegel T. Welch’s Tom and Atticus’s longtime housekeeper, Calpurnia.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022
Sorkin’s script — which cuts the undergrowth of minor characters and enhances others, particularly the maid Calpurnia and Tom Robinson, the man falsely accused of rape — was the thing that really grabbed Kinnear.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
And the story’s most prominent black characters — Calpurnia and Tom Robinson — are allowed more opportunity in the play to voice their frustrations about racial injustice.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2020
She barely heard Calpurnia talking: “Frank, he do wrong ... he pay for it. . . my grandson. I love him . . . but he go to jail with or without Mr. Finch. “
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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