Millie

[ mil-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

millie

/ ˈmɪlɪ /

Origin of Millie¹

perhaps from mill worker

Beatrice was said to be very upset because another of her Norfolk terriers, Millie, died from natural causes recently.

To work with Millie and write about her was a way to actually know something in its details, to connect to something real.

For me, writing a book about Millie was a way to conquer the immunity.

Millie is 15, a frightened, fragile girl, working in a forced-labor ammunitions factory in Radom, an industrial city in Poland.

When I first considered writing a book about the wartime experiences of Millie Werber, I thought, Why go through this again?

The more I think about it—why, if Millie hadnt got the creeps and run away, Inga never would have known where we were.

He hobbled over and shook Millie by the hands, and the engagement was ratified, to the joy of every one.

Aloud she said: "Millie, couldn't you lean over, and watch him a few minutes, and see what you think?"

The big house in which my grandmother, my Aunt Millie, and I lived was looking rather seedy by this time.

And he said, 'Never mind, Millie; it won't be for long,' and I thought he meant he'd get down-stairs again.

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