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Vivian

[ viv-ee-uhn ]

noun

  1. Also Vivien. Arthurian Legend. an enchantress, the mistress of Merlin: known as the Lady of the Lake.
  2. Also Vivien, Vivienne. a male or female given name: from a Latin word meaning “alive.”


Vivian

/ ˈvɪvɪən /

noun

  1. (in Arthurian legend) the mistress of Merlin, sometimes identified with the Lady of the Lake


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Vivian Lynch felt Whitehead was wrong in construing this as an invasion-of-privacy case.

Vivian Maier is a fairly recent discovery in the genre of street photography.

After Vivian died, I could no longer say what God meant to me.

To me this place is holy and this ritual sacred, but strangely, however close I feel to Vivian, I feel distant from God.

Even so, they may know little about the damage caused to the girl, says Vivian Fouad from the NPC.

Bernard stood there face to face with Mrs. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever.

He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.

Mrs. Vivian had hardly spoken when the sharp little vibration of her door-bell was heard in the hall.

The two were standing together before the fire; Bernard watched Mrs. Vivian close the door softly behind her.

Blanche sat there with her little excited, yet innocent—too innocent—stare; her eyes followed Mrs. Vivian's.

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