Ella
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “all.”
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a suffix used as a formative in taxonomic names, especially genus names of bacteria: chorella; pasteurella; salmonella.
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Through Ella and Elena’s efforts to reconstruct a sense of self — outside family, beyond academia and expectation — through language, Dennis confronts the various ways we try to understand ourselves and others.
Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller | Lauren LeBlanc | March 11, 2021 | Washington PostNow a successful gallerist in Paris, Siobhán gave Ella up as an infant.
Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller | Lauren LeBlanc | March 11, 2021 | Washington PostElla’s mother, Siobhán, believes her daughter, a presumed victim of the 2004 tsunami six years earlier, is still alive.
Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller | Lauren LeBlanc | March 11, 2021 | Washington PostWhile Elena’s trauma has not left her as self-destructive or outlandish as Ella, she remains incapable of taking charge of her own life.
Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller | Lauren LeBlanc | March 11, 2021 | Washington PostElla chronicled her immersion in an unfamiliar landscape through a series of journals.
Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller | Lauren LeBlanc | March 11, 2021 | Washington Post
And less research has been done on Ella, the week-after pill, though data indicate it works like Plan B.
Why Can’t the FDA Fix Outdated Birth Control Labels? | Tiffany Stanley | March 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTElla Panfilova was the human rights adviser to the president.
Is This the Mastermind Behind Russia’s Crimea Grab? | Anna Nemtsova, Eli Lake | March 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin.
How to Cure Your Anxiety? Read Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady,’ Of Course. | Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkind | September 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBorn Ella Yelich-O'Connor, Lorde grew up on the North Shore of New Zealand.
Meet Lorde, the 16-Year-Old Singer Poised to Take Over Pop Music | Marlow Stern | July 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTurns out different countries date differently, reports Ella Delany.
“Yes, yes,” cried Ella huskily; and she took a formal-looking letter, that had evidently been hurriedly torn open.
By Birth a Lady | George Manville Fenn“Yes, yes; I must go,” said Ella huskily; and raising her hands to her face, she would have left the room.
By Birth a Lady | George Manville Fenn“Yes,” said Ella again abstractedly, as he held her cold hand in his, her face being turned towards the door.
By Birth a Lady | George Manville Fenn“Pray take me out, Charley,” whispered Ella; and for the first time he noticed her pallor.
By Birth a Lady | George Manville FennThe train drew up at a platform, and as Max started back into his seat, the carriage-door opened, and Ella Bedford fainted.
By Birth a Lady | George Manville Fenn
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