Ellery

[ el-uh-ree ]

/ ˈɛl ə ri /

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a male given name.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Ellery, a true New Englander, stared at him in astonishment, as one who heard sacred things lightly spoken of.
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Yet as Sunday after Sunday the two young men strode up together, she grew to accept Ellery.
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Now Ellery and Madeline and most of the others lived along certain conventional lines, with certain fixed interests and habits.
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The stream thundered and one does not ask a friend to shout out his minor moods, so Ellery forbore to question.
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A white thing lay on the path before them, and Dick stooped to pick it up, while Ellery looked on with mild curiosity.
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