Elspeth
Americannoun
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Elspeth receives a total of about £1,200 a month through a student maintenance loan and incapacity and disability benefits.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
Elspeth Edwards is worried about the tightening of eligibility criteria for the welfare benefits she receives.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
Elspeth is a virtuoso at the warm sun/cold shoulder art of manipulation, whose elegant gazes of cool disapproval can slam doors.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023
When a serious issue does befall the clan, Elspeth “smothers the family in small talk,” says Pike, chit-chatting away even the possibility of coming to terms with the uncomfortable.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023
Elspeth placed a steel cap on his head, and, from beneath it, his dark hair, mingled with grey, fell upon his brow.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
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