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Eustacia

American  
[yoo-stey-shuh] / juˈsteɪ ʃə /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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Buildings on their private islands – Branson owns two, Necker and Mosquito islands, while Page owns nearby Eustacia – were destroyed, as were almost all buildings on the bigger adjacent island, Virgin Gorda.

From The Guardian Sep. 17, 2017

He would like to call up Thomas Hardy, because he has a nice feeling about Eustacia Vye.

From The New Yorker Aug. 4, 1951

The sentiment which lurks more or less in all animate nature—that of not desiring the undesired of others—was lively as a passion in the super-subtle, epicurean heart of Eustacia.

From The Return of the Native by Hardy, Thomas

"Lord bless you, Eustacia, I can keep on doing it all day long."

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

"Nonsense; do not be so passionate… Eustacia, how we roved among these bushes last year, when the hot days had got cool, and the shades of the hills kept us almost invisible in the hollows!"

From The Return of the Native by Hardy, Thomas

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