Gonne
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mr. Gonne said he identified as a libertarian, and did not vote for Mr. Nunes.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018
He spent decades in love with the Irish nationalist and proto-feminist Maud Gonne; after she rejected his marriage proposal for a final time, he shifted his attention to her daughter.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2015
Bibhu Mohapatra looked to the dynamics between poet William Butler Yeats and Maud Gonne.
From Forbes • Feb. 10, 2015
But Millevoye was also strongly anti-English, and he encouraged Maud Gonne in her own growing hostility to the Crown in Ireland.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2015
Madame Maud Gonne could still draw great crowds out of the slums by her beauty and sincerity, and speak to them of ‘Mother Ireland with the crown of stars about her head.’
From The Cutting of an Agate by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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