Gonne
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As every English major knows, Yeats was infatuated with Gonne — his muse, his tormentor, the dark-haired beauty who rejected his many proposals of marriage.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2015
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
Presently a hansom drove up to our door at Bedford Park with Miss Maud Gonne, who brought an introduction to my father from old John O’Leary, the Fenian leader.
From The Trembling of the Veil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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