Hepzibah
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I recognized this as the purely fictional place where Hawthorne’s Hepzibah Pyncheon opened a store in the opening pages of his novel.
From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018
Slay: People haven’t “slain” each other since they wore raiment of fine linen and had names like Ham and Hepzibah and Jehoshaphat.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2018
Desist also acquired a chic French wife, who bore him two sons, and a taste for la vie as it is not lived in Hepzibah.
From Time Magazine Archive
His mother and his two plump little sisters, Hepzibah and Yaltah, will go with him to Northampton.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I thought — but a trick of the light, I suppose —” said Hepzibah, looking unnerved, and Harry guessed that she too had seen the momentary red gleam in Voldemort’s eyes.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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