Ouida
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Among them was Ouida Garrett, 87, married 64 years to Leonard, 90, a retired Boeing computer programmer.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2018
The trouble for any reader who tackles her today is that Ouida usually wrote with a perfume atomizer about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct.
From Time Magazine Archive
None loved a lord more dearly than Ouida, and, mounted on the plush Pegasus of her imagination, she wrote to hounds with the best of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stuffed birds under glass bells no longer sit on modern mantelpieces, and the 47 books of Ouida no longer stand between ebony bookends.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tribune" also finds this subtle characterization: "The city to which Mr. Howells leads his readers is not the revelling, brilliant Florence of Ouida.
From A Romantic Young Lady by Grant, Robert
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