Shelley

[ shel-ee ]

/ ˈʃɛl i /

noun

Mary Woll·stone·craft (Godwin)

[woo l-stuh n-kraft, -krahft] /ˈwʊl stənˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft/, 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).

Percy Bysshe

[bish] /bɪʃ/, 1792–1822, English poet.

a male or female given name.

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Back in Detroit, Shelley called her mother to recount the fight, but she omitted any mention of group sex.
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However this may be, it is certain that in 1814 Shelley and his wife did not get along well together.
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Shelley and Mary in Bath suspected nothing of the impending crisis.
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At Leghorn, Shelley, accompanied by a friend, visited a ship which was manned by Greek sailors.
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It was like Shelley, to contradict himself in this fashion almost in the same breath.
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The men and women of the future will, I am sure, feel themselves akin to Shelley.
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British Dictionary definitions for shelley

Shelley

/ (ˈʃɛlɪ) /

noun

Mary (Wollstonecraft) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia

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