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Example sentences for: heroine

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In the world of You've Got Mail , the heroine might lose her shop, but she gets to keep her Upper West Side apartment and to continue to frequent Zabar's and Starbucks, and her employees are happily hired by the competition.
The author opened with an account of her favorite childhood dramatic heroine, the Lady Monda-green--who died with her lover, the bonny Earl of Murray: “They ha' slain the Earl of Murray, and laid him on the green.”
Here is the split mind of a Henry James heroine, raised in this hemisphere with excessive propriety and then thrust, unprotected, into old and indecipherable European traditions.
--the heroine's best friend's smart and unusually poised big sister: "Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them," the sister advises the novel's protagonist.
Back in 1931, however, when Bodenheim was coming into his own as a literary maverick, New York publisher Horace Liveright issued his novel— Naked on Roller Skates . The title is a grabber, but the book itself would be anathema to feminists since it features a heroine who wishes to be beaten and degraded: