Example sentences for: lidie

How can you use “lidie” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Instead of love at first sight, Lidie's romance with cold, fussy Thomas is slow and confusing, and halfway through the book, just as she's prepared to investigate the possibility that they're in love, he's suddenly murdered.

  • Book -- The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton , by Jane Smiley;

  • And Lidie learns, learns, and learns her lesson: She's been selfish and . Desperate to escape the plantation where she's been recuperating but lacking the willpower, she has selfishly accepted the defenseless Lorna "as my reviver, felt the cool, firm sensation of her hand on my neck as a promise."

  • Coming from the no man's land of Illinois instead of North or South, Lidie represents the realist's take on slavery--in her heart she's against it, but she finds the abolitionists smug, intoxicated by their own abstract words.

  • In the New York Times Book Review Thomas Mallon faults Lidie Newton for "dutiful caricatures of white degeneracy and black nobility ...


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