Lucy
incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,309 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,544 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974
Lucy in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Lucy evidently found it difficult to continue.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 2
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Hark 'ye, Lucy, this is May; Love shall crown our Holiday.
Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs · Robert Bloomfield · Chapter 2
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Nor does the chronicler dare to put forward Lucy Morris as a heroine.
The Eustace Diamonds · Anthony Trollope · Chapter 1
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So she, following the example of Lucy, wished to sell everything that she might give.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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Having now a livelihood, he married, in June of that year, Frances Lucy Wightman, daughter of a judge of the Queen's Bench.
Matthew Arnold · George Saintsbury · Chapter 1