Sentence examples for adah from inspiring English sources

For the "Barbary Coast and Beyond" program next year, he plans to pay tribute to Adah Isaacs Menken, a 19th-century actress who caused a sensation in San Francisco for her risqué interpretation of the narrative poem "Mazeppa," by Lord Byron.

Rachel, Leah, Adah and Ruth May are the four daughters who grow and change over the course of the book.

His daughter Leah has difficulty making sense of her home country to her African friend: "How could I explain to Anatole about soybean fields where men sat in huge tractors like kings on thrones, taming the soil from one horizon to the other?" Leah's twin sister, Adah, describes the sensation on returning to the US of walking down a supermarket aisle stuffed with produce that nobody really needs.

"Our father speaks for all of us," observes Adah, and so the voices of his family are a kind of descant to his mission.

Indeed, speechless Adah is the novel's language expert.

Her twin Adah suffers from hemiplegia and, for much of the novel, cannot speak at all.

"So we used the monks from my 'Peer Gynt".' Mr. Ballard, who grew up in Alton, Ill., has been married for 50 years to Adah Ruth Ballard, whom he met when he was directing puppet shows in high school.

Her first two books, In the Ditch (1972) and Second-Class Citizen (1974 both later included in the single volume Adah's Story (1983)—introduce Emecheta's three major themes: the quests for equal treatment, self-confidence, and dignity as a woman.