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Shelley

[ shel-ee ]

noun

  1. Mary Woll·stone·craft (Godwin) [wool, -st, uh, n-kraft, -krahft], 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).
  2. Percy Bysshe [bish], 1792–1822, English poet.
  3. a male or female given name.


Shelley

/ ˈʃɛɪ /

noun

  1. ShelleyMary (Wollstonecraft)17971851FBritishWRITING: writer 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
  2. ShelleyPercy Bysshe17921822MBritishWRITING: poet 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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Another star we sadly lost in the last year, Shelley Duval was best known for her roles in film like The Shining, Annie Hall and Nashville.

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Parents Michael and Shelley would be ferrying him from tennis practice to the basketball court most nights a week.

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One bonus: There’s some of Saul in his character, Shelley Levene.

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Beyond that in the next two seasons, Beale says, the company will present the premiere of an opera by Shelley Washington as well as some traditional opera.

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Shelley Thakral, from the UN's World Food Programme, said the city's residents were running out of food, clean water and medical supplies.

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