gertrude

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The midwife, Gertrude, says I’m small because I had only the milk of a weak goat instead of a strong mother, but I know that really it’s because of my name.

From Literature

The midwife, Gertrude, told me that rhymes are a waste of brain space, but I like the way they sound.

From Literature

A pixie flew in my face and a gnome ran under my feet chanting, “Message for Gertrude! Message for Gertrude!” in an urgent voice.

From Literature

Finally I heard Gertrude whisper, “You tell her, Viola.”

From Literature

But even in their sketchy state, there is intellectual pleasure to be had in Morrison’s exacting, appreciative readings of Twain, Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein—the last of whose innovations in language, Morrison writes, made Stein “the writer other writers became different through.”

From The Wall Street Journal