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heroine

noun as in woman noted for courageous acts

noun as in principal female character

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“It is a great play because, by the end, Tom Stoppard touches ineffability, just as his heroine touches genius.”

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These days, right, you’re more likely to read about a heroine who’s running a podcast or working at a digital news site.

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Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.

Once or twice the fictional heroine was tossed off, to land with her face in the fictional dirt.

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It was nearly the size of a pony, although there was little about it to suggest that it might someday become the beloved, beribboned best friend of some wolf-loving fictional heroine.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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