Crossword-Solution: DESDEMONAS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

And Desdemona listened to Othello as Desdemonas have done all the world over, and, as she listened, she loved.

Sir Victor liked maidenly reserve--none of your Desdemonas, who meet their Othellos half way, for him.

Devrient's Theory of Shakespeare's Sonnets (which you wrote me of) I cannot pretend to judge of: what he said of the Englishwomen, to whom the Imogens, Desdemonas, etc., were acceptable, seems to me well said.

The ingredients of a ball of three hundred, say, would be as follows,--Thirty Marie Stuarts, ten Marguerites, twenty-eight Fausts, fifty Flower Girls, nine Portias, three Clowns, sixteen Matadores, thirty Sailors, twenty-five Ophelias, twenty-five Desdemonas, the remainder uniforms and nondescripts.

The Desdemonas that I have seen, on the English stage, have always appeared to me to acquiesce with wonderful equanimity in their assassination.