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Usage examples of setter.

Gorice the King among them with his austringers and falconers and his huntsmen with setters and spaniels and great fierce boar-hounds drawn in a string.

Shape-ups were held in the predawn down by the Vineland courthouse, shadowy brown buses idling in the dark, work and wages posted silently in the windows some mornings Zoyd had gone down, climbed on, ridden out with other newcomers, all cherry to the labor market up here, former artists or spiritual pilgrims now becoming choker setters, waiters and waitresses, baggers and checkout clerks, tree workers, truckdrivers, and framers, or taking temporary swamping jobs like this, all in the service of others, the ones who did the building, selling, buying and speculating.

Voices, commands, laughter: for an hour activity prevailed in the nihilation area, while the target plane flew over the city again from the sea side, slipped away from the searchlights, and, caught again, became a Platonic target: The Number 6 manned the fuze setter, trying with cranks to make two mechanical pointers coincide with two electrical pointers and unflinchingly nihilating the evasive essent.

Jag, Puma Lee-sex queen, fashion setter and homicidal maniac-ripped into yet another two-pound bag of lowbrow snack food.

The three setters, Voyou, Gamin, and Mioche, were in fine feather,--David had killed a woodcock and a brace of grouse oven them that morning,--and they were thrashing about the spinney an short range when I came up, gun under arm and pipe lighted.

About the same time a man named Manuzzi, a stone setter for his first trade, and also a spy, a vile agent of the State Inquisitors--a man of whom I knew nothing--found a way to make my acquaintance by offering to let me have diamonds on credit, and by this means he got the entry of my house.

He even spent some years with the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, the primary rules setter for the profession.

So corporate America fought back, recruiting members of Congress to take on the SEC and the standard setters at the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

William Swayne, known to the whole valley as Willie the Twig by reason of his solitary lordship of some ten square miles of new and old afforestation along the border, found nothing interesting in gatherings for social chit-chat, and preferred his deer and his setters to more garrulous company.

The setter lured a coney in, the verser dealt him the cards, and the barnacle, the third, egged their mark on.

Now he sheepishly stopped thinking about what a great setter into speech he was of the thoughts of an ignorant black girl from the Afric forest.

Two Sealyham terriers, and a young Irish setter, who effusively made the Chief Inspector welcome.

It had been built for a middle-sized dog, like a collie or setter or, yes, a Weimaraner, and I had to lay in a fetal position to fit, but that was the least of my problems.

He was about to sit down to his supper when his eye fell upon the Irish setter, on his haunches in the doorway.

The gaze-hounds, of which there were two taken just in case, were in reality nothing but greyhounds according to modem language, while the lymers were a sort of mixture between the bloodhound and the red setter of today.