What is "achille"

Usage examples of "achille".

Considering all the handicaps, Achille figured he’d give the kid a break.

In one hand, Achille carried the half-eaten muffaletta in wrinkled, messy butcher’s paper.

He wasn’t sure whether that was just one of Mae’s whims or if it was a gris-gris to keep him from straying, but the hoop, shining gold against his long black hair, was the final little touch that made Achille look just like one of New Orleans’s pirate legends.

Whatever Achille knew— and it was more than any man in New Orleans knew about the loup-garou—would never have been learned without the Voodoo queen.

He would live with it, as he lived with the full moon that swept his soul away on the steamy Louisiana nights when he danced on Bayou Goula with the werewolves, when they deferred to him, and paid him respect, and called him—simply, as one would call a king— Achille the loup-garou.

He remembered that Achille had an incredibly accurate psychic ability that made evasion useless.

He had chosen that life for himself, had wanted it as passionately as Achille had wanted his own.

If Achille had made wrenching sacrifices to become what he was, Andrew’s struggles had been worse, and more terrifying.

Or because Andrew had rejected everything that Achille believed was at the core of his own life?

Intellectual arguments, Achille knew, couldn’t erase the remnants of so physical an experience.

For one thing, Achille couldn’t detect any familiar scents from the werewolf pack.

You’ve been to my meetings, Achille, how many times have you seen me burn black candles with black pins stuck in them?

Come on, daw’lin,” he said to Sylvie, settling down on the sofa and pulling her next to him, “let your Uncle Achille tell you the stuff you need to know.

Andrew had to admit that Achille was better at it, but then Achille had always had the peculiar ability to empathize perfectly with anyone.

The blond greeted Achille with a kiss that was partly friendly, partly a little more.