What is "annis"

Usage examples of "annis".

The two of them put their heads together and before Mevrouw Pette got up to go it had been decided that Annis was to have a lesson three times a week in the mornings, and on the other days work at her books.

Spitzbergen, so close to the Nc when Annis went there for a short she found herself falling in love wit Norwegian, though the affair wi disappointing.

By the time he had asked a few questions and pondered the symptoms it was time for Annis to gather up Baby Cook and bear him off to theatre for his pyloric steno sis to be corrected.

At the moment he was in Spitzbergen, working with a team in some remote spot and glad to be there, for earlier in the year he had broken off his engagement to a girl Annis had privately considered not at all suitable for him to marry, and was mending a supposedly broken heart among the snow and ice and no girls for miles around.

She was reluctant to let Annis go, of course, for she would be losing a good nurse, but she had expected to do that anyway and she was only surprised that Annis wanted to leave for a reason other than marrying Arthur Potter.

She offered a sunburnt cheek for Annis to kiss and took a good look at her.

The meal was, perforce, out of tins and whoever had opened them had been lavish with the can-opener--there was more than enough for everyone and a good deal over, and Annis found it a little pathetic the way they asked her every few minutes if the food was good.

It seemed incredible to Annis that anything should want to live there, but, the doctor had been right.

The plane was moored to the jetty, a small seaplane, very spick and span, bouncing up and down in what Annis considered to be a quite unnecessarily boisterous manner.

The doctor had given Annis time to stand and stare, now he suggested that they should start their walk.

Jake leaned across him and shut the door and began to taxi away from the shore, and Annis, mindful of instructions, moved cautiously forward again.

Norwegian regaled them with lighthearted talk, speaking an almost perfect English, smiling at Annis from time to time, a secret smile which gave her the pleasant feeling of sharing a joke with him.

They were some distance from the station but still within sight of it when Annis noticed the doctor perched on the rocks some yards ahead of them, his binoculars to his eyes.

It was Annis who stumbled over the rocks, took precarious hold of one of them, ready to do what she could when Jake surfaced.

They were climbing the dusty road past the shop and although the sun was shining, Annis felt cold.