What is "leland"

Usage examples of "leland".

The Beast is the current Crompton, Leland, last of his line, a mystery writer who lives as a recluse in New Hampshire and suffers from acromegaly which has disfigured his features.

Honor, Mayor Leland Ricketts, fluttered down the high steps that led into the Municipal Office Building.

Leland Ricketts over the telephone to New York had been pompous and friendly.

Savage thinks Mayor Leland Ricketts, who is now dead, was the Roar Devil.

Leland quickly picked up a small net and, reaching into the globe, removed the wounded loser and placed him in a small tank of Mercurochrome water.

Did you know that the Bar L-M was mortgaged to Martin Leland for twenty-five thousand dollars?

Leland Clewes and Israel Edel, the night clerk at the Arapahoe, already sitting in the back of the limousine, with a space between them for me?

Diane Robards regarded Officers John Carnegie and Leland Ford as wannabes.

Supposedly, Carnegie and Leland had been working the front gates of the neighborhood when this latest mishap had occurred.

Even in his placid moods, Leland Hobart looked like a building that had just imploded and was about to fall on you.

He would almost certainly never have become President, of course, if he had not become a national figure as the discoverer and hounder of the mendacious Leland Clewes.

A colorful Nevadan named Leland York, former Fish and Game commissioner, thought of the killings as a slaughter, not a battle.

Jim Dallas, Will Dallas, Benny Damele, Rick Davidsaver, Donna Deihl, Dale Elliot, Sheri Elms, Charles Fannon, Irene and Walt Fischer, Frank Gavica, Allen Granum, Geneva and Herb Holman, Jimmie Gayle Hurley, Constance Ickes, John Hart Kennedy, Cheryl Knox, Bill Lewis, Noel McElhany, Madaline Meeks, Santy Mendieta, Charlene and Tim Nettleton, Cortland Nielsen, Tommy Ormachea, Tom Pedroli, Wanda Pense, Dee Pogue, Kathi Pogue, Stan Rorex, Deborah Ross, Jerry Sans, Lynn Schild, Norma Schafer, Sam Seals, Jennie Shipley, Sandra and Jim Stevens, Gary Strauss, Shielda Tallich, Jerry Thlessen, Connie Tol-mie, Gene Weller, Mary and Hoyt Wilson, Leland York, and certain others who have requested anonymity.

Johns Hopkins was founded by a millionaire merchant, and millionaires Cornelius Vanderbilt, Exra Cornell, James Duke, and Leland Stanford created universities in their own names.

Thankful for the auxiliary boiler, Chief Engineer Leland stoked it to life.