What is "nettie"

Usage examples of "nettie".

The case was given an exotic touch by the statement of an elderly spinster named Nettie Jarvis, who declared she had seen a tall man with a black beard follow Grundle into the woods toward the old quarry on the morning of his disappearance.

But they were slightly anachronistic in cut and he had never expected to wear them longer than he had to-and a man on the road could not afford to look like a bindle stiff, which Miss Nettie probably didn't know.

Nettie lowered her bag onto a table in the visitors' lounge and pulled out sandwiches wrapped in cling film and a Tupperware container filled with potato salad.

Neither of them said a word however and there followed a short argument about the futileness of doing what Nettie had suggested, which seemed about to segue into a discussion about the futility of existence itself, until Nettie cut it short.

Dan tried to lift the ancient Nettie up, but even though she was emaciated and shrivelled, he was too exhausted to carry her anywhere.

Randall harbored a grudge against Nettie till the day he died and it stands to reason that his daughter never heard a kind word in relation to her mother.

So instead of having the marriage annulled, he tried to have Nettie institutionalized for incompetence, claiming she was a danger to herself and those around her.

The pace was relaxed, and the whole ambiance so far away from what she ever imagined being on a spaceship to be like - let alone an alien spaceship - that Nettie found herself leaning back against the cushions and letting her mind drift.

Nettie shook her head - the thoughts were all a little too shapeless to make sense.

There's maybe twenty Morgans standing around now, smiling at Nettie, and for the first time she starts to feel a little nervous, hesitates.

These are the Morgans directly responsible for what happened to Nettie.

He felt his heart beating fast - partly with the pride he felt in his own world but more because Nettie had taken hold of his arm and was gazing out beside him in wonder and admiration.