What is "vicker"

Usage examples of "vicker".

There would shortly be a collection in the name of Hattie Vickers, announced by Randall Birley according to Charley Baines, who had admitted that the precise destination of this sum was still the subject of argument.

Vickers, Parkwood, Yabu and Eggy followed behind, letting them clear a path through the angry mob.

As a member of the British oligarchical Vickers armament manufacturing family, he had position and power.

Vickers and Benn are integrated with the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations, the premiere brainwashing institution in the world.

Vickers strapped to the humpy backs of a dozen camels, and the cases of ammunition riding high in the panniers.

Vickers reminded himself that, as far as all the world, with sole exception of Victoria Morgenstern was concerned, he was also terminally unemployed.

The first armored vehicle the Provisional Government received was a Rolls-Royce Whippet with a rotating turret containing a Vickers machine gun.

Even Lij Mikhael forsook his Etonian manners and joined in the delighted examination of the hoard, pushing aside an old greybeard of seventy to take his place at the Vickers gun and triggering off a noisy squabble amongst the others in which Gareth diplomatically intervened.

He was about the fattest man that Vickers had ever seen, an emotional baby with a mind like a vise who had long ago abandoned all ideas except power and gluttony.

Eb, the garageman, warns Vickers that a lynch mob is forming and loans him a new Forever car, one of the mutant products, to use to make a getaway.

The centerpiece of this lowest, most exclusive strata of the bunker was a wide soaring airshaft that, as far as Vickers could see, extended almost to the surface and was at least a hundred feet across at its base.

The two guards in the rear had their guns up and, for a moment, it looked like carnage was going to spread all down the length of the bus. Vickers was on his feet and shouting, facing the rear guards and waving his arms.

Vickers had been at El Rancho Mars, he had learned to take Debbie and the three other girls a whole lot more seriously than first impressions had indicated.

Fenton and Vickers both sat down, but Debbie still stood, clutching the overhead rail with a white-knuckled hand.

Further back still, Vickers spotted Parkwood and Debbie crouched behind another golf cart that had been overturned and thoroughly trashed.