The "shrew" in "The Taming of the Shrew"

Usage examples of kate.

Boone the widow, Nina the niece, Alger Kates, and a gate-crasher named Solomon Dexter.

The time involved was about half an hour, between seven-fifteen, when Phoebe Gunther left the baby carriage and its contents, including the monkey wrenches, with Boone in the room, and around seven forty-five, when Alger Kates discovered the body.

Arriving in New York, she had gone with Alger Kates and Nina Boone to the BPR New York office, where Kates had gone into the statistical section, and she and Nina had helped department heads to collect props to be used as illustrations of points in the speech.

I put my coat and hat on a chair and followed her into the room, and there was Alger Kates over in the corner where the light was dim.

But Alger Kates suddenly stood up, as if I had brandished a monkey wrench at her.

Nero Wolfe, as Alger Kates put it, was in the pay of NIA, and they reacted accordingly.

Inspector Cramer, Sergeant Stebbins, and a couple of others were in the dining room firing questions at Alger Kates.

FBI, not to mention the head of the Homicide Squad, debating where Alger Kates was going to sleep, when he got a chance to sleep, and that after three cops had had the apartment to themselves long enough to saw all the legs off the chairs and glue them back on.

I gave her that and asked how about the possibility that the cylinder implicated Solomon Dexter or Alger Kates.

For reply Alger Kates put on one of the strangest performances I have ever seen, and I have seen plenty.

Thanks to Ruthe and Dina, before Kate was twelve, she was on a first-name basis with every living thing in the Park, Animalia and Plan-tae, by division, class, order, family, genus, and species.

After consulting with Kate, Sarchi substituted an oral antifungal for the one Gilbert had been receiving intravenously, and she shipped the boy back to Brunswick.

Kate had suffered from a congenital condition known as status asthmaticus, which continually imperiled her life.

Beth jumped up, white-faced, and I told her to get the emergency Medihaler from the drawer, then took Kate into the bacchante room and laid her on the sofa.

That night, after Kate had gone to sleep, I brought the little wooden cask down from the cupboard shelf and, sitting in the bacchante room, drank from it again.