Bibliophile

Usage examples of bookman.

That one line about Baudelaire in the Huggins bibliography had been the hook, and I was too much the bookman to shake it free.

Eleanor the child, growing up as that room grew and the bookman worked in his solitude.

Nelson Bookman got almost all that new water made possible by the dam going into that beanfield acreage you been buying up over on the west side for a golf course ever since the 1935 water compact killed all the little farmers over there.

Nelson Bookman, and his personal special assistant, Rudy Noyes, knew more water law than the rest of the state put together.

For the past seventeen years Bookman had been the state engineer, meaning he was more responsible than any other person or group for what water the state had obtained during that time through interstate pacts and reclamation projects and so forth.

The conservative farmers in the south hated State Engineer Bookman and his little sidekick, Rudy Noyes, because they felt the north was getting too much water--in fact, they felt any water allocated to the north was wasted water.

It was that simple, and it meant that by dealing with the realities of the given situation, Bookman and Noyes had quietly overseen the transfer of water and water rights from the small-timers in the green northern valleys to the big businessmen and development enterprises in the flat plains and deserts of the south.

But still, the land in a desert state was worth nothing -without water, and Bookman and Noyes controlled the water.

The governor continued to stare out at the parking lot, where a man was flitting from car to car testing doors, and then, as Bookman continued, the governor saw the man open a door and lean in quickly, rifling through a glove compartment, and the governor never said a word to interrupt the state engineer, nor moved a muscle nor an eyelash while the car was ransacked.

Irritated, Bookman stubbed out his cigarette and continued to address Kyril Montana.

Rudy Noyes sat impassively beside Bookman, and Kyril Montana studied the wire binding holding his small notebook together.

Horsethief Shorty and that Carl Montana and the state engineer, Nelson Bookman, all sitting around a campfire up by the Little Baldy Bear Lakes, roasting miniature Joe Mondragons skewered like hot dogs on aspen twigs over their campfire.

Ladd Devine, Bud Glea-son, the state engineer, Nelson Bookman, and the governor.

Arroyo Verde, Kyril Montana made a note to arrange a meeting with the governor and Bookman and Noyes, in order to explain what had happened.

It had seemed to him back in the beginning, back during that first conference with the governor and Bookman and Noyes, that probably the most logical way to handle the situation was the legal way: take Joe Mondragon to court, find against him, make him stop irrigating, or--if he refused to quit--throw him in jail and be prepared to take the consequences.