"The Outsiders" author

Usage examples of hinton.

I imagine Major Hinton and the dozen other men senior to you might have a different opinion.

Medlicott had gladly loaned the three men, though he had not sought the permission of Major Paul Hinton, who had taken command of the Legion from the wounded Thaddeus Bird.

At first light, when the troops were stirring reluctantly from their makeshift beds, Major Hinton sought out Starbuck.

Hinton had hoped to live out his years in the easy, rich countryside of Faulconer County, enjoying his family, his acres, and his foxhunting, but the war had threatened Virginia, and so Paul Hinton had shouldered his weapons out of patriotic duty.

Yet he did not much enjoy soldiering and reckoned his main duty was to bring safely home as many of the Faulconer Legion as he possibly could, and the men in the Legion recognized that ambition and liked Hinton for it.

Goddamn it, Faulconer thought, but Major Hinton would have to learn that there was a new tight discipline in the Faulconer Brigade.

No one, not even Major Hinton, was entirely sure what fate the General planned for Starbuck, but Lieutenant Davies was certain Faulconer wanted a court-martial.

More blood was seeping between the planks onto Major Hinton, who was gasping with pain.

Major Hinton was among the dead, while Captain Murphy was wounded so grievously that no one was certain that his name would not soon be added to the grim tally.

Major Hinton was killed, the Legion lost not just a commanding officer but a friend, a sidesman of the church, a brother-in-law, a creditor, a hunting companion, and above all, a neighbor, and if Murphy died they would lose another.

Doc switched off the light, and I shoved the Hinton page under the grips of the viewer and turned on the light.

Madden, Hoffeler, Gordon, and Hinton are all I know about, but it seems pretty clear that there must be others of similar, equal, or superior importance -?

Miss Hinton, who has come to live at The Maples, out Anstey Cross way.

You can think that we did justice to all the good things, and Miss Hinton would ever keep pressing us to pass our cup and to fill our plate.

So the promise was made, and very faithfully did Jim keep it, for many a time when I have wanted him to go fishing or rabbit-snaring, he has remembered that it was his day for Miss Hinton, and has tramped off to Anstey Cross.