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Usage examples of gus.

Gus Brannhard guffawed at Roy Wilkins, a slender man who stood nearby, chatting with Ernst Mallin, frowned and pursed his lips.

Somebody pushed Gus de Rochambeau and he skidded past me over the beer and piss and put his hand through a window.

I stood there with Gus, not wanting to leave if I was still singing, and I watched my teammates slip and fall into the beer and get up sick and laughing.

Gus watched as they undogged a thick, foot-and-a-half square door, drew out a slab on which the frost-covered body of a man lay under a thin plastic membrane.

Throttling back to twenty miles an hour for the final approach, Gus skimmed along the rear section of the train, engaged the arrester wire and touched down on the roof decking of the flight-car.

The brakemen said, "I heard some Burlington hands talking about your dust-up with the Black Swede, Gus Bergman.

Gus saw other cadremen withdrawing, one with blood on his face and minus his cap.

A few sumptuously-cloaked ladies were already gathered in the marble vestibule, and in the coat-room he found Van Alstyne and Gus Trenor.

By the early eighties all the senior hierarchs—Carey Jordan, Dewey Clarridge, Milton Bearden, Gus Hatha­way, and Paul Redmond—thought he was a useless arti­cle.

Gus had a coop of rare fowls, who clucked wildly all the way, while Ralph, with the bust in his arms, stood up in front, and Jill and Molly bore the precious bedquilt, as they sat behind.

Then Gus, at the right time, came forward reluctantly and suspiciously, like a real Rube and not one of Charlie's comic turns, and cut the deck and chose a card: either Gus knew some sleight-of-hand herself or Willard had prepared a sharp test for me, because it was the Ace of Spades.

Listening in, interpreting as needed, Father Gus considered the problems.

For the first time Gus heard the account of the kidnapping of Lori and Mavra Chang and got a picture of the latter totally at odds with any memories he had of her back in the jungles.

Thanks to Rathmann, he, like Gus and Wally and Al, had become crazy about automobile racing.

Pea ignored the remark--it was necessary to ignore most of those Gus made or else you got bogged down in useless conversation.