T. S. Eliot's middle name

Usage examples of stearns.

The United States of which Mike Stearns was President was, on one level, just another of the many principalities which formed the Confederated Principalities of Europe under the rule of the king of Sweden.

Richelieu ignored Rebecca Stearns entirely, for a few seconds, as his forefinger played with the little paws of the kitten in his lap.

Whatever else he had done, whatever mistakes he might have made, Mike Stearns and his policies had turned Grantville and the country surrounding it into one of the few areas in central Europe which were economically booming and had a growing population.

But any satisfaction was alloyed by the fact that he'd had to worry about what Stearns thought in the first place.

Under other circumstances, Simpson would probably have been amused watching Stearns trying to control the semi-anarchy he'd forged by bestowing the franchise over all of the local Germans and their immigrant cousins and in-laws as soon as they moved into the United States' territory.

They thought they did, but the best of them were even more addicted to sprawling, pressure cooker bursts of unbridled enthusiasm than Stearns and his union blockheads.

Not with the priority Stearns had agreed to assign to the Navy, at any rate.

Nat was aware that Eddie still considered himself an unabashed partisan of the Stearns administration and so, by definition, a natural enemy where John Chandler Simpson was concerned.

And if there was an element of the empire building Stearns was so contemptuous of (even while he was busy building his own little political empire), then so be it.

I never thought the day would come I'd say this, but I wish Rebecca Stearns were back in our midst.

Having Gretchen Richter—or Julie Mackay—as a frame for the portrait, Rebecca Stearns suddenly looks like the wisest woman in the world.

And I'm afraid I must ask you, Lady Stearns, as well as your husband and—ah—"

Over Melissa's objections, Mike Stearns had insisted they bring those items.

And, judging from the way Mike Stearns brought his pickup skidding to a halt on the edge of the field, was about to catch his full share of that trouble.

Whatever the future might bring, for the moment Grantville was still solidly in the hands of Mike Stearns and his supporters.