Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582)

Usage examples of crichton.

I remember, for instance, when Michael Crichton wrote The Andromeda Strain and it hit the best-seller lists.

And however annoying it might be that Michael Crichton could enter our field straight out of medical school, move right up to the novel level, and land on the best-seller list, and have everyone drooling over him, where the harm?

Crichton Browne, to whom, as on so many other occasions, I am indebted for the results of his wide experience, informs me that with idiots laughter is the most prevalent and frequent of all the emotional expressions.

She'd been ambushed by newsies at Lady Gifford's ball, and that jackass Jeremiah Crichton, the Palmer Foundation's so-called "military analyst," had caught her at Duke Waltham's and tried very hard to get her to break security about the new LAC wings.

And if youve read Michael Crichtons THE TERMINAL MAN you know that the brain storm caused by psychomotor epilepsy can turn a normal human being into a psychopathic killer in moments.

He has thrown away one powerful weapon--to get such a message into my hands--and he thinks that once safe within doors, I shall sleep, unsuspecting, and die as Sir Crichton died.