New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923)

Usage examples of mansfield.

They had scarcely thought Charmian Mansfield would make that kind of marriage.

Claude Heath, the rising young composer, who recently married the beautiful Miss Charmian Mansfield, of Berkeley Square, has just rented and furnished elaborately a magnificent studio in Renwick Place, Chelsea.

Gate I decided to give it another ten minutes before phoning no-go to Mansfield, but the thought of his reaction made me in no hurry to put through the call.

I had thrown away my second damp Gauloise and was searching in my pockets for a two-pence piece to call Mansfield when the crunch of gravel behind me made me turn.

My dislike of Mansfield was so pervasive an emotion that I had even used it on occasion to obliterate hunger.

The senior department officers like Mansfield - a big red-necked naval hero with more guts than sense who played the game to schoolboy rules.

But as Mansfield had tried to point out, it was the sort of evaluation that had passed me by.

Department calls it, that I had been anxious to become involved in since the day Mansfield let me go.

Bucking Mansfield was indeed a dangerous game as Stevens had pointed out.

I was grateful to have something to keep me out of the pub -eleven-thirty had been my first drink most days since Mansfield fired me.

When I looked for some sign of approbation, for a job well done, Mansfield had already turned casually away.

Blue Boar too that I had met Mansfield for that crucial meeting in my last term when he had posed as an export director of an engineering company and discussed the prospect of my joining his firm.

I picked up a list for Mansfield at the Tower of London a couple of mornings ago.

When the Russians decided, for their own purposes, to provide a list of Red Banner commanders, Mansfield appeared on the point of making the biggest coup of his professional life.

Yes, Mansfield knew I had looked at the list, but he also knew that in our business that was not too unusual.