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Usage examples of carteret.

As a concession to die 21st Century, Carteret had installed a video pickup and a telescreen attachment to go with his phone.

He could rely on Carteret to give him an accurate and confidential appraisal of the possible Church reaction to announcement of a successful technique for resuscitating the dead.

Abruptly the deeper meaning of the priest's words was borne in on him, and he stared at Carteret aghast, wondering.

I'd hoped Carteret, with his oft-proven retentive memory, would come out snapping with answers.

In any case, glass was acceptable to Carteret in futuristic ways that I found clever for the sake of cleverness, not for grace or utility.

I can't believe that Carteret was mistaken in his latitude, but it is well known that his timekeeper was unreliable.

There's nothing charted hereabouts save Pitcairn's Island, and Carteret laid that down a good hundred and fifty miles to the west.

David Carteret, his name was, a big man with scars on his face that looked as if he'd gone through a window.

She went over to speak urgently into the ear of David Carteret, who then moved his six-feet six-inch bulk over to the table where the sandwiches had been set out.

It was a cousin on his mother's side discovered it, Admiral Carteret, who sailed round the world with Byron and then again with Wallis, but this time as captain of the Swallow, a rather small ship that became separated from Wallis in thick weather off Tierra del Fuego, not I believe without a certain glee on the part of Carteret, since it allowed him to discover countries of his own, including this island, which he named after the midshipman who first sighted it.

But to return to Sweeting's Island - and now I believe I can make out a slight nick on the horizon - Captain Carteret found no gold-dust, no precious stones and no very amiable inhabitants, but he did find a considerable wealth of coconuts, yams, taro, and fruit of various kinds.

In any event, disagreeable though the people looked, and uninviting, they were induced to trade and Captain Carteret came away with stores that kept his people in health until the Straits of Macassar.

A hundred years before, when these acres had been pristine glacial outwash, the Carteret Gun Club had set up pigeon shoots, massacring a thousand birds at a shoot.