Holmes's Miss Venner

Usage examples of elsie.

Some big guy with a beer can tattooed on his forehead tried to muscle in ahead of us on the bumper cars and Elsie told him if he didn't watch his manners she was gonna hurt him real bad!

Elsie said as she spooned a bite of jam on a corner of the cake slice.

Touching our Phoenix Rangers' nuisance at the meeting of the waitresses, the daintylines, Elsies from ChElsies, the two legglegels in blooms, and those pest of parkies, twitch, thistle and charlock, were they for giving up their fogging trespasses by order which we foregathered he must be raw in cane sugar, the party, no, Jimmy MacCawthelock?

Elsie Harrison had left the back door ajar, an inquisitive grass snake had found its way in, and as a result she had suffered a heart attack.

The star of the piece, he who played the large-souled Piper, was Mervyn Rentoul, a big, fine-looking man capable of heaving Elsie Poison into an upstairs window without unseemly exertion.

A skinny little woman as frumpy as Elsie McMay paused to put on a scarf and button her coat, said something over her shoulder, and then marched down the sidewalk.

Trying to shut Mat up took Elsie's mind off her main concern, and at a critical moment Mat nosed me coldly in the rump, and I was too quick for Elsie.

Once everybody was properly mudded, Elsie nodded and motioned toward the desert.

Her lips were pinched, but that was on account of Elsie McMay's mulishness rather than her own mood, which was more mellow than usual.

Elsie said she was nice as pie at the Suds of Fun the other night when they were both short of quarters for the dryers.

The last thing I heard as I drowsed off was Elsie rattling in her pencil box.

Concluding that she must have been referring to one of his innumerable torrid affairs with women in double-wide trailers, I repinned my badge on my shirt and drove over to Elsie McMay's house to ask her if she'd seen Brian Quint the previous night.

Pomeroy and Elsie shot rock rabbits and roasted them, stuffed with herb-weeds.

Elsie was dressed in a one-piece ski suit under a knee-length fur coat.

Elsie McMay toted a knitting bag only slightly smaller than a subcompact car.