Fatu Hiva, once

Usage examples of magdalena.

Now the deal was nearly done, and Magdalena Crouch was eager to be parted from this man.

The girl, whom Magdalena thought to be about seven winters old, had moved no farther than the front step.

Iss had offered no insight into the characters of the Lok womenfolk, but Magdalena suspected that the mother and oldest daughter would likely know their way around a knife.

Truth was, Magdalena had killed only one man in an alleyway, and it had been one of the most dangerous commissions she had ever taken.

No one ever came or went this way, and Magdalena suspected that the door was sealed permanently closed.

The two of them, Magdalena especially, spoke more Spanish than English.

They probably thought that, while a beer or a tequila, or even two or three, wouldn't hurt him, Magdalena would.

That Magdalena had the same sort of thrifty temperament certainly helped.

He turned out the lamp again—they didn't really need it right this minute—and headed out to the barn, telling Magdalena, "I'll be back," over his shoulder.

When he did that, Magdalena had some very pointed things to say the next morning, things a headache often did not improve.

He would surely be dead by the end of the day, Sister Maria Magdalena had told her after morning mass.

She was still nurse enough and detached enough to see the blood there, even as Maria Magdalena took the tray away from her, to empty it into a special container.

Sister Maria Magdalena was there, attending her friend, dressed the same way.

That was cleared of other people, and as Moudi and Sister Maria Magdalena wheeled the patient toward the far door, a group of technicians dressed in plastic "space suits" sprayed the floor and walls, the very air itself, with disinfectant in a smelly man-made chemical fog that trailed the procession like exhaust from an overaged car.

Still the nurse, and still a compassionate one, Sister Maria Magdalena used her hand to shield the eyes of her colleague.