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Usage examples of coot.

She awakened on the verge of death every time with the image of their cruel eyes imprinted on her memory, their mocking laughter ringing in her ears: Earl Millhouse, Coot Demarest, and their comrades, Zachariah Hudson, Arthur Bertram, and J.

Zach Hudson, Earl Millhouse, and Coot Demarest murdered Daniel and Sarah Hart, and their daughter Jenny at their farm outside Tuscaloosa, Alabama, over three years ago.

Reverend Coot quietly reminded Declan Ewan to report the blocked drains to the County Council.

On the other hand, grebes and coots are eminently aquatic, although their toes are only bordered by membrane.

By stretching his neck a little more, Coots could see the backs of Bobby-My-Boy and Tiny sitting at a table on either side of Chinky, each with a hand in her lap.

This year was happy in unusual numbers of birds (nesting-time had been particularly favourable) and Stephen and Brigid wandered about the smooth hay-meadows, by the standing corn, and along the banks, he telling her the names of countless insects, many, many birds - kingfishers, dippers, dabchicks, and the occasional teal: coots and moorhens, of course - as well as his particular favourites, henharrier, sparrowhawk and kestrel and once a single splendid peregrine, a falcon clipping her way not much above head-height with effortless speed.

Henry stands attentively, waits each time for the new wonder, emits small noises of pleasure for each Sandhill Crane, American Coot, Great Auk, Pileated Woodpecker.

Alongside him, Buzz Aldrin - thirty-nine years old, bald as a coot, and eager as a virgin - was climbing into his own suit.

Anyway, they were busy remembering `the good old days' the way old coots usually do, and somehow the question of barn doors came up.

But the three old coots who always planted themselves out in front, to chew the fat, curse the weather, and hope for gossip, were in position.

Stone's helper-of-all-work was called Coots, a gruff old mixed-blood, part Black, part Cherokee, who kept to himself and was rumored to be a dangerous man to fool with because he had been a gunfighter.

I wouldn't even be able to afford old Coots here, if he wasn't willing to work for just bed, vittles, and my eternal gratitude.

He looked over at Coots, who shrugged and said, "He used to be a schoolteacher.

Stone and Coots scratched up for him never occupied more than five or six hours a week.

Stone and Coots had any chores for him, but he was still uncomfortable about them, and he was afraid that something in his manner might reveal that he knew their secret.