Mortimer's friend

Usage examples of charlie.

He was Charlie Smith, an English-born Negro with a flat Newcastle accent.

At that point, the audiologist had recommended hearing aids, for which Charlie had been fitted.

By the time maternity leave was over they had clearly needed her at the office, and so she had started working again, sharing the care of Nick with Charlie and some baby-sitters, and eventually a day-care center in a building in Bethesda, near the Metro stop.

This seemed to help me far more than I would have expected, and I became inwardly quite excited as I watched the betrousered figure in the looking-glass go skittering across the floor in a very poor imitation of Charlie.

Charlie had been pelted from the pulpit over fetal tissue, Social Security cutbacks, voluntary life-termination, biosynthetic research, and the failure of the public schools to include God in the curriculum.

And moreover, all of us can feel which droplets and splinters of the birdcage critter are Charlie and Leslie.

Leslie already had that half-assed comparison of the birdcage to some sort of sacred site stuck in his mind when he and Charlie soared through the bars, leaving the rest of the EVA team behind.

If Maneka had still commanded a pair of Bolos and had both of them on the ground, they could easily have blocked Route Charlie by operating in support of one another.

Actually, it came wrapped in the same packing I used when I first brokered it to the original owner, Charlie Sweeting, two years ago.

With his usual thickly applied brushstrokes, Charlie had just caught the ?

Even in the winter cold I would sweat bullets when delivering the heavy orders on Saturdays in the project, while bullnecked Charlie performed the same feat without even breathing hard.

Since Charlie Donaldson and most of the footmen had accompanied Jonet to Cambridgeshire, he was admitted by a housemaid whom he scarcely recognized.

Preoccupied, she took an order from a table of four and then crossed to the bar, where she chatted with Charlie briefly before she moved toward me.

Charlie is brave: he started a coffeehouse by talking his bank into giving him a loan on his house back in the days when you only saw rats, cockroaches, derelicts, and Charlie himself on the streets of Old Town.

There was also a tiny patio area behind the coffeehouse that Charlie always meant to get done up so we could use it for more seating, but he never did, maybe partly because it had become a kind of private clubhouse for some of the regulars.