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Usage examples of cotter.

They had hit it off since the first day when Murdock was named to replace Lieutenant Vincent Cotter, who had been KIA in the Shuba airport raid in Iraq.

There are millionaires working for Cotter with undescended testicles and training bras.

This night, James Sargon, the proprietor, was seated in the little office back of the store when Maurice Cotter, his trusted junior partner, came in to inform him that Raymond Dagwood and Horace Fenwick had come to the shop.

Garcia is probably well taken care of by Cotter, but in return Cotter not only raises bananas and coffee, but has a goodly portion of the shipping and export business connected with the Guatemalan fruit industry.

Hal Cotter from Pembina, Jack Lambert from Towner, and Gerry Kruse from the state.

The Swiss pointed to his head offices outside Geneva, not five kilometres from where the World Wide Web itself had been devised and declared Cotter to be Swisser than a yodel.

He was fifteen and as sandy-haired as his three younger siblings, which Amanda knew not because she kept detailed files on every student, but because the Cotters lived two doors away from Graham and her.

Once, right after he has moved in, the miller oils the cotter that holds the oak lever in place and retightens the keys in the tenons to do justice to the occasion: a miller has moved into a mill.

Likewise, next door and one floor up, twin lamps in twin windows, coupled with twin shadows cavorting, vouched for the presence of the Cotter twins.

They had the wheel back on the axle when Dowell discovered that there were no more cotter pins or kingpins in the wagon.

Aramina wanted to know as she took the pegs and noticed, with a pang, how carefully Dowell had made a cotter hole in the kingpin.

Two enlisted technicians heavily bundled in foul-weather gear followed us up, made sure our ejection harnesses were securely fastened, then pulled out the cotter pins that disabled the ejection seats.

Cotter didn't seem to have any links with organized crime, he didn't overtly support or own any politicians (though it was hard to believe he couldn't influence his share of them), he lived in the old-money Grandin Road area of Hyde Park, and he seemed to have only two passions in life: making money and collecting art.

He was held together by cotter pins, hose clamps, nuts, bolts, and magnets.

But he had not entered the Naval Service, he went on to tell Ensign Cotter, to administer to the minor aches and pains of the Naval brass gathered around the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, Southwest Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur, and especially not to cater to their grossly overdeveloped sense of medical self-protection.