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Usage examples of lambert.

Field involved two horses belonging to Luke Lambert, a coarse, cocksure man whom Adams did not like.

The justice of the peace, before whom Adams would appear, and the lawyer for Lambert were father and son--Colonel Josiah Quincy and young Samuel Quincy--a circumstance that obviously did not bode well for Adams and his client.

The lap dog somehow managed to distract my attention and twice I even reached out to touch it, but Lambert imperiously waved his hand, whereupon both Alphonsine and the lap dog vanished behind the screen.

Also, in the exalted state I was in that awful morning, both Lambert and Alphonsine appeared to me as saviors and liberators.

At one point, when Lambert went out to get a new bottle, Alphonsine played me some Spanish-sounding tune on her guitar and I could hardly control my tears.

Luckily, they brought the prince his dinner, which had been ordered beforehand somewhere in the vicinity by Lambert and Alphonsine from a remarkable French chef who was now unemployed and looking for a position in a club or an aristocratic household.

Prutkov to warn her not to believe what Alphonsine might tell her and to beware of Lambert.

Lambert had never summoned Katerina to his place as Alphonsine had told us: the whole thing down to every last detail had been invented by Versilov, including the role of the frightened accomplice that Alphonsine was to play.

Eadmer, Warin, Bogo, and Lambert, all dressed as she was and keeping watch over five horses.

There was little choice for her as long as Gray threatened to expose Eadmer, Bogo, Warin, and Lambert.

I should say Baron Conrad, for Count Lambert had enlarged him-was in Cracow, and gifted the new duke with four of his marvelous horses, that they might protect him against assassins.

It was too cold to stand still for long, so she walked back the way she had come and found a coffee shop and then, much refreshed, walked to the Huis Lambert van Meerten, a museum housing Delftware and antique furniture.

Lambert Furr, that bone and tissue and arterial were knitting and that his body was accepting the lab-created member for its own.

Lambert Furr must have inserted something in his arm while he was unconscious those twenty-four hours.

Cersei had written in the names herself: Ser Tallad the Tall, Jalabhar Xho, Hamish the Harper, Hugh Clifton, Mark Mullendore, Bayard Norcross, Lambert Turnberry, Horas Redwyne, Hobber Redwyne, and a certain churl named Wat, who called himself the Blue Bard.