Bullfighter in ring right after photo taken by adult daughter

Usage examples of picador.

A scientist activated the transfer routine, and moments later Picador found himself to be once again Arnold Miller, an American gymnast with a team currently touring in the Otherwhere version of France.

The sleeping pills made sure that Arnold Miller was unconscious by midnight when Picador was recalled to report, and he was able to feed and exercise his own body, shower and shave, without risk of a suddenly restored analog panicking at the other end.

How Colonel Elson had obtained them or why a radio astronomer living in a different reality should be a target were questions that Picador had been trained to exclude from his considerations.

Matching the home number against the Vaughans listed in the directory gave him the address, which from the map that Picador had bought at the airport, was located in what looked like a residential area about three miles away.

Polygon buildings, Picador was recalled on schedule and reported that Vaughan had left Manchester to fly to the U.

The work of the picador was done, the temper and the weaknesses of the bull discovered: now Kupka the matador would enter the ring.

We thought highly of one, but he was disqualified after a preliminary background investigation turned up the fact that he had had a youthful dalliance with a picador in Seville.

Next he checked the casualty graph and noted that the squads had already exceeded twenty-five percent loss, but they seemed content to continue to picador their massive bull.

There is the story, for instance, of the cattleman who saw the bull-fight in Juarez, and when the bull gored the first horse the cowpuncher rose in the crowd and sent a bullet through the picador to square the deal.

He made Solitario advance step by quick step, while he pointed his lance not at the heavily padded old horses but at the picadors themselves.

The next scene introduces us to a masquerade where are choruses of quasi-gypsies, matadors, and picadors,--sufficiently characteristic.

When the trumpets saluted the entrance of the picadors, Isabella moaned aloud and pressed her knuckles against her teeth, for she had been dreading the horses.

There is the story, for instance, of the cattleman who saw the bull-fight in Juarez, and when the bull gored the first horse the cowpuncher rose in the crowd and sent a bullet through the picador to square the deal.

Close enough to see into the eyes of the toro they were black and blank with stupidity and rage Luis vaulted aside, nimble as wind, and drove the sticks into the crimson gash opened by the picador.

These men hung their heads, making Luis think of a bull when he and the picadors were done with it.