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Usage examples of laporte.

Surely those two jarheads knew better than to tell a lie to Raul Laporte, just to get out from under their gambling debts.

Rather than let that part of his operation lay fallow since the Pendarvis Decisions, Laporte had sketched out a plan to expand into straight robbery of sunstone prospectors right at the diggings—cut out the middleman—just as soon as he could find time to organize the operation personally.

The braid was rumored to cover a large, ugly scar, but no one ever asked Laporte if this was true.

Oh, not that he considered Laporte to be any threat to the carefully constructed hierarchy of crime that he had constructed with himself at the pinnacle of control.

It was more a matter of recognizing that Laporte was the kind of man whose self-control might snap at any moment.

There was a rather odd look on his face that Laporte did not like at all.

We could sell a couple of these apiece and pay off Laporte, once and for all.

Soon there was a whispered conversation with Raul Laporte, who had abruptly come from the gambling room, then all three of them headed toward Laporte's office.

That's the news that Ev and Jim brought to Laporte, which sent him streaking to Ingermann's office.

Did she have time to get down the corridor and out of sight—before Laporte came out?

That would be faster than the twisting route Laporte would have to follow down the back alleys.

She was then marked down as a rebel city, and after the abominable decree of October 9th had deprived her of her very name, and Couthon had exacted bloody reprisals from the entire population for its loyalty to the King, the infamous Laporte was sent down in order finally to stamp out the lingering remnants of the rebellion.

Those accursed English spies who call themselves the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel have been very active in Lyons of late, and citizen Laporte is afraid that they might cheat the guillotine of the carcasses of those aristos, as they have already succeeded in doing in the case of a large number of traitors.

Human bloodhounds were even now on his track, and he spoke calmly of walking out again in the streets of Lyons and of affronting that infamous Laporte, who would find glory in sending him to death.

And even when anon he declared his intention of fetching Laporte immediately, she did not flinch.