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Usage examples of eldon.

Mrs Grey answered the door as he experienced dread at the possible return of Babbingtpn and Eldon with all the virulence of an aging woman unprepared by make-up and rest for the arrival of visitors.

It was the third day of his interrogation by Eldon - his 'debriefing' as they persisted in labelling it, with manifest irony - and they had no intention of lessening the pace or increasing the time-span.

His feet shuffled irresolutely on the carpet, a signal which Eldon did not fail to notice.

As his eyes found the carpet near his feet, Castleford's face, too, fell sideways and the man's body was vividly before him, stretched on his carpet - so vividly that he was afraid that Eldon, too, would see it.

He watched Eldon squash a portion of peas onto his fork and raise them to his lips before he refilled the man's glass from the silver-necked ship's decanter.

He had absorbed the shock of the Insight article long before Eldon had telephoned and been invited to lunch.

There was only one small element of personal calculation - Eldon was embarrassed and angry at the disappearance of Aubrey and wished to deflect what he anticipated would be Babbington's similar anger.

Babbington snapped, irritated by the lack of surprise and pleasure in Eldon, then dismissing the emotions.

Aubrey was what Eldon might have fancied himself to be - except that Aubrey was a proven traitor.

Yet Eldon was confused, made compliant by his recognition of the Special Branch officers.

He held the high door aside, and Eldon saw into the dark interior of the pharmacy, with its unlit electric light bulb which hung from the ceiling by an ancient cord.

It was a phocomelus, Eldon realized, mounted on his phocomobile, his combination cart and manual grippers which served as mechanical substitutes for his missing limbs.

It was one of the best-made mechanical constructions that Eldon Blaine had ever seen.

He had a thin, flexible face, with a sharp nose and extremely white teeth, a face ideal for the emotion which he now showed Eldon Blaine.

It was the voice of Hoppy Harrington, and Eldon stood bewildered, rubbing his head numbly, trying to understand and knowing on a deep, instinctive level that he did not--and never really would.