''The Handmaid's Tale'' author

Usage examples of atwood.

Uncle George and I had some business dealings together, you know, and one time when Atwood and myself were discussing a business matter with him, he suddenly brought this other thing up.

It was embarrassing to me, and I didn't want to go ahead and discuss it, but Atwood looked at it just the way any lawyer would.

You knew that if you destroyed it, it wouldn't do you any good because Carl Griffin and Arthur Atwood, his lawyer, had seen the will, and that your husband had told them about it.

The Argo's commander, Captain Joe Atwood, was clearly annoyed at the TV crew's failure to show up or contact his ship.

Captain Atwood had sent a boat in to transport Austin and the television people to the Argo.

He went up to the bridge to see Captain Atwood, who was poring over some charts.

While Atwood ordered up the requested gear, Austin went to his cabin and plugged in his laptop computer.

Sitting at the metal table that occupied center place were Captain Atwood, Ensign Kreisman and Joe Zavala.

Austin got back to Captain Atwood and said they would try to find the Sea Hunter.

Linden Atwood was that rare creature, a man who fitted his name and looked like a coachmaker.

Nobody refused an invitation from Atwood, professor of ancient history, dean of the college before Jericho was even born, a man with a spider's web of connections in Whitehall.

Jericho finished the quotation and turned to find Atwood pulling on a purple balaclava.

Discussing work outside the hut was forbidden and Atwood, purely to annoy Pinker, was declaiming on the suicide of Virginia Woolf, which he held to be the greatest day for English letters since the invention of the printing press.

He took the leftovers that Atwood didn't want and scraped them into a milk churn labelled 'PIG SWILL'.

Leonard Skynner, the head of the Naval Section, sat at one end of the table, with Atwood to his right and an empty chair to his left, which Baxter promptly reclaimed.