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chandler

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"maker or seller of candles," late 14c., attested as a surname from late 13c. (also, from early 14c. "candle-holder;" see chandelier ), from Old French chandelier (n.2) "candle-maker, candle-seller; person in charge of lighting a household, monastery, etc.," ...

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Chandler (also known as Open Shadow ) is a 1971 neo noir film directed by Paul Magwood and based on a story of his own creation. The film stars Warren Oates as a man with the single name of Chandler: "as in Raymond," he says at one point. It co-stars Leslie ...

Usage examples of chandler.

Chandler finally pulled back and released the actuator of his M-16 to strip a cartridge off the magazine.

The Aedile had dismissed all of these allegations as fantasies, but then a boy had died after bloodletting, and the parents, mid-caste chandlers, had lodged a formal protest.

Produced by Andrew Sly The Clockmaker or The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville, by Thomas Chandler Haliburton.

Chandler was already writing dystopian fiction and I just created a cartoon version where all the subtlety has leeched out of it.

At Ripon in the eighteenth century the chandlers sent their customers large candles on Christmas Eve, and the coopers, logs of wood.

Carrying Maula rifles and needle-firing chandler pistols, the group from the ship went to impose a semblance of order upon the crowds.

Althea picked her way down to where the Vivacia was tied, sidestepping men with barrows, freight wagons drawn by sweating horses, chandlers making deliveries of supplies to outbound ships and merchants hastening to inspect their incoming shipments before taking delivery.

Sitting in the breakfast room off the kitchen of his quarters, Lorn begins to eat both, wishing he had even Byrdyn to sip with it, but from what he can tell, there is no spirit factor at all in Biehl, unless the chandler or some other factor also trades in wine or spirits.

This view of people as animals pretending to be human shows up as often in the bleak hard-boiled detective novels of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald as in the tragicomic Irish novels of James Joyce.

She dreaming heavily of in-room movies and room service, me thinking about how she seemed to have been shipped to Providence shortly after I talked to Amy Gurwitz, before I spoke first with Trumps, and long before Red told me the Chandler Street address.

There were smiths and weavers and potters, woodwrights, masons, glaziers, tanners, chandlers, shoe and harness makers, lute and lyre makers, fullers, spinners, rug makers, wagonwrights, carvers, founders, tinkers, coopers, toolmakers, brickmakers, glassmakers, stonecutters, dyers, and enamelers.

If Wade, Chandler, and the rest of the abolitionists turn on him, especially after their darling Fremont was slapped down, much heat will be applied to the President by Jacobins who want to grab the reins.

This consisted of a score of calendars, of the type given away by ship chandlers and ship-repair firms, from as many worlds, utterly useless as a means of checking day and date except on their planets of origin.

The dribs and drabs of liquor found their way to the comer of a basement storeroom, the private domain of Herbie Chandler.

Hundreds upon hundreds of the dead lay prone on the lawns as the rain lashed down on the Chandler Complex.