"Lost Horizon" star Ronald

Usage examples of colman.

Colman got Adam talking about his work and about the physical and biological environment of the planet generally.

He ran up some bills, but not many, ordered suits at various tailors patronized by his hosts, but not an excessive number, and in the end was discovered to be a complete fraud, a Cockney sailor off the Cunard Line who had mastered his accent studying Ronald Colman movies while his ship plied the Atlantic.

As Colman listened the guardedness was there in his face, the echoes of old anger and shattering grief.

Jackstraw lit the oil stove, oil lamp and Colman pressure lamp, while Joss and I put the injured man on a collapsible cot before the stove, worked him into my sleeping-bag, slid in half a dozen heat pads - waterproof pads containing a chemical which gave off heat when water was added - placed a rolled up blanket under his neck to keep the back of his head off the cot, and zipped the sleeping-bag shut.

Colman survived his - two hundred lashes at twice - and he was to have been sent to a penal colony only Dr Redfern intervened - said it would be his death - and he is to be assigned to an estate along the Parramatta together with half a dozen more.

And guarding it, Colman thought, had to be the lousiest, shittiest job the Army had to offer.

Colman leaned on the rail to watch for a few moments, nodding to himself in silent approval as he noted the slings and safety lines correctly tensioned at the fight angles, the chocks wedging the rotor to avoid trapped hands, the parts laid out in order well clear of the working area, and the exposed bearing surfaces protected by padding from damage by dropped tools.