"Mansfield Park"'s Sir Thomas

Usage examples of bertram.

Edna led the three women released from Bertram Gaol out onto the floor and offered them an explanation of where they stood and how they had arrived there.

It was consequently a thoughtful Bertram Wooster who half an hour later sat toying with a stoup of malvoisie in the smoking room of the Drones Club.

As once the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and straightway coveted them, even so Bertram Ingledew looked on Frida Monteith, and saw at the first glance she was a woman to be desired, a soul high-throned, very calm and beautiful.

They had chosen a lovely spot on a heather-clad moorland, where she could stroll alone with Bertram among the gorse and ling, utterly oblivious of Robert Monteith and the unnatural world she had left for ever behind her.

The revolver with which he had shot Bertram Ingledew lay close by her feet, among the bracken on the heath, where Monteith had flung it.

To say that Bertram was now definitely nonplussed would be but to state the simple truth.

I mean, here were we, Stinker Pinker and Bertram Wooster, buddies who had known each other virtually from the egg, and we were talking like a couple of strangers making conversation on a train.

So far as they knew, Bertram was the only man living in whom they could confide, unbranded as outrageous liars.

Bertram made a grimace at Arabella across the table, and Harry dug her surreptitiously in the ribs with his elbow.

Bertram sighed as he fingered the dobra covering his head, and he finished telling his story.

Why, Hargrave and Bertram would think I had made a decision without giving them a fair hearing.

But Bertram, with all the skill of a jewfish slipping out of a net, had managed to avoid attaching himself to any of the plots against Harrah or the riots of the Iviomils.

She awakened on the verge of death every time with the image of their cruel eyes imprinted on her memory, their mocking laughter ringing in her ears: Earl Millhouse, Coot Demarest, and their comrades, Zachariah Hudson, Arthur Bertram, and J.

Hart showing up with Earl Millhouse was like manna from Heaven, for, while questioning him, Trent discovered that Art Bertram was the man they sought.

If the facts of lion life are as Bertram says, and, just as important, if they have been like that for a large number of generations, then we may expect that natural selection will have favoured a degree of altruism appropriate to the average degree of relatedness in a typical pride.