Kelly of Destiny's Child

Usage examples of rowland.

The haste with which Vallancey had proffered a frivolous explanation of Richard's words, the bustle with which upon the instant he swept Richard and Sir Rowland from the house to get to horse and ride out to Bridgwater were in themselves circumstances that went to heighten those suspicions of Sir Rowland's.

Don Benito Wilson, Hugo Reid, Don Juan Temple, William Workman, John Rowland, had also come west and most of them had married daughters of old California families.

Being forced to say something, and being by nature slow-witted and sluggish of invention, Sir Rowland was compelled, to his unspeakable chagrin, to fall back upon the truth.

They haggled like any pair of traders out of Jewry, but in the end it was settled - by a bond duly engrossed and sealed - that on the day that Sir Rowland married Ruth he should make over to her brother certain values that amounted to perhaps a quarter of her possessions.

Then she looked at John Rowlands, standing empty-eyed and stiff beside the broad oak tree, and she moved swiftly to him and took both his hands.

Yet in the midst of it all, standing rigid and oblivious with fury, stood Caradog Prichard his red hair bristling, blood on his shirt and a shotgun levelled in one hand—and the other hand out rigid, pointing in accusation as he screamed with rage at John Rowlands.

Perhaps he could say that he had come to get something to help put Prichard off the scent, to keep him from finding Pen… something John Rowlands had suggested… but still he would have to leave the house with the golden harp.

Newlington was yet to be concerted with and advised, and, that done, Sir Rowland had to face the difficulty of eluding the Bridgwater guards and make his way to Feversham's camp at Somerton to enlist the general's cooperation to the extent that we have seen he looked for.

They knew what had taken place, and knowing it, Trenchard smoked on placidly, satisfied that Wilding had been in time, whilst Richard stood stricken and petrified by dismay at realizing, with even greater certainty, that something had supervened to thwart, perhaps to destroy, Sir Rowland.