First Czech Republic president

Usage examples of havel.

Havel fumbled at his belt for his puukko, snarling back at the approaching animal with an expression not much different from its own.

Havel drew the puukko from its sheath in a backhand grip with his thumb on the pommel, the thick reverse of the blade lying along his forearm.

Havel, who was ticklish, jerked his foot, so that the masseuse had to rebuke him.

Before them, veiled in the rain and the low-lying mist, a turreted castle rose from an island in the Havel River.

Havel drew his backsword and lifted his shield off the saddlebow, sliding his left forearm into the loops.

Havel feinted low to draw shield and attention, then attacked with a running step, backsword flashing in a looping circle.

From the margins of the story, she exposes the shortcomings of male textualization and even forces Havel to a higher level of introspection.

Havel had been a crack shot with a rifle-particularly a scope-sighted Remington 700-but it had taken years of dogged practice to make him more than passable with a horn-and-sinew composite bow shot from horseback.

Considering the volatile mix of alcoholism, unemployment, and potential ethnic conflict in Central Asia, might it make sense, in the short run at least, for Karimov to idolize strongmen like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Alberto Fujimori of Peru rather than idealists like Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic?

Professor Du Havel has agreed to stand in as a surrogate parent, and Lieutenant Griggs, the commander of the princess' security team, has been kept fully informed of my plans.

The hatchet man stepped in, trying to grapple, and Havel lashed out with his steel clad forearm.

Havel helped with the baggage - there wasn't all that much Huttoning his coat but glad to be out in the clean chill.

Two of the big black birds kaw kawed and jumped heavily off the corpse when Havel turned his horse to take a closer look.

While ambulances were speeding to Dupont Circle and rescue workers were digging through the ghastly mine of bodies in the Metro station, Gilbert Havel walked toward City Hall, two miles away.

Havel said, flushing a little - and being careful not to squeeze too hard, because Larsson's hand was as mucked up as Signe's or Eric's.