Presumptuous explorer?

Usage examples of stanley.

Second, he is an imposter, for he has always sailed under assumed names, first calling himself Bailey, then Stanley, then Johnson and next Douglass.

Stanley knife, steel measure, black binding tape, and proceeded to cut a precious rug, a present from Persia, to fit around the Queen Mother's orange-tiled fireplace.

As Stanley mixed the new tube of cadmium orange with turpentine, James scowled and bit his lower lip.

After packing some white shirts and some wash pants in a cardboard box, and putting on a new blue-and-white seersucker suit he had bought when he first came to Florida, but had never worn, Stanley wondered what to do about the storm shutters.

Stanley put the sealed envelope into his hip pocket, collected his checkbook, certificates of deposit, and passbook, but he paused at the door.

Loan Association, but it also operated as a bank), Stanley had no trouble cashing in his CDs and collected a cashier's check for the money in his savings and checking accounts.

Stanley Pons had been a student under Fleischmann at Southampton, before becoming the prolifically productive head of the University of Utah chemistry department.

Chief Petty Officer Stanley Hansen, USN, Haughton's chief assistant, regarded one of these as his personal vehicle, and Haughton was reluctant to challenge the Chief's perquisites.

Stanley Ruiz was there, and Pettie, and Gert Moggins, and Frank Claypool, the deputy with the broken leg.

The young woman had been sued for divorce as the guilty party, and the co-respondent, to use the English term, had been none other than Stanley Hobson.

The captain and An Li would rather they all died than not recover this huge and complex unit, but they were not about to let it dock with the Stanley nor anybody else to board, either, unless they were sure it was safe.

I want a look-alike for Borden at the clambake, and two luckless fishermen in a little rowboat right offshore, dead ringers for the saints Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

For dogs: Stanley Olsen, Origins of the Domestic Dog (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985).

Evolutionists had arrogantly folded their arms across their chests back in 1953 when Harold Urey and Stanley Miller created amino acids by putting an electric discharge through a primordial soup—.

In fact, he had spoken no word concerning his encounter with Mo-Gwei, or with Professor Elmont Stanley.