What is "collard"

Usage examples of "collard".

What crawled out of her house was no Collard, a straight, upstanding son for any man to eye with pride, but a thing such as you see sometimes carved (luckily much weathered away) on the ruins left by the Old Ones.

While the trader was dickering with Broson, Collard stood in the shadows.

As if poor Collard, doomed to go crooked for as long as he lived, had put into these all his longing to be one with his fellows.

But Collard, with harsh croaks of voice, brought about what even Broson thought a fair bargain.

For the first time Collard was pulled out of his dreams and his bitterness, to think of someone living, breathing, walking this world.

Until Collard saw that there was a faint glow of light from what he carried, and he twitched off part of the cloth so that there was radiance from the metal showing.

It was shaped like the crescent moon, its horns pointing outward so Collard stood between them as he set the hall on the altar and took away the covering.

He looked back at Henry Collard, still holding the rifle, and said, "You’d better put away that gun, fella!

He was also, Collard soon learned later, something of a character and refreshingly direct.

If there was any dirty job to be done it always seemed to be Collard who had to do it.

He waved Collard to a protuberance which, when he sat on it, changed shape disconcertingly beneath him and became a comfortable full length chair which adjusted itself immediately to every change of position.

Possibly a Shaldron, a direct descendent of a human called Collard, might go out to meet them.

The vegetables included bacon and collard greens, black-eyed peas, smothered okra, candied yams, string bean casserole, and cranberry sauce.

As they sat around her kitchen table, the old lady served them pork grillades over cheese grits with sides of collard greens, black-eyed peas, and buttered yams.

Not much sugar in his diet out there, lots of rice and fish, collards and mustard greens and poke salads.