What is "colleton"

Usage examples of "colleton".

Anne Colleton sent them on their way with a few low-voiced words that left their ears red and tingling.

Far­ther along the trench, the battalion commander, Major Colleton, echoed the command: "Get up and fight like Americans!

The servant, who'd given Anne Colleton rancid butter, looked suitably down­cast, but he hadn't quite turned away before she stuck out her tongue at him.

The kinds of stories Cherry told Jacob Colleton had nothing to do with words.

Come the revolu­tion, Jacob Colleton, like every other white aristocrat in the CSA, was fair game.

If Cherry told Jacob Colleton the wrong story, he himself was a dead man.

Cherry walked by Anne Colleton, nodding to her almost, although not quite, as an equal.

Anne Colleton had bought the second chair without a murmur after watching Scipio bump her brother down the stairway and escape losing control of the chair only by luck.

Hung on brackets above the bed in which he could sleep only propped up by pillows, Jacob Colleton had a Tredegar military rifle.

Fast as a striking snake, Jacob Colleton slapped the rifle to his shoulder, aimed, and fired.

With a click, Jacob Colleton worked the bolt and brought a fresh cartridge into the chamber.

And, since there wasn't much left of the poor songbird, Colleton hadn't done it for any reason but to show off.

Cassius had been very quiet since his return from what he'd told Anne Colleton was Jubal Marberry's plantation.

He pointed to the little wood into which Jacob Colleton had been shooting.

Since he was talking as an extension of the estate rather than in his own person, he used the elegant formal English he would have employed when addressing Anne Colleton or some white guest at the mansion.