What is "cordula"

Usage examples of "cordula".

Van was so taken up by his talk, by the training tips he lavished on the eager boy, and by envy, ambition, respect and other youthful emotions, that he had little time for Cordula, round-faced, small, dumpy, in a turtle-neck sweater of dark-red wool, or even for the stunning young lady on whose bare back the paternal hand kept resting lightly as Demon steered her toward this or that useful guest.

He still hoped to get rid for a moment of dull Cordula and find something cruel to make dull Ada dissolve in bright tears.

Grace Erminin, for example, or Cordula de Prey, Ada is a Turgenevian maiden or even a Jane Austen miss.

The two other places were occupied by a stout, elderly gentleman in an old-fashioned brown wig with a middle parting, and a bespectacled boy in a sailor suit sitting next to Cordula, who was in the act of offering him one half of her chocolate bar.

The door flew open, before the chauffeur, an elderly man in tunic and breeches, had time to hand out Cordula, who now ran like a ballerina toward Van.

Van when Cordula had finished her much less elaborate version of the report Van later got from Bill Fraser.

Cordula, but the caller turned out to be an old schoolmate, and Cordula feigned limpid delight, while making big eyes at Van over the receiver, and invented a number of unconvincing engagements.

With a surge of delight he saw Cordula in a tight scarlet skirt bending with baby words of comfort over two unhappy poodlets attached to the waiting-post of a sausage shop.

Edmond, simple Cordula, fantastically intricate Lucette, and, by further mechanical association, a depraved little girl called Lisette, in Cannes, with breasts like lovely abscesses, whose frail favors were handled by a smelly big brother in an old bathing machine.

Ada is accompanied by Cordula de Prey, whom Van suspects of being the lesbian lover Ada had hinted at.

Van to wonder whether Cordula might be the lesbian lover Ada had implied when farewelling Van at Forest Fork.

Recalling his former momentary suspicion of Cordula Van soon flares with jealousy towards the innocent girl.

He pushes through the first-class sections and spots Cordula and her mother in a full compartment.

Toulouse in the bar at Brownhill and the association Van made between Cordula and his first whore-let.

Just as then Van was hypocrite enough to treat Cordula as a whore and to be wildly jealous of her relations with Ada, so now he caresses Cordula under the dining-car table as he seeks from her the address of one rival and thinks of accosting a whore while looking out for the other rival he hopes to destroy.