What is "cottle"

Usage examples of "cottle".

Ralph Cottle that he needed fortification, and he drank a new foundation for his crumbling courage.

No bureaucrats or game wardens had bothered Ralph Cottle since the day, eleven years ago, when he had cleaned out the cottage, put down his bedroll, and settled in as a squatter.

Even if Cottle had a gun, Billy was confident about taking it from him.

Billy had kept Cottle on the porch past the five-minute deadline, the freak might be playing payback, making them wait so their nerves would fray a little, to teach them not to screw with the big dog.

Billy shifted the corpse sideways on the toilet, the head fell forward, and a gaseous sputter escaped the lips, as if Cottle had died on an inhalation, as if his last breath, until now, had been trapped in his throat.

Ralph Cottle walking up this driveway or had noticed him sitting on the porch, and if the sergeants decided to have a word with the neighbors, Billy would be caught in a lie.

Ralph Cottle looked like the meat of a walnut snugged inside its shell.

In the first, Cottle had kept the pint of whiskey that he had spilled.

As dead pharaohs had been sent to the Other Side with salt, grain, wine, gold, and euthanized servants, so Ralph Cottle would travel across the Styx with spending money.

Loading Cottle into the back of the Explorer required more patience and muscle than Billy had expected.

Cottle that for an instant Billy believed the man had to be alive, that somehow he had never been dead, but in the next instant he realized that the first body he had dropped into the volcanic vent had not been Cottle, that the filling of the corpse burrito had been replaced.

Leaving Cottle to his own devices in the living room, Billy climbed the stairs, wondering if when he returned he would find the dead man still on the sofa.

Ralph Cottle wrapped in the tarp and stowed behind the sofa, his spirit of fun had been engaged.

Ralph Cottle remained to be attended, Billy used his cell phone to call the back bar number at the tavern.

Valis might have planted in addition to what had been on the cadavers, Billy remained a potential suspect in the disappearances that would soon become known to the police: Lanny, Ralph Cottle, the redheaded young woman.