What is "davis"

Usage examples of "davis".

That is my last real memory of Al Davis: It was getting dark in Oakland, the rest of the team had already gone into the showers, the coach was inside speaking sagely with a gaggle of local sportswriters, somewhere beyond the field-fence a big jet was cranking up its afterburners on the airport runway.

All Amanda could think about was Quinn Davis nervously rubbing his thumbs and forefingers at the meeting the other night.

Looking past her I saw Mr Davis fatly slumped in a winged armchair, wearing a vest and holding a beercan in front of the kitchen TV.

The leading candidates for nomination for the presidency were Charles Francis Adams, David Davis, Horace Greeley, Lyman Trumbull, and B.

Highsmith and Davis were so irked on top of being drunk that they hollered at Lewis through the window they would be back to settle their account first thing next morning.

Prosecutor Brent Davis, citing pending appeals in the West Memphis murder case, declined to be interviewed for this book.

Davis wanted to stop the tape and run it again in slow motion, but it moved on inexorably to other kilns and other potters.

After a skirmish at the buffet table had spilled a quantity of food, Miss Davis organised a clean-up campaign.

Judge Davis of Boston advanced the idea that at first the Pilgrims put all their possessions into a common stock, and until 1623 had no individual property.

Davis and his Cabinet had come to the conclusion that it was incompatible with the dignity of a sovereign power to permit another power with which it was at war, to feed and clothe prisoners in its hands.

Four days after Jessie arrived at the prison in Pine Bluff, attorney Stidham, Inspector Gitchell, and prosecutors Davis and Fogleman drove there to talk with Jessie.

Lissie clutched the toy to her stomach and bent over, at which point Davis began pummeling her.

Henry Davis was referring to--the picture had been taken apart, the reframing very carelessly done.

When Prosecutor Davis objected to having the evidence retested, Stidham wrote to Burnett again.

Keckley opposed the central element that the Confederacy stood for, but she was prepared to grant the slaveholders had shown good sense in electing a gentleman like Jefferson Davis as their President for the next six years, if the rebellion succeeded.