What is "desmonds"

Usage examples of "desmonds".

Marx was an avid hunter who had brought trophies back from half a dozen worlds, the Desmonds had always wanted to go on safari, and Pollard, who would have preferred a few weeks on Calliope or one of the other pleasure planets, finally agreed to come along so that the four of them could celebrate their latest billion together.

But there was no way we could take Pollard and the Desmonds through the swamp, keep an eye out for predators, and hope to make up any ground on the Snark -- and of course I couldn't leave them alone while we went after the Snark with Marx.

They'd find Marx's body in the hold, and they'd exhume the Desmonds and Mbele and the eleven Dabihs.

These Desmonds had once been mighty men in their country, ruling the people around them as serfs, and ruling them with hot iron rods.

At the present moment the Desmonds were not so potent either for good or ill.

Not but that their estates were as wide almost as their renown, and that the Desmonds were still great people in the country's estimation.

But, nevertheless, the Desmonds were great people, and owned a great name.

He had gone abroad, perhaps with the conviction that it would be well that he and the Desmonds should not meet.

It's he that loves the Desmonds, Lady Clara,--loves them as his own heart's blood.

Marx was an avid hunter who had brought trophies back from half a dozen worlds, the Desmonds had always wanted to go on safari, and Pollard, who would have preferred a few weeks on Calliope or one of the other pleasure planets, finally agreed to come along so that the four of them could celebrate their latest billion together.

But there was no way we could take Pollard and the Desmonds through the swamp, keep an eye out for predators, and hope to make up any ground on the Snark -- and of course I couldn't leave them alone while we went after the Snark with Marx.

They'd find Marx's body in the hold, and they'd exhume the Desmonds and Mbele and the eleven Dabihs.

After taking a walk about the ship I figure that there ain't no Desperate Desmonds aboard, and having earned my hundred the night before I just curl up in that little cabin and hit the hay.

It will be seen from the accompanying table that he was descended from some of the best families in his native county, and through Osborn Wyddel, from the Desmonds of Ireland.