What is "dillard"

Usage examples of "dillard".

But all that Dillard could do was delay the inevitable, and hope for a miracle.

Oh, don't worry about them,” Dillard snorted, glancing over a shoulder.

We're free to talk,” Dillard stated casually, sitting on a wooden box.

Then reality came rushing back and Dillard felt his heart crack as his wife collapsed.

Anyhow, when a guy once gets suspicious, Dillard is such a big guy it's hard to forget him.

A tail should be an inconspicuous fellow who can mingle with the crowd, and Dillard has always had a little trouble fading out because of his build, but he's the best automobile tail in the business.

After they hit the freeway, Dillard kept pretty well in the background, relying on the electronic device to keep him posted.

Then if Boring is turning the tables on Dillard and keeping an eye on Dillard's apartment, the fact that this woman goes in there with just the right furtive attitude will probably reassure Boring and, at the same time, give Dillard something to eat.

Boring detected the other tail he was wearing and then spotted Dillard when Dillard registered in the Restawhile Motel.

I think we're about at the end of the case now--at least this phase of it--but our friend, Dillard, is anchored there at the motel.

I also have a vague recollection of seeing something fall out when I opened the car door to let Dillard out.

Then they found no one home, the door unlocked, the key on the dresser, the bed hadn't been slept in and Dillard had left the drapes slightly parted and the chair in place where he had been sitting looking across at Unit 10 with a whole ash tray full of cigarette stubs on the floor.

The story was there just as plain as if Dillard had left a written statement of what he'd been doing.

As it happened, one of the city police picked up Dillard at a service station on the outskirts of town where he was gassing up.

Will Dillard be able to tell them it was Winlock, his wife and stepson who called on Boring?