What is "harker"

Usage examples of "harker".

Harker was a lapsed Roman Catholic, N'Gana was a nominal Moslem, and Mogutu had been raised in the Anglican Communion, as it turned out, while Krill and van der Voort were lifelong atheists from a long line of them.

And a hundred thousand children and young men who claim to be the faded hours of Harker Lee, consigned and consigning to the oblivion of dead memory and replowed engrammic earth.

The vampire is here a gloomy Transylvanian count who entices an innocent young man, the lawyer's assistant Jonathan Harker, to his terrible castle in order to prepare for his emigration to England and, at the same time, feed his vampirous sisters with the young man's blood.

Since Bryant was confined to his home by doctor's orders, it meant that Harker would have to visit the old man, and that meant entering a house where death seemed to hang heavy over the threshold, a house filled with graspingly impatient relatives of the venerable hero of space-travel's infancy.

Immediately upon arrival, while the Harkers undertook to remove the baggage from the private car and establish rooms for the party in a hotel, the other men moved aggressively.

The professor soon invited himself to come to visit the Harkers in Exeter, and talk of vampires.

I was not even aware that the Harkers were in England, much less that they had seen me in Piccadilly.

Right after the police came Lord Godalming, in his own carriage, to exchange shocked words with his old friends the Harkers, and then with Holmes and Lestrade.

This river was more difficult to handle, being old and deep, but Harker, using the knowledge of the two natives, was able to gather enough wood and strong vines to lash together a basic raft that, he hoped, could be steered with two poles.

Grimsby hadn't overtrained him for this meet, heeding the Harker brothers' advice some six months before to keep laps at no more than ten per day.

Harker hears him tell the three weird sisters as he [Harker] lies in a semiswoon) .

The old man wasn't going to last forever, anyway-but Harker genuinely wanted him to hold out until after the hearing, at least.

Harker was going back over the morning's session, trying to pick out the phrases the press would leap on.