What is "irma"

Usage examples of "irma".

Uncle Hymie gave a convulsive start, shot out of his chair, woke Irma with a well-directed slap, and then turned his full attention towards Sigmund.

And I have three left at home--Victor, who is now fifteen, then Cecile and Irma, who are ten and seven.

He spent many hours hunched before the glowing volume of the Celest, while on the other side of the room Bill and Irma watched the holo.

Well, Brad Berea knew how to drink and dance, and he had seen how Irma needed it.

Irma simply twitched but was too refined to look round, and it was left to the Doctor to make contact with Fuchsia by means of an exquisitely timed wink with his left eye behind its convex lens, like an oyster shutting and opening itself beneath a pool of water.

Looking at Irma, she recites them aloud in a toneless, pauseless voice that no doubt would have caused Mrs.

Irma Bunt back to her petit point, Blofeld back to his stance by the mantelpiece, his hand resting lightly on the boss of his great sword.

And beside him, completing the picture of a homely couple at ease after dinner, sat Irma Bunt, in the full regalia of a high-class Japanese lady, the petit point of a single chrysanthemum lying in her lap waiting for those pudgy hands to take it up when the cause of this unseemly disturbance had been ascertained.

Smith had never liked rice pudding, but he had been trained to finish what was put in front of him, and so Irma never knew.

Thirty years ago, his mother had told Irma that he didn't like rice pudding.

Forcing myself not to panic at the delay, I stilled his questions with the same recital of tommy-rot that I'd served up to Irma and the ensign--well, I say I stilled them, but he babbled on, demanding details and explanations, and eventually I only shut him up by taking a strong line, insisting on the need for haste on my part--I had to get back to the scene of the action at once, I told him.

Irma brought her helmet into contact with the others for direct voice communication with a certain resentful emphasis.

Irma brought her helmet into contact with the other's for direct voice communication with a certain resentful emphasis.