What is "neville"

Usage examples of "neville".

Maxie Neville wanted to be the first man to resect the aortic arch, the big artery just north of the heart where blood starts its journey to every nook and cranny of the body.

Neville held a shining glass beneath the spout of the beer engine and drew off a pint of the very best.

Neville pushed a polished glass beneath the spout of the beer engine and drew upon the enamel pump handle.

Leaving his newspaper to confide its black tidings to the fag ends in the wastepaper basket and his mail to gather what dust it wished upon the doormat, Neville the part-time barman flip-flopped away up the Swans twenty-six stairs to his cornflakes and a cup of the blackest of all black coffees.

Now in his late twenties and making a career out of unemployment, Neville had jettisoned the camphor bags and forced himself into his one suit, given his brothel creepers a coat of Kiwi, and wandered down to the Swan to present himself.

As he explained to Annie one evening after dinner, he had made the same decision for himself shortly after he first read the message, partly because he had come too far to be turned back now, partly because he was just tired of having Neville call the tune to which he would dance.

Twelve hundred hours Greenwich Mean Time and in place of the news we are broadcasting a statement by Mr Neville Chamberlain the prime minister,, Turn it up, cheri, Centaine ordered anxiously, and the fateful words, measured and grave, boomed into the elegant room.

As the dwarf receded into the distance, Neville noted to his dismay that a bouncing, striding figure, sporting a lime-green coiffure and a natty line in bondage trousers, was rapidly approaching, his denim pockets bulging with coin of the realm and his trigger finger already a-twitch.

There were a few vain attempts to get a bit of community singing going but Neville nipped that in the bud for fear of beat-wandering policemen.

The patriarchs, of whom Maxie Neville was one, examined new candidates for the club with extreme care and ran their specialty with the autocracy of Cosa Nostra chieftans.

Neville, who had just bitten into a custard cream, choked and spat it out.

Neville detached himself from a noisy throng at the counter and came over to do the honours.

Based both upon his experience as a company commander in France, and on what he had observed in the Russo-Finnish War, Colonel Neville knew that the keys to military success were esprit de corps and impeccable discipline.

Well done, everyone&Let me see&five points to Gryffindor for every person to tackle the Boggart ten for Neville because he did it twice&and five each to Hermione and Harry.

Neville, USMC, based on what he had heard from the jump-master, from Corporal Steve Koffler, and on his own previous observations of Lieutenant Colonel Franklin G.