What is "of a"

Usage examples of "of a".

Tinker Bell's only customer slid sideways past her like a fiddler crab, looking her up and down as he made his way out of a place where he no longer belonged.

Among Mallon's other examples of Chinese-box plagiarism is Jacob Epstein's plagiarism of a description of a character's balding head from a passage that Martin Amis had previously plagiarized from Dickens.

Nearly all of my written communications to Nero Wolfe over the years had been on a sheet of a memo pad, for Fritz to take up to his room on his breakfast tray, or put by me on his desk when he was upstairs in bed and I had returned from an evening errand.

His leg was tied up to the metal bar above the bed in a cast the size of a punching bag.

He thought the most interesting part of the sequence was a slight editing slip at the start of the elaborate breathing routine: a swift glance down the white beach that picked out the figure of a guard patrolling a chain link fence, a black machine pistol slung over his arm.

Such a settlement is the Marina of Catanzaro, a little port at the mouth of a wide valley, along which runs a line to Catanzaro itself, or rather to the foot of the great hill on which the town is situated.

Those reeds which rustle about the hidden source seem to me fit shelter of a Naiad.

When I first knew Naples one was never, literally never, out of hearing of a hand-organ.

In any case, I should barely have had time to go further, and had to be content with a description from my companions of a larger cave some distance beyond this, which is known as the Grotta of San Gregorio—.

Sitting in view of a closed door, I saw children's faces pressed against the glass, peering little faces, which sought a favourable moment.

When he had said good-bye he turned to look after me with a mischievous smile, as much as to say that I had naturally refused to talk to him about so important a matter as the building of a church, but he was not to be deceived.

After all, the native of Cotrone has advantages over the native of a city slum.

I asked a man sitting with a basket of them at a street corner to give me the worth of a soldo (a half-penny).

Under other circumstances I might have forgiven her, for she was very upset, but she had challenged me in front of the entire village, and it was the end of a long, irritating day.

Christmas our teacher improvised a lecture about how whole stations full of people had nowhere to go but back to Earth, their way of life taken from them by the stroke of a pen.