What is "pickens"

Usage examples of "pickens".

With the women on board, the officers and nobles had been doubling up in quarters, so Pickens and a new bosun's mate, Gregory, shared the midshipman's bunk.

I don't talk about it much, but Pickens has been after Tralfaz for years, trying to buy us out.

But what could be so important about him that a man as powerful and unscrupulous as T-Bone Pickens was desperate to get rid of him?

But eventually, Pickens and people like him started moving in, sucking the heart out of things.

And when he felt that, he knew that, even if Pickens wasn't personally on the scene, it was his power that held her.

Progress said that he was sure Pickens would have the Gutbucket there, somewhere.

Slim raised the issue of trying to find and steal the Gutbucket before the festival, but Progress said the Gutbucket was likely being held in the safest place Pickens could think of, well guarded.

Chances are, Pickens thought maybe they wouldn't take too well to havin' Nadine down there with 'em.

His own beloved time had been polluted and destroyed by men and a society very much like Pickens, and what he was trying to build.

A Viper stood over Pickens, who was lying on the ground holding his head.

Slim knew, without knowing how, that Pickens would soon turn on the crowd that surrounded him.

He knew that Pickens and the Vipers would instigate a bloody massacre, a slaughter that though it would win no victory for them, would just as effectively destroy the blues.

It threw Pickens up into the air, then arced back down, striking him in the chest.

Calmly Pickens said, 'Well, let's just hope we don't run out of wind before they run out of muscle.

Turning toward the quarterdeck, he said, 'Mr Pickens, make for Krondor!