What is "pitkin"

Usage examples of "pitkin".

Sarah Pitkin, a widow well on in years, was situated on an eminence overlooking the Rat River, near the town of Ottsville in the state of Vermont.

She had been standing at her window, thinking with horror of the impending visit of a heavyweight wrestler called Selim Hammid Bey, who claimed to be in love with her, when she suddenly saw Lem Pitkin turn the corner and pass in front of the laundry.

He addressed our hero as Commander Pitkin and said that he was Storm Trooper Zachary Coates.

Let me add, Commander Pitkin, that in my humble opinion you are well on your way to being recognized as one of the martyrs of our cause.

Lemuel Pitkin himself did not have this chance, but instead was dismantled by the enemy.

Asey nodded, and privately decided it had taken an incredibly long time for Miss Pitkin to achieve such a realization.

This Miss Spry was the chairman of the ration board, and it seems like she and this Miss Pitkin was in the same business.

Gardner Alden, Eunice Pitkin, and Hanson, all crowded into the tiny front hall.

After he gives the hand signal, the biomembrane is wheeled in by Pitkin and Georgette from that shadowy area with me leading the way.

Bonwit walked ahead of the biomembrane, kicking small stones out of the way, and behind it were Pitkin and the nurse, pushing.

Nevertheless he walked over to Pitkin, not knowing what else to do and finding it a reasonably easy procedure.

Finally the biomembrane, its sponsor decals gleaming, disappeared into the opening, followed first by Pitkin and then, as the music reached a despondent coda, by the laureates in single file, their lighted torches casting shadow-tremors on the walls.

And they come, pouring through the hatch, the Spicans first, then all the rest, the infinite multitude of beings, the travelers from Formalhaut and Achernar and Acrux and Aldebaran, from Thuban and Arcturua and Altair, from Polaris and Canopus and Sirius and Rigel, hundreds of star-creatures spilling happily out of the vessel, bursting forth, all of them, even Pitkin, poor little Pitkin, everyone joining hands and tentacles and tendrils and whatever, forming a great ring of light across space, everyone locked in a cosmic harmony, everyone dancing.

Edouard Pitkin, wearing a suit and tie, Jesus, at this hour, stepped out of the elevator and into the glare of the lights.

He only knew that his heart ached when she turned her back on him in the foyer of Wimberly House, pretending to give instructions to the butler as if Pitkin did not know to lock up after them or to leave a footman on duty.