What is "randolph"

Usage examples of "randolph".

There came a day, then, when my Uncle Abner and Squire Randolph rode through the gap of the mountains to have the thing out with Doomdorf.

Randolph and Abner got down, unsaddled their horses and turned them out to graze, for their business with Doomdorf would not be over in an hour.

The antihero in his first book of crime stories and two later anthologies is Randolph Mason, an unscrupulous lawyer who expertly levers his criminal clients through legal loopholes.

Randolph shows no signs of hurry to get it over with, as for the next hour or so he queries every line in the manifest, hauling book after book down from the shelf and looking up obscure precedents and arcane definitions, all for tediously innocuous items of Mingulayan manufacture -- high-value stuff, jewelery and precision intruments and so forth, as the economics of the trade dictate, but nothing of obvious malign use or biological origin.

Late that afternoon, Malachi caught the Metro to the Ballston station in Virginia, walked over to Quincy Street, giving the Randolph Towers a passing mental salute as he walked by, and entered the library.

But Randolph had never questioned the sexual predilections of his son or Shane.

Randolph then explained the presentencing investigation and what Jeffrey might expect from the penalty proceedings.

But beyond it the screaming went on in volume imperceptibly muffled by its barrier, one ear-splitting caterwaul following another with such continuity that the wonder was where Lady Randolph West found breath to keep up that atrocious row, and whether any dozen women of average lung-power could have rivalled it.

Jeffrey stared at Randolph in disbelief, but then he saw the comers of Randolph's mouth curl up into a smile.

If he and Randolph had, they might have been subpoenaed, not that Jeffrey had been particularly interested in possible axonal degeneration at the time of his trial.

Lui invece non era più Randolph Jaffe, bensì il Jaff, il solo e unico, innamorato dell'oscurità dove la sua furia aveva tro­vato sostentamento ed espressione.

The day after reading Blobb's Peregrinations she, with Bortz, Grace, and the graduate students, attended Randolph Driblette's burial, listened to a younger brother's helpless, stricken eulogy, watched the mother, spectral in afternoon smog, cry, and came back at night to sit on the grave and drink Napa Valley muscatel, which Driblette in his time had put away barrels of.

Others saw themselves as architects of a new and perfect republic, and their leader was La Follette of Wisconsin, far more dangerous in his idealism than any of the Bryanites, who were bound to be swayed by popular opinion, a highly volatile substance produced, often at whim, by William Randolph Hearst in his eight newspapers, not to mention all the other publishers, to a man for war.

Three times pealed that frightful brazen scream, and when the echoes of the third blast had died chucklingly away Randolph Carter saw that he was alone.

All in all, he decided, it was a tribute to the energy and colorfulness of Theodore Roosevelt that this less than splendid house, formerly rented by Elihu Root, was now occupied by Representative William Randolph Hearst.