What is "taine"

Usage examples of "taine".

He had a seemingly congenital fear and hatred of strangerswhich in mild cases is common enough, but Taine could not be cured without a complete breakdown of personality.

Now, though, Taine was called to the navigation room to confer on tactics.

They regarded the Plumie with detachment, but Taine with a wary expectancy.

Baird partly ran and partly staggered and partly skated to where Taine faced him, snarling.

And that was a ghastly sensation, because if Taine only tugged his other foot free and heavedwhythen Baird would go floating away from the rotating, now-twinned ships, floating farther and farther away forever.

He felt somethingand it was the object Taine had meant to offer as a return present to the Plumies.

The sun appeared again, and Taine was yards away, crawling and fumbling for Baird.

An inner door opens, and Taine ushers them through with impatient gestures.

They are of the type Taine wore in the airlock: thick and flexible, with inlaid metal hoops, and hinged helmets at the top.

Monteau, Evan Dougal, Bernhard Rueger, Marie Broi, Sister Monique, Sister Aimee, Sister Noelle, Pierre Galante, Henri Taine, Maarten Lubbers, Brother Donatus, Sister Juliette, Susanne Dougal, Linda Dougal.

And that was a ghastly sensation, because if Taine only tugged his other foot free and heaved—why—then Baird would go floating away from the rotating, now-twinned ships, floating farther and farther away forever.

Maybe this was because the well of mathematical genius traditionally dries up at around that age, a prospect that must have terrified Taine, so that he thought he was working against time.

Howell held up a copy of the Washington Post, with a splash headline about the Feynman radio at Fermilab, an animated picture beneath of Cornelius Taine repeating some Carter-catastrophe sound bite.

Taine received the girl's expression of condolence with a manner that was perfect in its semblance of carefully controlled sorrow and grief, yet managed, skillfully, to suggest the wide social distance that separated the widow of Mr.