What is "tallent"

Usage examples of "tallent".

And I now had an employee, a smart boy by the name of Tallent, just a year older than I had been when I first went into the mountains.

THAT SPIRIT I soon left Tallent in charge and went riding toward Valley River.

I pressed my clerk, Tallent, into service as my second, and he shut the post at Wayah and came to Valley River immediately.

I merely sent back, through Tallent, a brief note reiterating the time and place I had already specified.

I arranged it or what foolishness I committed to make it so, but the Government was persuaded to hire Tallent as adjudicator of languages between Hindman and the people and myself.

Never mind that Tallent had been an employee and friend for many years, and that despite his long residence among the Indians, several among their many verb tenses remained an impenetrable mystery to him.

In the official paperwork, Tallent was listed as a prominent mixed-blood freeholder, though every drop of blood in him, to my knowledge, was Scot, and he even knew what plaid his clan had worn into battle.

Hindman made a great show of laying down his orders to Tallent not to add or take away anything in his translations, one way or the other.

He talked slowly, in a careful booming courtroom voice, pausing at artful intervals to let Tallent catch up with him.

It was a meticulously accurate job of translation, with no slant or opinion added in my favor, so I worried that Tallent might be taking his silly hand-to-heart oath seriously.

He went and stood near the door, and Tallent sidled over and stood beside him to tell him what I might say.

Hindman and I spoke little to each other, and Tallent seemed relieved by the silence.

We two enemies lay like wedded mates in a bride bed until Tallent struck a good blaze and got coffee seething, and then we rolled out of the covers with our hair standing in points and sat cross-legged, grim as death, on our blankets, and supped from the steaming tin mugs that Tallent carried to us.

Since Tallent was my head bookkeeper and chief assistant and old friend, he suddenly became a major.

I came strolling down from the mountains accompanied by Tallent and my personal guards, the tallest Indians among us, all well better than six foot, even before you got to their hats and turbans.