What is "tallis"

Usage examples of "tallis".

Malone was certain that Joanna Brame had known the date, but she had neatly drawn Tallis into the conversation.

Clements shook hands with Tallis and gave him their drink preferences.

She reached for her glass, saw that it was empty but waved a dismissing hand when Tallis gestured that he would refill it for her.

Mr Tallis, you met him the other day, is checking if someone else has it.

As he was going out the door of the lounge he met Adam Tallis coming in.

Malone and Clements shook hands with Tallis and gave him their drink preferences.

Malone took the briefcase and led Tallis back into the side room, where De Vries still sat in his chair, the napoleon half-eaten.

She remembered something Adam Tallis had told her, something that Orville had said: If something happens, look to the past.

She had no sooner entered her suite than Dick De Vries and Adam Tallis knocked on the door.

Emily Tallis obliged with looks of alarm, snickers of glee and, at the end, grateful smiles and wise, affirming nods.

In another, there he was, cocktail in hand at some fashionable city watering hole, overheard boasting to a group of friends: Yes, my younger sister, Briony Tallis the writer, you must surely have heard of her.

Her effective status as an only child, as well as the relative isolation of the Tallis house, kept her, at least during the long summer holidays, from girlish intrigues with friends.

She had heard it said that the house could easily absorb three children, and that the Quinceys could stay as long as they liked, provided the parents, if they ever visited simultaneously, kept their quarrels away from the Tallis household.

All the while, Emily and Cecilia Tallis maintained a patter that surely robbed the guests of the ease it was supposed to confer.

Cecilia Tallis half ran with her flowers along the path that went by the river, by the old diving pool with its mossy brick wall, before curving away through the oak woods.