What is "tilton"

Usage examples of "tilton".

It was from Chief Collig and the Fourth-of-July Committee, granting permission for Tilton to test the mortar.

He told Officer Riley that he was Jim Tilton, a retired artillery sergeant of the National Guard.

Then, seeing that Tilton was preparing to leave, Bowden hastily excused himself.

Then Frank told Tilton it was because of their advertisement for information about cannon which the sergeant had answered.

But just then Tilton blew a cloud of dust off them, in order to show the cutlasses to better advantage.

Not once had he mentioned a demiculverin, though that was, according to Tilton, what he hoped to find.

As he handed it to Tilton, the old ordnance man exclaimed, "It's a handspike!

He asked Sergeant Tilton to keep the spike and pole until the boys called for them.

Sergeant Tilton explained that he had spotted their flashlights and come to see who his new neighbors were.

The librarian gave me a note of introduction to the curator of the Society, a Miss Anna Tilton, who lived nearby, and after a brief explanation that ancient gentlewoman was kind enough to pilot me into the closed building, since the hour was not outrageously late.

Miss Tilton, comparing all possible hypotheses regarding its origin and its presence in New England, was inclined to believe that it formed part of some exotic pirate hoard discovered by old Captain Obed Marik.

All this, to the pious Miss Tilton, formed an excellent reason for shunning the ancient town of decay and desolation.

My figures will prove consistent if you settle upon Tilton and Steiger’s 4,750,000,000, which is supported by recent moon data.