What is "trusty"

Usage examples of "trusty".

It is now nearly a century since this trusty drawer of good liquor closed his bustling career and was thus quietly deposited within call of his customers.

The cages of those trusty guards were always placed near the bed-chamber of Valentinian, who frequently amused his eyes with the grateful spectacle of seeing them tear and devour the bleeding limbs of the malefactors who were abandoned to their rage.

From what Manship could tell, he was alone, carrying his trusty blasterand determined to die fighting.

I loaded up the trusty Smith and Kick butt west of the Pennines and rammed it into my shoulder holster.

Then all was quite still, but she could discern with her pair of trusty Plummer eyes two long legs gently dangling.

The image that struck Trent was straight out of a Western sensable, the marshal striding down Main Street, trusty Winchester in hand, to kick some serious Bad Guy butt.

Between contempt for his weakness and pride in his sensitiveness and happiness in his turning to her not as the star to a baby understudy but as one trusty friend to another, she was dizzy.

Not being warranted, however, to take this step at Altona, I employed a trusty agent to keep watch, and draw him into a quarrel the moment he should appear on the Hamburg side of a public walk which divides that city from Altona, and deliver him up to the nearest Hamburg guard-house.

Pontiac had been warned at last of this new danger, and had sent his trusty Ottawas, leaping like deer, down the river banks with a faint hope that the approaching convoy might still be cut off.

High, cruising over Berlin in your trusty B-52, looking through your Norden bombsight and waiting for just the right moment to push the button.

Ino to the boat, Claus had abandoned his trusty wrench beside the tractor.

Pawldo removed his trusty lockpick from his belt and carefully slipped it into the narrow hole.

Out they rushed, the sentries in armor, forming under the son of Nestor, captain Thrasymedes, under Ascalaphus, Ialmenus, sons of Ares, under Meriones, Aphareus and Deipyrus, under the son of Creon, trusty Lycomedes.

They could make no objection, wronged as they felt themselves to be, when Sister Mary Philomel organized them into after-school work details, to clean the fishbowl her fat carp swam in, to cut out turkeys and shamrocks and lilies green and white to festoon her walls at the proper seasons, not even when she took it on herself to have them mop their bedroom floors and remake their beds, like prison trusties.

According to Steinmann and his trusty tapes, he and a colleague entered his office several hours after Lisa had.