What is "vallery"

Usage examples of "vallery".

The gesture, Captain Vallery thought, held a curious air of decision and finality.

His ruddy features, usually so cheerful and crinkling, were set and grim: his gaze, heavy-lidded and troubled, rested on Captain Vallery and he wondered just what kind of private hell that kindly and sensitive man was suffering right then.

He, Vallery, was the captain: the coals of fire were being heaped on the wrong head.

Tyndall and Turner glanced at each other, then over at Vallery, who sat with head and shoulders bowed, eyes resting vacantly on his clasped hands on the table.

Then Starr was on his feet, his hands stretching out for his gloves: Vallery looked up, for the first time, and he knew that Brooks had failed.

In his charity, in his humility, Captain Richard Vallery walked alone.

How much worse will it be when the shattering impact of the double blow wears off, Vallery wondered, when the poor kid begins to think straight again?

The human element, of course, was indispensable, and Vallery was far too experienced and battle-wise a captain to underestimate the value of the unceasing vigil of look-outs and signalmen.

As always, minesweepers swept the channel ahead of them, but, as always, Vallery left nothing to chance.

Men like Carrington, who knew every sea and port in the world, like Vallery and Hartley, looked at it and were troubled and said nothing.

Navy captain in whom Vallery reposed complete confidence, Lieutenant-Commander Carrington was normally a taciturn man, grave and unsmiling.

The Commander had moved aft to the After Director Tower, Vallery and Tyndall were on the bridge.

Rarely did Richard Vallery break through his self-imposed code of formality.

He broke off, climbed stiffly out of his chair, took Vallery by the arm.

That much, for a second, and that only, Vallery saw: then with heart-stopping shock, with physically sickening abruptness, he saw something else again: the burning sea was alive with swimming, struggling men.