What is "waller"

Usage examples of "waller".

Waller drew up on Roundway Down, about two miles from the Devizes, and advancing with his cavalry to fight Wilmot, and prevent his conjunction with the Cornish infantry, was received with equal valor by the royalists.

Bryson squeezed off several shots, and at the same instant he heard the explosion of gunfire coming from above and behind, from the direction of Waller.

I also understood that certain black cats--Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrongwere popular among whites.

Stanhope, Sir Robert Walpole, the great Earl Camden, Outred the mathematician, Boyle the philosopher, Waller the poet, the illustrious Earl of Chatham, Lord Lyttelton, Gray the poet, and an endless list of shining characters have owned Eton for their scholastic nursery: not to mention the various existing literati who have received their education at this celebrated college.

I am, Old Waller hollered, and next thing I knowed about it, boys, she had me down and was doing something dirty!

Waller was at Needhelp for a spell, them two old loners got along like rum and butter.

That went for Waller and Dunne and everyone else in the business for that matter.

Fellow Aussie, Damien Marsh, ran in the 200m and talked enthusiastically about Atlanta where he was coached by Manly Waller, Gwen Torrence's husband and coach.

Tell them we have fifty-plus wallers deploying for a hyper translation!

Nick Sayers and Tim Waller at HarperCollins have guided these books through various versions with a skill I am beginning to take for granted.

This effort failed and Governor Lanham issued his warrant, but Herlihy had no sooner returned to Houston for the purpose of taking possession of the prisoner than he was served with an injunction enjoining him, together with Chief of Police Ellis, from taking Dodge into custody, pending a hearing upon a new habeas corpus which had been issued by Judge Waller T.

They came in, they mousetrapped and massacred the real defensive force when it came out of hyper," a part of his mind cursed himself for his choice of verb as fresh pain flashed through her eyes, but he continued steadily, "then headed in-system, wiped out the LACs and a batch of obsolete wallers, and wrecked the star system's industrial base.

The other three was drinking pretty good, that restless weather all that week before the storm had riled up everybody's nerves the way it will, and the nigra in the kitchen fixing supper heard everything they said about the Injun girl that Waller had found hanging in the boat shed.

And a few months after that, we'll begin steadily mothballing the old-style wallers to crew the new construction as it comes out of the yards.

A couple of old-style wallers, without onboard MDM capability, would make mincemeat out of his remaining strength without breaking a sweat, and if there were even a single pod-layer in range.