What is "weldon"

Usage examples of "weldon".

Apparently Weldon had anticipated that his guests would be too fascinated by the exotic food to concentrate on anything else, except possibly Ricardian gossip.

Weldon was young and handsome, immaculately turned out in spite of the Tripolitan heat.

Weldon, Nan, and even Cousin Benedict leaned over the starboard taffrails, eager to get a glimpse of what had thus suddenly attracted the attention of the young apprentice.

She was in the process of reading a hardback, a Fay Weldon novel she'd nearly finished judging by the bookmarker.

Weldon, heedless that she gave him little or no attention, “this is the country of the manticoræ, and wonderful coleoptera they are, with their long hairy legs, their sharp elytra and their big mandibles.

Some significant American writers associated with the movement Du Bois was instrumental in launching were poet Countee Cullen (1903-46), novelist Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934), poet-essayist Langston Hughes (1902-67), folklorist Zora Neale Hurston (1901-60), poet James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), and novelist Jean Toomer (1894-1967).

If only, Chess thought wildly, if only we could stay in Weldon, never go to Alamance County, wherever that was, never have to see his mother at all.

Attorney Weldon Winn walks out, talking in his usual booming voice, more obese than when Benton last laid eyes on him.

Feet sound on steps, maybe five steps, and a hand, most likely Weldon Winn's, pushes the door to shut it, and Benton pushes back hard, the door opening wide and knocking Winn down the steps, where he lies, shocked and groaning, on the stone floor.

Nell, quite as desirous as she to cut a dash, had no notion (she thanked Letty) of imitating Lady Weldon, or any other fashionable hostess.

There is evidence that the thaumaturgy practised by Forman did not want for lewdness—as magic of the sort does not to this day—and in this regard Master Weldon cannot be far astray when he makes our pretty Anne out to be the veriest baggage.

He had mentioned his passion for jelly doughnuts the last time he stayed at Weldon House.

Tommy was plugging in his soldering gun and going over the schematic circuit diagram which he had found in Murdock's radio drawer when Tug Weldon woke up from a nap and came down the hall to see how their work was coming along.

They've wrecked the railroad track up near Weldon, and they've torn down all the telegraph lines they can get to.

Ten feet away, Weldon and Jigger O'Dell were down on their knees on the afterdeck, studying the Auto Club road map on the margin of which Tommy had written the radio message.