What is "wilke"

Usage examples of "wilke".

Rear Admiral John Wilkes, with headquarters at Devonport, was responsible for the training and readiness of all landing and beaching craft and for amphibious training exercises.

Jimmy Quinn van de brug en liet zich zwaar op een stoel zakken, alsof hij de juistheid van haar woorden wilde demonstreren.

Nothing daunted, however, Wilkes immediately offered himself for the county, and he was returned by the freeholders of Middlesex, by a very large majority.

As for Wilkes himself, he was nothing daunted by it, for after indulging in many witticisms at the expense of his adversaries, he declared that he would stand again for Middlesex, and expressed his conviction that he should be returned.

Zij wilde even blijven staan om zich te bedenken, maar de wind blies haar voorwaarts, als ware zij een dier herfstbladeren geweest, welke zij over zich voelde dwarrelen.

Zij wilde hem laten blijken, hoe ze nog hetzelfde meisje van vroeger was, dat hem de waarheid dorst zeggen.

Geschichte von Gwydion und Gilvaethwy trieb ihm durch den Sinn: wie sie drei Jahre lang als wilde Tiere des Waldes umhergestreift waren.

Matters might have come to a crisis, only that Gascoyne and Wilkes dragged their friend away before he had opportunity to answer.

One morning Myles and Gascoyne and Wilkes sat under the shade of two trees, between which was a board nailed to the trunks, making a rude bench--always a favorite lounging-place for the lads in idle moments.

Myles had more than one red stain of warm blood upon doublet and hose, and more than one bandage had been wrapped by Gascoyne and Wilkes about sore wounds.

Myles hastily turned over his duties to Gascoyne and Wilkes, and then hurried after the messenger.

Just then Gascoyne, who, with Wilkes, was busied lacing some of the armor plates with new thongs, called Myles, and he turned and entered the pavilion.

Myles, with Gascoyne running beside him, rode across to his pavilion, and called to Edmund Wilkes to bring him a cup of spiced wine.

Just then Edmund Wilkes presented the cup of wine to Myles, who drank it off at a draught, and thereupon Gascoyne replaced the helm and tied the thongs.

As he took his station Edmund Wilkes came running across from the pavilion with a lance that Sir James had chosen, and Myles, returning the one that Gascoyne had just given him, took it in his hand.