Word: earling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...themselves. They have placed themselves in the hands of a director who through ignorance violates the spirit of college theatricals. Their fellow clubmen have given them a fine score, good lyrics, a passable book and amusing stage sets; if they remind Mr. Lilley that he is not directing for Earl Carroll, they can make a good show out of it before it hits Boston. Even if they don't it will still be fair enough...
...shoulders, his beard to his bulging chest. He could throw a baseball in the air and put four rifle bullets into it before it fell. Eight years ago, when he was 18, he accidentally shot himself in the chest. The bullet tore through his body but so tough was Earl Durand that he was out hunting again in a fortnight. He was never a bad boy, except once when he fired a shot over the postman's head to scare...
Game wardens went out and arrested Earl Durand last week for killing a bull elk out of season. When they found him he was devouring a slab of raw meat from another creature he had just shot illegally, a beef...
...Cody jail one night, when Deputy Sheriff Noah Riley took Earl Durand's supper to his cell, the huge, hairy youth picked him up like a puppy, took his keys, grabbed a rifle, forced the deputy to drive him to the Durand ranch. Under-Sheriff D. M. Baker and Marshal Charles E. Lewis followed. Earl Durand dropped them dead in their tracks with just three shots from his rifle, one wasted. Then he clubbed Deputy Riley unconscious, made his father put up provisions, headed for the snowy mountains...
...posse of 80 Wyoming and Montana law officers set out after Earl Durand. They moved warily. They knew he was more than a match for any of them hand-to-hand or at far rifle range. The law calculated Wyoming's greatest manhunt in years might last a while...