Книга: Walker, Tim «Completion»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" A sharp, perceptive and painfully funny book about money, love and the sorrows and joys of modern family life. MEET THE MANVILLES. JERRY, a former award-winning adman who s beginning to leave a trail of ex-wives and semi-estranged children. PEN, his artist ex-wife, who s a lot more in love with her new garden in the South of France than with her new husband. ISOBEL, their daughter, trapped in air-conditioned Dubai, too busy managing her online farm to raise her own children. CONRAD, her brother, who tends to his bicycles and his latest crush from a grotty flat-share in East London. The House on the Hill was once their happy family home, regularly featured in the newspaper lifestyle sections and in Pen s popular children s books. But the house has fallen out of use, and so has the family. When Pen decides it s finally time to sell, Jerry discovers some unexpected new occupants who aren t so eager to move on. Soon the Manvilles each of them funny, flawed and sporadically... ISBN:9780099559177 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2014)
ISBN: 9780099559177 |
Walker
Walker Walk"er, n.
1. One who walks; a pedestrian.
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2. That with which one walks; a foot. [Obs.]
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Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown.
--Chapman.
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3. (Law) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain
space for inspection; a forester.
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4. [AS. wealcere. See {Walk}, v. t., 3.] A fuller of cloth.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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She cursed the weaver and the walker
The cloth that had wrought. --Percy's
Reliques.
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5. (Zo["o]l.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a
stick insect.
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6. (construction, tunneling) A shift superintendent or assistant superintendent who supervises several shifters(4] and their crews. Since these crews are usually separated by some distance, the walker is frequently seen walking between them. Also called {walking boss}. [RDH]
Источник: Walker
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