| 单词 | Bull |
| 例句 | “Now don’t go messing with me at two in the morning, Bull. I’m in no mood. Why in the hell can’t you drive during normal hours?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The jacket he wore was a part of his father’s history, a fragment of Bull’s biography that occurred before Ben’s birth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull sat with Lucy leaning against his leg and Edward balanced on his right knee and he sang from somewhere deep inside himself. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Bull kept chanting, “Cry, cry, cry,” each time the ball ricocheted off his son’s skull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Feeling Ben’s release and the hand hitting his left side, Bull reflexively looked to his left and switched the ball to his right hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not as resilient as I used to be, Bull. I’m feeling older and I can’t take things I used to take.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Catching Ben off guard, Bull kicked him into the open closet where his uniforms hung. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull finally spoke: “Corporal,” he said seriously, “do you love the Marine Corps?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking to Ben’s desk, Bull pointed at one of the books with his swagger stick. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The thing I love about you, Bull, is your radiant love of mankind. Sometimes when you talk I wonder how two people so different could be married so long.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Right hand, left hand, right hand, left hand, the ball drummed against the cement as Ben waited for his father to move out against him and Bull held back, fearing the drive to the basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “This isn’t the good part of town. So there’s no sense yappin’,” Bull muttered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z None of them were, but Bull kept looking until he finally came to the practice field below the Fairlington Apartments where he walked up to the man who would become Ben’s first coach, Dave Murphy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With a stiff sense of formality, but with a flair for ceremony, his carriage soldierly, his demeanor proud, Cecil Causey walked up to Bull Meecham and poured the last beer over Bull’s head. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As Bull’s eyes followed the plane, he had an old feeling come over him and he knew he wanted to climb into a jet very soon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the angle of the light or something in the way the face spread out with the smile, but Bull caught a glimpse of a crooked nose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And he was grateful to Bull, too, for sensing that a dress was not the right kind of clothing for Edward. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “That’s affirmative,” Bull said, grinning at his son who fingered the cigarette without a trace of expertise. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They drank to the death of Bull Meecham and they sang. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As Colonel Varney studied him contemptuously, Bull caught secret glimpses of the man he would serve under for the next year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, Bull. You and I are the last of a great breed.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I want to build you another drink,” Father Pinckney said, taking Bull’s glass to the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “On Dasher and Donner and Comet and all you other guys with the weird names,” Bull called out from the roof. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment Bull glanced over at Lillian, irritation spliced on the corners of his mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull commented on each car that flickered past like a single frame on a long roll of film. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull, taking advantage of the surprise, yanked the man by the ankles and pulled him into his booth, holding him upside down by the feet. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As Captain Brannon stood in front of Bull’s desk awaiting instructions, Bull thought that it was one of God’s minor vices that such an admirable physical specimen was such a mediocre pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull had probably forgotten all about him already. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “For me especially,” Alice said reaching across Bull and grasping her daughter’s hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m trying, Bull. Just give me a chance. Mary Anne is just upset about moving. So are all the kids.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But Bull remained unhurried, gliding around the court with the definitive moves of the natural. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after Bull Connor lost his job as commissioner of public safety, the Jim Crow signs came down in my city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bull entered the one next to the wall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When he left the earth, Bull knew that he had every chance of passing through a square foot of sky unviolated by man before. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With a solid thump, the shot putt landed on Bull’s left shoe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got to a clearing, Bull straightened me up, spun me around, and pinned my arms. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Just four years after the end of the war, his company was shipping 60,000 pounds of “Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco” annually. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Varney entered the ready room a few minutes before 0500 and went immediately into the clipped, faintly Oxonian accent that scraped across Bull’s eardrum like a nail. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, Bull didn’t catch on that I was being sarcastic. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Bull pulled back from the table and belched, a low sour note from an old tuba. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Ben’s eyes could adjust to the light, Bull grabbed one of his legs and pulled him out of bed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull straightened his arms out behind him in the angle of an F-8, then ran as fast as he could toward the table keeping his eye affixed on the arms of Captain Johnson. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Since they had married, it was a point of honor between them that Lillian serve grits and Bull refuse to eat them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But Bull felt an obligation to his men that they be exposed to some of the true wild men who still inhabited the ranks of the Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull returned the salute and grunted “good morning.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull charged at Ben’s cell, his hands reaching through the bars clutching at Ben’s sweater. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If I hadn’t married Bull, I think mother would have disowned me. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you better try, Bull. He outranks you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull rose up on shivery legs, and staggered back to the bar, his eyes uncomprehending and dulled with alcohol. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no reason to be sensitive about being a little overweight, Bull. A lot of people are fat,” she teased. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull marched them through the bar, past the dining room, out past the barbecue pits, the tennis courts, and toward the swimming pool. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at the sack of Bull Durham in her lap and watched the way she rolled the cigarette without spilling any tobacco. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham was already awake and his hand silenced the alarm almost as soon as it began. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Bull laughed as the wheel made a short pop. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A swift prescience with the strength of adrenaline flowed through him and heralded a day when he would speak to Bull Meecham man to man, as a friend and equal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I get out of bed and put on my basketball shorts, LeBron jersey, and my Thirteens like Jordan wore before he left the Bulls. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z So it was that when Bull and Lucy stepped up to a campfire in another town, another state, another place entirely, the men knew Edward and were glad to see him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z As they walked into the PX, Bull asked his sons, “Do both of you have your I.D. cards?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull took off like a bullet; Virgil pushed himself up and ran after him, saying, “No! No! No!” in the loudest voice he could manage without choking. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “When I told Daddy that Shotgun had been decorated by U. S. Grant and wounded three times at Bull Run, it brought it all back to him, and we had to come.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Bull just stood there, sweating through his shirt and staring down at his enormous bare feet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Bull spoke to the boy in a frozen, humorless voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "The Red Sword," the Bull named it; he claimed it looked like a sword, the blade still red-hot from the forge. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I got into a little wrestling match with Jack Daniel over at the club and forgot to call,” Bull said, winking at his children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the last three moves, Bull had swaggered among the movers shouting out commands as though they were laggard corporals in need of KP. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained that he had been “under orders” and had no choice but to obey Bull Connor. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes I think you’d have made a wonderful S. S. Trooper Bull.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z During the whole flight down, Bull allowed his fantasies to roam the country of his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Opening his locker, Ben unpacked his uniform and stared at the new Converse All Stars Bull had bought him, a purchase that had gone unreported to the iron-fisted keeper of the books, Lillian Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Bull could answer, Matt and Karen charged from the hall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, bro, I’m good,” Bull said, and let me drop to the ground. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “That dog can’t do one trick,” Bull observed, lighting a cigar in the front seat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The corporal clenched his fists and was ready to swing at Bull’s face when he noticed for the first time that his attacker held the rank of lieutenant colonel. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now it’s time for the ol’ Dad to do a solo number,” Bull announced. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull waited for a moment, staring at Edward; and then with his hands still firmly around Edward’s waist, the man reached one enormous finger up and touched Edward’s head from behind. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Finally, the guard looked into the car and spied the silver leaves on Bull’s collar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Jasper Jr. and Bull had decided to throw a party of their own in one of the storage holds. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It was a sign to Bull Meecham that he was about to have a fine and memorable turbulent time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We talked about the Knicks and how we were going to cop some tickets for the Garden when the Chicago Bulls came in. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “I’m tired of chewing on your big toe, Bull.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was breathing as though steam engines were working his lungs, his lips were flecked with dried saliva, and sweat was pouring off his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If there was a single group in America that Bull had difficulty with over the simplest forms of address, a group as mysterious to him as children, it was southern blacks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull stumbled but did not hit the ground. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull sighed, placing his meat on his plate and lifting up a fork with mock delicacy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get out of here, jocko,” Bull roared, then turning to the black woman he said, “You looking for a little money, ma’am?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had mostly listened that first day as this stricken, energetic man paced the sitting room of his rectory speaking with a mellifluous basso profundo voice that demanded and received unwavering attention. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull thought Colonel Causey’s melted, rebuilt face was a perfect one for a Marine fighter pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Put it on. It’s yours. That was my first flight jacket. The one I wore when I flew in WW Two with the Cobras,” Bull said as Ben slipped the jacket on. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull opened the door to the stall, dragged the corporal out, laid him gently on the men’s room floor, then crossed his arms as the corporal pulled up his pants. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When questioned a few days later, Jasper Jr. and Bull denied knowing how the fire started. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “They call me Bull Meecham, ma’am. I’m a colonel out at the air station.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ordered him not to go. He disobeyed a direct order,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t see a single drop of blood, but there was no reason to inform Bull that he wasn’t really bleeding to death. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Kate Bull, a friend of Waterman's who was climbing in the area at the time, reported that he was run down and less cautious than usual. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z You have probably read of the disorganization and discouragement of this army after General Pope’s defeat at Bull Run. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had gone over the menu with the chef of the Officers’ Club weeks in advance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had chosen a stool in the middle of the counter on the day he first became part of the crowd. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t rush me, Bull. I want you to be proud of the way I look tonight. I bought a gown that could win wars.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z King Bull Sparra was not a bird to be trifled with. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Even brave acts could not allay the fear: the consuming fear that ruled him whenever he had to face Bull Meecham boy to man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But Bull was smiling, leaning back, and enjoying the performance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Flying high over Brunswick, Georgia, and closing fast on Savannah, Bull contacted Atlanta radio. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Transfers were constant among all of them, and with both Lillian and Bull it was a peremptory requirement of their nomadism that they keep a vigilant eye on the travels of their peers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham increased the tempo of his slouch homeward and acted as though he didn’t hear. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Bull’s favorite hold in the wrestling matches that breached a twenty-year friendship in the Marine Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He hurt bad, but fly back to court with Bull Sparra. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Bull set him down and they pretended to box each other, weaving and feinting with exaggerated aggressiveness, cuffing each other on the head and punching each other on the shoulders. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull said, looking for the first time into the interior of the car but looking through the front window at the silhouette propped against the door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They dropped their weapons and ran as Bull Number Two closed in on Clarisse for the kill. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z When Atchley retreated from the latrine, Bull straightened his uniform, winked at the mirror, and spoke again to his reflection. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an effort for Bull to keep from bellowing with laughter. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull shot another time and once more the ball swished through the net. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Every Christmas since Ben could remember Bull had clambered out on the roof of mobile homes, quonset huts, Capehart houses to make Santa Claus laughs and reindeer noises. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right, all right. Let’s cut the yappin’,” Bull said, picking up an imaginary microphone by his dashboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Bull left a room it was a natural reflex for him to leave an order behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If he had not been holding onto the railing, Bull was positive he would have been airborne at the moment of impact. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull grunted, a monosyllable meaningless in any language, but an audible assent that he had heard and understood her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had reached a point of inarticulateness, and he was demonstrating a maneuver by using his hands as the aircraft. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull switched the button to 243.0 and he went immediately to guard channel. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good morning, grits,” Bull roared as he entered the restaurant and proceeded to the middle stool. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the strategic fields on which to wage war against Bull Meecham, the automobile was the most precipitate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Pulling up a chair, Bull sat down and said, “Shoot, Luth.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And on the night before his funeral, the Ravenel Officers’ Club filled to capacity as old pilots told stories to young pilots of Bull Meecham in the Pacific and Bull Meecham in Korea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was something to make them proud, something to give them hope after the despairing stories of Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff and Wilson’s Creek. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bull, shame on you for saying that to your own son,” Lillian flared. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham got out of the car and both men shook hands warmly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sir, this is a going away party for me, sir,” Bull explained. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was dressed in his dark green winter uniform when he parked his squadron car in front of the bank and walked the six storefronts to Hobie’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Instinct told him that if Colonel Varney had discovered who the men Bull had invited were, then Varney would have done his best to cancel the whole event. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sailboats are so beautiful. It looks like the river is full of white butterflies, Bull. They’re having a race.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull took a long drink and looked at Ben who was reading the sports section of the Charleston Evening Post. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “C’mon, Dad, get off us,” Bull imitated in a high-pitched whine. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I cracked a Red Bull and then my backup laptop, which wasn’t really a backup. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Bull rushed forward and stood before his son for a full five seconds before he slapped him with the back of his hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He shot out of the inner office before Captain Bull had recovered from his bow. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull turned toward the far wall and, giving a signal to the other pilots in the room, all thirteen of them hurled their glasses into the fireplace already littered with bright shards of glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She would tell them whether she thought Bull Meecham was alive or dead. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull saw Ben set up a trick that Bull had taught his son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all good shooters, the pattern of Bull’s shooting did not deviate; in fact it was unconscious, buried in instinct, and rooted in long hours of boyhood practice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Abbey chomped down harder, and the noise that came out of Bull didn’t sound human. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” Bull retorted, his face pressed against the rug. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull just shook his head and concentrated on the roast beef. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look, Lucy. He is saying yes,” said Bull. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Ace and Sammy, taking their cue, pulled out their spoons and in a desperate foot race with each other dove onto the stage as soon as Bull ceased to throw up. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We must have fought with half the Pacific fleet during that week and a half,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so excited to be at my first World Championships and representing the United States that I must have seemed like a puppy on Red Bull; my eagerness showed all over my face. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham was approaching that prime meridian of inebriation that his wife, his sons, and his daughters, based on a grievously embattled history, had come to fear. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I dragged her out of the way just as Bull Number Two freight-trained past. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Shoot,” Bull sneered, “I talked to some folks already and they told me that Arrabelle Smalls was the laziest, most worthless, most good-for-nothing so and so that ever spit between two lips.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you could capture the animus, the soul in another form . . . Well, you’ve told me about your automatons, Uncle. Bulls, eagles, dragons, horses of bronze. Why not a bronze form for a man?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Ben turned to walk into the house, but Bull followed him, matching his steps and throwing the basketball against his son’s head at intervals of three steps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t talk about it,” I said, hoping that Bull would think I was tight with the pirate guy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Pulling up to the gate, Bull studied the young PFC who stared at the unfamiliar bumper sticker on the front of the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z News that Martin Luther King, Jr., would visit Durham on Thursday, April 4, 1968, boosted the spirits of a beleaguered black population in the Bull City. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Bull had run with him, sprinted along the sidelines along with him, stalking him, stalking his son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lillian spoke of the Old South when Bull was in earshot as though it were a private garden deeded to her in a last heroic proclamation by the Confederate Congress. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Joint Chiefs of Staff should develop such an intelligence system,” Bull grumbled. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As Bull sat down, he spotted a picture on the wall behind Varney’s desk of a squadron lined up in two rows in front of a Corsair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull started the car when he saw Ben emerge through the locker room door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know me better than that,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His cries for help had traveled through the trees and landed on the Bull’s waxy ears, just like he’d predicted. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “I’d like to offer a toast,” Bull shouted above the din, and the room quieted. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess I’m ’bout near pure as you, Cap’n,” the woman said, causing Bull to throw his head back and holler with laughter. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But for Bull and Lillian, it was the hymn that made this night a holy night for all time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “My little daughter was tussling with her father and accidentally crippled him. Bull will be all right if he only learns to pick on someone his own size.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later Captain Brannon stood in front of Bull’s desk. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull remarked that it was usually a smart idea to put on shoes before you started kicking somebody. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z No sooner had Bull reached behind Jasper Jr. to cut the fishing line than the motor gurgled to a dead stop. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Why did God put you in my group, Bull? I’m just an honest, hard-working man trying to make commandant.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nicole would tell me later that up to this point Dave was a sweetheart and a total gent, but that afternoon he was jacked up on too many Red Bulls or whatever, desperate. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Maybe I was the one who belonged on Bull Street, not my mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “They still need to be whipped into shape,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull pushed the throttle forward and felt the plane become fire and speed beneath him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Hadden, look in the street. See if Captain Bull is still about. Fetch him.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even a metatarsal of any family skeleton interested Bull Meecham if the family was not his own. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Bull rushed toward Virgil and grabbed him in a violent but amicable bearhug and walked around the office with him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He started with Abilene and then went to Nellie and Lawrence and from there to Bull and Lucy, and then he ended again with Abilene: Abilene, Nellie, Lawrence, Bull, Lucy, Abilene. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Soon it was evident to Bull that he couldn’t match the fire power of his family’s combined voices, so he quit singing and concentrated sullenly on his driving and his cigar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a word passed between Bull and his family at supper and at times the noise of the silverware clinking on plates seemed deafening. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull handed Edward over, and Jack sat with Edward upon his knee. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Here is my hope for the younger pilots,” Bull continued, eyeing the lieutenants and captains. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bulls do such things, though they don’t even know that the calves they defend are theirs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Sparra raised a kick at Matthias, who dodged nimbly and started to dance and sing with a silly expression on his face. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The woman was sitting on the back steps when Bull Meecham hurried out the back door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull went into the kitchen, listening for the sounds of the house springing to life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She attributed Bull’s death to God’s will, the inexorable will, the unrecallable will and she had no quarrel with that. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This found—the Graven Bull—we roused the innkeeper and begged a room. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He went down again and managed to coax Bull up on his hands and knees. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull knew there was no real reason for Varney to address the squadron; he wanted to be a part of the grand panoply of what could be the first day of a war. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "Five things, Grayson," he says as he puts the car into drive and speeds off, without ever relinquishing his shaky hold on the can of Red Bull. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Bull looked up at her and answered with orange teeth, “Yeah, you’ve yapped about that maybe ten thousand times.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben had instructed Matt and his sisters never to confront, challenge, or anger Bull unless their mother was in shouting distance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When the band took a break, Bull slipped the opened can of mushroom soup into his uniform shirt pocket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Bull wants to kill me,” he said. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell you one thing, Virgil. I didn’t know Mary Anne could move so fast,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was convulsed on the driver’s side of the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s mighty nice of you, sir,” Bull said, taking the boy’s hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two? Why not one? First guy to ten,” Bull protested. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Bull would have beaten me to a pulp and the whole thing would have been over. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I am the Great Santini,” Bull said, beating one fist against his chest and smiling without confidence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get rid of the broken glass, the broken chairs, and all the dead men killed by the studs of 367,” Bull shouted. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it isn’t sophisticated then I can’t ever use them words again. Lordy me, to think of Bull Meecham let an unsophisticated word pass his lips. Why, it shames me even to think of it.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull whimpered like a puppy but said nothing. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Ben finally got on Bull’s back at the same moment Mary Anne locked onto a piece of his ear. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Leave my godson alone,” Virgil said to Bull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Calm as still water, she took the Bull by the arm and drew him back behind a tall flowering hedge. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bull heard the man scream and a splash as the man’s arm sank into the toilet as he crashed down. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull mocked, but a glance from Lillian stopped his mimicry cold. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked through the Marines and handed the phone to Bull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bull, there’s nothing in this road, not even a pig. Are you sure we’re going the right way?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z King Bull Sparra crammed the last candied chestnuts into his beak and chomped with evident enjoyment. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In less than two minutes, the rescue helicopter was airborne toward the area where Bull Meecham had disappeared from the screen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At Custer we made a side trip south to pay our respects to General Custer and Sitting Bull on the battlefield of Little Big Horn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As Ben opened the door, Bull began to criticize his play in a severe, cutting voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It occurred to Virgil that the Bull was also out here by himself, but he wasn’t about to point that out. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They heard Bull give a piercing wolf whistle from his vantage point on the sofa and they knew that Mary Anne was coming down the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Went on the West Side by the Bulls’ stadium and showed Lloyd where my mother used to live in Henry Horner. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When they arrived home at nightfall, Bull bore his son past his mother, his brother, and his sisters, past a birthday cake, and presents. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here’s what I want you to take away from this morning,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull took the basketball and threw it into Ben’s forehead. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She tinned sideways, into her water dancer's stance, but the Bull did not move. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bull held his disbelieving grimace for a full ten seconds, staring at his finger as though a stigma had formed on his dust-violated digit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull reflected on whether dress whites that had been tailored for a one-hundred-ninety-pound man would permit the entry of the same man who now weighed two hundred and twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull drove through the dark streets of Paradise past the peeling warped shacks and dog-ruled groceries with their glowing Coca-Cola signs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mouse lie. King Bull not wormfool! Where you get? Tell, tell.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “One to goose egg, sportsfans,” Bull shouted at his booing family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Affirmative, sir,” Bull agreed, aware of a stickiness under his arms and behind his knees. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe Varney saw clearly that the body before him proclaimed an easy confidence and that Bull still retained the violent frame of his youth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Number One crashed into her shield, and the phalanx broke. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "Every time you look at him, he twitches," the Bull told her as she walked beside his donkey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I could bring tears to the eyes of millions with that recording,” Bull retorted, his feelings ruffled somewhat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You should have gone when we stopped for the train,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve probably noticed I’m shaking all over. I’m practically passing out from fear,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, we held on, Jeth. They can’t say that our boys was puny alongside of theirs—like they said about us last year at Bull Run.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He proffered his hand to Bull and with a sincere but uncertain smile he said, “I’ve no quarrel with the Marine Corps. No sir. I’ve always admired and respected the Marine Corps.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a night flight and Bull Meecham had flown from Ravenel to Key West, an out and in flight that would satisfy the requirement of four hours night flying a month. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And that would be the voice of the real Bull Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The landing was clogged with the cars of men who were already on the water looking for Bull Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he imagined the Bull charging forward, grunting and panting and sniffing him out like a wolf. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Virgil wondered what the pillowcase was for, and in the space of about three seconds, he thought of a handful of terrifying scenarios: the Bull would smother him with it. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I lunged but Bull Number Two blew flames at me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Before Ben could protest or pull back, Bull had hit him beneath the eye with a closed fist. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was always careful to position the rabbit so that he was not looking down or up, but was, instead, forever looking behind him, at the road they had just traveled. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Bull screamed at an unwhiskered man who clambered off the wing of his plane. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, half in and half out of the water was the body of King Bull Sparra. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Bull appeared on the back porch wearing a sweat suit with “United States Marine Corps” stenciled on it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So, King Bull had lost the sword to a giant worm with poison teeth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z As he retched, Bull spilled the mushroom soup out of the pocket, letting it roll off his chin and mouth before it dripped onto the stage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Sparra’s mad bright eyes glanced upwards to the weather vane. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But if this is true are we not forced to conclude that the real making of the Bull’s Head took place in the artist’s mind? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The further into the journey Bull went, the harder it became for him to see through the windshield that was stained with the prints of so many inconsequential deaths. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My favorite shirt is the Michael Jordan #23 Bulls jersey I have hanging in the closet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The stakes could be higher in some games than others, but Bull played them all to win. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham had grown fond of being in Hobie’s restaurant in those early morning hours before the sun had time to penetrate the deep winter shadows that hung between the buildings of River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull’s face was hideously contorted as he stood face to face with Ben, who was trembling involuntarily. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull and Lillian had a long and bitter fight that night. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “This kitchen is filthy,” Bull said sternly as he walked in the door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Edward looked up and there was Bull, standing at the door. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “I’ve only heard of one way to fix grits so I like them,” Bull told her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He couldn’t come, but he wanted me to tell you it won’t never happen again,” Bull said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Eddie sauntered down and bought two frogs’ worth of Bull Durham. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey,” Bull said, “now there’s a sport you can get enthused about. Sailboat racing. Man, look at ’em go. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now you have the proper outlaw look,” said Bull, standing back to admire his work. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Then Bull, in an expansive mood, shouted, “Chow down, troops,” lifting a piece of roast from the platter and biting into it before the meat even touched his plate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull saw immediately that he had activated competitive juices within this prodigiously constructed woman. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull calculated the distance between himself and Ben, then lobbed the shot putt in the air. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Or when Bull sat with Edward carefully balanced on his knee, one of them would call out, “Got yourself a little dolly, Bull?” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Bull was fidgeting as he always did when someone stripped away an outer layer of himself and revealed something intensely personal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I like the fact that Bull did that stupid, reckless act of turning away from the town before he punched out, an action that cost him his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Skinny arms struck inconsequential blows at Bull’s legs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We all knew that Bull couldn’t catch a pop fly if it landed in his lap, so we weren’t exactly surprised to see him bagging groceries that spring at the Winn-Dixie. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Time after time, Bull brought the ball to eye level, almost resting it on his nose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When both were second lieutenants, Bull had the makings of a good drill instructor while Virgil had the stuff to command many divisions of Marines. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Bull picked up the beach cruiser, hopped on, and pedaled away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z "It was the Bull of Heaven, and you know it." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Matt leaped on his father’s chest trying to drag him off the bed by attacking Bull close to the center. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a paradox, and Bull Meecham could take anything with more equanimity than paradox. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he’d grab the Bull’s shirt collar in his skinny little hand, the one with the fingers of a gifted pianist, and shove him against the nearest tree. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He might have asked Captain Bull to dine with him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “That won’t be necessary, Bull. I can handle the children without your help, thank you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard Bull chuckling as he followed his wounded friend back to the road. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, waiting for his wife to give the ready sign, Bull poured himself a cup of coffee, drank it black, and felt the heat surge into his belly and flood through his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mudge Rose saying no to Bickel because of his “antecedents” was like the Chicago Bulls turning down Michael Jordan because they were uncomfortable with black kids from North Carolina. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I guarantee you we won’t move from these quarters I am about to show you,” Bull said proudly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dribbling three times with both his right and left hand, Bull went into a strangely graceful crouch and threw up an arcing two-hand set shot that swished through the net. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben, for his part, kept driving past his father, changing speeds, and sweeping past him as Bull lunged heavily after a son who had fooled him, betrayed him with speed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Underwood, you don’t make her let go of Bull, I’ll snap you like a twig.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Bull, let Papa Luther give you a little advice.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing inherently wrong with liking wine, Bull.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The door opened suddenly, and Bull, caught off balance, stumbled forward into the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s a hefty guy, but that’s not how he got his nickname—people call him Bull because you can’t believe a word he says. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Even after the Bull was out of sight, the laughter followed Virgil like a buzzing housefly until he finally reached the plain redbrick home of the Tanakas. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Even Bull Meecham leaped like a fawn in imitation of his wife. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull’s grip was wrenched loose from Lillian’s throat and Ben saw Mary Anne and Matt fly off and away as he drove his father into the refrigerator. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have fallen but Bull had not released his hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You just don’t have the nads. You just got a terminal case of the yellow spine,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, everyone I talked to agreed that you were real nice,” Bull said, rubbing his shoulder. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All the totems of Bull’s disenchantment with the South could be carved from pillars of congealed grits. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The pants Bull made himself, cutting up several red handkerchiefs and sewing them together so that they formed a makeshift covering for Edward’s long legs. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Bull Connor was waiting for them this time—with squad cars, fire trucks, and water hoses ready. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bull extinguished his lights, lit a cigarette, passed it to Ben, lit one for himself, and began to smoke in silence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the light, Bull Meecham announced that it was time to sing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With this wordless gesture, Bull thought, Virgil is suddenly a full colonel again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Beer’s fine, Bull. Tell your boys not to wear nylon stockings and lipstick this time ’cause there’s gonna be some real Marines at the bar come 1700.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt lunged at Ben’s throat but was disemboweled by a quick thrust of a brass candlestick by Bull Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull studied the two cards and began to laugh. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I changed my mind; let’s go,” Bull said, picking up the basketball. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Jasper Jr. was on the beach cruiser, and Bull was jogging to keep up—beet-faced and sweating buckets. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Bull dropped Ben off near the kitchen door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I also want to tell Ben, Mary Anne, Matthew, Karen, and Lillian that I will like the world less without Bull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull drove downtown for his morning coffee at Hobie’s Bar and Grill. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When I complain about Bull, she tells me that I don’t know what a mean man is and to thank my lucky stars I don’t have to live with one.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull ran to his squadron car and headed it quickly toward the main gate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Though not as tall or physically commanding as Bull’s, Captain Brannon’s body was stacked together with the knotted muscles of a stevedore, and an implied menace shadowed his whole appearance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull glanced up and answered the doctor’s reflection in the mirror. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As always, Bull felt euphoric and princely in the company of trains. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bull troll. Fully grown. One hundred and eighty kilos, with tusks like a wild boar. A really wild boar.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Bull turned his attention toward the closet, inspecting the arrangement of shoes, the hanging clothes, and the shelves. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He studied the silver leaves that shone dully on Bull’s hard shoulders. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull poked Jasper Jr. “Get it over with, dude.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “No, that’s not all,” Bull shouted, enjoying himself as he always did when facing a man totally without humor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On October the eleventh, in the darkest, coolest part of the morning, Bull shook Ben awake. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull never understood how Virgil accomplished the same results; he could not fathom the mystery that Virgil speaking quietly but firmly could inspire a quality of fear that men who yelled could never approach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Supposing Bull Sparra took the belt and sword case with him? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Bull whispered to Ben in the car and pointed toward someone in the platoon of rigid, faceless men. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Get a move on,” Bull said, looking at his watch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull turned and checked over his shoulder, his eyes moving up and down the street. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z To Bull, it was as if Varney were an exiled prince slumming it among the foot soldiers of the world. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Most afraid of. Hmmm,” Bull whispered, plucking at his left ear lobe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And each time Bull would turn away from the phrase and hunt the part of the night that would enclose or hide him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull pulled away from Ben, then wheeled back toward the middle of the Lawn and began running into the darkness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Luther Windham looked up with a stern, proconsular gaze that began to come apart around his eyes and mouth when he saw Bull’s bright and guiltless smile. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shoot,” Bull answered, his head still hidden behind the newspaper. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hell,” Bull said to Virgil, “I’d hate to be that civilized.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was reading an account of a Celtic-Knickerbocker game that had gone into overtime. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But even as Sergeant Brown spoke the radar screen no longer bore witness to the presence or the existence of Bull Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s better,” Bull smiled as the man before him drew rigid. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull stood up and began pacing the room and hitting his open palm with his left fist. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The two men laughed, Bull a bit too loudly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Age had thickened her husband, thinned his hair, and reduced the numerology by which Bull himself measured his fitness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you call me Bull, we’ll be going to duke city.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweat poured down Bull’s face and Ben caught an elbow under the left eye when he tried to block one of Bull’s hook shots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because I’m a believer in history,” Bull answered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “King Bull Sparra spare mouse. How you like him for pet, my niece? Mouse, you obey my sister and her eggchick, funny, ha?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Bull peered into the bag unconfidently, paused for a moment, then said, “Ma’am there’s nothing I like better than zucchini.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I could wheel around, Jasper Muleman Jr. grabbed my bike and Bull grabbed Abbey’s, and together they dragged us backward into a stand of Australian pines. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “If you punks ever mess with my boy again,” Bull screamed, “they’ll find pieces of you all over town.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull walked past several players to get to his son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s check your military knowledge,” Bull said, walking up to Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kiss me where the skin turns pink,” Bull bellowed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthias’s voice had not reached her across the vagrant wind, but someone had heard the young mouse’s shouts: King Bull Sparra! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z There were times, too, when Bull and Lucy gathered around a campfire with other tramps. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Vamoose, Sayonara, Adios, Au Revoir, and beat feet it out of here,” Bull snapped. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stand by for a fighter pilot,” Bull boomed at the woman. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting Bull and his people had crossed into Canada. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “I knew Bull Meecham long before he had his sex change operation.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Ben had pleaded for the station wagon, Bull had insisted that the Plymouth was a conversation piece and would help break the ice on Ben’s first date. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He pedaled straight up to Jasper Jr. and Bull, blocking their path. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z In her face, Bull read a history of too much caffeine and nicotine and too much of something else, but whatever it was, it was much worse. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The carriages rolled past Sitting Bull’s Cabin, the Lapland Village, the compound of the allegedly cannibalistic Dahomans, and, directly opposite, the California Ostrich Farm, redolent of simmering butter and eggs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Releasing the colonel’s foot from the hold, Bull stood up and waited until Virgil finished massaging his foot and also rose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When he did, he grunted at Bull that he would be with him in a moment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When Ben tried to reach around to swat at the ball, Bull prevented this by holding him off with his free arm. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the far corner, he saw Bull and Colonel Hedgepath watching him, enjoying his uncertainty, his callowness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A chosen few went with the King to play three feathers, a popular Sparra gambling game of which Bull Sparra was very fond. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I’m gonna stick here and nurse my glass of root beer,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull knew how to close distances faster than a speeding bullet. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Bull had picked the ball up and was holding it in the crook of his left arm. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Be good to the children on this trip, Bull. You hear me. They’ve been looking to your coming home. Don’t spoil it. I mean it too. This is your lover girl speaking.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He hands me the Red Bull, and I sniff at it, trying to figure out whether it's laced with something. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Once Bull was kicked in the side of the head by a free-swinging captain from 234 who had gone berserk and was teeing off on anything that moved. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull pulled up his knees and wrapped his arms around the ball. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Bull snapped back, shooting another arcing set that hit the back of the rim and bounced back to him without ever touching the court. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull began to squeeze the boy’s hand in a pincerlike grip until the boy attempted to pull away. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he hooked Bull’s arm around his neck and together they rose, and began staggering toward home. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While Bull dressed upstairs, the rest of the family gathered by the side of the court to cheer Ben while he warmed up. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was also wearing a Chicago Bulls T-shirt. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z This was the court of King Bull Sparra, whose wrath seemed about to descend upon him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “These boys think they’re tough,” Bull said, slurring the last two words. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was thinking that he and Bull Meecham were as different as two men could be, yet there was no one in the Corps that Virgil Hedgepath loved more. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Mary Anne sank her teeth into her father’s right arm, but Bull lashed out with his right arm, holding Ben suspended by one hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They got into the boat, and Jasper Jr. jerk-started the outboard while Bull shoved off from the bow. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Hell, no,” Bull answered, gingerly inserting his foot back into his shoe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull wiped his hands on the front of his jeans as if he’d just finished a dirty, dirty deed—which he had. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Get over here, mama’s boy,” Bull said, motioning to Ben, “and let’s you and me finish this game.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The swagger stick slapped against Bull’s hand in ten second intervals. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Edward could feel Lucy’s whimpers and growls resonate through his body at night, he could also feel the deep, sad sound of Bull’s songs move through him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “I heard you were a military family. Word travels around fast in this neighborhood. So you, Mr. Bull, are a Marine officer.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shame on you. Now go so we can start to work. And Bull. This house. You outdid yourself.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bulls had won the Piedmont League pennant a few years back, and while they hadn’t yet repeated that feat, several promising new players had been recruited that year. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Ha ha. This is the best you got, Bull? This muscle-bound abortion got me to Ravenel from the West Coast?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham required his pilots to go to happy hour every Friday. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull dropped Ben and stood there, his hands down beside him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull swung the door wide and Edward walked inside. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Because all the quarters billeted for majors and above are filled up,” Bull explained. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bring little mama’s boy up to Daddy Bull.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he saw the Bull pick up the cover of the well and shut him inside forever. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Instead the Bull took a giant step back, grinned evilly, and turned toward a stumpy circle of stones that Virgil had never noticed before. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Bull and Cecil sparred with each other, both landing pulled punches to the body, then backing off to begin the beer chugging contest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Colonel,” Bull said to Cecil, “If any of your pilots need to go potty during the contest, some of my boys will take them to the men’s room and hold their hands.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe it, Bull. You can fly with the best of them. You can lead men. But you’ve got to become an administrator. A politician even.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull found Captain Johnson reading a copy of “High Flight” slipped into the back page of his log book. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And he, Bull Meecham, would turn his boys southeastward, interpret the exact language of latitude and longitude, then drive toward the unarmed fleet. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Virgil smelled the Bull’s sweat and wondered if that’s how he smelled too. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In the gym, Bull paid the director of the pep club band five dollars to play the Marine Corps hymn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When the hymn was over, the waiters brought coffee and Bull rapped with his gavel once again and announced, “The smoking lamp is lighted.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull stood there accepting the small hurts of the border skirmishes waged on four frontiers of his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 4, in the year 1054, Chinese astonomers recorded what they called a “guest star” in the constellation of Taurus, the Bull. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tarber and Hot Pie and the Bull joined the line of men headed for the tubs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Some Marines could make a good spit shine last for a week, but Bull’s shoes would look as if they had been on a forced march after only several days’ wear. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Chief Rain-in-the-Face, the Sioux chief who had killed Custer’s brother and now occupied Sitting Bull’s cabin in the Midway, wore green paint that streamed down his face. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Guess you’ll have to get new books, pansy boy,” the Bull said, his smile widening. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “It’s a shame you don’t smoke cigars,” Bull said as he walked out the back door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When Bull realized that Mary Anne was not going to participate in the readiness exercise at all, he took his sword, and lifted her robe past her knees. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull, pacing in front of Virgil’s desk, brought a restlessness and a fever to command, a yeoman’s rigidity, and a genius for inspiration, whereas Virgil had the natural instincts of a general. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a desecration to compare yourself to Rhett, Bull. There’s no comparison.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you keep that up, you'll beat Bull again next year for sure.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z On the way back to the trailer court we passed Jasper Muleman Jr. and Bull pushing a wheelbarrow down the bike path. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Yes, Bull, and he still thinks that Ace and Sammy chowed down on your vomit. He said that he had never seen such a spectacle performed by officers and gentlemen in his entire life.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing Bull Meecham hated worse than a fat Marine. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I see a can of Red Bull dancing in his huge, shaky hand. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” Bull said, “I’m trying to think of who it is though. Oh, I know. I felt that way when I first met you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull ruled the men under his command by his physical size and the power of his voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Stopping behind the Mess President, he cut a small piece of the beef and laid it on Bull’s plate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Instinctively he lashed out with his free paw and struck Bull Sparra in the eye. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z There’s the obvious—Red Bull, caffeine, NoDoz and other drugs—but this isn’t about skipping a couple hours’ sleep, it’s about staying up and staying here for the long haul. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But one night, in a railroad yard in Memphis, as Bull and Lucy slept in an empty freight car and Edward kept watch, trouble arrived. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Relax, Jocko, I want this to be a surprise visit. We have this affectionate way of saying hello,” Bull said putting a finger to his lips. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you wish to have the bill now, señor?” he said to Bull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s right,” Bull said seriously, “you have done a lot of drinking. I guess I’m just the old doubting Thomas. For a minute I didn’t think you knew what you were talking about.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A month ago Sitting Bull had conducted a Sun Dance, the most holy and powerful of Dakota ceremonies. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It took a long time for Bull to warm up and it gave Ben a chance to study his moves. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You look absolutely Napoleonic in your uniform, Bull. Yes, you’re right. People used to take pride in their work.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was over a week before the change of command ceremony would take place that would give Bull his first fighter squadron. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He drinks his third can of Red Bull, trying to finish a paper at four in the morning because he was out with friends until one. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z With Bull, volume was the thing, but Virgil could achieve the same results by letting the interior ice harden his eyes or freeze the edges of his voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s the store that they burned down when the Bulls won the championship. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z No sooner had Jasper Jr. knocked me to the ground than I heard Bull cut loose with a spine-chilling wail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Every time one of his children made a sound that was recognizably southern, Bull would expurgate that sound from his child’s tongue on the spot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ain’t believing somebody spit on me,” Bull bellowed in disbelief, his hand feeling his hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go, Bull. My God, that uniform’s tight on you. You look like a package of pork sausage.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Muscle spasms. Involuntary,” Bull said as the other pilots whooped and laughed behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As he watched his best friend pace, Virgil thought to himself that Bull still was the best D.I. he had ever met. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the noises loose in the room, of the screams, of the words, Bull’s laughter was the most ominous. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “O.K., Bull,” Luther Windham said, rising to shake hands with Bull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull ordered his son to dress on the double, to meet him at a muster formation in the kitchen, or be put on report. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull believed that when the flesh was torn away and the bones naked, the fighter would emerge in Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the night that always filled Bull Meecham with a deep pride in the Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It depends on how long the war lasts,” Bull said, grinning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Before leaving for happy hour, Bull placed a call to his home. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At that point Bull wisely terminated the friendship and offered a detailed statement to the fire department. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z When an embarrassed police department and Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, saw that they were losing the battle to youngsters, things started getting nasty. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I know that, Johnson,” Bull answered in a loud voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Times are lean, Bull,” Lillian said, pulling away from her husband and breaking step. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He then lay the broomstick on his shoulder and began pumping bazooka shells into Bull’s midriff. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m surprised Mommy let her sweet little boy play any nasty sports at all when the Big Dad was overseas,” Bull taunted. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Bull Durham,” he says, leaning forward and holding it out. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Where are you from?” the doctor asked, sitting two stools down to Bull’s right. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That day Bull had signed Ben and Matthew up to serve the 11:15 Sunday Mass for the entire school year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull flipped the coin above his head and watched it drop on the bed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Making a fist, Bull punched lightly against the woman’s shoulder. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The force of the blows from the weighty sword case knocked Bull Sparra senseless. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He hollered for Bull to cut him loose, which was all right with me. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z "But there are tales of him wrestling Enkidu, killing the Bull of Heaven, and facing down some huge demon in a forest—cutting him clean in half, if I remember right." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Happy Birthday, boy,” Bull said, averting his eyes from Ben’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was drinking martinis out of either hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The airways filled up with men who had heard about the death of Bull Meecham and they were coming to pay homage to one that had fallen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had promptly nicknamed him “White America,” an appellation that Brannon bristled at to the undiluted joy of his commanding officer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull finished his first beer a full second faster than Colonel Causey, stepped quickly aside for Reynolds, who had sucked down three large swallows before his opponent’s hand had touched glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of returning the salute, Bull stopped the car completely and stared with visible truculence at the guard who held his salute as rigidly as some umpires who call strikes on batters with exaggerated formality. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull thought to himself that Virgil Hedgepath was one of the best groomed officers in the Marine Corps even when his pants were down below his knees. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull said, walking toward the living room with the morning paper. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham died as a pilot, as a Marine, as a Marine fighter pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, Colonel Varney pushed himself away from his desk and eyeballed Bull Meecham, who stared at him with cold blue eyes that registered nothing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My father rolled a Bull Durham cigarette and smoked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had saved the life of the King, whereupon Bull Sparra had vowed to care for her and her daughter: but he had instantly forgotten his promises, leaving the pair to fend for themselves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Taking Lillian’s hand and bowing dramatically, Bull pulled his wife to her feet, held her close to his body, and they began to waltz around the veranda. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If the boy doesn’t want to drink, don’t make him drink, Bull.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull put his hands up in the air. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The sons of Bull Meecham lived with the awareness that they would never match the excellence of their father in athletics. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in his life he was studying a helpless Bull Meecham and thoughts began to gather in storm clouds as his father’s face turned toward him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s see what else has gone to pot since the Big Dad has been gone,” Bull announced. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I said let’s play ball,” Bull growled in a lower, more frightening octave. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In her heart, she was his silent ally, a fifth columnist, in Bull’s inveterate assaults on the trellised escutcheons of the Old South that Lillian shoved in front of him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had left the house and not returned until suppertime. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull stood again, joining in the applause for Colonel Conners’s retort, then, when the noise subsided, began to introduce his second guest of the evening. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And he had never regretted this more deeply than he did that night when he and Bull and Lucy were discovered in the empty railcar. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z A crystal had been set in the soft earth, and Lommy wanted to take it until the Bull told him he'd better leave the dead alone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They would dash inside and return with Red Bull, Mad Dog, or Cisco. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Bull had never actually thrown him down or beaten him up or anything. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Mary Anne, this little prank has cost me over fifty dollars,” Bull said, controlling himself with effort. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Edward rode in Bull’s bedroll, slung over Bull’s shoulder with only his head and ears sticking out. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z After this, wherever Bull and Lucy and Edward went, some tramp would take Edward aside and whisper the names of his children in Edward’s ear. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Bull Sparra blinked owlishly at them and yawned in their faces. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Both brothers lashed out with their arms and legs, but Bull’s weight had both of them pinned in ludicrous, humiliating positions. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But Bull had broken into the inner circle just by appearing at the restaurant one morning at 0715 hours. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Today was not the thirteenth day, it seemed; the Red Bull’s steps were empty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’m gonna mix those tears with a little blood if she isn’t careful,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good morning, sir,” the woman chirped in a voice that reminded Bull of a small, extinct bird. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the family’s meager supper, he and his father talked about the Durham Bulls’ latest victory and C.P. managed to wheedle a promise from his father to take him to the next ball game. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z During the game, over and over again, he had proven that Bull was no longer fast enough to drive around him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After the glasses had been filled, Bull rapped a gavel on the head table for silence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They shot pictures of Bull Connor running around shouting into his megaphone like a well-seasoned war general . . . fighting an army of laughing, dancing children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then everyone laughed, Bull with less relish than the others, but he quickly recovered his lost momentum. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When Captain Johnson sat down on the chair in front of Bull Meecham’s desk, his head seemed barely to peer over the C.O.’s desk. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull replaced the phone on the hook, smiled to himself in anticipation of the coming fracas, then bellowed for Sergeant Latito. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull barked out at Ben as the car moved across the tracks in first gear, “Did Okra whizz?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had come up and told him that only girls and babies cried but this had served only to increase Ben’s sense of failure. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the main thing, hogs,” Bull said, “you get to hang around me and all my good qualities will rub off on you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was talking and smoking one Camel after another. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Begging your Father’s pardon,” Bull said, “but baloney.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment I feared my father’s wrath much more than I feared Bull Connor’s fire hoses, army tanks, and attack dogs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mankind, by its nature, produced infantrymen and Bull approved that the grunts of the world could not enter into the language of aviators. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Only at brief moments had Bull given his sons glimpses of what it would be like to be accepted in that fraternity of men that Bull felt comfortable around. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A luggage carrier strapped to the roof was piled high with trunks, suitcases, and whatever cargo Bull deemed necessary for the first few hours in their new house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking a bottle of George Dickel from the liquor cabinet, Bull poured himself a drink. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As he heard Bull’s footsteps on the stairs, Ben staggered toward the bathroom. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull unzipped his flight jacket but did not take it off. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come on, dude,” Bull said to Jasper Jr. “Let’s go.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z After that, the people of Alabama removed Bull Connor from office. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bull needed no period of adjustment, no time for the luxurious stretching and lolling that Ben thought was the most exquisite pleasure of morning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The planes formed behind him and a single vision passed through the mind of Bull Meecham, magnificent in its improbability, in its impossibility, but one that he entertained deliciously for a full minute. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When Bull had finished throwing up, Ben thought about resuming the chant, but did not. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a matter of intense pride to Bull that the regulars had accepted him after a brief period of trial and initiation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Windham was hunched over a report when Bull peeked through the door and said, “Yes, sir, Luther?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Teens hanging out in Namche carrom parlors are more likely to be wearing jeans and Chicago Bulls T-shirts than quaint traditional robes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the case of the Bull’s Head it is the bold “finding” that impresses us most; in the Captive, the strenuous “seeking.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Baloney, he’s never touched a girl in his life,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With his hands placed behind his back, Bull paced in front of them, clearing his throat and gathering his thoughts for the traditional moving day speech. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So Bull ordered the city’s school buses brought to the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So as Bull pulled up to the parking lot of the Officers’ Club, he saw groups of pilots arriving wearing their flight jackets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull’s laugh caromed off the walls as Luther joined him with a laugh that was as much exasperation as mirth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let me just punch her,” Bull said smiling. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Chicago Bulls put on a clinic and took home the whole kit and kaboodle, it means they won. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Bull excused himself from Cecil’s embrace long enough to send the captain directly over an indistinguishable pile of flight jackets with a backhand across the mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On one wall was a large painting of a Seine river scene which Bull had bought while drunk in Paris. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Still howling, Bull was trying to remove his shoe to survey the damage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull thanked his daughter with an exaggerated southern accent, then took a sip of coffee. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “At ease, Captain,” Bull said, stretching back in his chair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull went up to Ben until they were almost nose to nose, as Ben had seen Drill Instructors do to recruits. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but also because the Indian people here were our ancestors. Because Sitting Bull was here, and Crazy Horse.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Bull said, walking to the other side of the car and peering into the window. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull replied, “You may get your wish if you don’t cut the weepy scene.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Maddened by his own berserk rage, Bull Sparra flew straight upwards. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Doc’s just sore because Willis Taylor strangled to death in Doc’s office the other day. The Doc killed him by checking his throat with a tongue depressor,” Hobie said pouring Bull a cup of coffee. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lommy and the other orphans all treated the Bull like someone special now because the queen wanted his head, though he would have none of it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Thank you, sir,” Bull replied and the two men shook hands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can see the headlines now. Bull Meecham killed by a parakeet. War Hero Brought Down by a Deadly Sapsucker.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Number Two turned to face me, fire sputtering from the gash I’d cut in its side. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Move on down a stair,” she directed as Bull followed her orders and descended one stair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Bull, of all people, standing in front of the house. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “That’s good, Bull. But that tight-assed squid is going to have fun writing a conduct report on you that could end your career if I don’t figure out a way to stop it.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At precisely 1230 hours, Colonel Bull Meecham strode into the briefing room to meet the officers of his squadron for the first time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can tell you all you need to know about Europa,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Above all things, Bull wanted to pass on the gift of fury to his oldest son, a passion to inflict defeat on others, even humiliation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull rocked with laughter, picked up his roast with his fingers and resumed eating. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull would not mind that there was a fight, only that Ben had lacked the stealth not to get caught. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time Bull received the ball he would take his time, dribbling cautiously, moving backward, taking his smaller son under the basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have a solution,” said Bull, “and I hope that it meets with your approval.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z A cannonball had landed in his fireplace during the first Battle of Bull Run, at the very start of the conflict. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Bull had started down the slope now, his boards out, and he was descending, alive, alive, adrenaline reinforcing every platelet, every blood cell, and his mind radiating with its response to danger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re such a Yankee, Bull. Living in the South so many years, and you still haven’t been touched by the South. The gentility, the courtliness, none of it.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that Jasper Jr. wasn’t looking for me at Snake Creek—he and Bull were heading out to poach lobsters or pull some other mischief. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Naw, you get out of here, Matt. Go sit under a toadstool or something,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Pretty soon the Court of King Bull Sparra would be in uproar. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Then Bull, seeing their car parked on the road behind his, sprinted toward it and mounted the front of the car with a single leap. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the hedge, the Bull shook his head doubtfully. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Tell her if she does, I’ll have to get morose with her,” Bull growled. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s play ball,” Bull rumbled, his face blood red from anger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was at least a foot taller than her, so he had to be careful not to pull away or else he might lose the entire ear. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Lommy had named him the Bull, on account of this homed helm he had that he polished all the time but never wore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Would the Bull push him down from behind? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z With so much weight in the stem—Bull, Jasper Jr., plus the engine—the bow tilted upward and the johnboat began taking on water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “What about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull?” he asked. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Bull had sent Ben out the day before to gather enough fresh oysters for the oyster cocktails. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not see Bull leap at him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get me Ben,” Bull said in a suddenly subdued tone. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Virgil wasn’t sure how much the Bull weighed or how tall he was, but he certainly weighed more than seventy-six pounds. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Ben,” Bull cried out to his son in the darkness behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After he swallowed the egg yolks whole, Bull spread a gluttonous helping of Crosse and Blackwell orange marmalade on two pieces of toast and consumed them with as much noise as relish. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Vice,” Bull said in a voice that rang through the dining room, “Corps and Country.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lucy danced around Bull’s feet, wagging her tail and barking. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Bull slid the hat over Edward’s head and pulled it down and poked his arms through the smaller holes. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Then, without haste, Bull waited for the right opening and hit him with a left cross that jerked the boy backward as though he had been shot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As Bull turned his plane slightly out toward the sea, sliding down now, dropping in altitude, and preparing to land, his eye suddenly filled with another eye watching him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ace,” Bull called across the room, “you got the spoons?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On one of the arms below him, Bull glimpsed the bent wings of a corporal’s chevrons. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull and Lillian occupied the fourth row above the scorer’s table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Liquor,” Bull said, hitting Virgil with his elbow. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Second best city in Illinois, Corporal. After Chicago,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” the rest of the family agreed, except Bull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was actually an inch or so taller than the pirate, but it didn’t help him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Jasper Jr. was yelling at Bull and Bull was yelling back, and they just kept getting wetter and wetter. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Or maybe he wouldn’t need to because the Bull would know he meant business-no questions asked. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But the Bull wouldn’t be able to talk because his collar would be too tight, so Virgil would lift him up with one hand and throw him across the neighborhood. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Bull threw his head back, laughed, then invited the woman inside. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He told us to tell you we was sorry for what we done to you and your little sister. He was real clear on that,” Bull said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Then Bull charged into the room shouting, “Torah, Torah, Torah.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull's hand fell to the hilt of his sword, and Rorge began to laugh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When she felt the hand on her shoulder, she whirled, bringing up her stick sword again, but it was only the Bull. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Like sometimes at school, he could feel the Bull nearby, even though he couldn’t see him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The Bull would fly over thirty rooftops before landing on top of someone’s chimney, which would be burning hot even though it was summer and no one was using their fireplace. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Slowly, Bull took Ben’s head and began slamming it into the wall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Matt says he hasn’t sold secrets to the Kremlin for at least a year, Bull.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The punch knocked the wind out of me, and I went limp as a noodle in Bull’s grip. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Three weeks after the beginning of school, Bull arrived home from the squadron at the precise instant that Lillian was setting dinner on the table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t do that. Give me a Red Bull any day of the week.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Again looking into the mirror, Bull said, “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who’s the toughest leatherneck of all?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You boys are gonna have a hard time getting rid of me,” Bull answered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull slid his finger between his cheek and his oxygen mask and sniffed for smoke. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first light, Bull taxied his plane to the end of the runway, looking back to see the long line of F-8’s following behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t get it, Big Matt,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll get off early from the squadron one day next week and take you. But I got something big planned for this morning,” Bull said, looking down at his watch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull was his only hope for rescue, and there was a fat chance of that happening. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In the early evening of November 10, Bull and Lillian dressed with great care for the Marine Corps birthday ball. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Sparra pecked nut morsels from his feathers, his eyes gleaming craftily. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “But in truth,” said Bull, “we are going nowhere. That, my friend, is the irony of our constant movement.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Lillian was making a novena at the Catholic Church and Bull had the duty at the air station. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose!” he said. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But Zell continued to open up until Bull, renouncing his role of confessor, insisted that he had to get to work. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z First, on my right is Colonel John ‘Blue Balls’ Conners,” Bull said, motioning his hand toward a thin, rangy man who had worn a constant smile the whole evening. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had noticed that none of the other squadron commanders ever mentioned this secondary responsibility, but once Bull thought about it, he hunted about for a satisfactory solution. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing Ben up, she led him to one side of the window, and they both watched Bull shooting and retrieving the ball on the driveway below them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It radiated out, shook the floor, and threw Bull off his feet and onto his back. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z When Bull reached the lights of the stage, he fell to one knee, contorted his face in the pre-agony of nausea, then threw his head forward violently, pretending to vomit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull awoke and tried to identify the plane by listening to its pitch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Luther,” Bull said, suddenly serious, “I hope and pray I never start acting like a senior officer.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull ate it slowly with all eyes on him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If anyone pukes, the other squadron wins,” Bull shouted above the din. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Red circled behind Bull, coming at his back carefully. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He handed the boy the sword, hilt first, and walked over to Arya, but it was the Bull he spoke to. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn’t adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But the voice was not what had attracted Bull’s attention to Beasley. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he could pull his pants up, Bull reached under the partition and tackled the man by grabbing his pants and jerking them into his stall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull loved the simplicity inherent in the language of pilots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham was the first in line, chugging what was left of his two martinis, then throwing the glasses the length of the room into the brick fireplace. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You got to have a light meal, otherwise you’ll blow your cookies all over the place,” Bull explained. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But Ben had been correct when he observed that Bull had thickened over the last years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dancing like schoolboys, Bull and Virgil went from one boy to the other as though touching bases, pleading with them to rise and fight again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All works of art anywhere—yes, even such works as Picassos Bull’s Head—are part of similar chains that link them to their predecessors. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was getting frustrated, and I didn’t want to push him too far. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Soon Bull began to work the bones of the boy’s right hand against each other, applying more and more pressure, until the boy began to scream for his friends to pull Bull off. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was following behind, cackling like a hyena. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Bull said, lunging at a piece of bacon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull took Lillian in his arms and kissed her lightly, playfully. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn't know history. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Somebody fouled up, Bull. That’s all. They obviously think they made a mistake or they wouldn’t be giving you a squadron. Just keep your nose clean and don’t go terrorizing corporals in the latrine.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In Bull Meecham, the will to win transformed all games into a furious art form. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As he planned on stealing the scabbard from Bull Sparra, why not the belt to go with it? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “That’s right. It turned out to be your wife dressed in your flight suit. We recognized her by her mustache,” Major Reynolds, Bull’s executive officer, shot back. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking another long drink, Bull began to talk of the past. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, heard about the upcoming protests, he obtained a court order forbidding the marches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bull and Cecil had rolled under the heaviest table in the room and watched the fight without being devoured by the fury in the storm’s center. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon Bull returned home early, too excited about the game with Peninsula to concentrate on the niggling administrative details that caused him more annoyance than any other element in his role as squadron commander. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On cue, Bull punched Cecil in the stomach, and drove his shoulder into his chest, knocked him over a table, and onto the floor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had promised Lillian that he would not get drunk, but she was not a young wife and she had heard such promises before. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull found a knife and clambered to the back end of the boat, which turned out to be a humongous mistake. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Bull was the first to jump, with Jasper Jr. right behind him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Bull managed to calm himself long enough to offer his own opinion. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Quantico will be a snap after he’s been with me for twenty years,” Bull boasted. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard a dumb hick laugh that was unmistakably Bull’s. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Virgil applied more pressure and said, “Why is it, Bull, that I’m always about five steps ahead of you?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Arya scuffed at the ground with her foot, but she let the Bull lead her around to the front of the inn. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He’s wearing his retro Atari T-shirt and is drinking a Red Bull. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The door pockets yield only an empty can of Red Bull, a leaky pen, and more gum wrappers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Bull said, spearing three slices of beef roast with his fork and reaching for the gravy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dusty’s first mistake had been allowing Jasper Jr. and Bull to hang out aboard the Coral Queen on the night of the grand reopening. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z To Bull, death could be a matter of inches and could be read as clearly as an alphabet in the lidless eyes of gauges. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A man entered the freight car and shone a flashlight in Bull’s face and then kicked him awake. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z At three in the morning, Bull ordered his entire squadron to line up single file behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Unhooking the Mameluke sword, Bull threw it on the desk in front of Captain Bledsoe who was the junior officer on duty with Bull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He slapped Bull on the left buttock, then swept low around his father’s right side. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If he gives you any lip while he’s here, you just let me know about it,” Bull said, his voice fading now. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull got up to answer a timid knock at the door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, each day after he finished work at the Pentagon, Bull went to the coach of every Little League team in Arlington, Virginia, and asked them if they were short any players. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught my breath and ran through the crowds of children, firefighters, police officers, attack dogs, white tanks, and Bull Connor and found my way into the church basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Why, Bull,” said Lillian sweetly, “you keep it so well hidden.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dribbling slowly, Ben started toward his father, changing hands with each dribble, hoping to catch Bull with his weight shifted in the wrong direction. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You could yell ‘Simba Barracuda’ at me until your butt fell off and it wouldn’t bother me,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He made Stinky Sanders, the mortician, the richest man in town, Colonel,” Hobie Rawls said while pouring coffee into Bull’s cup from a steaming glass globe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I'd have to take down Bull Number Two first, cut its head off before Bull Number One charged back into range. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a training bra,” Bull said, grinning into his coffee. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Uh, oh,” Bull answered, “Miss Funeral Shroud has come to spread joy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sergeant,” Bull said to Ben, “dismiss the troops.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Two people were in the boat, and as it drew closer I recognized them as Jasper Jr. and an older kid named Bull. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The rabbit stayed lost with Lucy and Bull for a long time. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “I scored thirty-two that night,” Bull said, “and ate their forward Saleesi alive.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Each day, Bull poured torrents of contumely on his morning paper. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull walked down the long polished hall with a bouncing gait that was distinctively unmilitary. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She nodded, causing Bull to crank up the volume. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She released her grip on Bull’s ear, stepped back, and began spitting vigorously into the bushes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Bull had flown with Cecil Causey in the Korean War and had great respect for the man both as a commander and a pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As Ben fed him passes from under the basket, Bull made eight out of twelve set shots, moving in a semicircle outside the scratched-out foul line. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The plane sang in a deep tenor and Bull decided that it was an F-8 in the morning sky, though he was not certain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lillian asked, knowing that Bull feared heart attacks above all other illnesses. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, sitting behind the headlights, Bull speaking easily and unself-consciously, Ben in a sudden blaze of perception realized that Bull had forgotten, at least for the moment, that he was addressing a son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Alone now, the car voiceless, Bull strained to follow the white lines of the highway snaking through Georgia. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Best to wait awhile, Virgil thought, until the Bull had most likely gone home. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They were responding to Sitting Bull’s message to gather and talk about the encroachment of the white people. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Bull staggered back from one of her blocks, and she knew the time had come to finish him off. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z O Bull of the Ancestor, I am going to jump into the river. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the maitre d’ closed the door behind him, Bull walked over and made himself another drink. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s right. Modesty is one of my worst faults,” Bull shouted, laughing, enjoying himself in the last fifty miles of his journey. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look for the one you think it is,” said Bull, smiling under his sunglasses. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Hedgepath was on Bull’s back applying a half-nelson and laughing in victory before Bull was ever aware there was a fight. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At nine o’clock, Bull pulled a clean uniform from a clothes bag that hung in the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull then walked to the same spot where Colonel Varney had stood. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham could see it; he could hear the sound of ships breaking up and the screams of Russian sailors. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull, the Lion, the Scorpion, the great Crab, each will try to harm you. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Timing himself precisely, Bull quit running after he had said three decades. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull considered that report one of the highest compliments he had ever received. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull straightened up and pressed a fist to his throbbing ear, trying to stanch the invisible bleeding. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Bull was a good storyteller and an even better singer. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z With two hefty shoves, the Bull pushed the cover of the well aside and dangled the backpack over the now-open hole. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Lillian served coffee to Bull and Virgil, putting a shot of Irish whiskey in each cup. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Either she, or the leader King Bull Sparra, is going to kill me. Evidently she looks on anything that can’t fly as an enemy.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The eyes of the air base turned in the direction of the fat-bodied transport plane that was bringing foodstuffs and airplane parts to Smythe Field, and Bull Meecham back to his family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull let go, and the bag fell into the dark, gaping well, so far down that Virgil didn’t even hear it land. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Hell,” Bull answered, “we’ve got a party to go to as soon as we leave here.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Word of a fiasco at a place in the East called Ball’s Bluff came while people were still stunned by the news from Bull Run. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment, Bull had climbed out the attic window onto the roof. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You hogs better hurry,” Bull said, glancing at his watch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull darted between the trees, not laughing anymore, just running with Virgil’s backpack in his hands. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But Bull’s voice, at its worst, was reassuring and soothing compared to the D.I.’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Number One ran a wide arc, making its way back toward me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “I hope so,” Bull answered, applying shaving lather to his face as he talked to his wife. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaning his head out the window, Bull scanned the treeline for a glimpse of the plane. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Virgil wasn’t sure if fate was testing him, or if it was just your usual Saturday evening luck, but the Bull was outside as they approached. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z When the false news broke, the young sparrow would have to fly along with King Bull and the other Sparra warriors. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Thing is,” Bull said, “he told me and Jasper to . . . well—” “What?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z From the bug-eyed way that Jasper Jr. and Bull were staring, I knew they recognized the coin as the one that Grandpa Bobby was wearing that day in the woods. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Ask a simple question, get a lot of yappin’,” Bull growled. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull stood at attention a full thirty seconds before Colonel Varney even looked up. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “That Greatest and Bravest of all fighter pilots—Bull Meecham,” Bull said; then he made a sweeping gesture of dismissal with his arm. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lillian listened to his labored exhalations as he struggled with the last ten pushups and remembered the years when Bull could do a hundred with ease. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will you tell us about the new house, Bull? I’m perishing from curiosity,” Lillian spoke. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull crowed with delight, a self-indulgent but euphoric eruption that silenced his wife’s catcalls for the moment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was your age,” Bull declared, “they couldn’t keep me away from the girls with a stick.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think there’s a chance Bull might be all right?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lillian drank a cup of black coffee as she watched Bull inelegantly consume a plate of eggs, biscuits, and country ham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull washed his hands at the kitchen sink, dried them on one of Lillian’s aprons, and joined the family for grace. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s my job to see that you learn to drink like a gentleman,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first startled moment she heard Bull scream, Lillian had started downstairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bull wanted to taunt them, then kill him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Bull, the last time you chose a house for the family,” Lillian said, “it was so small a family of fleas would have been cramped to distraction. But this...” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z By their lightness of foot and jauntiness of exit, Bull Meecham knew that part of the morale problem in 367 was over. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With his right hand Bull hit the dashboard to emphasize his major points. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull asked his son what he had extracted from the morning exercises. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that night, Jack came and sat next to Bull and asked if he could borrow the rabbit. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Jasper, don’t start nothin’,” Bull said, bending over to catch his breath. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Bull continued to speak, gesturing with his right hand, his lips moving, his eyes narrowing, as he continued the lecture in a soundless world where he was the sole audience. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll remind you, Bull, that you are an officer and a gentleman.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham had met Ogden Loring at a PTA meeting and had come home with a single remark: “Any man who teaches a girls’ course like English is bound to be a pansy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Latito, one very important thing,” Bull said, the hint of a suppressed smile stealing through the hard lines on his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z King Bull fondled it, then fastened it on himself. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z |
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