Arblaster

"Arblaster," said Dick, "I have done you ill; but now, by the rood, I think I have cleared the score."

The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

If Alfonso Arblaster kills all the pigeons in his loft today, then I satisfies the quoted sentence today but won't satisfy it tomorrow, because Alfonso can't kill the same pigeons twice over.

Model Theory Hodges, Wilfrid 2009

The first person has transferred the property to the second person, who thereby holds the property for the benefit of the third person. defines a class of structures which take the form of labelled 4-tuples, as for example (writing the label on the left): the first person = Alfonso Arblaster; the property = the derelict land behind Alfonso's house; the second person = John Doe; the third person = Richard Roe.

Model Theory Hodges, Wilfrid 2009

The Arblaster case: The findings of a commission of inquiry established by the Council for Academic Freedom and Democracy in October 1970

Academic Exile and Freedom to Learn 2008

Gloucester the life of the old shipmaster Arblaster, whose ship he had taken and accidentally wrecked earlier in the story.

Robert Louis Stevenson 2004

‘Dick was seized with unavailing penitence and pity; he sought to take the skipper’s hand, but Arblaster avoided his touch.

Robert Louis Stevenson 2004

Arblaster may have either made or used the arblast or cross-bow, medieval Lat. arcubalista, bow-sling.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

'Dick was seized with unavailing penitence and pity; he sought to take the skipper's hand, but Arblaster avoided his touch.

Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

Gloucester the life of the old shipmaster Arblaster, whose ship he had taken and accidentally wrecked earlier in the story.

Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

Skipper Arblaster, a long-faced, elderly, weather-beaten man, with a knife hanging about his neck by a plaited cord, and for all the world like any modern seaman in his gait and bearing, had hung back in obvious amazement and distrust.

The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872