Leanders

It was a very risky method of navigation, and it is generally supposed that several of the Fenian "Leanders" who attempted the passage of the

Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 1884

Fauns, Pierrots, Launcelots, Leanders -- we walk, expectantly waiting for our scenes to materialize.

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

Her room was the only one the Leanders occupied on the second floor of the house.

The New Englander 1921

Tom Leander, the only living male representative of the new generation of Leanders, was a loosely built man of forty inclined to corpulency.

The New Englander 1921

The two Leanders who had gone west had lived there with their father's brother, a farmer, until they grew into manhood.

The New Englander 1921

"We had good blood in us, we Leanders," he said, straightening his shoulders.

The New Englander 1921

The Sunday dinner with all the living Leanders gathered about the table was gone through in a heavy lumbering silence.

The New Englander 1921

He had a notion that in New England the Leanders had been rather magnificent people.

The New Englander 1921

The Leanders installed themselves in three or four rooms on the ground floor.

The New Englander 1921

For several generations the Leanders had all lived on the same farm and had all married thin women, and so she was thin.

The New Englander 1921