Lester
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Sometimes it just meant that you were scared, like Lester Yeagle.
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“If you don’t do it right,” Gladys Herdman told Lester, “it means your eyes are in backward, and they have to take them out and put them in the other way.”
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This made Lester so nervous that he couldn’t tell L from M or X from K and when the doctor said, “Well, let’s just switch eyes,” he went all to pieces and had to go lie down in the nurse’s room till his mother could come and get him.
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Besides having three other kids and a baby, Mrs. Yeagle was a school bus driver, so she couldn’t waste much time just letting Lester be hysterical.
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But Lester was too hysterical to tell her what happened—all he said was “Herdman.”
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