At the crossroads, or what in south Louisiana is called a four-corners, was a ramshackle nightclub, an abandoned company store with a high, tin-roofed gallery, a drive-by daiquiri stand, and a solitary oil storage tank that was streaked with corrosion at the seams, next to which someone had planted a tomato garden. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)
Wistful for short-shorts and the four-corners offense. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)
“They got loose from a prison truck just east of the four-corners,” he said. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)
I feel like this is necessary, I'm an Obama supporter ... but it feels like he's playing four-corners right now, running out the clock. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is way too early in the game to go to the four-corners and try to run out the clock vs McCain. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The title "Something Great," from Bonar's 2008 album Big Star, is four-corners pleasing. ❋ Unknown (2009)
From the first page to the last, when I read this novel I feel that I am in this odd world where Yiddish never died, where an entire city is Yiddish, where black hats are the Yiddish mafia, complete with serious young men with automatics and neatly trimmed beards and four-corners. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And the fact of the matter is that he's kind of hiding the ball now, playing the four-corners offense, in basketball terms. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To me it was like the old four-corners offense in basketball. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Demonstrating a way to practice the flip, Orsulak and Habyan join the Ripkens in a four-corners drill, underhanding the ball to one another, following their momentum toward their target and incorporating a previously discussed crossover step. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The four-corners 四角 method invented by Wang Yunwu the erudite director of Taiwan shangwu yinshuguan/Commercial Press, who was an autodidact himself is still pretty popular, maybe more for indices and catalogues than dictionaries. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On the contrary, even modern reprints of Wang zhongmin's catalogue of shanben 善本 have only a four-corners index. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Now, the Ricci Institute's Dictionnaire français de la langue chinoise uses both Gwoyeu Romatzyh and four-corners, but, fortunately, along with other more current transcription and character-checking methods. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary used Gwoyeu Romatzyh together with a four-corners index, making the book almost entirely unusable for 95%+ of the people who would ever want to use it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Most of the people who lived at the four-corners were black. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)
I went inside the paintless wood frame general store at the four-corners, drank a carton of orange juice and talked French with the elderly owner of the store, then jogged back along the road while the sun climbed higher into the sky and dragonflies dipped and hovered over the cattails. ❋ James Lee Burke (1988)
I passed the old clapboard general store at the four-corners where the black man must have used the phone to call Batist. ❋ James Lee Burke (1988)
