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...ce, and you make yourselves an other: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick name God’s creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to...

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...Jeph were very dim, exclaimed, “Lord of a castle! I shall have a crow over Nick Blane now!” Rusha, who was well content with her service at the hall, ... ...ntern. “Here’s the red stone. That must be the ash. Now then!” “You first, Nick.” Then came a crackling and rustling of boughs, a head appeared, and a... ...rious names they could think of, though no one ever less merited sectarian nicknames than he, as far as doctrine went. For, bred up on Dr. Eales’ book...

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...n getting nourishment. “He wept often; indeed to such a degree that he was nicknamed Der Weinende (the Tearful), which epithet, till towards his thirt... ...in the Wallet-and-staff round which the Netherland Gueux, glorying in that nick- name of Beggars, heroically rallied and prevailed, though against Kin... ...ft out, some paltry handful of Moons, and inert Balls, had been—looked at, nick-named, and marked in the Zodiacal Way-bill; so that we can now prate o...

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...ange fact that the robber had left no traces, and had happened to know the nick of time, utterly incalculable by mortal agents, when Silas would go aw... ...we shall be at the entry next to the o’erhanging window, where there’s the nick in the road for the water to run. Eh, I can see it all.” “O father, I’...

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...ange fact that the robber had left no traces, and had happened to know the nick of time, utterly incalculable by mortal agent, when Silas would go awa... ...we shall be at the entry next to the o’erhanging window, where there’s the nick in the road for the water to run. Eh, I can see it all.” “O father, I’...

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...I II II A MAN whose brain devotes its hinterland to making odd phrases and nicknames out of ill-conceived words, whose conception of life is a lump of... ...resser. He went from situation to situation, he invented a great wealth of nicknames, he conceived enmities and made friends—but none so richly satisf... ...y she remarked: “Hello!” “Hello,” said Mr. Polly, and saved himself in the nick of time from disaster. “Silly,” said the young lady, and Mr. Polly lun... ...he first unfavourable impression of his punting was soon effaced; he could nick- name ducklings very amusingly, create boats out of wooden splinters, ...

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...g commercial paper in the quartier Saint-Martin, where he was known by the nick- name of “Gigonnet,” from the nervous convulsive movement with which h... ...raughtsman, who ridi- culed Dutocq as readily as he did Rabourdin, whom he nick- named “the virtuous woman.” Without doubt the cleverest man in the di...

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...hich is not unusual, their rude fashion being to distinguish each other by nicknames; and they have called him the Laird of the Lakes (not remem- beri... ...urn-foot, than I had the means of ren- dering myself to the far-famed Miss Nickie Murray, the pa- troness of your Edinburgh assemblies. The person I m... ... Latimer, have you always been called by that name, or have you any other?—Nick, write down his answers, Nick.’ ‘As far as I remember, I never bore an... ...are come to me—eh—ha? Has he robbed you? Not unlikely if he be a lawyer—eh—Nick—ha?’ said Justice Foxley. ‘He has robbed me of himself, sir,’ answered... ...d to his clerk with a perplexed countenance. 219 Sir W alter Scott ‘Eh—oh—Nick—d—n thee—Hast thou got nothing to say? This is more Scots law, I take ... ...o fill it. First let me know if this young man be really what he pretends. Nick, make his affidavit.’ ‘Ow, he is just a wud harum-scarum creature, tha... ...as the only ap- proach towards laughter in which old T urnpenny, as he was nicknamed, was ever known to indulge. ‘You are witty, Mr. T rumbull,’ said ... ...ds:— ‘Dear Rugged and Dangerous, ‘Will you never cease merit- ing your old nick-name? You have springed your dottrel, I 337 Sir W alter Scott find, a... ...ARTUM ATQUE TECTUM, repaired and covered. SAT EST, it is enough. SAWNEY, a nickname for a Scotchman. SCARBOROUGH WARNING, the blow before the threat. ...

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...to understand that if Captain Anthony chose to strike a bar- gain with Old Nick to-morrow, and Old Nick were good to the captain, he (Franklin) would ... ... good to the captain, he (Franklin) would find it in his heart to love Old Nick for the captain’s sake. That was so. On the other hand, if a saint, an...

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... and found them at war with a potentate who called in to his aid their old arch enemy Rust, and who would have got the better of them if the Spirit of... ... an unfortunate calculation, based on the well-known regularity of the P . and O. Steamers, that mat- ters might be so contrived as that the Long-lost... ...ar has been made since I came in, wanting the shaped handle. As quickly as I can follow it with my eye and thought, the same oar is carried to a turni...

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...offin, smil- ing still, ‘Do you like the name of Nicodemus? Think it over. Nick, or Noddy.’ ‘It is not, sir,’ Mr Wegg rejoined, as he sat down on his ... ...ion. ‘Noddy Boffin,’ said that gentleman. ‘Noddy. That’s my name. Noddy—or Nick—Boffin. What’s your name?’ ‘Silas Wegg.—I don’t,’ said Mr Wegg, bestir...

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...f the firm of Pennsylvania, Shakespeare, and Dubuque. Shakespeare was my own nick- name on the cars; Pennsylvania that of my bedfellow; and Dubuque, t...

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...ut the night of the day her father had stopped payment. Some even began to nick-name me the insolvent pocket-handkerchief. I thought Julia sad, after ...

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... been smashed against the rim and flung below; the Adler, cast free in the nick of opportunity, had been thrown upon the top. Many were injured in the...

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...before the silent, rigid immobility of the man whose money had come in the nick of time to save him from utter ruin, his voice died out in his throat....

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...steth: Cut them on the mead-horn, On the back of each hand, And nick an N upon thy nail. “Ale have thou heed T o sign from all harm...

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...to be sure, manages to prepare the way and out with his declaration in the nick of time. And then there is a fine solid sort of man, who goes on from ... ... always be hours when we refuse to be put off by the feint of explanation, nicknamed science; and demand in- stead some palpitating image of our estat...

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...y arrange- ment!” he laughed, giving with his forefinger a little pleasant nick to his hostess’s chin. Then as if something in the way she received th...

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...place. In time he came to be liked, and well liked too; but by that time the nickname had got well stuck on, and it stayed. That first day’s verdict m... ...e him a fool, and he was not able to get it set aside, or even modified. The nickname soon ceased to carry any harsh or unfriendly feeling with it, bu... ...ink how near she had come to being guilty herself; she had been saved in the nick of time by a revival in the colored Methodist Church, a fortnight be...

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...ost of all: and as he rode along the lines to battle or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion reeling from before the enemy’s charge or shot,...