Use bixby in a sentence
Sentences starting with bixby
- Bixby soon made some trips up the Missouri River, and in his absence turned his apprentice, or "cub," over to other pilots, such being the river custom. [5]
- Bixby is not 67: he is 97. [5]
Sentences ending with bixby
- The Honorable Heth Sutton drove over from Clovelly attended by his prime minister, Mr. Bijah Bixby. [9]
- Such incense was overpowering, and he immediately forgot Mr. Bixby. [9]
- The captain, a nervous, apprehensive man, kept still as long as he could, but finally broke down and shouted from the hurricane deck-- 'For gracious' sake, give her steam, Mr. Bixby! [5]
- I mentioned these little difficulties to Mr. Bixby. [5]
- Where is Beack Jolly?--[a pilot]--and Bixby? [5]
- Nobody was calm and easy but Mr. Bixby. [5]
- Bixby! [9]
Short sentences using bixby
- But Mr. Bixby winked. [9]
Sentences containing bixby two or more times
- Mr. Bixby, unknown to me, of course, sent somebody down to the forecastle with some mysterious instructions to the leadsmen, another messenger was sent to whisper among the officers, and then Mr. Bixby went into hiding behind a smoke-stack where he could observe results. [5]
More example sentences with the word bixby in them
- With some misgivings William Wetherell watched Mr. Bixby disappear among the throng, kicking up his heels behind, and then went upstairs. [9]
- Mr. Bixby winked--Mr. Wetherell was sure of that. [9]
- When he reached Wells County, the last, Mr. Bixby so far lost his habitual sang froid as to hammer on the rail with his fist. [9]
- It is a well-known fact that Mr. Bijah Bixby came over from Clovelly, to request the place of superintendent of the funeral, a position which had already been filled. [9]
- I remember very well when it was common for people to mistake Bixby for your grandson. [5]
- During the afternoon watch the next day, Mr. Bixby asked me if I knew how to run the next few miles. [5]
- Mr. Bixby was very willing to open boxes, and to make himself useful and agreeable; but it must be remembered that a good captain of mercenaries owes a sacred duty to his followers. [9]
- Mr. Bixby screwed up his face. [9]
- Mr. Bixby said to the mate:-- 'Upper end of the plantation, or the lower? [5]
- I even got to 'setting' her and letting the wheel go, entirely, while I vaingloriously turned my back and inspected the stem marks and hummed a tune, a sort of easy indifference which I had prodigiously admired in Bixby and other great pilots. [5]
- Bijah Bixby, over to Clovelly, comes pretty nigh it, too. [9]
- All I desired to ask Mr. Bixby was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all plantations were exactly alike and all the same color. [5]
- He went into the store, addressed an envelope to "Mr. Bijah Bixby of Clovelly," and gave it to Cynthia. [9]
- By the time the pair reached Brampton, Chamberlain Bixby was introducing his chief as Congressman Sutton, and by this title he was known for many years to come. [9]
- The noise in the corridors grew louder, some one dealt a smashing kick on a panel, and Wetherell ventured to ask Mr. Bixby if he thought the doors would hold. [9]
- Mr. Bixby pulled the cord, and two deep, mellow notes from the big bell floated off on the night. [5]
- At the time that wages soared so high on the Missouri River, my chief, Mr. Bixby, went up there and learned more than a thousand miles of that stream with an ease and rapidity that were astonishing. [5]
- Needless to say that this was our friend Mr. Bijah Bixby, who was following out his celebrated tactics of "going along by when they were talkin' sly. [9]
- He does not tell us what boat he was on at this time, but later in the year he was with Bixby again, on the Alonzo Child. [5]
- An hour before sunset, Mr. Bixby took the wheel and Mr. W----stepped aside. [5]
- Well, one matchless summer's day I was bowling down the bend above island 66, brimful of self-conceit and carrying my nose as high as a giraffe's, when Mr. Bixby said-- 'I am going below a while. [5]
- Bijah Bixby, as sensitive as he, straightened up to listen, and then the whispering was hushed. [9]
- Then Mr. Bixby said-- 'Now get ready. [5]
- These were only rumors, after all, for the rotunda never knows positively what goes on in high circles; but the rotunda does figuring, too, when at length the problem is reduced to a simple equation, with Bijah Bixby as x. [9]
- Almost before he realized what had happened he was following Mr. Duncan out of the Pelican House, when the storekeeper was mystified once more by a nudge and another wink from Mr. Bixby, conveying unbounded admiration. [9]
- Mr. Bixby was once more pulling down on his shoulder. [9]
- The weeks drifted on, until twelve went by, and then Mr. Bixby found himself, with his block of river towns and one senator, in the incomparable position of being the arbiter of the fate of the Consolidation Bill in the House and Senate. [9]
- Mr. Flint thought of Mr. Bixby with his bulging pockets going about the hills, and smiled at the manner in which moral effects are sometimes obtained. [9]
- Mr. Bixby was now fanning himself with the blue handkerchief. [9]
- Mr. Bixby did not speak until he was within a foot of his victim's ear. [9]
- You know I never told you that I went on the river under a promise to pay Bixby $500, until I had paid the money and cleared my skirts of the possibility of having my judgment criticised. [5]
- Mr. Bixby could never disabuse his mind of a certain interpretation which he put on the storekeeper's intimacy with Jethro. [9]
- I am 63 myself, and I couldn't talk plain and had just begun to walk when I apprenticed myself to Bixby who was then passing himself off for 57 and successfully too, for he always looked 60 or 70 years younger than he really was. [5]
- But of course my complacency could hardly get start enough to lift my nose a trifle into the air, before Mr. Bixby would think of something to fetch it down again. [5]
- Mr. Bixby seized Mr. Wetherell under the elbow, and addressed himself to the storekeeper's ear. [9]
- That was what Mr. Bixby was expecting. [5]
- Now and then Mr. Bixby called my attention to certain things. [5]
- The second; that Mr. Bijah Bixby had resigned the claw-hammer and had ceased to open the packing cases in the Railroad Room. [9]
- On this scene Mr. Bijah Bixby gazed with pardonable pleasure. [9]
- It was, indeed, Miss Cassandra Hopkins, daughter of that Honorable Alva who--according to Mr. Bixby was all ready with a certain sum of money to be the next governor. [9]
- The storekeeper had met Mr. Bixby several times since that first memorable meeting, and on each occasion, as now, his hand had made an involuntary movement to his watch pocket. [9]
- Mr. Bixby asked me what I had stayed up there for. [5]
- Mr. Bixby served me in this fashion once, and for years afterward I used to blush even in my sleep when I thought of it. [5]
- Mr. Bixby placed me as steersman for a while under a pilot whose feats of memory were a constant marvel to me. [5]
- Chamberlain Bixby was left in charge there, supreme. [9]
- Half an hour later, Cynthia gave Mr. Bixby the envelope as he unhitched his horse; and so deftly did Bijah slip it into his pocket, that he must certainly have misjudged its contents. [9]
- It was usually Jethro's custom to allow the other man to begin the conversation, no matter how trivial the subject--a method which had commended itself to Mr. Bixby and other minor politicians who copied him. [9]
- I judged that it was best to make some allowances, for doubtless Mr. Bixby was 'stretching. [5]
- You see Bixby is on the flag-ship. [5]
- Captain Bixby stepped into the pilot- house. [5]
- Young Clemens idling in the pilot-house was one morning seized with the old ambition, and laid siege to Bixby to teach him the river. [5]
- My distress vanished; I would have felt safe on the brink of Niagara, with Mr. Bixby on the hurricane deck. [5]
- The last remark I heard that night was a compliment to Mr. Bixby, uttered in soliloquy and with unction by one of our guests. [5]
- Two men whom I had served under, in my river days, took part in that fight: Mr. Bixby, head pilot of the Union fleet, and Montgomery, Commodore of the Confederate fleet. [5]
- The next morning I came on with the four o'clock watch, and saw Ritchie successfully run half a dozen crossings in a fog, using for his guidance the marked chart devised and patented by Bixby and himself. [5]
- Mr. Bixby appeared hugely to enjoy the joke. [9]
- He had always hoped to make another steamboat trip with Bixby, but one thing and another interfered and he did not go again. [5]
- Clemens also met his old teacher Bixby in New Orleans, and came back up the river with him, spending most of his time in the pilot-house, as in the old days. [5]
- Mr. Bixby had his eye on these airs. [5]
- Bijah Bixby mopped his brow with a blue pocket-handkerchief. [9]
- Mr. Bixby approached him gravely, seized him by the lower shoulder, and tilted him down until it was possible to speak into his ear. [9]
- Mr. Bixby gave him another admiring look. [9]
- Mr. Bixby gave him a look of infinite admiration, as though he could not have pursued any more admirable line. [9]
- However, I must have gone to sleep in the course of time, because the next thing I was aware of was the fact that day was breaking, Mr. W---- gone, and Mr. Bixby at the wheel again. [5]
- Lem Hallowell might have coped with him; but the stage was late, and after some scratching of heads and delving for effectual banter (through which Mr. Bixby sat genial and unconcerned), Chester's followers took their leave, each choosing his own pretext. [9]
- Mr. Bixby, who had, as we know, a confidential and winning manner, seated himself in a chair very close to Mr. Worthington--somewhat to that gentleman's alarm. [9]
- If his life had depended on it, William Wetherell could not have spoken a word to Mr. Bixby then. [9]
- So Mr. Bixby gave him no greeting whatever, but simply surrendered the wheel and marched out of the pilot-house without a word. [5]
- Mr. Balch had found it quite as difficult to entice Mr. Bixby away from the boxes and the Railroad Room. [9]
- Mr. Bixby was forced to jog him again. [9]
- Mr. Bixby made for the shore and soon was scraping it, just the same as if it had been daylight. [5]
- But Mr. Bixby, for once in his life, had waited too long. [9]
- At first Mr. Flint had thought he could count on Mr. Bixby; after a while he made several unsuccessful attempts to talk business with him; a particularly difficult thing to do, even for Mr. Flint, when Mr. Bixby did not wish to talk business. [9]
- Mr. Bixby also finds time to do some of the scouting about the rotunda and lobbies, for which he is justly celebrated, and to drill his regiment every day. [9]
- The fainter and farther away the scowmen's curses drifted, the higher Mr. Bixby lifted his voice and the weightier his adjectives grew. [5]
- No more blithe errands over the mountain to Clovelly and elsewhere, though Jake knew the issue now and itched for the battle, and the vassals of the hill-Rajah under a jubilant Bijah Bixby were arming cap-a-pie. [9]
- Insensibly the men drew together behind Mr. Bixby, as the sky darkened and one or two dim stars came out. [5]
- In the old days when there were a lot of little railroads, he and Bijah Bixby and a few others used to make something out of them, but since the consolidation, and Mr. Flint's presidency, Job stays at home. [9]
- He turned to confront, within the distance of eight inches, the face of Mr. Bijah Bixby of Clovelly screwed up into a greeting. [9]
- Bitterly the storekeeper comprehended that, had he possessed courage, he would have marched straight after Mr. Bixby and confronted him before them all with the charge of bribery. [9]
- Mr. Bixby was close behind, commenting. [5]
- Mr. Bixby, my chief, 'straightened her up,' plowed her along past the sterns of the other boats that lay at the Levee, and then said, 'Here, take her; shave those steamships as close as you'd peel an apple. [5]
- Runs a livery business daown to Rutgers, on Lovejoy's railroad," replied Mr. Bixby, promptly. [9]
- I hoped Mr. Bixby would change the subject. [5]
- But still Mr. Bixby stood by his wheel, silent, intent as a cat, and all the pilots stood shoulder to shoulder at his back. [5]
- Just then Mr. Bixby stepped calmly into view on the hurricane deck. [5]
- Seven- and--' Mr. Bixby said warningly through his speaking tube to the engineer-- 'Stand by, now! [5]
- Yes, Mr. Bijah Bixby is the canny captain of whom Mr. Balch spoke: he it is who owns that block of river towns, intact, and the one senator. [9]
- His chamberlain, Mr. Bijah Bixby, sits on the other side of the Honorable Heth, and performs the presentation of Mr. Wetherell. [9]
- It may have been numbness; it may have been temporary insanity caused by the excitement of the battle he had witnessed, for his brain was in a whirl; or Mr. Bixby may have hypnotized him. [9]
- Mr. Bixby had been blown up, in Madrid bend; was not injured, but the other pilot was lost. [5]
- A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water- reading. [5]
- But Mr. Sutton, as becomes a man of high position, says little after he has rebuked the waitress, and presently departs with a carefully chosen toothpick; whereupon Mr. Bixby moves into the vacant seat--not to Mr. Wetherell's unqualified delight. [9]
- I looked around, and there stood Mr. Bixby, smiling a bland, sweet smile. [5]
- Mr. Bijah Bixby and other lieutenants might be seen in the lobbies, and the governor might sign bills in his own apartment there, but the real seat of government was that Throne Room into which we have been permitted to enter. [9]
- For these latter, also, and for the wavering there is a claw-hammer on the marble-topped mantel wielded by Mr. Bijah Bixby, pro tem chief of staff--or of the hammer, for he is self-appointed and very useful. [9]
- Mr. Bixby was all fixed, and ready to start it to the rear again. [5]
- The terms finally agreed upon specified a fee to Bixby of five hundred dollars, one hundred down, the balance when the pupil had completed the course and was earning money. [5]
- Wetherell stood for a moment, dazed by the man's audacity, and then, hurrying to the front stoop, the money still in his hand, he perceived Mr. Bixby in the sunlit road walking, Jethro-fashion, toward Ephraim Prescott's harness shop. [9]
- Mr. Bixby was a hero that night; and it was some little time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river men. [5]
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