Use dick in a sentence
Sentences starting with dick
- Dick was seized with a great passion for examining this curious chain, and, after some preliminary questions, was rash enough to lean towards her and put out his hand toward the neck that lay in the golden coil. [6]
- Dick was pondering what these words might mean, and still more what the presence of Mr Brass might mean, when Mrs Quilp came hurrying down stairs, declaring that the rooms above were empty. [12]
- Dick contemplated him very long in this attitude. [6]
- Dick understood all this well enough, you know. [6]
- Dick looked from the weapon to the person who held it, and saw a sturdy, plain man standing over him, with his teeth clinched, and his aspect that of one all ready for mischief. [6]
- Dick told him the secret of his golden belt. [6]
- Dick stood at the desk in a state of utter stupefaction, staring with all his might at the beauteous Sally, as if she had been some curious animal whose like had never lived. [12]
- Dick Venner found she was getting more constant in her attendance at school. [6]
- Dick wondered if she ever unclasped it. [6]
- Dick had been several weeks at the Dudley mansion. [6]
Sentences ending with dick
- Oh, but I was glad to see you, Cousin Dick! [11]
- I had not thought it lay so deep in your mind, Cousin Dick. [11]
- And so, it may be, by next time I write, there will go good news to you, and-- will you then come back, dear Cousin Dick? [11]
- She scratch you las' week, 'n' some day she bite you; 'n' if she bite you, Masse Dick! [6]
- You seem to know all about 'em,' said Dick. [12]
- You don' think I care for Dick? [6]
- What will you doubt next, Dick? [12]
- Promising, no,' said Dick. [12]
- Nay, more, Cousin Dick. [11]
- You may do as you like, Dick. [6]
Short sentences using dick
- That's what Dick wan's. [6]
- Dick means to have Elsie. [6]
- And so Dick felt. [12]
- Pleasant Dick! [12]
- Masse Dick! [6]
- Dick! [11]
- Dick nodded. [12]
- Come Dick. [12]
- And Dick? [12]
Sentences containing dick two or more times
- Peter Dick threw pepper in Charles Roads's eyes; Roads demanded an apology; Dick refused to give it, and it was agreed that a duel was inevitable, but a difficulty arose; the parties had no pistols, and it was too late at night to procure them. [5]
- She seemed as much afraid of Dick, as Dick was amazed at her. [12]
More example sentences with the word dick in them
- Nor was it without great surprise and much speculation on Quilp's probable motives, nor without many bitter comments on Dick Swiveller's folly, that his friend received the tale. [12]
- Nobody watched Elsie with a more searching eye than her cousin, Dick Venner. [6]
- I wanted Dick Wilberforce to do something with me the other day, and he declined. [11]
- In that case, where would he, Dick, be? [6]
- Hang it, Dick, where does your fun come in? [11]
- So Master Dick went off on his travels, which led him into strange places and stranger company. [6]
- Dick, she that was Tom Doane's wife, she loves thee. [11]
- That, Cousin Dick, was Jim Faddo's revenge. [11]
- Oh, yes, there was another fellow who spoke I forgot to mention--that queer Dick who was in your class, Krebs, got the school board evidence, looked as if he'd come in by freight. [9]
- Of course there was an Abel, own godson to the Mr Garland of that name; and there was a Dick, whom Mr Swiveller did especially favour. [12]
- A good many wanted to kill Dick Allbright, because he'd seen the bar'l on other trips, and that had an ugly look. [5]
- Of course Dick Veneer had not mistaken the game that was going on. [6]
- Elsie's pillow was unpressed that night, but she had not been missed by the household,--for Dick knew enough to keep his own counsel. [6]
- Besides, Dick had two sides in his nature, almost as distinct as we sometimes observe in those persons who are the subjects of the condition known as double consciousness. [6]
- When General Curtis took command of the department, Mr. Dick, against whom I never knew anything to allege, had general charge of this system. [7]
- I was sorry to hear that Dick was killed. [5]
- If I fail to bring the boar home this very night, may I be called Dick Dule to the end of my days instead of Jorg Starch! [10]
- In the mean time, Dick Venner, who had been dashed down with his horse, was trying to extricate himself,--one of his legs being held fast under the animal, the long spur on his boot having caught in the saddle-cloth. [6]
- Up to this time Dick Venner had not decided on the particular mode and the precise period of relieving himself from the unwarrantable interference which threatened to defeat his plans. [6]
- One time I thought Massa Veneer b'lieve Dick was goin' to take to Elsie; but now he don' seem to take much notice,--he kin' o' stupid-' like 'bout sech things. [6]
- And Lady Jane this evening was agitated, and once or twice furtively looked at something under the bar-counter; in fact, a close observer would have noticed anger or anxiety in the eyes of the daughter of Dick Waldron, the keeper of the Saints' Repose. [11]
- Any of these things were credible, and would make a probable story enough,--so thought Dick over to himself with the New-England half of his mind. [6]
- The two of them, and Ned and Mammy, spent a rollicking hour in the pasture the freedom of which Dick had known so long, before the old horse was caught and brought back into bondage. [9]
- But none of them herded with Dick Allbright. [5]
- When she heard the sequel of the story, the discomfiture and capture of Dick, she turned round for an instant, with a look of contempt and of something like triumph upon her face. [6]
- The nature of the mark which Dick chose for experimenting upon was singular. [6]
- We refer to the fact that the nation is to be lectured to death and read to death all next winter, by Tom, Dick, and Harry, with poor lamented Dickens for a pretext. [5]
- I now learn that soon after this change Mr. Dick was removed, and that Mr. Broadhead, a gentleman of no less good character, was put in the place. [7]
- He had been suspicious of Dick from the first. [6]
- Maybe it is so, but have the experts spoken, or is it only Tom, Dick, and Harry? [5]
- At any rate, so it seemed to Dick Venner, who, as was said before, had tried making love to her. [6]
- She looked up so full of perverse and wilful impulses, that Dick knew he could make her go with him and her father. [6]
- Many a time since she had in her own mind thought of him as she had heard her father call him, even as "Happy Dick Mowbray! [11]
- Dick, being thus set free, had been seized upon by Mrs. Blanche Creamer, who had diffused herself over three-quarters of a sofa and beckoned him to the remaining fourth. [6]
- Dick Venner had seen life enough to wear out the earlier sensibilities of adolescence. [6]
- It's Dick Swiveller,' said the young fellow, pushing him in. [12]
- If Dick had said he wanted to go and her father had seconded his wishes, she would have insisted on staying at home. [6]
- Dick could not remember that he had ever seen her show this mark of emotion before, in all his experience of her fitful changes of mood. [6]
- I had but released them when Hugo cried out: "Gawd, Marse Dick, run for yo' life! [9]
- Dick Allbright said rafts that had fooled with it had got bad luck by it. [5]
- He is a poor knight, one Sir Richard Mowbray, of Leicester, called at Court and elsewhere Happy Dick Mowbray, for they do say a happier and braver heart never wore the King's uniform. [11]
- She was very pleasant with him,--too pleasant, Dick thought. [6]
- Like many kind people he made use of brusqueness to hide an inner tenderness, and on the train he was hail fellow well met with every Tom, Dick and Harry that commuted,--although the word was not invented in those days,--and the conductor and brakeman too. [9]
- But don't take on about that,' urged the Marchioness, as Dick fell back upon his pillow. [12]
- Without being much of a scholar, Dick could see well enough, too, that the books in the library had been ordered from the great London houses, whose imprint they bore, by persons who knew what was best and meant to have it. [6]
- And you--do I not know, Cousin Dick, what you did? [11]
- This was welcome news to Dick, who started up directly. [12]
- I lay awake, 'n' got sharp ears,--I hear the cats walkin' over the roofs,--'n' I hear Dick Veneer, when he comes up in his stockin'-feet as still as a cat. [6]
- I have accomplished my dearest wish, I am a man among men, on an equal footing with Tom, Dick and Harry, and yet it isn't just exactly what I thought it was going to be. [5]
- You're useful to me, Dick, and cost nothing but a little treating now and then. [12]
- Dick wan's to marry our Elsie,--that 's what he wan's; 'n' he don' love her, Doctor,--he hates her, Doctor, as bad as I hate him! [6]
- But by the lord Harry, I can't see the difference between Dick Turpin and Wing and Trixy Brent. [9]
- Dick did not like the sound of all this any too well. [6]
- Blanche Creamer, a lax, tumble-to-pieces, Greuze-ish looking blonde, whom the Widow hated because the men took to her, was purgatoried between the two old Doctors, and could see all the looks that passed between Dick Venner and his cousin. [6]
- Dick loosened his lasso, wound it up again, laid it like a pet snake in a coil at his saddle-bow, turned his horse, and rode slowly along towards the mansion-house. [6]
- You have to know French particularly mongrel French, the patois spoken by Tom, Dick, and Harry of the multiform complexions--or you can't get along. [5]
- And Livy knew it, and you knew it, and Charley Warner and George, and Harmony, and the Hillyers and the Dunhams and the Cheneys, and Susy and Lilly, and the Bunces, and Henry Robinson and Dick Burton, and perhaps others. [5]
- I am sure it will be a melancholy pleasure to Mark to know that Dick lived in comfort all his later life, sincerely loved and respected by all who knew him. [5]
- Dick could get in at this window easily enough, but he did not like the idea of leaving his footprints in the flower-bed just under it. [6]
- You're very welcome I'm sure.--Mr Richard, sir--' Dick, who had by this time reached the door, turned round. [12]
- By and by I says-- '"Why looky-here, Dick Allbright, that thing's a-gaining on us, I believe. [5]
- One morning Dick Hyde rode furiously up to General Buncombe's door in Carson city and rushed into his presence without stopping to tie his horse. [5]
- Dick had sent his trunk to the nearest town through which the railroad leading to the city passed. [6]
- Dick found in his trunk a string of gold beads, such as are manufactured in some of our cities, which he had brought from the gold region of Chili,--so he said,--for the express purpose of giving them to old Sophy. [6]
- Whether he suspected his project or not Dick did not feel sure; but it was something to have got a foothold in the house, and to have overcome any prepossession against him which his uncle might have entertained. [6]
- Dick Venner had his half-tamed horse with him to work off his suppressed life with. [6]
- Dick involuntarily moved his chair a little away from her, and thought he felt a pricking in the small white scars on his wrist. [6]
- As for Dick himself, she seemed to be paying very little attention to him. [6]
- Dick would amuse himself with his cousin Elsie. [6]
- Dick had a hideous, gnawing suspicion that somewhere in these deep shades the schoolmaster might meet Elsie, whose evening wanderings he knew so well. [6]
- Dick looked at her, and then at Brass, and then at Miss Sally again, and still said 'No. [12]
- Dick felt his heart stir in its place, and presently his cheeks flushed with the old longing for an adventure. [6]
- He turned his head, and saw Dick standing with the bank-note in his hand. [12]
- She threw her head back, her eyes narrowing and her forehead drawing down so that Dick thought her head actually flattened itself. [6]
- By the time he had finished, Dick was looking down at Quilp in the same sly manner as Quilp was looking up at him, and there remained nothing more to be done but to set out for the house in question. [12]
- Ah, Dick, thou hast ne'er been married! [11]
- One, in the handwriting of Deacon Soper, was from a member of this congregation, returning thanks for his preservation through a season of great peril, supposed to be the exposure which he had shared with others, when standing in the circle around Dick Veneer. [6]
- As his gallop grew more and more rapid, Dick gave the reins to the mustang, until the two horses stretched themselves out in their longest strides. [6]
- Now, see I've got a little load of L s. d., and I'm to get more, especially if Uncle Dick keeps on thinking I am artless. [11]
- Dick wanted to go with her, but she would never let him. [6]
- You charge that, General Curtis being superseded by General Schofield, Franklin A. Dick was superseded by James O. Broadhead as Provost-Marshal General. [7]
- After a very gallant parting on his side, and a very cool and gentlemanly sort of one on hers, he nodded to Dick Swiveller, and withdrew with the attorney. [12]
- We have a force of 5000 or 6000 under General Thomas, at Camp Dick Robinson, about twenty-five miles from Lexington and seventy-five from Zollicoffer's camp, On the road between the two. [7]
- Europe has offered few opportunities for poor Tom, Dick, and Harry; but when she has offered one, there has been no noticeable difference between European eagerness and American. [5]
- She liked this evidence of Dick Caldwell's confidence. [9]
- So Dick Venner disappears from this story. [6]
- Choice spirits,' added Dick, smiting himself on the breast, 'are quite a different looking sort of people, you may take your oath of that, sir. [12]
- To all this Dick replied by sticking his long spurs deeper and deeper into his flanks, until the creature found he was mastered, and dashed off as if all the thistles of the Pampas were pricking him. [6]
- She remembered that Dick once brought home a branch of a tree with some of the same leaves on it, and Elsie screamed and almost fainted then. [6]
- That was after Dick had made the Widow's acquaintance, and Mrs. Creamer had got it into her foolish head that she would marry that young fellow, if she could catch him. [6]
- The hymn-book which Dick had found, in his midnight invasion of her chamber, opened to favorite hymns, especially some of the Methodist and Quietist character. [6]
- The Doctor drove Dick forty miles at a stretch that night, out of the limits of the State. [6]
- I pitied her, dear Cousin Dick, with all my heart; and when Tom Doane died on the field of battle in Holland last year, I wept with her and prayed for her. [11]
- You had come, dear Cousin Dick, to ask me one thing--if I loved you? [11]
- Dick was pretty cunning, as old Sophy had said, and, whether or not he had any means of knowing Elsie's private intentions, watched her closely, and was on his guard against accidents. [6]
- The young fellows could make nothing of Dick Venner. [6]
- What do I care, if Dick Venner die? [6]
- Miss Brass being by this time deep in the bill of costs, took no notice whatever of Dick, but went scratching on, with a noisy pen, scoring down the figures with evident delight, and working like a steam-engine. [12]
- Whether Dick had by any means got a knowledge of this proceeding, or whether he only suspected some unmentionable design on her part, there is no sufficient means of determining. [6]
- The old neglected billiard--room was soon put in order, and Dick, who was a magnificent player, had a series of games with his uncle, in which, singularly enough, he was beaten, though his antagonist had been out of play for years. [6]
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