His noble portraits of the burgomaster Bickerand Andreas Bicker the younger, in the gallery of Amsterdam, of the same date no doubt as Bicker's wife lately in the Ruhl collection at Cologne, were completed in 1642.
The bicker had long since commenced, stones from sling and hand were flying; but the callants of the New Town were now carrying everything before them.
Bicker triumphed, and went his way convinced that he could beat the intellectual at his own game, as the Optimist had already shown him he could.
At tea, Bicker was in his most assiduous narrative mood.
It was so strong as to puzzle Bicker even, in his watch; and its most unpleasant manifestation caused him to look about for the carcass of a rat on the bridge deck.
The steward, who had lost little time in putting out a fishline, leaned over the rail in meditation, not knowing that his misanthropic look was being almost to a line caught by Bicker behind him.
Bicker was once agaia in excelsis at this evidence of his superior understanding, which he seemed about to back up with physical argument.
Through this last movement I had tried to snatch some sleep, but was harassed by the socialism of Bicker and Mead, who considered it but fair that as they were being deprived of their sleep, I should be deprived of mine.
The need I had for training appeared on our last night in Emden Port, when my sleep was nipped in the bud by the entry of Bicker and Mead.
Bicker would sometimes interrupt his large stories to show me, or to try to show me, remote or tiny curiosities floating past the ship.
It was by way of variation in the evening that Bicker and Mead fell upon me, with the idea of shampooing the begrimed tallyman.
Bicker and Mead, as they supervised the trimming of hatches that had been filled, wore a melancholy look, nor was the entry at breakfast of two young men from the Customs, though pleasant acquaintances, considered a relief.
Fortified thus, Bicker and Mead and myself go a-fishing on the opposite quay, where some Argentines have been catching fine fish.
Bicker and Meacock involved me in an argument, which was very quickly twisted into the direct question.
Bicker was about to put in a reminiscence of his at this point, but Meacock was already giving another instance of this examiner's zeal for pure English.
Bicker said in self-protection that no Sunday paper is available in the provinces before breakfast.
A corporal's guard was called out and sent over to the stable, and when Bicker and Drossdell came below they were placed under arrest.
These soldiers were named Moses Bicker and Jack Drossdell.
Do you know what my men would do to you and Bicker if they learned the truth?
You and Bicker plotted to get us all sick and then let the Indians and Gilroy's gang in on us.
They never suspected the butter," he heard Bicker say.
The pursuit of Bicker lasted for over an hour, and brought on a smart skirmish between the men from the fort and the desperadoes, in which one person on each side was slightly wounded.
Some suspected Bicker and Drossdell, and there was talk of a demand on the captain to have the traitors shot, but it came to nothing.
In the darkness he saw Bicker make his way to the stable, and to that spot, a little later, Drossdell followed.
Here he could hear the conversation between Bicker and Drossdell quite plainly.
Bicker had forced his way out of the guardhouse, and at the risk of breaking his neck had climbed to the roof of the barn and leaped over the stockade into the ditch outside.
If you hadn't caught Bicker and Drossdell what do you suppose would have happened?
Some time before, the young captain had heard that Bicker came of a family of Colorado desperadoes and that he had joined the army during a spasm of reformation.
I am out most of the day, but when I come home I shall expect to find all this done, and a great bicker of porridge boiled besides for my supper.
They had said very severe things to each other and neither was the least angry really--Gladys and Fred were not wont to bicker so.
Mr. Frederick Bush interposed, stopping for a moment his bicker with Gladys.
Ralph saw that it availed nothing to bicker with the smith, and so went his way somewhat crestfallen, and that the more as he saw Roger grinning a little.
But while the sun yet beat a dewy blade, The sound of many a heavily-galloping hoof Smote on her ear, and turning round she saw Dust, and the points of lances bicker in it.
Why prefer, Except for love's sake, that a blade should writhe And bicker like a flame?
Ye saw fire Bickerround Djabal, heard strange music flit Bird-like about his brow?
A poetical use, from the noise, is seen in Tennyson's Brook, "to bicker down the valley.
There has long been a sort of bicker between us, and they thought they had got a fine chance of ending it.
The event was a godsend to our trade, for with Scotland in a bicker with Covenants and dragoonings, and new taxes threatened with each new Parliament, a merchant's credit was apt to be a brittle thing.
She brought him out a bicker of cold parritch mixed with milk, but he would not taste them until the boar had first taken his share; after which they went and lay down in the yard together, the dog in the boar's bosom.
Barnaby rose with his bicker in his hand; gave it a graceful swing, as a gentleman does his hat when he meets a lady, made a low bow, and set down Nimrod his share of the paritch.
His face is like roses In flush of the June; His eyes like the welkin, When cloudless the noon; His step is like fountains That bicker with glee, Beneath the green mountains, Down to the sea.
Illustration] I come from haunts of coots and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
Tain't no more natteral tobicker than 'tis to have dispepsy.
But the minute we git together we bicker and quarrel till there hain't no pleasure into life at all.
Thirty minutes of bicker and I was astride a wiry little native pony to which a bridle was unknown, and out through the stately palms and luxurious bananas I made my way to the open country eastward.
It is an interesting and lively scene, and the bicker and barter go on by the hour.
An attack was now commenced upon the car-cakes and smoked fish, and sustained with great perseverance by assistance of a bicker or two of twopenny ale and a bottle of gin.
Lieutenants Barnum and Bicker and Mr. Johnston came to visit me.
Two months later, when the Servians made an unsuccessful attempt to retake Saitschar from Osman Pasha, Villiers and I were to listen again to the angry shriek of his shells, and the cruel bicker of his musketry fire.
He could have supped a huge bicker of sowens, and eaten a dozen potatoes; but of what mighty consequence is hunger, so long as it neither absorbs the thought, nor causes faintness?
A little apart sat a boy, whom the woman seemed to favour, having provided him with a plateful of porridge by himself, but the fact was, four were as many as could bicker comfortably, or with any chance of fair play.
