I had a letter of introduction to this chappie Pilkington who's running this show, and, we having got tolerably pally in the last few days, I went to him and asked him to let me join the merry throng.
You see before you, old thing, a chappie who knows more about borrowing money than any man in London.
I was just thinking about going out to lunch, when the door-bell rang and Parker said a chappie of the name of Mason would like to see me.
I didn't remember any Mason, but Parker said the chappie said he knew me when I was a kid.
Years ago he had read somewhere or heard somewhere about some chappie who always buzzed around with a sizeable banknote stitched into his clothes, and the scheme had seemed to him ripe to a degree.
The modern girl, he considered, was too dashed rowdy and exuberant for a chappie of peaceful tastes.
Chappie you've never been introduced to says something to you in a theatre, and you murmur something and sheer off.
Now, before this, I ought to tell you, this chappie Mason had asked me to come out and have a bit of lunch.
It was all about how a chappie who was nervous should proceed.
It's a most extraordinary thing, and I can't understand even now where the deuce they came from, but just about then I started to get a whole bunch of anonymous letters from some chappie unknown who didn't sign his name.
One chappie was so carried away by the beauty of the episode that he treated it in verse.
You see, it appears there's a chappie unknown for whom Maud has an absolute pash.
Either his ears, like his eyes, were playing him tricks, or else this waiter-chappie was talking pure drivel.
And everywhere the uncle went, the chappie was sure to go!
I remember asking the way of a chappie at Baltimore a couple of years ago when I was there in my yacht, and he followed me for miles, shrieking advice and encouragement.
I'm not what you'd call a silent sort of chappieby nature.
Up till then, I've been told by experts, I was a chappie in whom it was absolutely impossible to detect the symptoms.
Years ago he had read somewhere or heard somewhere about some chappie who always buzzed around with a sizable banknote stitched into his clothes, and the scheme had seemed to him ripe to a degree.
Sort of get a chappie into training for going to heaven, what?
I was just thinking about going out to lunch, when the door-bell rang and Barker said a chappie of the name of Mason would like to see me.
I didn't remember any Mason, but Barker said the chappie said he knew me when I was a kid.
Mr. Lezzard thawed and grew amiable over this beverage, and Mr. Chappie repeated Billy's lofty sentiments at the approach of death for the benefit of Miller Lyddon.
Only Mr. Chappie and Gaffer Lezzard entered the house and had a wineglass or two of some special sloe gin.
The feeble but sage members of a swell chappie clique might pronounce them insufferable as to style, but they went on capturing and conquering things by instinctive predilection and force of habit.
The chappie fellows who flutter at functions and titter at teas may scoff or scorn.
Chappie was struck by a piece of that same shell, and he got it right through the lung.
While we were worrying over old Chappie a call came for volunteers to dig out some men that had been buried.
This chappie Quayle has been trapped in a lonely house, thinking he was going to see a pal in distress; and instead of the pal there pop out a whole squad of masked blighters with guns.
He recognized Ashe as the valet chappie who had helped him to bed on the occasion of his accident.
It needs a chappiewith a lot of sense and a persuasive sort of way with him.
The Honorable Freddie said: "A chappie can't take a step in this bally house without stumbling over that damn feller, Baxter!
But Freddie's view of the matter seemed to be that he had done all that could be expected of a chappie in getting engaged to the girl, and that now he might consider himself at liberty to drop her for a while.
A decent chappie like that detective would not give him away.
By the way, Chappie and Mr. Inglestry dined here the other night.
Besides, there will only be myself and Chappie; and Chappie doesn't count.
And David always took you quite seriously, even at the other end of the telephone; which made it all the more amusing; especially with Chappie whispering hoarsely from the sofa; "My dear Diana!
Chappie and Mr. Inglestry can be our witnesses; and you might get Sir Deryck.
Chappie does not count,' she said; but I'll be bound he counts a lot, in most respects.
Chappie is a kind old thing, at heart, and must have attractive qualities of sorts, seeing she has been married no less than three times.
His valet, a chappie named Parker, tipped us off that the thing was to be sold.
As a matter of fact, this chappie is by way of being downtrodden and oppressed and what not, and I suggested that he should get hold of you and speak a few well-chosen words.
He's the chappie who was arrested in that bond business.
Presently the Sausage Chappie returned, attended to the needs of the woman and the child, and came over to Archie.
Mummie," asked the child interestedly, following the Sausage Chappie with his eyes as the latter disappeared towards the kitchen, "why has that man got such a funny face?
He had backed a chappie against the champion, and the chappie was converted by one of your lectures and swore off pie at the eleventh hour.
The coloured chappie in charge of the lift looked at me, as I hopped in, with a good deal of quiet devotion and what not.
As long as this chump stayed in New York, I was responsible for him: and he didn't give me the impression of being the species of cove a reasonable chappie would care to be responsible for for more than about three minutes.
I'm bound to say that, now that what the poet chappie calls the first fine frenzy has been on the ice for awhile and I am able to consider the thing calmly, I am deuced glad we didn't.
Look here, Ann," I said, "Suppose I pull off some stunt which only a deuced brainychappie could get away with?
Simple, that is to say, in its working, but a devilish brainy thing for a chappie to have thought out.
The valet-chappie was drinking a whisky and soda, and the boy was being tolerably rough with some jam and cake.
The chappie at the piano whacked out a well-meant bar or two, and the curtain went up again.
George was on the stage, talking to a cove in shirt-sleeves and an absolutely round chappie with big spectacles and a practically hairless dome.
What you want is to work it so that the chappie quits of his own accord.
Will you give me a sporting two to one, Jeeves, judging from what you have seen of him, that this chappie is not a blighter or an excrescence?
Deuced painful and all that, this sort of thing, but a chappiehas got to assert himself every now and then.
You think it's all right for a chappiein what you might call a certain social position to marry a girl of what you might describe as the lower classes?
He was a thin, tall chappie with a lot of light hair and pale-blue goggly eyes which made him look like one of the rarer kinds of fish.
Only I happened to be out for a walk with George Chappie the other day and we went into a house that's pretty full of furniture.
The Chappie Bill-Posting Company was good enough for George, but not for Sam: there were too many com petitors with too great resources, while the estate office routine bored him, and opportunities for piratical enterprise did not recur.
It was suggested to George Chappie that it was hardly decent in him to allow his mother-in-law to go out charring at her age--a prosperous man like him.
Why, Sam, did you think I've lived with nothing better than what George Chappie and the papers told me of you?
They had decided that Sunday was not a club-day--there were difficulties at home--and Sam took George Chappie for a walk.
George Chappie is as far from having a decent house as he is from wedding our Madge.
I've known it since the time when you tricked a parcel of schoolboys out of a house of furniture and put George Chappie into it.
It was the Chappie Bill Posting and Window-Cleaning Company.
I'm a quiet, peaceful sort of chappie who has lived all his life in London, and I can't stand the pace these swift sportsmen from the rural districts set.
As far as I could make out, he was trying to get the cab chappie to switch from New York to London prices, and the cab chappie had apparently never heard of London before, and didn't seem to think a lot of it now.
It was one of those massive parcels and looked as if it had enough in it to keep the chappie busy for a year.
Then we parted with what I believe are called mutual expressions of goodwill, the Birdsburg chappie extending a cordial invitation to us all to pop out some day and take a look at the new water-supply system, for which we thanked him.
He was a little thin, nervous-looking chappie of about thirty-five.
What I mean is, it's easier for a chappie who's used to writing poems and that sort of tosh to put a bit of a punch into a letter than it is for a chappie like me.
A chappie with a lot of stiff grey hair and a red sort of healthy face was standing there.
Old Bicky rather exaggerated, sir," I said, helping the chappie out.
In the matter of brain and resource I don't think I have ever met a chappie so supremely like mother made.
What I mean to say is this, I'm all for rational enjoyment and so forth, but I think a chappie makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
In this matter of shimmering into rooms the chappie is rummy to a degree.
Now tell me, old sport, as man to man, how does one get in touch with that very decent chappie Jeeves?
Then that's all right," said the chappie heartily.
Yesterday I met a chappie whose views of life coincide with mine.
There was a delightful chappie who seemed inclined to empty the mustard-pot down my neck; him I could keep in order, but the beautiful lord I saw was attempting to make a butt of me.
Simply because our hero had done nothing and had a perfect right to dress as a chappie if he so elected, that fact did not warrant actual insult.
Little did those fellows dream as they laughed that the supposed chappie was telling the truth.
I don't understand this; come to think, if that chappie got out of here he wasn't as big a fool as we thought him.
The crowd cheered at the powers of chappie when the truth went flying around that the two men whom the chappie downed were pickpockets, and that the old lady was their victim.
The challenger was quite a lusty fellow, and on appearances one would have thought he would knock the chappie over with a mere side-swing of his arm.
I don't blame a chappie for doing the gentleman burglar touch.
She needs a chappie of the get-on-or-get-out type, somebody in the six cylinder class.
The only possible objection any reasonable chappie could find to the place is that they loose you into it from the boat at such an ungodly hour.
A little chappie with a hooked nose sucked a cigarette and played the piano all day.
At first poor old Gussie asked him to stop, but the chappie said, No, it was always done.
She bosses her husband, Spencer Gregson, a battered little chappie on the Stock Exchange.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chappie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
