The modern name Chic Xulub was probably applied to it as a parody, or a play on words.
Mrs Chic 'if you can bear to see me in this state, and not ask me what the matter is, you had better hold your tongue for ever.
It's nothing,' returned Mrs Chic 'It's merely change of weather.
Their quality of being chic is more often the fruit of chance than of design, particularly in England.
Next morning, one of his new comrades calls for Wilkins, presents him to the captain, who proves very chic and shows him his machine, which has just been brought out from the depot.
Annabel arrayed in a new, imported tailored suit of excellent cloth, in a shade of Copenhagen blue, and a chic hat of blue beaver trimmed with paradise.
Still, from the rolling brim of her soft felt hat to the hem of her brown tailor-made, that cleared the ankles of trim brown shoes, she was undeniably chic and in the eyes of Jimmie Daniels "mighty nice.
Modish collars of all possible fashions, cravats, diamond cuff links, watch charms, the underwear of a dandy, andchic footwear constituted his main distractions.
At that time it was considered in their corpus an especial, boastful masculine chic to call all secret things by their own names.
The most chic establishment is that of Treppel, the first house to the left upon entering Great Yamskaya.
And the chic of the town," Elfrida finished for him gaily.
Indeed, many Americans are in my opinion more chic than the vraie Parisienne.
She was more French than Belgian, for the days of her girlhood had been passed mostly in France; her Christian name was French, and in manner she possessed all that smartness and chic peculiar to the Parisienne.
I hesitated to call upon her, half fearful lest her charm and natural chic should again attract me towards her.
How charming and chic she had once appeared to me in those days when we had first met--in those days before I had known Edith Austin, my absent well-beloved!
It seemed so chic to travel with the consent of a big general.
The reins had fallen loose in her hand; the whip sagged; she drooped--that stiff, chiclittle manner gone.
Ruth stood looking after her, watching as far as she could see her, longing to see her sit up, to see her hold the whip again in that stiff, chic little fashion.
When I think of Chic and his children I think of him pacing the hall with his forehead all sweaty with the ache inside of him.
Then he would be at the mercy of a passion that must inevitably lead him either to Hamilton's plight or to Chic Warren's equally unenviable position.
Mrs. Chic had been busy with so many presents for others that he had felt like old Scrooge.
If he could see them settled in New York, as Chic and Mrs. Chic were settled, see them start the brave adventure, then he would have accomplished more than he had ever been able to accomplish so far.
He had told Chic as much when sometimes the latter, over a pipe, had introduced the subject.
It was with awe and wonder that a few days later she had seen Mrs. Chic lying in her big white bed so crooningly happy and jubilant.
With Marjory with him, he would be glad to go shopping as Chic and Mrs. Chic did.
That night she had been paler than Mrs. Chic herself; she had whimpered more than Mrs. Chic.
Chic and he had been roommates in college, and ever since had kept in close touch with each other by letter.
It was Chic Warren who had first told him that in remaining a bachelor he was leading an utterly selfish life.
It was Chic Warren who had told Covington the pitiful little tale.
Her pink dotted mull was easily recognizable, though it had taken on a certain ethereally chic quality--as if a rosy cloud had been manipulated by French fingers.
But it was not her chic alone that made her so striking.
She is straight and lissome as a young ash tree; her hands and feet are small and well-shaped; in a word, she is chic from the crown of her fair head down to her little arched instep.
Some of these women are pretty and gowned in chic simplicity, some of them are coarsely bedizened and heavily rouged, with small cruel eyes and strident voices.
You will recall the daintiness of this piquant and chic divette, her silk stockings, her frou-frou skirt, the glitter of her bodice, and the irresistible merriness of her eyes as she winked at you over the tip of her impudent little nose.
At the corner, jostled by the human tide, two chic demoiselles fresh from a rehearsal at a nearby theater pass, laughing over some recent adventure.
At this hour the tables in the garden are filled with pretty women in chic toilettes, accompanied by faultlessly dressed gentlemen whose bank accounts have managed thus far to survive.
We have chic people who have had themselves registered at the Elysee.
Montreal Dear Senbot Drosmig: I am a chef at the Cafe Inter-stellaire, which, as everyone knows, is one of the most chic eating establishments on this not very chic planet.
All the things, and the sights, and the feelings that are stale to Grace Gilpin and her chic friends are new to me--I sort of rush at them and mop them up.
I was about to dive into the anthole of the subway entrance when I heard my name called and saw Mrs. Hall's chic little toque thrust out of a cab window.
You know she is accounted perhaps the most chic of all chic Parisiennes.
These are the women who understand the value of elimination, restraint, colour harmony and that chic which results in part from faultless grooming.
We know a woman who is an unusual beauty and has distinction, in fact is noted for her chic when in white, black or the combination.
Since both outline and colour scheme vary with fashion we use the word chic or smart to imply that quality in a costume which is the result of restraint in the handling of line, colour and all details, whatever the period.
Not all plays depicting contemporary life are plays of social life, staged and costumed in a chic manner.
Chic outline and interesting detail, as well as colour, of distinct value in a costume for lawn.
We have shown that it is the modern insistence on efficiency that has led to appropriate dress for work and recreation, and that our idea of the chic and the beautiful in costume is based on appropriateness.
Where a girl doesn't seem very strong, like Miss Leighton, no amount of chic is going to help.
He doesn't like my doing these chic things; but I'm going to keep it up, for I think it's the nearest way to illustrating.
The suggestion of Paris is constant, but it is of Paris in exile, and without the chicwhich the city wears in its native air.
CHIC (a French word, either a shortened form of chicane, or derived from the Ger.
But his hand, thin and drawn from too much stimulant and too little food, has lost none of its knowledge of form and line; the sketch is strong, true, and with a chic about it and a simplicity of expression that delight you.
At one of the tables two very chic young women are dining with a young Frenchman, his hair and dress in close imitation of the Duc d'Orleans.
How chic to shoot straight up among the drifting clouds and forget the sordid little world, even the memory of one's intrigues!
Meanwhile, the locomotive-like affair at the curbstone is working itself into a boiling rage, until finally the brave chauffeur and his chic companion prepare to depart.
The chic Mrs. Dill wanted a hero to match her new hat.
Wanting to give the poor devil a bit of pleasure, he tapped him on his shoulder and said in his free and easy way: "You've got a chic wife, I must say.
I asked, standing before her, and leaning against the table, as I looked into the wonderful eyes of the chic little Parisienne.
She, with all the vivacious mannerisms of the chic Parisienne, was explaining something with much gesticulation, while he strode at her side, bending to listen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
