I hear all about you," said the earl; "Sir Raffle Buffle is an oldcrony of mine.
He says he was a great crony of yours many years ago, and seems to like talking about you very much.
The old crony will only think him a twaddle and a bore, and thank his stars that he has stuck to London and the world, and his gods, such as they are, and is a much younger man of his age than his rustic friend.
Returning, he found his crony poring over the book which, singularly enough, figured prominently on each occasion when the specter-producing window was markedly in evidence.
Joe again rolled a deprecatory eye at his crony and cleared his throat, but did not otherwise commit himself.
Much alarmed at Hogan's sudden fury, the bully and his crony kept away from the shore.
They were in far from a good humor and many of them blamed Reff for the discomforts they had suffered, and gave their former crony the cold shoulder.
To this the bully did not dare make answer, and he and his crony rowed off.
His aunt and an old crony were talking in the kitchen; the crony was old, and Catherine, supposing Roger was out of the house, was talking loudly in that horrible voice of hers with still more horrible zest and satisfaction.
Jerry, who, with his chums, had not seen much of Noddy since the bully and his crony had vainly tried to get the sixty nuggets of gold, as told in the last volume, started toward the front gate.
The said jeweller took his cloak and his hat, and parted company with his crony without saying a word, and ran to his hole like a poisoned rat.
The good dyer had for a crony a silk machinery manufacturer who was small in stature, deformed for life, and full of wickedness.
During these discussions the vicar would enlighten his crony upon the subject of the various plans he had adopted to see whether the boxes had been opened.
Then he hied himself away to a crony of kindred pursuits, with whom he was wont to confer over coupons and roses, and between the two the destiny of young Neil Bonner was made manifest.
His old companions were amazed when he declined to hit up the pace in the good old way, while his father's crony rubbed hands gleefully, and became an authority upon the reclamation of wayward and idle youth.
Glasby was a fellow who was very well liked, while Harkness was a lieutenant who at one time had been more or less of a crony of Nappy Martell, Gabe Werner, and others of the crowd that had been opposed to the Rover boys.
Sam Heller and his crony glanced over at our friends, but said nothing, and the car continued on its way.
Almost at the outset he made an enemy of Sam Heller and his crony Nick Johnson.
Oh, yes," and it was with rather an obvious effort that the cronymade reply.
No, and you haven't any right to interrupt us in this manner," declared his crony with dignity.
Several days later he sent a note to his former crony Weston, asking to see him, but Weston refused.
But the former crony of Porter was on the alert and like a snake he wiggled through the protecting interference and got his man when only one yard had been gained.
Several glances were turned in the direction of the crony of Porter, as if he might know something of him.
Immediately after Isabel Joy's arrest he became more than ever a crony of the Marconi operator, and began to dispatch vivid and urgent telegrams to London, without counting the cost.
Brindley was a very special crony of Stirling's, and had influenced Stirling.
The aged caretaker of the Episcopal church confided to a cronythat he was uncertain as to just what he was: "I used to be the janitor, years ago.
DOUBT Small Jimmie discussed with his chief cronythe minister's sermon which had dealt with the sheep and the goats.
Nick, who had been separated from his crony during the fracas with Tom.
Come over here where we can talk," and the bully led his cronyto one side.
Wilton, angry, when he saw that his late crony was fully in earnest.
Wilton, I have been cheated," said he, angrily, as he met his oldcrony in the waist.
He felt that his late crony had been a traitor, and he was unable to take any higher view of the circumstances.
There was no concealment as to my financial condition, but when I explained the causes my former crony laughed at me until the tears stood in his eyes.
I had left my horse with him, and under the pretense of paying for feeding the animal well for the return trip, had slipped my crony a small gold piece several times during the winter.
My old crony pleaded with me to have nothing to do with the job, offering to share his last crust with me; but then he had not had all the animosities of the war roughed out of him, and I had.
It was a period of uncertainty throughout the South, yet a cheerful word reached me from an old soldier crony living some distance west of Fort Worth on the Brazos River.
My crony and I blotted out the days by hunting deer and turkeys, using hounds for the former and shooting the animals at game crossings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
