Just at the critical moment, when we were getting our ears ready for the big explosion, Darkie gave a frantic bark of delight, bounded to the fort and seized the whole packet in his mouth.
In this manner the little darkie kept the officer at bay for more than fifteen minutes, passing out of one door as the officer entered the other, to the infinite delight of the crew.
With very little prompting, he told the sea-fight, and the Indian darkie's attempt to steal the money, and pointed out Vespasian as the rival darkie who had baffled the attempt.
Here on the floor sits a little darkie shelling peas, and near him another small sable urchin howls because his ears have just been boxed for licking his fingers.
Darkie was on the card, but no one seemed to know where he was or anything about him.
Backed Darkie for the handicap--we did too--won a pot of money.
He's Mr. Jacob Benton's Darkie now, and you bet on him to the coat on your back.
We set off and rode all the morning, but never a trace of Darkie was to be found.
If Spanish Lu were within short distance of us, the sooner we got Darkie safely home, the better.
Uncle Carr gave up the ranch when he went into Congress, and Darkie and all the other ponies were left at Buller's Creek.
It seemed no use running our heads into danger, and perhaps having Darkie wrenched from us, so we made off east towards home.
My first instinct was to give Darkieher head and fly for the ranch, but Lenox caught at my bridle.
Of course the first thing to be done was to ride round the ranch and see whether Darkie could be found anywhere.
So we felt that Darkie had patched up peace, particularly as we didn't accuse Lu Hudson of taking her.
I just ran to Darkie and untied her, and took her by the bridle.
Darkie was my special pet, and, apart from that, she was the best pony on the ranch.
When the storm was sufficiently over for us to venture home, he led out Darkie himself and helped me to mount.
Not so nice as this one, and after all, black is a better colour than white, and Darkie has a bushy tail.
She was now on the point of giving Darkie a large corner of buttered toast, when Dennis interfered.
On such occasions she would spit at him angrily, and box his ears with the whole strength of her outstretched arm, but Darkie did not care a bit.
It wasn't half so mischievous as Darkie at home, but I expect it feels strange here just at first.
Maisie had been searching in vain for Darkie in all his usual haunts, and calling him at intervals, but no kitten appeared; there was only old Madam curled up in the sun, blinking in lazy comfort.
Darkie was certainly growing handsome and more amusing every day, but perhaps he could not exactly be considered a "comfort.
It would have a very different life to Darkie and Blanche.
Darkie can beg," said Maisie, when she next saw Philippa.
It was not long before Philippa had this opportunity, for when she was sitting at tea with her cousins that evening, she happened to look down at her side, and there was Darkie begging.
Dennis wanted to call him `Nigger,' but I didn't like that, and Aunt Katharine says Darkiemeans just the same.
On the contrary, when Maisie offered her some fish to distract her mind from her loss, she gobbled it up rather greedily, and even Darkie could not push his round head far into the dish.
Darkie was a cunning cat, and he soon found that begging was to his advantage, so he learned his lesson quickly, but it was only one of many which followed, and he got very tired of them.
You ought to please them if they please you; even Darkie knows that.
Darkie Bill dives into his cave again head-first, like a frog into a pond.
The water has worn out of the soft sand-rock a sort of cave, in which Darkie Bill, our company cook, took refuge at the crack of the first shell.
I need not say that this work was exceedingly hard for the strongest man; but few were able to take up their wheelbarrows alone, and I was often helped by some good natureddarkie when I was just on the verge of tumbling off the plank.
I recognized in the distorted face before me the same darkie who had befriended me at Yorktown, and to whom I had offered the five dollar greenback.
Said I: "Massa send me to you wid dis yere money for you to fotch him a darkie wig from Washington.
A little farther on a young darkie lay groaning upon the floor.
The shot hits the mark, and we leave the Protestant darkie grinning at his own success, and debating with his wife what will be the best article in which to invest for the day's market.
He had been too absorbed in his thoughts of Miss Stetson to leave room for any others: Your darkieis not unlike a horse in that respect; his brain is rarely capable of holding two ideas at once.
With a second howl the darkie shot across the gym and out of the door which led into the main building, where his cries speedily brought an audience to which he protested that: "De hants done got dis house, suah!
One in a corner was commissary that the darkie said 'Massa had dickered for just the day afore.
Would you drive a darkie away if he came to assist you in a struggle for life?
Near him, and somewhat in his rear, was a darkie about as old as himself.
Knowing the darkie would be all right, we followed under pretty stiff loads, the old man bringing up the rear, staggering to the door and getting down the steps on his hands and knees.
The darkie bowed, grinned, and pointed to the door leading to the cellar way.
Walk in, walk in,' continued he, pointing to the door which the darkie had opened.
But no sooner did Darkieand Pax behold the coats, &c.
But no sooner did Darkie and Pax behold the coats, etc.
Yes sar, in der city dat good baker warms der stones for dis ole darkie when he sleeps out on der pabements o' nights.
Fact is, I begin to feel a little qualmish about the darkie myself.
No, no, dis poor ole darkie haint none o' dem waloable papers," he wailed.
The injured Darkie shot forward with a bound, and Mrs. Brown grabbed the side of the buggy hastily, and in her fears at the pace for the ensuing five minutes forgot her too inconvenient cross-examination.
Then, too, it was a bit o' hard luck for us when that darkie chap got rooshed off in the muddle.
Dora; "for you know he will come if Darkie does, and he'll run in before everybody else, too.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darkie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
