Hob from Robert, Hick from Richard), very popular names in the north during the surname period.
Richard has a larger family than Robert, for, besides Rick, Hick and Dick, we have Rich and Hitch, Higg and Digg.
Similarly Robert gave Rob, Hob and Dob, and Richard gave Rick, Hick and Dick.
In a moment a quarrel is assured, nor does Hick Scorner's attempted mediation produce any other reward than a shrewd blow on the head.
Freewill and Hick Scorner make less impression on us; they are more cloudy in outline, more like types.
As Hick Scorner never returns, the double conversion brings the play to a close.
At this precise instant, however, old Pity, who has remained unnoticed, and who is unwarned by the fate ofHick Scorner, pushes forward with an idea of intervention.
Let us turn to Hick Scorner and see the new principle of characterization at work.
But it is noticeable that they are quite apart from the other group, much more so than was the case in Hick Scorner.
This play, though so much later in date than Hick Scorner, shows no improvement in plot.
Any underlying thread, therefore, that there may be in Hick Scorner is this rivalry and embitterment between the wicked sort and the virtuous.
We noticed in our consideration of Hick Scorner that one of the Vices, Imagination, was eminent for his more detailed character and readier villany.
I came back because I didn't want you and that Venusian hick to think you're the only ones with guts around here!
Months on the run only to get done in a hicktown in North Carolina.
Why on earth would an AT&T guy be staying in a tiny hicktown in North Carolina?
I am sitting there nibbling a sandwich," he went on, "when a hick comes along and looks at me.
So I get up and follow this hick down the elevator and he turns me over to a cop on State Street and I am given the ride to the hoosegow.
Samuel Hick was one of the men of "mighty faith" in the Lord, and as a preacher among the Methodists of England.
The little hick glares at me and points to a shack on the left.
With that I breezes into the next room and there's a hick sittin' at a table, toyin' with a book.
When we was comin' East, we stopped off at a hick burg somewheres and a guy took us over a bakery--" Daughter claps her hands and laughs.
This hick is standin' outside here," he begins, "when I come along as peaceful as the Swiss navy.
On the trip over, we all go down in what Potts claims is the grand saloon and Van Aylstyne, the hick that wrote the picture, reads it to us.
A four-flusher is a hick that admits bein' a better singer than Caruso, a better ball-player than Ty Cobb, a better real estate judge than Columbus and more of a chance taker than Napoleon.
Some other hickwanders in and says, 'Ah, Van Stuyvessant, bored?
I figured you come from some hick burg like New York," says the runt, ignorin' the Kid's request.
He was a fat, middle-aged hick that would soon be old, and he wears half a pair of glasses over one eye.
If Hick Holt's what he used to be, he ain't likely to be very nice about this time o' night.
If you mean Hick Holt's Clearin', it's a leetle better'n six miles from here.
Nor is Hick Holt in such consate wi' his life eyther, that he's afeerd to risk it.
It's the first o' these sorts thatHick Holt likes best.
He might a left the old thing to some o' his neighbours, for all he war worth; but it wudn't a been Hick Holt to a did it.
I have already told you my business: I wish to see Mr Holt--Hick Holt, if you like.
Put this on your 'call board,' the only good thing about these hick hamlets is they remind you of New York because they are so different.
I got run out of that hick hamlet the last time I was there, and I am afraid if I go back I might get lynched.
And here she ups and marries offhand this two-fisted young hickwho turns out to be bad inside.
Remember Skid, the young college hick that I helped find his footin' when he first hit the Corrugated?
Remember how you beat up that hick constabule that tried to run us in, and we pinched the pants-pressing sign and took and hung it on Prof.
Another of them, called Hick Scorner, deserves mention chiefly as being perhaps the earliest specimen of a Moral-Play in-which some attempt is made at individual character.
Near as I can make out he's a narrow-chested, loose-jawed young hick of 19 or 20 and costumed a good deal like a village sport.
But then, Piddie has been waitin' for the word to fire Brink Hollis ever since this cheerful eyed young hick was wished on the Corrugated through a director's pull nearly a year ago, when he was fresh from college.
Amongst these were the three brothers Grant, Benjamin Hick of Bolton, Edward Lloyd the banker, John Kennedy, and William Fairbairn.
Faraday's requirement, when, with his usual liberal zeal, Mr. Hick at once placed the use of his great hydraulic press at my service.
The other man studied the hickfor a moment and then said: 'That's easy.
As he gazed the bell began to toll The hick stopped a passer-by and said: "'Tell me, why does the bell ring at this time of day?
The experimental tube being exhausted, and the cock hick cut off the supply of purified air being cautiously turned on, the air entered the flask through the tube b, and escaped by the small orifice at the lower end of into the liquid.
With faith undoubting, Samuel Hick prayed to the Lord of the winds: the sails turned, the corn was ground, after which the wind ceased.
Alex a look that took in everything from his hick clothes to his rube haircut.
Me and Alex goes into the parlor for a smoke, and I asked him how he come to be in our mongst if he already knowed what a hick town New York was.
Just like that Venusian hick to be ready to sacrifice himself to get a Solar Medal!
All my plans messed up, because you let a hick and a kid outsmart you!
