There ain't many more, 'cepting Doctor Nick Wiseman, and that queer old witch, Miss Hagar.
I never see him walking, since he broke his shin-bone, that he doesn't remind me of Old Nick himself.
I'm just a' goin' round to the stable to put old Nick in the cart.
Noah's put Kitty in the cart, and left Old Nickat home!
Nick can take me on to the edge o' the hill in half the time.
My Noah drives you over to Durnstone with old Nick in the cart.
Now Nick was formerly in the Durnstone Fire Brigade, and when he 'ears the familiar signal of a double whistle you can't hold him in.
It's I and my whistle and Nickthe fire-brigade horse what'll bring him back to the Deanery safe and unharmed.
Nick told her in his dreadful cold expressionless voice that if she ever did that again he'd never play another game with her.
Yesterday Nickcalled me up on the telephone and told me to come down to the California Market to lunch, and to bring Aileen.
Then--it was that evening you heard maman reproach me for breaking my promise--I had lost a dreadful lot of money and Nick had scurried round and borrowed it for me.
I came fully to my senses one day when Nick told me I was a born gambler if ever there was one.
Polly and Aileen, Alice Thorndyke, Janet Maynard, Mary Kimball, Nick Doremus, Rex and one or two other men who could get off in the afternoons.
They should be run into the nick and never let out again.
If the likes of her finds women like me and you goin’ to hell they try to rob us outright before Old Nick puts his mits on our shoulders.
The bully at this time had two cronies almost as bad as himself named Gus Coulter and Nick Paxton, and also a toady, John Fenwick, called by all the students Mumps.
That's the talk," added Nick Paxton, who was likewise present.
Sylvia and Echochee, therefore, had just come under suspicion of intending to escape--and we were in the nick of time, although I felt staggered by the job ahead of us.
She stopped and looked at him, and I realized that we had come in the nick of time for some great crisis which was enveloping her.
This discovery came just in the nick of time, and Sumichrast helped us in gathering some of the useful fruit which would assist us to give our clothes a thorough wash.
We came in view of a bamboo-hut in the nick of time.
But right in the nick of time, when I was expecting to die, the owner of our cabin, Jean Bènard came back.
Yes," he answered quickly, "I have been seeking you for weeks, and I find you in the nickof time.
Why did he cast them off, reject them, and drive them quite out of his chamber, even in that very nick of time when he stood in greatest need of the aid, suffrage, and assistance of their devout prayers and holy admonitions?
Amazed to find it there, he had taken it out, examined it carefully, noted the nick I mentioned and tossed it back again into the box.
He pointed to the nick I had myself noticed and said that owing to this defect the bow had been cast aside, and the last time he had handled it----Here he caught his breath and stopped.
All his motions are regular, as if he went by clockwork, and he goes very true to the nick as he is set.
