The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship.
Jag bolt, a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.
A bullet fired from behind had nicked his ear, and he knew that it was one of his Askaris who had fired.
The Hun's reply was a shot that nicked the lobe of the non-com.
Oddly enough, even at that moment a stray bit of scientific thought nicked into his consciousness--the memory that under compressed air water boils only at very high temperatures.
On the stock, distinctly nicked into the hard rubber as Stern held the flash-lamp to it, were the unmistakable imprints of teeth.
Some lad nicked me for my roll and my return ticket, and my gold watch and chain, and my horseshoe scarfpin with the diamonds in it.
Only nickedthe aidge of it," said he, genially deprecating.
That was where I got nicked for my roll, in addition to about fifty I lost at a crooked wheel.
Well, seein' as the Maggie has two holes through her hull below the waterline, and is generally nicked to pieces, you might quit askin' questions and get back aboard and put the pumps on her.
She's nicked up some, but that only bears evidence to what a bully good shot I am, and it won't take much to fix her up all shipshape again.
She stopped; and at that moment the Kid nicked her.
One day when we were on the cars going from Albany to Amsterdam, we saw a fat, sleepy-looking Dutchman, and I nicked him for a clock as he was passing along the aisle to the end of the car.
One night he and his pals tried to get a Moll's leather, but some Western guns who were on the boat were looking for provender themselves and nicked the Moll.
I had nicked it cleverly, and I thought I had earned it!
One day three of us boarded a car in Brooklyn and I saw a mark whom I immediately nicked for his red super, which I passed quickly to one of my stalls, Eddy.
Indeed, I gathered that the man must have his bank with him, and I nicked him in a car for his breech-leather.
I tried it on that savage who lies yonder, and it was rather a neat stroke, yet has sorely nicked the blade.
One nicked surface took a third, two nicked surfaces two-thirds, three nicked surfaces the whole.
The third man threw three nicked surfaces, and took the pool.
Every gunner was nicked and bleeding, yet all stuck by their guns.
The leaves of Tansy are also vividly described as "infinitely jagged and nicked and curled with all like unto a plume of feathers.
So I was a minor prophet after all, an' Joey Banks got nickedat last by the Most Nailin' Bad Shot in creation.
He smiled very rarely, and when he did smile, his long upper lip unfastened itself with an effort and showed a horizontal wrinkle halfway between the pointed end of his nose and the irregular, nicked row of his teeth.
He said, as though that were an astonishing thing, "They nicked me!
I nicked him once as clean as a whistle, and got him three months.
Maxwell 'ad been nickedthe other way through backin' losers.
Rhoda nicked a grain of dust from the glass surface, and carefully straightened the frame against the wall, for this picture was one of her greatest treasures, and respected accordingly.
Without a scratch, although a bullet nicked his shoulder-strap and some fragments of shrapnel glinted off his helmet, Alderhame regained the temporary shelter of the crater, carrying with him the end of the wire rope.
A fragment of shrapnel glanced off Setley's steel helmet, another nicked a piece out of the heel of Alderhame's boot, but without further incident the trio dropped into the crater in which the Tank lay on its side.
That money was the enemy's resources, an' I just nicked their resources.
He'd be only too glad to soak you; for you've always been too slick to get nicked before.
Round the outer edge of the disc there is a small circle of tube-flowers, each of which has a broad white strap, and these straps are nicked at the ends.
They grow in pairs on the leaf-stalk, a large pair and a small pair alternately, and they are slightly hairy, with edges which are nicked all round.
The yellow tube flowers in the centre are evenly nicked all round the mouth, and they have yellow stamens whose heads you can see forming a circle round the yellow tip of the seed-vessel with its two curled points.
These tubes are yellow, and some have a broad, short strap at the mouth of the tube, and in some the mouth is evenly nicked all round.
They all show signs of considerable age and several of them are nicked and gapped on the edge from use.
The upper three-quarters of both faces are almost untouched cleavage surfaces, but the lower quarter is pretty smoothly ground down to a semicircular cutting edge, which is somewhat nickedfrom use.
Reaching west, it swallowed Vicksburg and nicked the corner of Louisiana.
The Fault nicked off the south-east corner of Montana.
There was a stinging in the rim of his left ear, where it had nicked out a little rounded segment.
By chance he had nicked the time; had he thus come to town the season before, he might have continued obscure, a man like Guy Darrell not being wanted then.
