Its walls were made of a red cambric of a flowered pattern that still lingers with me, and was bought with a clatter of pennies on the counter, together with nickels that had escaped my extravagance at the soda fountain.
The country to the south tipped up to the hills, so sharply in places that it might have made its living by collecting nickels for the slide.
I'll give you the railway nickels for four days--that's forty thousand cash.
And tens of thousands of families means tens of thousands of nickels every day for my electric cars.
She might have gone on indefinitely thus if Tyler's country hadn't given him something more important to do than to change dollars into nickels and back again.
They say that the Davies girl saved up nickels until she had a dollar's worth and then came into the bank and asked to have a bill in exchange for it.
Two days later she came in and brazenly asked to have it changed into nickels again.
They know the carefully counted nickels in his trousers pocket, the transfers he is saving for the three-cent rebate that may come some day, the various newspaper coupons through which he hopes to make a killing.
Rosie drew out one of her hard-earned nickels and gave it to him.
He had a small account-book with crisscross rulings and two fascinating little canvas money-bags, one for coppers, the other for nickels and silver.
You didn't show up at the station for the seven-twelve, so I changed my money into nickels and proceeded to make the telephone company enormously wealthy.
When he had exhausted all the nickels he had he crossed to the news-stand and had a dollar bill changed.
It is a rather miserable box and is stocked with sentimental tunes for coaxing nickels out of pity.
And the fact that they are willing to pay their nickels and dimes is, to my way of thinking, a proof of the extraordinary nature of the crime chronicled.
The things are put out to get their nickels and dimes.
Anderson retired gracefully, jingling his scanty handful of nickels and dimes, and a half-hour later thrust himself boldly in upon another editor, but with no better result.
His week was up, hisnickels and dimes were gone, nevertheless he spent the day on his customary rounds.
It was a place where little girls lifted white petticoats when they sat down and straightened pink sashes when they got up, and put nickels in a basket.
Even in the old days when she had stolen into the cathedral to look for nickels under the seats, she had been acutely aware of "the pretties.
Lookin' at the pretties, an' seein' if there's any nickels under the seats.
As long as the chute was empty below the point of entrance of A the nickels kept on filling the zig-zag runway.
The cheap little grafter who takes dollars, dimes, nickels and pennies from the poor, while not exactly a great financier, is one of the smoothest propositions with which secret service men and federal inspectors are confronted.
The winning player was paid from the nickels which lined a zig-zag chute ending at C.
He had just ten cents in his pocket—the two nickels the thief had disdained to pick up.
His eyes fell upon two nickels lying on the floor near the cot.
He had unlocked it, and he was giving out the nickels to the children just as fast as he could take them out, bless his warm little heart!
It would have taken a bank as big as the State House to hold nickels enough to buy all the presents he promised.
Even a tourist sleeper is going to be too luxurious for us; we're going to squeeze nickels till they just squeal!
Nice bunch of useless expense, I must say, when I've been chasing nickels off the expense account of this company and sitting up nights nursing profits!
Ye can play it all afthernoon, an' take a fortune fr'm it if ye'er nickels hould out.
All ye have to do is to dhrop a nickel in th' slot, an' three other nickels come out at th' dure.
It was a machine that looked like a house; and, when you put a nickel in at the top of it, either the door opened and released three other nickels or it did not.
Fritz took the advice and his nickels to the value of two marks were taken from his vest pocket and put in his purse, and the purse returned to the pocket of his pants.
Of course you have plenty of nickels now, and if you had sent on your order for dinner, you could have had spring chicken, peas, early apples, and other good things.
Even the few nickels that were in my vest pocket were taken by the miserable thief," and tears streamed from the boy's eyes.
But, Aunt Fanny, my purse is not empty," and he told of the nickels given him by Uncle Braun.
He told me to keep my nickels in my vest pocket that I need not take out my pocketbook when with strangers.
Now in such a predicament, I think we should help each other, so I will give Fritz five nickels to put in his empty pocket which will at least make a jingle.
Fritz picked it up quickly and replaced it in his purse, and the three nickels were in the grimy hands of the strangers, who set out for the village.
Father" was shaking his head at Ishmael, at the proffered nickelsand pennies--shaking his head and choking.
He drew out a meager handful of nickels and pennies, his vacant smile grown wistful.
And when Tom and Frank tossed shining nickels into the sea and the score of black bodies left the makeshift boats as one, the two American boys burst into roars of merriment.
They're after those nickels and you can see them as plain as if they were under glass!
Rockefeller, if not more, and you'll gimme a million dollars in nickels if I'll tell you where to get a layout.
Rob gave us three nickels to put in the plate," said Pythagoras.
I saw them stop a street vender below here and invest their nickels in hot dogs.
That gave us four nickelsfor ice cream sodas and the clerk gave Di half a glass some one had left.
Thought the'd be nickels wanted fer somethin'," Eva Bicknell grumbled as she linked her bony little arm through Lena's when they were outside in the starlight.
If Mrs. Triplett had been downstairs that evening, none of the birthday nickels would have found their way through the ticket window of the moving picture show.
Now it would skirt the garden-walls of houses, where we might catch a glimpse through a doorway, and see a priest pacing in the chequered sunlight.
These are the main features of the scene roughly sketched.
It was like asking for money to have Burke dole out nickels and dimes when she wasn’t really on the pay roll.
It was Chub, ready with nickels to pay their fares.
I believe almost everyone who was here to-night bought a box of candy," she said solemnly as she finished with a heap of nickels and marked down the amount they made on a slip of paper.
Even Mignon's black eyes glistened as she counted the wealth of nickelsand small silver which had accrued from the despised lemonade bowl.
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