The sergeant said, "It was a spare axe and I sharpened it for him, and gave it to him with a sort of apology because it still had three rather large nicks in it, one at the top and two close together at the bottom.
I have myself seen Indian braves with half a score of scalps dangling from their belts, and others with no end of nicks in their rifle stocks to indicate the number they had slain.
Around the bottom were thousands of little nicks just distinguishable to the eye.
Venters bent over for his rifle, and, as he picked it up from where it leaned against the steeper grade, he saw several little nicks cut in the solid stone.
Above, after a more level offset, was still steeper slope, and the line ofnicks kept on, to wind round a projecting corner of wall.
But these nicks being so small as not to be discernible on an inn sign hung high up, there seems no sense in referring to them.
It is supposed to mean the swan with two nicks or notches cut into swans' bills, so that each owner might know his.
I then proceeded to nick the ball slightly with the point of a knife, spacing the small raised nicks about one-third of an inch apart, the ball being still a very smooth one in comparison to any of the usual kinds.
For though Turpin tramped to York at a journeyman's leisure, Nicks rode thither at a stretch--Nicks the intrepid and gallant, whom Charles II.
Towards midnight he visited Thomas Nicks, the butcher, and having bargained for three ribs of beef, carried Nicks with him to a chandler's hard by, that they might ratify the bargain with a dram.
It was the same, except for one external but extremely important essential--its nicks were ridiculously too light and slight, not nearly enough indented.
But what I did not realize at the time was the reason why it did not fly; or, if I did realize, as one could not fail to do, that the nicks were not emphatic enough, I had not a suspicion of the merit of its interior qualities.
This obviated all that labour of "hammering" the nicks in by hand, which was the ancient fashion.
It required the romance of the nineteenth century to change Nicks to Turpin and the bay mare to Black Bess.
To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cuttingnicks or notches in.
So the villagers were driven off like cattle, Sultan was stabled, and we five were accommodated in the great hall, for the host and the ostler stayed on the ground that so dangerous a villain as Swift Nicks wanted a strong guard.
They do say," said I mockingly, "as how Swift Nicksis a good hand at splicing fishing-rods.
He's Swift Nicksright enough, Master Wicks," he said.
To prove that I was not Swift Nicks I should have to prove that I was Oliver Wheatman.
Go back and tell the Squire you can find Swift Nicks for him, and they'll fill your pinner with guineas.
They do say as 'ow Swift Nicks is a rare plucked 'un," said the ostler.
I could see in exactest detail his dead body lying in the road and Swift Nicks beside it, pitching the bag of guineas up and down in the air, and smiling gleefully and yet wistfully at me.
They do say as how Swift Nicks is a scholard," put in the ostler wisely.
A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
General John Nicks (also buried in this cemetery) acquired his title from the appointment, by the Governor of Arkansas Territory, as commanding general of the Arkansas militia.
Those of the company of the vintners had two nicks or marks on their bill, it is said, and hence the popular explanation of the sign.
These nicks were little horizontal, vertical, and diagonal notches cut in the swan's bill, in order that each owner might know his own swans.
I knew that Nicks brought his blanket and slept with me one night, but did not know why he did it.
Before the time for the sale Barnett and William Nicks came to me and admitted that Barnett was 1st Lieutenant and Nicks 2nd Lieutenant of Capt.
Nicks and a number of other rebels who were residing in the county, came in, met the author and said to him: "Captain.
Nicks made a deed to some tax lands and I entered satisfaction on the judgements.
Nicks and Barnett further said, "Captain you have us completely at your mercy; we believe you are a good man and we were friends before the war.
I know that there wasn't any second man because of the nicks Clayte's grappling hook has left in the cornice up there.
Five is a nick to five, six and twelve are nicks to six, seven and eleven to seven, eight and twelve to eight and nine to nine.
Tom Moor of Sackville Street; damn it, how henicks them, damn it, how he nicks them.
Larwood and Hotten, however, doubt this derivation, chiefly because the nicks would have been so small when represented on the sign-board as to be of no practical use as a distinctive sign.
It is commonly supposed that the word “necks” has been corrupted from “nicks,” swans having formerly been marked by nicks or notches on the bill.
There are nicks upon the lower edge of the types, to enable the compositor to place them upright, without looking at them.
From the rubber, the types are conveyed to a boy, who, with equal rapidity sets them up in lines, in a long shallow frame, with their faces uppermost and nicks outwards.
I answer, "A truce to your jests and your gibes; * Without luck what is learning?
The distributer lifts out several lines of the type, holding them in his left hand, with the nicks uppermost and the letters facing him.
A little rubbing on the oil-stone, with an occasional grinding, is all his tools require when he is using them, but to remove nicks made by his young friends wastes too much of his valuable time.
The phenomenon in question consisted of nicks in the coastline, of triangular shape and filled with shading.
They further reproduce specifically the Portus Sigaei, for they give origin to two doubles, the Gihon and the Hiddekel, in exactly the same manner that the two nicks of the Portus Sigaei do to the Phison and Euphrates.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nicks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
