It does some folks a heap of good to kill 'em a lot.
When dear mother was with us--" She and Amy said no more until Janice's bedroom was all spick and span again.
In a spick and span blue-checked bungalow apron, she stood at her window just as Dawn swept a brush of partially-hued color across the eastern horizon.
He is said to have founded the autumn gathering, now tamed into a spick and span show of holiday Highlanders, but in old days a grand hunting party, more than once an assemblage for serious purposes.
It abounds in teaching of all kinds, from its venerable University to spick and span board schools.
The people of Liége were surprised to see how young the German troops were, and how spick and span they looked in their new greenish-gray uniforms.
There were to be no thinned ranks, no scarred, wounded, or war-weary soldiers in their streets, but an army as fresh and spick and span as though it were parading before the Kaiser at Potsdam.
Come now, let me give you a spick up, and make you look a little more like old times.
Twenty years had weathered the raw of brick walls, and painted the tiling with all manner of orange and rusty-coloured lichens; yet the whole place was admirably spick and span, free of litter.
The Warders strutted up and down, And kept their herd of brutes, Their uniforms were spick and span, And they wore their Sunday suits, But we knew the work they had been at, By the quicklime on their boots.
On the day following the brigadier-general was to inspect us, and we had to appear on parade spick and span, with rifles spotless, and every article of our equipment in good order.
Spick and span in their new uniforms, they came to drill daily on our parade ground.
In truth here, in the spick and span ward, amid those who had been brought in sickened by that outside squalor, it was difficult to realise any lack of hygiene, any lack of fair dealing.
Ted hesitated; then from a larger cottage emerged the Reverend Morris Pugh, very spick and span, accompanied by a younger man, evidently by his looks the handsome Mervyn.
I'll take care of everything and have it all waiting for you spick and span when you get back.
The Caterpillar rose slowly, long and thin, spick and span.
Presently Egerton came downstairs, spick and span, but not quite so smart.
He gazed over the spick and span tents, the spick and span men, the spick and span guns, far and on, and on, over an encampment that stretched out of sight behind distant wooded heights.
Bee-eaters look spick and span, even when in the midst of this hard labour.
As a rule the bird looks as smart as a lifeguardsman; its uniform is so spick and span that the veriest martinet could find no fault with it.
First came Nanette, the servant, spick and span in her Bretonne dress, with a cap of dazzling whiteness.
His one ambition was to keep it as spick and span as his own quarterdeck had been.
Spick and Span's representative was wounded in his tenderest point, but his firm carried out the order to the letter.
Spick and Span, the great upholsterers, had sent down, had been severely snubbed by Dr.
As dare are," he began in broken English, "a few farmer here who not spickde French lanwige, I will try for spick a few words in Anglish.
I know I not spickde lanwige vary much, but my son Zotique, who just come from de States, he spick Anglish just so well as de Anglish, and so he mak you spich better dan I mak.
Even Mrs. Lennox, when she had sufficiently swallowed her moral principles, sent in all haste to New York for an elegant spick and span new dress from Madame de Tullegig's, expressly for the occasion.
It is always so spick and span that you sigh as you see it, because you think of your own kitchen at home with its black pans and unpleasant looking sink.
In Berlin there are twelve covered markets besides the open ones, and they are all as admirably clean, tidy, and unpoetical as everything else is in that spick and span, swept and garnished Philistine city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
