Afterward several lads said the bully's toady looked dazed, as if he did not understand what had happened.
He, too, saw which way the wind was likely to blow, and noting that Hiram had changed his conduct toward Joe it was up to the bully's toady to do the same.
Either to become a toady or a patron is destructive of true friendship.
This Mr. O’Rapley is a worthy man who knows a great deal, and although a bit of a toady to his superiors, expresses his opinions pretty freely behind their backs.
He never dared join us, and used to toady the bullies by offering to fag for them, and peaching against the rest of us.
Marion mentally remarked, "The two millions are taking effect; Georgie has begun to toady already.
She invited her because she is an heiress, and Marion intends to toady round her until she gets into her good graces.
When Jack Pender, who was a toady of Noddy Nixon, called on the latter in a sort of club-house in Nixon's yard that night, he found the bully in no amiable frame of mind.
We toady our Indian swells, and they toady their English swells; and I trust, for our sake, that in so doing they have a decided advantage over us.
Thus on one occasion an Irish toady invited him to dinner: the duke talked of his wardrobe, then sadly defective; what suit should he wear?
Glorious days were those for the penniless, halcyon days for the toady and the sycophant.
We must toady to them a bit, Margaret, whether we want to or not.
I don't want to toady to anybody," said Heathcote, bitterly.
It might disgust some of your friends in the Den, but you aren't obliged to toady to them.
The earl became a toady and creature of the infamous Carr, Earl of Somerset, and is thought to have died just in time to escape prosecution for the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury in the Tower.
Elizabeth Fortinbras was too like my brother to touch him "where he lived," as Sir Toady would say.
Then Sir Toady turned on me a face of scorn and anger.
Sir Toady had been doing "scout" for Butcher Donnan.
I suspect our Sir Toady has acted as scout pretty often.
And do you know, all the time he was what Sir Toady calls "a regular rip.
Ordinarily now Sir Toady has grown too old for the "sins and faults of youth" already set down against him.
Yet, when once across, she never seemed to have "shipped a drop," as Sir Toady Lion asserted in his best naval manner.
Sir Toady accepted such things as they came in his way, much as a cat drinks from stray cream-jugs, but without giving particular thanks for them.
But as Toady Lion had once said of him, "I teached him to come the High Horsicle wif ME!
One of these was so huge that Sir Toady says that the ruins will remain even when we are Grown-ups ourselves.
So Toady Lion, who can be honest when he tries very hard, wrote and asked the old chap whether he would prefer to have the brilliantine supplied by the club in bottle, or like paint in a squeezable tube.
Usually this occurs at table when father is absent, because Toady has a quite real respect for the Fifth Commandment, a respect gained at an early age, and ever since retained.
But at times, when his elder brother is in danger or ill, Sir Toady is like that.
Strong in the possession of a half-crown apiece (to be spent as you please without accounting), Sir Toadyand the Maid made havoc among the Aunt Sallies and the Cocoa-nut shysters.
And do you think that a young dev--imp like Sir Toady does not know when he is well off?
Then Toady sneaked over to the stairs and went part way down, and just before he was out of sight he looked back.
Toady didn't get Mamie Little for his girl the right way.
I don't mean that I spent all my time thinking how getting the tricycle with two seats would make Mamie Little think more of me than she thought of Toady Williams, because I didn't.
So then Toadylooked at us and his eyes popped out; but Swatty threw "The Red Avengers" book at him.
Swatty could lie on his stomach and chew an apple and play mumblety-peg and kick a hole in the sod with one toe and talk, all at one time, but Toady couldn't.
At our house Fan spent most of her time loving the new kid, and Lucy and Mamie Little didn't do much but hang around and coax to hold the baby a minute, and Toady Williams just hung around and waited for Mamie Little to come out and play.
After dinner I went over to the ruins, and Swatty and Bony and Toady and a lot of folks were there.
And she said: "I don't like that mean old Toady Williams.
It's a dime lib'ry, and if it hadn't been for Toady we would never have had it.
So he asked Toady Williams if he knew anything about it, and Toadywent and told him.
But one day we were up in my barn--me and Swatty and Bony--and Toady came up.
Toady had better not say I'd take an oath and then not do it!
I won't toady to anybody--not even to that captain," declared Fred.
If you don't toady to them, they'll treat you awfully mean!
It was through this toady that Dave received an intimation that his case would be attended to at Washington.
Behind him he left an active toady who promised to keep watch of matters and to advise him.
Rich friends expect you to toady to them; to lick the ground under their feet; to fawn and flatter and lie, and be anything but honest men!
Now Aunt Kipp had one soft place in her heart, though it was partially ossified, as she very truly declared, andToady was enshrined therein.
It all came out in one overwhelming flood of words, and Toady fled from the storm to wander round the house, a prey to the deepest remorse.
Toady from the rug, where he sat rocking meditatively to and fro, holding on by his shoe-strings.
Polly laughed, and Toady chuckled, as they caught glimpses of the awful bonnet vibrating wildly in the background, and felt the frantic clutchings of the old lady's hands.
But let me tell you, Cowan, that I do not toady to either Mills or Devoe.
I dare say if I was willing to toady to Mills and Devoe, and tell everybody they're the finest football leaders that ever came down the pike, it would be different," he sneered angrily.
He had no sooner done this than Toady hopped right out of his grassy nest, and looking at Violet, winked so drolly with his one eye that she laughed and cried at once, and thanked the doctor over and over again.
But Toady kicked, and struggled, and made such a time about it, and seemed in such pain, that Violet begged him to unfasten the bandage.
But Toady hopped in sight just then, looking so brisk, and getting about so well on his three legs, she thought her flowers were little enough to pay for so much good as he had received.
All toads are not as fond of a sprinkling as Toady and his young brothers were; so you mustn't drown the poor things in water every time you meet one.
But I must tell you what happened to poor Toady one day, and see if you wonder that Violet felt badly.
Gunner Toady gave a slight start, but at once passed into a state of deep reflection.
Gunner Toady had come over for the day, and Kippy, as an inhabitant of the Home, had been exercising his prerogative of showing a guest over the estate.
While they were exercising, Mumps, the toady to Dan Baxter, came in, followed by a new student named Reff Ritter.
They soon made their way to where Baxter and Coulter had taken themselves, and the toady gave a peculiar whistle.
The story was too good to keep, and soon many of the students knew how Baxter's toady had thought to trap a burglar, and Mumps was plagued unmercifully.
