"Dickie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this year that Charlie Malcolm, Mrs Malcolm's eldest son, was sent to be a cabin-boy in the Tobacco trader, a three-masted ship, that sailed between Port-Glasgow and Virginia in America. She was commanded by Captain Dickie, an Irville man; for at that time the Clyde was supplied with the best sailors from our coast, the coal-trade with Ireland being a better trade for bringing up good mariners than the long voyages in the ...
— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt
... Hobart, "Rob has worshipped Mr. Dishart as a man that has stepped out o' the Bible. When the carriage passed this day we was discussing the minister, and Sam'l Dickie wasna sure but what Mr. Dishart wore his hat rather far back on his head. You should have seen Rob. 'My certie,' he roars, 'there's the shine frae Heaven on that little minister's face, and them as says there's ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... grew dark; but he was still complaining, And calling out for "Dickie." "Curse the Wood! It's time to go; O Christ, and what's the good?— We'll never take it; and it's ...
— The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon • Siegfried Sassoon
... Toad and his wife out for a stroll," added Limpy-toes. "Yes, and we saw Pete and Dickie Grasshopper, ...
— The Graymouse Family • Nellie M. Leonard
... him in that way," she explained to her brother afterwards, "if he hadn't been rather shy. One must be nice to foreigners, and dear Dickie's society undiluted would bore ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... Dickie, Goods Manager, and John Mathieson, Passenger Superintendent, as I have said, many differences arose. I sometimes thought that Mathieson might well have shown more consideration to one so much his senior in years as Dickie was. Poor Dickie! ...
— Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland • Joseph Tatlow
... but it has nothing to do with the case. They are they people you have to do work for, whether you like it or not. They are your masters. Don'tbe deceived, Dickie, you aren't strong enough to trifle with them,—or with yourself, which ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... "'Hard luck, Dickie,' said the ward-room mess. 'But cheer up—in three months you'll see the Golden Gate, and by then you'll be ready for a little duty on your home coast. Then your lieutenant's straps and shore duty, and ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly
... said, 'Oh, papa, I wish my mamma was here!' and just at that time I awoke, and mamma was standing by my bedside, smiling; for, it being morning, the sun was filling my room with light, and little Dickie was singing. I told mamma my dream, and she said she thought it was because of what she was reading to me, and the stories she told me before I went to bed; for, papa, she read that chapter which speaks of the 'great multitude which no man can number, who washed their robes and made ...
— From Wealth to Poverty • Austin Potter
... be talking to each other!" Dickie Dorn thought to himself, as he lay upon his back under the big oak tree ...
— Friendly Fairies • Johnny Gruelle |
