He had come up to have a crack with his blind crony.

It was in the Uriwera wilderness that Te Kooti lost his congenially bloodthirsty crony Kereopa, who was caught there and hung.

I gave Isaac a dram to kep his heart up, and he sung and leuch as if he had been boozing with some of his drucken cronies; for feint a hair cared he about auld kirkyards, or vouts, or dead folk in their winding-sheets, with the wet grass growing over them.

The monk was the first of the two to return; for those accustomed to the habits of elderly cronies on a gossiping expedition of any domestic importance will not be surprised that Elsie's few moments of projected talk lengthened imperceptibly into hours.

He kept the choicest collection of children's books I ever saw in former days, and was a child at heart himself, and an especial crony of mine.

" "I bet they're evil cronies," I said; "like they usually have in books," Because you know how it is in books; there are always a couple of bad fellows that won't join the good ones, but go camping right near them and make a lot of trouble for them.

He seemed a salacious, gay crony compared with the Christian apologists who lived in the same centurythe soporific Minucius Felix, a pseudo-classicist, pouring forth the still thick emulsions of Cicero into his Octavius; nay, even Tertullianwhom he perhaps preserved for his Aldine edition, more than for the work itself.

The owner of the great estate came down to see them every day and chatted as familiarly as though he had been a lifelong crony of their own age.

" "Of course we've got that Puss Carberry and his mean crony, Sandy Hollingshead, to consider.

""And as handsome too," the politic cronies would add.

"He and his precious cronies tried to rob me, out there.

" "Wall, I bet they had a fust-rate time on that weddin' journey o' theirn," said one of Ben's rougher cronies one day at the end of the narrative; "'t ain't every feller gets the chance o' two honeymoons with the same woman.

He seemed a salacious, gay crony compared with the Christian apologists who lived in the same centurythe soporific Minucius Felix, a pseudo-classicist, pouring forth the still thick emulsions of Cicero into his Octavius; nay, even Tertullianwhom he perhaps preserved for his Aldine edition, more than for the work itself.

"The Giraffe""plays the fiddle" "Macadam's roads""I hate this chalk" "Sweet girl""a charming riddle" "I'm nearly drunk with""Epsom salts" "Yes, separate beds""such cronies!" "Good heaven!

But Percy, no coward himself, knew how to make use of his sly crony; and despite their numerous quarrels, that often ended in actual fights, the pair of precious tricksters still kept company together.

When she met Mr. Varick, and they fell in love at first sight, she'd hardly ever seen a man to speak to, excepting some of her father's tiresome old cronies" "Was she pretty?" asked Blanche abruptly.