47 Metaphors for dicks

Now, Dick was the kind of boy that those who know boy nature would call adorable.

Dick was the most popular, for he sang every thing he could, but Will had a select list he never departed from.

Where could Dick be? BOOK

Then Dick, who had, unconsciously almost, become a leader, called the boys into an empty recitation-room.

On their return, Dick stayed a couple of days to help with the job, which was not finished before it was needed, for they had begun to feel the cold very sensibly, notwithstanding the great wood fire they kept up.

So they tried to discharge Dick, butLord love you!they couldn't, sir,because why?because Dick were a soldier bred and born, and is as much a soldier to-day, as ever he was,ah!

Dick was a fine subject for the scalpelgood-humoured, generous, single-hearted, with faultless digestive powers, teeth, and colour to correspond, a strong tendency to active exercise, and such a faculty of enjoyment as, except in the highest order of intellects, seldom lasts a man over thirty.

Dick is the only surviving Beau of the last Age, and Tom almost the only one that keeps up that Order of Men in this.

"Mars Dick," he said, "dese yer abolitioners is jes' pesterin' de life out er me tryin' ter git me ter run away.

Dick was a splendid rider, howeverat least as far as "sticking on" goes.

Dick is a good fellow and very fond of me, but, although you might not think it, he is almost absurdly proud of the family name and its unsmirched record.

To my old readers the lads just mentioned will need no special introduction, but for the benefit of those who have not read the previous volumes in this "Rover Boys Series" let me state that the brothers were three in number, Dick being the oldest, fun-loving Tom coming next and Sam the youngest.

"He wasn't goin' to let in a lot of curious critters to hear what Dick was talkin'," he said to his mother and Melinda, his haggard face showing how much he had endured in keeping them at bay, and answering through the key-hole their numerous inquiries.

But Dick was unconscious, the strain of the early part of the night, the desperate fight through the brakes, all had told on the slight frame, and Jones stood up to his middle in the dark water, holding the fainting boy.

For while not exactly skeptical about Grandison's perfervid loyalty, Dick had been a somewhat keen observer of human nature, in his own indolent way, and based his expectations upon the force of the example and argument that his servant could scarcely fail to encounter.

Dick was therefore heir presumptive to a large estate.

Dick was no mean waterman.

" Ginger Dick didn't answer 'im a word.

He had come back as a rich man to his own country, while Dick was a miserable Queensland shepherd.

Dick becomes a horse tamerResumes his journeyCharlie's doingsMisfortunes which lead to, but do not terminate in, the Rocky MountainsA grizzly bear.

Ginger Dick was the fust there next night, and took 'er a little chiney teapot he 'ad picked up dirt cheap because it was cracked right acrost the middle; but, as he explained that he '

"Everybody knows that my Dick is a high churchman; they sent for him to administer the holy communion, and he found old Mr. Mortimer there, a layman, who is almost, I consider, a Methodist, he's so low church; and poor Captain Walker was getting him to pray extempore by his bed.

'Twas well done of all sides, Bullyes[20]: but, since our forces are landed, let it be your care to looke well to the Ships: and honest Dick of Devonshire be not too carelesse of your hurts; he meanes to fight againe that provides for his recovery soonest.

The Dick being a little to leeward of our track, had four fathoms; but the least we had was five and three-quarters.

Bay Dick was the soberest of mounts.

47 Metaphors for  dicks