18 Metaphors for nicks

Clearly Nick was no simpleton; he was gaining time; he might not yet know which side I belonged to.

What ass had told you that Lord Nick is a common sort?" It shocked Joe Rix, but being a diplomat he avoided friction by changing his tactics.

Had Nick been a pale- face, of the class of those with whom he usually associated, his discovery would have gone through the settlement, with scoffings and exaggerations; but this forest gentleman, for such was Wyandotté, in spite of his degradation and numerous failings, had too much consideration to make a woman's affections the subject of his coarseness and merriment.

Nick was every inch an athlete, fearless and enduring.

"Yes, indeed; Nick and I are good friends," answered J.W.

But"and here he winked broadly"it ain't much of a secret that Nick ain't altogether a lord any more.

"I begin to think Lord Nick is a bogie," he said.

" By this time the new-comer was so near, that the conversation ceased, all standing gazing at him, as he drew near, and Maud gathering up her hair, with maiden bashfulness, though certainly Nick was no stranger.

She could not be sure that Nick would be her husband, though it seemed practically certain.

Nick was every inch an athlete, fearless and enduring.

"Previous to John's starting on his perilous adventure, it was agreed that Nick, with all his men, should remain the whole night in question concealed at the lake, without entering the hut.

Nick was a water drinker by preference and because he was an open-air man, also because it had been necessary for him to set an example; but to-night Carmen made him sip a little iced champagne, and she drank to the success of his first visit East since boyhoodto his safe and speedy home-coming.

Nick has been Nick these thirty years, or as long as I have known him.

" "Very well; this will be an advantage, men, as Nick is the only married man among us; and married men should best understand dealing with females.

If Lord Nick had been the devil himself Donnegan could not have been more afraid.

" "And Nick has been a great hanger-on of garrisons, and should know the use that I can make of his back.

She knew how Nick, as a little boy, had swept shops and found all sorts of odd jobs; how he had been errand boy, and district messenger in a uniform of which he had been proud because it made him feel "almost like a soldier"; how after his mother's death he had got his long-cherished wish to "go West," by working on the railway and eventually becoming a brakesman.

But you see, the Old Nick is powerfulhe shakes the hills. BOLSHÓV.

18 Metaphors for  nicks