201 examples of cronies in sentences

And though presently big Tom Tooker, chief of the rival faction in Acredale, gave his name to the recruiting officer in Warchester, and a score more of Jack's rivals and cronies, he was the soldier of the village.

Well, papa's cronies have made Mr. Atterbury's visit cause of suspicion.

There in the great camp, surrounded by sentinels, his Acredale cronies were shut out, and Jack began in earnest his soldier life.

Jack, in a cluster of his town cronies, caught sight of his mother at one of the windows of the Parthenon Hotel.

It had angered him to think Nellie had been seen in the company of Flockley and his cronies, and he was for "having it out" without delay.

Peggy's hand trembled as he held out the five hundred dollar draft and glared from it to his cronies with a white face.

Rip now resumed his old walks and habits; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time; and preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favor.

Every resident except the cronies of Pete Leddy considered it a duty, once a day at least, to look over the Galway hedge and ask how Señor Don't Care was doing.

His outlook was very dark, and there sprang up within him a wild longing to get back to North Carolina,back to the little whitewashed cabin, shaded with china and mulberry trees; back to the wood-pile and the garden; back to the old cronies with whom he had swapped lies and tobacco for so many years.

My little place of business (I am the goldsmith of our village) has long been the daily resort of several of my particular cronies.

Presently they met some of his old cronies, who greeted them and said, "You'll spoil that Son of yours, letting him ride while you toil along on foot!

Toby Crooke, the lank sexton, now fifty or upwards, had passed an hour or two with some village cronies, over a solemn pot of purl, in the kitchen of that cosy hostelry, the night before.

Father Zahm and I had been cronies for some time, because we were both of us fond of Dante and of history and of scienceI had always commended to theologians his book, "Evolution and Dogma."

The bully was furious when he realized that he would be unable to secure an authorized patrol, and he and his cronies, two lads about his own age named Bill Bender and Sam Redding, had been busy ever since devising schemes to "get even" as they called it.

" Half an hour later the three cronies parted for the night.

It was the morning after the consultation of Jack Curtiss and his cronies, and Corporal Crawford was looking over the fence into his leader's yard.

That Jack Curtiss and his two cronies had made a rendezvous of the island was news to the boys, and not agreeable news, either.

For Sam, while bold enough when his two hulking cronies were about, had no real backbone of his own.

"Well, if he has lost it, he'll come near losing his head, too," grated out Jack, "but don't you fear, he wants that fifty too badly to go back on us." Silently as two cats the cronies made their way down the tree-bordered thoroughfare known as Bailey's Lane and after a few minutes gained the beach.

They'd" He was about to explain more of the characteristics of the bully and his cronies when a fresh interruption occurred.

" As the cheers broke loose once more, Jack Curtiss and his cronies slunk off through the crowd, and having placed the rejected model in the buggy, drove off into the country in no very amiable or enviable frame of mind.

Up in the dressing room Jack and his cronies, changing into other, garments, heard the sounds of applause.

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

He almost ceased trifling, and even his cronies came to believe that he was really in love.

Perhaps you and me being cronies for thirty year, and he your very son, may have helped to the more effectual working; but be that as it may, I couldn't master my dinner afterwards, and that's the trewth.

201 examples of  cronies  in sentences