483 examples of dandy in sentences

I had thought him a mere dandy, but now saw in him harder stuff, even getting close enough to learn that he had visited America before, and possessed knowledge of its shores and currents.

he's as soft an' sweet as a dandy in Picadilly, an' when he's real he's like a devil in hell.

Yet, in spite of my unconscious desire to connect these two together, I found it simply impossible to associate this rather soft-spoken, effeminate dandy with that bloody villain, many of whose deeds were so familiar to me.

When Hudson came to New York he looked up his Eastern patrons, and it was one of these who, knowing Arundel's need, encouraged the hotel-keeper in his desire to secure a "jim-dandy picture" for the lobby of The Aura and took him for the purpose to Marcus's studio.

Say, goin' into that bar is like goin' into church and havin' a jim-dandy time when you get therewhich is something the churches haven't got round to offerin' yet to my way of thinkin'.

It's just dandy.

I could be a dandy guardian to youSheila.

"There now, Miss Arundel," she said with breathless tenderness, "I've pro-cured a dandy chop for you.

Well, say, it's just dandy meat.

"Fine and dandy.

To tell the truth, I didn't think much of those dandy officers on parade or dancing round a ball room.

While I fell short of his ideal in this respect, he was pleased to say that he found me by no means the remote and inaccessible personage he had imagined, and that I had nothing of the dandy about me, which last compliment I had a modest consciousness of most abundantly deserving.

He's a dandy Scout-master.

He interrupted a further question from the astonished Judith to ask, "How'd you happen to have such a dandy swimming-pool out of such a little brook?" Judith, switched off upon a topic of recent and absorbing interest, was diverted from investigation into the odd ways of people who lived nowhere.

And I'll show you a dandy exercise.

On the entrance of this convict dandy, the whole of my fellow-prisoners rushed towards him, and gave him a cordial greeting.

He was so mighty pleasant that I told him I'd like to have my dad make him a present of as dandy an auto as rolls in France.

"I suppose there's some dandy sna-aps up in those trenches, Loo-tenant?"

I mean real pictures of the real thingfellows knee-deep in mud, and a shell lobbing in, and such likereal dandy snaps.

The person before me was evidently not accustomed to play the dandy; he wore his clothes ill, sat his horse worse, and was uneasy in the saddle.

W'ite folks doan' b'lieve in sich things, fer I heared 'em say so; but yer can't 'spec' nothin' better fum fiel'-han's.' "Dey wuz one man on de plantation, one er dese yer dandy niggers w'at 'uz alluz runnin' atter de wimmen folks, dat got ter pest'rin' Cindy.

There are all sorts of men in a marine, as well as in civil life; these taking things as they come, content to perform their duties in the most quiet manner, while others again have some such liking for their vessels as the dandy has for his own person, and are never happy unless embellishing them.

Cuffe was near the just medium, Inclining a little too much, perhaps, to the naval dandy.

I focussed on it with some difficulty and then saw that it was a group of finger-marks; the prints made by the greasy fingers of my dandy customer when he had leaned on the glass to inspect his teeth.

He's a dandy.

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