229 examples of rick in sentences

" Bellew, sitting on the shaft of a cart with his back against a rick, listened to this narration with an air of dreamy abstraction, but Adam's quick eyes noticed that despite the unruffled serenity of his brow, his chin seemed rather more prominent than usual.

The man who has built the hay-rick will doubtless climb it again, if need be, as often as desired, and whistle on the top, after the fashion of the rick- building guild, triumphantly enough.

[eBook #11062] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DOZEN FROM LAKERIM*** E-text prepared by Rick Niles, John Hagerson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE DOZEN FROM LAKERIM By RUPERT HUGHES Author of "The Lakerim Athletic Club" WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY C.M. RELYEA 1899.

"Look here," says one, "this rick-burning's a dangerous and expensive job.

Who is the man?" demanded Rick Portus, who was younger than the others, and meant "to make things hum" when he got a chance.

Captain Farquhar was of a loving disposition, and as inflammable as a hay-rick.

What is odd is that Lady Mary identified, with absolute complacency, the portrait of herself, as Mrs. Qualmsick, that hysterical lady with whom "it was not unusual for her to fancy herself a Glass bottle, a Tea-pot, a Hay-rick, or a Field of Turnips."

But Lieutenant "Mascot," one day jumped on the top of a hayrick to direct the marksmanship of his battery, and a moment later a German shell burst above him and scattered part of the rick in all directions.

He stared at the broken rick.

His master was named Rick Reeves.

Git away, Mr. Wolf, git away, by Bradford Browne, Max Rick & Jack Scholl.

No man sees his house afire but looks to his rick.

"No man sees his house afire but watches his rick," he was saying.

They make nothing of ascending a hill without help, or of walking across a ploughed field to a rick-yard.

As she looked a sudden tongue of flame sprang out from the western corner, and ran leaping up the great dark mass, spreading and widening as it went; then sparks were thrown out, and Roseen suddenly realised that the great rick, composed of tons upon tons of hay, worth at this moment a fortune in itself, was on fire.

"Sure it's all wan sheet of flame, none of us could get near it," cried one, pointing to the rick.

I declare hangin' 'ud be too good for her!" "Didn't I tell ye," cried Mrs. Clancy triumphantly, "that Mike never went next or nigh that rick?

The little pipe, slipping downwards in the crack, had turned over, upsetting its contents upon the loose hay beneath the rick, which being, as Judy had related, dry as tinder, quickly caught fire from the smouldering embers.

"If ye burnt the rick itself, there's nobody hereabouts but 'ud say ye done right.

His heart was still sore at the recollection of his bitter disappointment on the fateful evening when the rick was burnt.

The next day Lavretsky rose at a tolerably early hour, chatted with the starosta,[A] visited the rick-yard, and had the chain taken off the yard dog, which just barked a little, but did not even come out of its kennel.

I got some whuppin's wid strops but I wanter tell you why I am cripple today: "I had to tote tater vines on my haid, me and Fred' rick and de han's would be a callin fur em all over de field

Chapter 15 Burning at first like a rick on fire, his enthusiasm for the digester as quickly died out.

One afternoon in the following July, tired of walking in the mown fields, and of carrying a nest of mice, which I had discovered under a hay-rick, I concluded I would begin a system of education with them; so arranging them on a grape-leaf, I started homeward.

And although this operation is so essentially necessary, yet care should be taken at the same time, that it be not made too dry, so as to prevent a due degree of fermentation being allowed to take place in the rick.

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