The cronies of Company K listened in delight to his exposition of the action.

When he could contain himself no longer, with another bevy of cronies in sight coming down the stairs, he cried out, desperately: "For Heaven's sake, Rosa, don't wait here like the statue in St. Peter's, to be kissed by everybody on the way to the pope; it's simply sickening to stand here like a shrine to be slopped by girls that you see every day.

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

He shut himself up in his palace with a few chosen cronies for seven days; meanwhile sending off Bishop Rossetto, a court chaplain, to Florence, to communicate the sad tidings to Duke Cosimo and Duchess Eleanora.

He invited little Rawdon's crony from school and made both the children sick with pastry, and oysters, and porter after the play.

In that sense the North would soon have his old crony on the pavement again, with one yellow finger in his button-hole, and another nervously playing at a trigger behind the back.

He felt so weak and thin that he foretold the gray days when he could no longer creep to the village and sit with his cronies at the livery-stable, when he would be house-fast, through endless days, creeping from room to room like a weak old rat in a huge empty house, finally to die in some disgusting fashion.

He had been known to take a thrashing for a crony without saying a word; but a blow ever so slight from a friend would make him roar.

Michel Pensonneau stood squarely in his moccasins, turning redder and redder at the laugh of his cronies before the warehouse.

He stopped short and pulled his crony by the arm, and Jerry Koswell likewise stared at Dick and Sam.

Noaks, however, who would have paid any price for the privilege of being able to hobnob with those who were in any higher position than himself, was ready to follow his two Sixth Form cronies to any extreme they might suggest.

He is his own favourite, and advances himself not only above his merit, but all mankind; is both Damon and Pythias to his own dear self, and values his crony above his soul.