Sentence Examples:
Considering the homage universally accorded him, he was as little of a dandy as could reasonably be expected.
It's a dandy plot, and I hated to give it up just because it would require a burning building.
Went on Fred, without paying the least attention to Mouser's question, "I've got the dandy idea."
His manners are good, he is remarkably handsome, very clean, and rather a dandy in his dress.
For a time the old dandy was missed in certain circles, but, as usual, was speedily forgotten.
Even when a waxed and fashionable old dandy remarked, "Good morning, my dear," she only laughed.
Tom had become a great dandy, and considered himself one of the commercial features of the Indiana metropolis.
It is interesting to observe the sinister dandy in private life, as a tender lover, a loving brother.
They know lots of "dandy good fellows" who are more than willing to "show them a good time."
Sir Lumley was the dandy of the olden time, and a kinder, better-hearted man never existed.
The room contained a couple of chairs, a table-desk, and a slender, dandy sort of gentleman; nothing more.
"It's a dandy place," Dick exclaimed, as he passed his plate for another helping of roast lamb.
The duty soldier was more apt to interest such a personality than any dandy on dress parade.
That makes three, you see, and none of 'em care to step into our dandy camp in the daytime.
Petersburg dandy, whose name had never been in the papers, and whom he despised for his narrow-mindedness.
In the ranks, the greatest dandies are often the best soldiers, explain the fact as you will.
Beyond all question the greatest dandy of his day was George Bryan Brummell, generally called Beau Brummell.
"He was a dear to take us all to Boston and give us such a dandy time," murmured Charlotte.
He was somewhat of a dandy, being more neat about his lion-skin covers and ornaments than his brothers.
"I saw a dandy box the other day that we might have put into Mademoiselle's kit," said Roger.
The dandy men always trot, so that it was to my great distress impossible to keep beside him.
Emerson leaped to his feet, staring at the dandy as if not comprehending this sudden turn of fortune.
A group of perfumed dandies stopped before a dwelling, small, but of charming proportions, surrounded by pine trees.
Don in his early years had been a dandy, and a little youthful weakness remained in him still.
I have always felt myself more at ease with a nobleman than with the dandy of a country town.
Handsome, merry and clever, he read novels in school hours, wore a ring, and set up as a dandy.
I mean to make biscuits and bread and cakes and pies in my oil-stove oven, which is a dandy.
A dandy who is known to have a stock of sausages, is overwhelmed with compliments by his fair friends.
He seemed to prize this strange ornament as much as a young dandy does his newly raised silken mustache.
It is a dandy place, I think, though I wouldn't mind knowing a few people that are not Friends.
"Do not attempt to leave the cage until I tell you, unless you want to get a dandy tumble."
You understand, mesdames, the young dandy has his reasons for going to such an altogether useless expense.
If he had been one of the lawful kings of the dandies, you would have cried, "What perfect taste!"
These shop-girls and clerks and dandies and policemen had some interest in life that kept them going.
A quite pleasantly frank confession to the mistress of a great poet from the mistress of a great dandy.
These young dandies are really very nervous and timid at bottom, you know, in spite of their airs.
For Cap'n Ira had commanded passenger-carrying craft in his day, and was a bit of a dandy still.
Now the elderly warrior picked up a stone and handed it to the dandy with an expressive gesture.
Why, for three weeks he had been saving up a story, a dandy story that dad would appreciate!
He's a dandy on a hike, I tell you; and Hickory Ridge is proud of him, sure as you're born!
The dandy guessed at some mysterious business and thought it possible that he might get to know it.
The dandy is almost never a coward; for, if physical courage be lacking, his pride supplies its place.
Two pipes, bowl downward and stems upward, might give an idea of the lower extremity of the dandy.
At times, indeed, he blossomed out into the splendors of a dandy; and laughed at himself for doing so.
"We sure are having one dandy time," said Fred one evening, when sitting in front of the blazing fire.
This little dandy in eye-glasses had certainly upset all Leopold's plans for the disposition of the gold.
A certain young dandy who had been locked up on charge of murder, was the hero of the hour.
A tall, handsome fellow Bob looked too; and the tailor having done his best, he was altogether a dandy.
I want to spend it on a dandy tailored suit and some other things that I shall require on our honeymoon.
They extend over his forehead and seem as if they were parted in the middle, like a dandy's front hair.
"So fearless, too," said one young dandy, who would not on any account have risked his dainty limbs.
"I have often wondered how your people could let a dandy girl like you get into this sort of thing."
You'd better join one of the kid-glove regiments; they say the dandies fight well when the time comes.
It would come in dandy in the story I am going to write about the old ladies and their gate.
Sammy Jay stopped and carefully brushed his handsome blue coat, for Sammy Jay is something of a dandy.
A dandy horse, alright, but too high-lived for Cavalry work, and they can't break him in to it.
I have a false lining here on the inside, and it makes a dandy place to carry money, you understand.
As Noreen was borne along in her dandy she thought that she had never seen a more delightful spot.
Be sure I would not imitate the trim mustaches and peaked chins of those old dandies, Winthrop and Endicott.
The young dandy let himself drop into an easy-chair, just as a pretty woman falls gracefully upon a sofa.
And the dandy cares for his physical endowments only in so far as they are susceptible of fine results.
Dandy was not a strong dog, and I think his irregular way of living made him take diseases readily.
He was something of a small dandy, too, as the two porters and the two trunks might have explained.
You know he's a dandy athlete and I couldn't afford, half of the time, to have trouble with him.
What is the record of the plump, self-satisfied dandy whose likeness may be seen at the National Portrait Gallery?
"You had better wait," she heard a voice say, such a dandy voice, young and full of happy sounding.
It strikes me as a splendid chance to pass away a few days in having a dandy good time among ourselves.
"Just the kind that you can make dandy, white whips with," he informed Edith as he neared the porch.
The least thing he does, is to give us a dandy poem, suitable to Bond street, and not without wit.
If it were not for his smooth face and dandy airs, one would take him for some old mountain man.
It was a "dandy" picture, as William declared, and would hardly be equalled during the entire course of their tour.
People were as much surprised as if what looked like a dandy's cane had proved to be a sword of tempered steel.
The first thing we shall hear is, that you are engaged to some young dandy who is after your fortune.
"You said all along, until we came across that cache, that it was a dandy lake to trap foxes on."
Boots that fit like gloves, and gloves that fit like the skin, render him the envy of dandies.
"You're going to have a dandy paper," Tom Granger beamed, as he accompanied Jap on the final tour of inspection.
I think he's been just dandy, fixing up that fireplace and stairs and lights and water and everything.
Tennis is about the only thing I know much about, and I saw some dandy courts over at the field.
This same combination of temperament and policy which explains Disraeli, the man of letters, explains Disraeli, the dandy.
"It's a dandy good place up on that peak, anyway," laughed Hal, whose feet were beginning to feel decidedly sore.
No more worry about our old age, everything settled fine and dandy at last after twenty-five years of hard luck.
As the door swung on its hinges and the old dandy entered, a sudden silence fell upon the assembly.
It was getting hot, and I was thinking of my dandy, when a storm passed over with heavy rain.
"A dandy," says he, "is one who dresses himself like a doll, and carries his character on his back."
He intimated that just so I stopped short of committing suicide as an inside job all would be fine and dandy.
In his way, he was an elaborate dandy, and spent years at his tailor's, slowly choosing the right thing.
He is a dandy, and has got curtains to his bed, and wears shiny boots, and a silver dressing-case.
When a boy, once a year I had to drive my mother in an old 'dandy wagon' on her annual visit.
Dandy determined never to disgrace himself by presenting his paw to a doll; it was quite against his principles.
Instead of a devout attendant at the throne, we seem to get a dandy posing for the admiration of the spectator.
His hair was powdered with all the care of a dandy and his garments hung properly upon his frame.
He is twenty-five, something of a dandy, with polished teeth, carefully curled mustache, and a trimmed and pointed beard.
Don't I wish I'd had my little camera along, so I could have snapped a shot at that dandy chap!
You were a good shadow golfer, like a shadow boxer that can hit dandy blows when he's hitting at nothing.
He added, "When dandies fight they think how they look; when men fight, they think only of deeds."
She was the distinguished beauty, and the dandies all agreed that his dinner was worthy of his daughter.
They cried out against the dandies but took pattern by them; they changed faith, speech, laws, and costumes.
Two words are said to rhyme when they have similar endings, such as hour and flower, or candy and dandy.
He was small, a dandy, whose love of detail in attire would have excited the envy of a D'Orsay or a Brummell.
What a dandy chance for me to pull trigger, if it had only been a big bull with massive horns.