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Silk pocket handkerchiefs, dandy hats, elegant trousers, mouth harmonicas, pistols, knives, razors, accordions were there in great variety.
A pair of slender French dandies outwardly scorned, but inwardly admired his athletic figure, so visibly powerful, even in repose.
You reach the drawing-room, you see there a young celibate, sprightly, scented, wearing a fine necktie, in short a perfect dandy.
There was not any fashionable folly or accomplishment in which he was unskilled; a complete man-about-town, gambler, rake and dandy.
He would have given worlds for the self-possession of some of the nonchalant dandies he saw hovering around the peerless beauty.
Each dandy carries with him one of these wooden neck-pillows, which are in most cases elaborately carved, and are much prized.
The "dandy," or "mizzen-sail," as it is sometimes called, should have a hoist of four feet, and a boom of the same length.
Next to him sat Bob-o-link, a cheerful little dandy, but noted, nevertheless, for a good deal of courage and common sense.
Dandy felt a cold chill creep through his frame, attended by a convulsive shudder, as he beheld these terrible preparations.
This is called a "dandy" or "steering sail," and is especially convenient in a boat whose size or arrangement necessitates sitting amidships.
"Fine and dandy," answered Bobolink, waving his bugle; and giving a few vigorous blasts to indicate that victory was nigh.
There are dandies in coquettish furs, their silk hats low on their foreheads, their canes held vertically in their pockets.
Edwin now tried on the new office-coat with the self-consciousness that none but an odious dandy can avoid on such occasions.
William appeared before his father a complete model of a new-fashioned French dandy; rage and horror choked the old man's utterance.
Enter an irreproachable dandy, then a confusion of tongues, a laugh, a solo, injunctions to silence, and the opportunity was gone.
Lieutenant Maynard came aboard in a small boat and was quite the dandy with his brocaded coat and ruffles and velvet small-clothes.
He is tall and scholastic looking, no dandy, but a great deal of plain strength about him, and though cultivated, quite unaffected.
Here came the tailors to look at the fine new clothes which the young dandies wore when they took their morning promenades.
The little dandy, tightly buttoned up in his gray coat, marching at the head of his men, seemed to me absolutely repugnant.
The craze for foreign innovations pervades all ranks of society, and every village dandy aspires to some article of European clothing.
Cartouche, on the other hand, had an unfailing sense of proportion, and was never more dressed than became the perfect dandy.
Sometimes he played the part of dandy waiter in the cabin; sometimes he swung a hammock with the hands in the forecastle.
Stowe, good chronicler, can recollect when every gentleman had his buckler; and at length every serving man and city dandy.
She had looked on them pretty much as a war-worn, powder-tried veteran looks on the curled dandy of some fashionable, home-staying corps.
One or two were dandies, and wore heavy scarfs and pins, and talked French because, forsooth, they had been on the Continent.
My nephew is one of the smallest men you ever saw, ma'am, short and slight, with fair curls: in fact, an effeminate dandy.
Behind this grille, and still further protected by an impregnable mahogany counter, stood three young dandies in attitudes of graceful ease.
The bad influence of the dandies can scarcely be over-estimated; and the effect upon their own class of society was terrible.
The very smallest cooking stove imaginable, almost a doll baby size, polished like the boots of a dandy, was at one side.
And the short, thick-set man who was standing just in front of them in attitude of restful immobility was certainly no dandy.
A huge wardrobe, full of clothes neatly folded and put away, suggested a man about town, a dandy with many sartorial interests.
He was a dandy all right, and a fine-looking man, over six feet tall, with swarthy complexion and hair like a raven's wing.
The spectator was aware of an unobtrusive yet invincible inertia, at which the skipper of a trading dandy might have torn his hair.
Great men have sometimes piqued themselves on being dandies, and it may have been this air which recommended the picture to its subject.
Dandy walked along untroubled by nervous fears and fancies, but an influence came over the squire for which he could not account.
Altogether, he looked quite a dandy, and the eyes of his waiting wife filled with a light of pride even while her heart quaked.
Denis looked disappointed, wrung "the Captain's" hand hard, and vanished in a convenient booth to console himself with another "dandy" of punch.
The peacock with his long train appears more like a dandy than a warrior, but he sometimes engages in fierce contests: the Rev.
The dandy's companion, a big, florid-faced man of forty, in the usual immaculate white duck of the white man, eyed the boys keenly.
This is kept by a widow lady, and a spruce dandy of a mulatto superintends its internal arrangements in the capacity of steward.
My master wishes to shield her against the enterprises of these dandies, of these worthless fellows who seek to cajole the poor girls.
He was a dandy with a liking for the extreme in style, and on several occasions had attempted to ingratiate himself with Betty.
It was quite curious to see the young dandies, dressed in their finest clothes, at the doors of the fashionable churches on Sunday morning.
All the dandies of the period were connoisseurs of snuff, and imitated the royal mirror of fashion in their devotion to the scented powder.
He was careful always to wear the usual bunch of violets in his buttonhole, and to affect something of the dandy in his attire.
She hobbled out obediently, and in a moment returned with the handsome young dandy, who glanced at his grandfather with haughty indifference.
At this moment journalists, dandies, and idlers were all examining the charming subject of their bet as horse-dealers examine a horse for sale.
Skipper had been playing at standing post for a half-hour, when a trotting dandy who sported ankle-boots and toe-weights, pulled up before him.
The dandy clerk of steamboat or store, in white grass frock, snowy ducks, and beaver hat, long furred and of light yellowish hue.
Dandy obeyed the order without a question, and the Edith soon floated listlessly on the water, waiting the pleasure of her magnificent owner.
This particular sailor was somewhat of a dandy, and had a morsel of red silk handkerchief peeping prettily out from his jacket pocket.
One lover is a young dandy of the period: his intellectual capacities are conspicuously absent; it may be said he has neither forehead nor chin.
We were interrupted by a flippant young dandy, just arrived from abroad, who chattered animatedly about his impressions of various ballets and theaters.
They expected another of these silent sarcastic dandies who went about with one epigram, patient and poisonous, like a bee with his one sting.
I told them of some of the adventures we had been through together, and what dandy chums we've been for such a long time.
It would be a dandy place to live if the windows were bigger and there were doors like a house, and a piazza, and some fireplaces.
He asked in a rich brogue as he seated himself astride a chair, in which equestrian position his dandy costume for polo showed to great advantage.
It will excite some astonishment when I mention that, on coming to Cambridge, Wordsworth actually assumed the beau, or, in modern slang, the "dandy."
This boy was a great dandy as regards dress, and it was currently reported that he never wore the same pair of trousers twice.
My horse is a hundred times handsomer, and I could kiss him with less repugnance than some dandies who deem themselves extremely fascinating.
He insisted that Vane should come also, and would not allow the little dandy to take leave of Dorothy, nor would he take leave himself.
The young barrister was somewhat of a dandy, but no one who once looked at his face thought of his dress affectations or dapper appearance.
The names of the French dandies I have forgotten; they were but poor specimens, and did not furnish any entertainment during the evening.
He was a handsome, but dissipated looking young man, dressed like a dandy, was more than thoroughly armed, and rode a superb bay mare.
With some tables and chairs and cooking utensils and things, it would make a dandy place for the troop to come on overnight hikes.
He kept his hat under his arm, and his whole dress seemed as if modelled from one of the caricature prints of a London dandy.
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?"
Just then the dandy with the sleepy eyes and long whiskers sauntered up to the porter on duty, with an unconcerned and lazy air.
From the roughest of miners of a year before he had become, once more, almost a dandy in dress, and no occasion was complete without him.
The portrait of Brummel, the 'arch dandy,' is excellent; and all the scenes in which he is engaged are managed with skill and tact.
Grave citizens walked with their families, the prettier portion of whom affected to be demurely unconscious of the admiring looks of the aforesaid dandies.
This customer presently issued from one of the alcoves, a dandy of the old school who was obviously much beholden to the wig-maker's art.
Suddenly Joe had a happy thought: he set his "dandy" and hauled the sheet taut, so that the boom was parallel with the keel.
Later they select a book because the title tells of interesting subject matter, or because a playmate has recommended it as "grand," "dandy," or "a peach."
The dandies among them added to this airy apparel a few bright feathers in their hair, a shell or two in their ears and nostrils.
Then John put a plumed hat on the bear's head, took his arm, and the two strutted about the platform like a pair of dandies.
When the coward dandy had an enemy to punish, Vernon, for a hundred dollars, would first insult and then fight the luckless individual.
At this period he was somewhat of a dandy, very particular about his clothes and equipage, and devoted, as indeed he remained through life, to fine horses.
The passion with which she did this was too deep to be for a moment misinterpreted, and evidently made a great impression upon the dandy.
He examined the amber mouth-piece but declined to smoke, as "tobacco would blacken his teeth;" this was a curious excuse from a Central African dandy.
The gallant dandy evidently had no stomach for fighting, and promptly disappeared behind a holly bush when the newcomer threatened to assault him.
Yet, in his ordinary clothes, he was something of a dandy, with light brown hair, a carefully-trained mustache, and a pair of shrewd gray eyes.
There are, however, no set rules for painting, and it depends on the taste of the Indian dandy; yet, still, a general similarity is observed.
It showed a dandy of the nineties, spare and handsome, standing beside a tall dark lady with a muff and the suggestion of a bustle.
He had gone through the whole educational process I have described above, had been regularly and systematically "spoiled," was a habitual gambler, and a confirmed "dandy."
They by no means satisfied her fastidious taste; but she felt exalted to a superhuman pitch of virtue as she bore them home in her dandy.
He went scrupulously dressed, had white hands with carefully manicured nails, parted his hair in the middle, and altogether was somewhat of a dandy.
Fashionable tailors did not exist to lure them into extravagance, and the town-bred dandy had not broken loose to taint them with his follies.
Link, following the example of those around him, took from his pocket the molting dandy brush and set to work once more on Chum's coat.
He was not a dandy, I think; but there was a certain quiet nicety and delicacy about his dress and manner which impressed me greatly.
The hero is a Roman dandy, who wastes himself in luxury, till this great catastrophe rouses him and develops a character of the noblest capabilities.
Although, speaking of sin, as Edgar Guest, the peoples' poet, once so wisely quipped, (and my husband agrees) "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
Carter, the greatest Lion tamer since Hercules, was born during this month; and young dandies and authors, who patronize tea-parties, are called "Lions."
By nature, Lance was no dandy; but Roy had not failed to note that he was apt to be scrupulously well turned out on certain occasions.
There is a soup?on of spleen in the tone of Miss Linton's laughter, as though she had herself once felt the fascinations of the redoubtable dandy.
To his surprise, he found on the table a gentleman's cap, of that peculiar fashion which he had seen worn by postmen and dandies about town.
Chow rewarded them by allowing the use of the oven to make "dandy funk," a mess of broken hard tack and molasses, baked to a crisp.
He suffered from rheumatism very much, but sent back the dandy for me several times, and tried to walk, for I was very tired.
It will teach him how to say the most ordinary thing elegantly, and how to carry his head high as if he were a born dandy.
I can show you where to get some dandy photos of nesting birds, and I know where a pair of red foxes have a kennel every spring.