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"Nick" Quotes from Famous Books

... soldiery; and, if he can help it, he will not in any similar case leave so much as a wooden spoon to be carried off to the Fatherland, and added as yet another trophy to the hundred thousand French clocks and the million French nick-nacks which are still preserved there as mementoes of ...

— My Days of Adventure - The Fall of France, 1870-71 • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

... fix," answered Dick, with a shiver. "You came in the nick of time, and I owe you a ...

— The Rover Boys out West • Arthur M. Winfield

... to tatters, and his hat and gun gone. He presented a curious picture. I heard the burghers jeer and chaff him as he approached, and called out to him: "What on earth have you been up to? It looks as if you had seen old Nick with a ...

— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen

... dangerous on the coast, nor the most convenient for the salving of wreckage and fast-drowning cargoes. So he established stations at Squid Beach to the northward, and at Nolan's Cove to the southward, and ordered Nick Leary and Foxey Jack Quinn to take up their abode in the new huts; Nick at Squid Beach, and Foxey Jack at the Cove, had to keep a sharp look-out for ships during bad weather and at night. Should either of them remark any signs of a ...

— The Harbor Master • Theodore Goodridge Roberts

... There was continued tumult in the streets and, at one time, shortly before dawn, a gang of rioters actually broke into the palace and groped about in search of the queen's apartments. Just in the nick of time the hated Marie Antoinette hurried to safer quarters, although several of her personal bodyguard were ...

— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

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