The 270 occurrences of dick
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"If you were a fairy farthing," she said, "you'd get yourself changed into gold on purpose to help Mrs Dicks; but it's no use waiting for that."
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It was a great honour and delight, and she had saved up so many questions to ask about various subjects that she had scarcely time to tell her about Mrs Dicks and the state of the charity-box.
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I don't know the Africans, and if I work, I'd rather work for Mrs Dicks."
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"And who, my dear child," said Mrs Hathaway, surprised at Penny's vehemence, "is Mrs Dicks?"
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She spoke quite kindly, and her face looked softer, so Penny was emboldened to tell her about the whole affair, and how Mrs Dicks was a very nice woman, and had six children to bring up on nothing.
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"I think," said Penny very deliberately, "that as there's so little in the charity-box I should like to work for Mrs Dicks' children."
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But she kept her resolve and did work for Mrs Dicks.
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The day on which she finished a set of tiny shirts for the baby Dicks was one of triumph to herself, and of congratulation from the whole household; Mrs Dicks herself was almost speechless with admiration at Miss Penny's needlework; indeed the finest embroideries, produced by the most skilful hand, could not have been more praised and appreciated.
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Related to or connected with the Barbers were the Atherstones, Cummings, McIntoshes, and Dicks, whose tents usually, stood in the vicinity of the Barber encampment.
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"Oh, Dicks," she cried, soon after their engagement--'Dicks' being the name she called him, for Doreens all the world over adore plurals and attaching 'S's' to names because it makes them so snakey--"Oh, Dicks, there's only one teeny-weeny thing I wish."
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During the noon hour he had a caller; Dick Holden, if you please, a Dick who was plainly perturbed.
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JOHN DICKS published, in 1769, The New Gardener's Dictionary; in sixty numbers, small folio, 30s.
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Dicks, 65 Dickson, 186 Dibdin, Dr. 17, 89.
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Behind his head, and about the great organ, were immense transparencies representing several Fames crowning a corresponding number of Dicks, at which Victoria (taking out a poetic licence) was highly delighted.
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A short swarthy man was Nate Dicks.
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Dicks lives in the t'other-end cabin."
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Dicks's prob'ly sleepin' in the Granville cabin."
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Granville and Dicks hurried to join the three, anxious no doubt to learn the result of Ward's scouting.
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Dicks walked toward the middle cabin, lustily singing: "Ye patriot souls who love to sing, What serves your country and your king, In wealth, peace, and royal estate; Attention give whilst I rehearse A modern fact in jingling verse."
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Dicks was finishing the first stanza as he entered the cabin.
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Dicks was walking toward this.
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Dicks was ambling along slowly and reverting to his song.
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The dog suddenly darted from the cabin and streaked after Dicks, a piece of rawhide trailing from his neck.
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Dicks was very angry to have his vocal efforts interrupted, and he halted and swung the bag of salt in an attempt to hit the dog, all the while commanding him to go back.
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As Dicks was emptying the salt on to the lick-block the horses sprang back and bolted in alarm, and an Indian's topknot, decorated with wild-turkey feathers, bobbed up from behind the block.
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Dicks seemed to be paralyzed.
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The Dales and Ward, walking toward the end cabin when Dicks was killed, halted and stood as if stupefied.
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The warrior at the lick-block knew Dicks would discover him, so he showed himself and made his kill."
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Many a Dick Turpin of the road had lurked under the drooping boughs of these same trees and sallied out to the hilltop with his ominous cry of "Stand and deliver!"
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Mrs. Elsey, in her confinement close by, complained to the burglars that she was very cold, and begged them to let her warm herself at the fire; accordingly, with the gallantry of a Dick Turpin, one of them brought her out, but seeing that she was noticing them, he ordered her into the store-room again, giving her, however, some greatcoats which were hanging in the passage near.
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The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron:/ With/ Life and Portrait,/ and/ Sixteen Illustrations./ By F. Gilbert./ London:/ John Dicks, 313, Strand./ [1869.]
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"/ New and Complete Edition.--Price One Penny./ London: J. Dicks, 313, Strand; and all Booksellers./ New York Samuel French & Son, 122, Nassau Street--Sole Agents./ 1883, etc./ [12º.
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203 of "Dicks' Standard Plays."
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--Price one Penny./ London: J. Dicks, 313, Strand; all Booksellers./ [1883, etc.]
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113 of "Dicks' Standard Plays."
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J. Dicks, 313 Strand; all Booksellers./ [1883, etc.]
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59 of "Dicks' Standard Plays."
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"]/ New and Complete Edition.--Price one Penny./ London J. Dicks 313 Strand; All Booksellers./ [1883, etc.]
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153 of "Dicks' Standard Plays."
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New and Complete Edition.--Price One Penny./ London: J. Dicks, 313, Strand: All Booksellers./ [1883, etc.]
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50 of "Dicks' Standard Plays."
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The Two Foscari./ By/ Lord Byron./ [Title-vignette, Death of Jacopo Foscari--"Touch it not, Dungeon Miscreants!----"] New and Complete Edition.--Price One Penny./ London: J. Dicks, 313, Strand.
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73 of "Dicks' Standard Plays."
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III./ London:/ Published by John Dicks, 313, Strand./ 1865./ [8º.
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]/] New and Complete Edition.--Price One Penny./ London: J. Dicks, 313, Strand; All Booksellers./ [1883, etc.]
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3 of "Dicks' Standard Plays."
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J. Dicks.
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J. Dicks.
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J. Dicks.
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J. Dicks.
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J. Dicks.
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J. Dicks.
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J. Dicks, etc.
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John Dicks.
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J. Dicks.
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There was a Dick Whittington: and he was Lord Mayor of London--to be accurate, he was Mayor of London, for the title of Lord Mayor did not yet exist.
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"Phil, dear," she went on, after this blissful pause, "I wish you had a Dick too."
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The only pigeon-hole into which he seemed to fit was the pigeon-hole of the "Queer Dicks."
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"Ho, ho, my hearties!" he said, stroking the heads of the horses, "you'll have a Dick Turpin's ride to-night."
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LEOCARPUS FRAGILIS, Dicks.
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Leocarpus fragilis, Dicks, _a._ Sporangia × 5.
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Collector, L. Dicks.
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"Put your money on the table," he said, finally: "there's the dicks ... and there's Pokey.
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Don't get too intimate with the dicks.
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I've put dicks on the case, and one family has moved in with relatives in the Bronx.
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Well, this cause is the life and death struggle of all the Dicks in the Valley--not for just this week, but for always."
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110-417 (october 14, 2008)) __________ prepared for the use of the COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SECOND SESSION __________ [GRAPHIC NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT] __________ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 45-834 WASHINGTON : 2008 COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY BENNIE G. THOMPSON, Mississippi, Chairman LORETTA SANCHEZ, California, PETER T. KING, New York EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts LAMAR SMITH, Texas NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut JANE HARMAN, California MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana PETER A. DeFAZIO, Oregon TOM DAVIS, Virginia NITA M. LOWEY, New York DANIEL E. LUNGREN, California ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of MIKE ROGERS, Alabama Columbia DAVID G. REICHERT, Washington ZOE LOFGREN, California MICHAEL T. McCAUL, Texas SHEILA JACKSON-LEE, Texas CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania DONNA M. CHRISTENSEN, U.S. Virgin GINNY BROWN-WAITE, Florida Islands GUS M. BILIRAKIS, Florida BOB ETHERIDGE, North Carolina DAVID DAVIS, Tennessee JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island PAUL C. BROUN, Georgia HENRY CUELLAR, Texas CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan CHRISTOPHER P. CARNEY, Pennsylvania YVETTE D. CLARKE, New York AL GREEN, Texas ED PERLMUTTER, Colorado BILL PASCRELL, Jr., Colorado I. Lanier Avant, Staff Director Rosaline Cohen, Chief Counsel Michael Twinchek, Chief Clerk Robert O'Connor, Minority Staff Director (II) P R E F A C E This book is designed as a ready reference of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296), as amended through Public Law 110-417.