Hick
[hɪk]
Examples
- When they brought her coffee, she started as though it were a cup of poison which Mr. Hicks, the butler, wished to propose to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Hicks, Champagne to Miss Swartz. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Take away the soup, Hicks, and to-morrow turn the cook out of the house, Jane. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Hicks, 40th Illinois Volunteers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I assure you I found poor Hicks's judgment unfailing; I never knew him wrong. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was as little as possible like the lamented Hicks, especially in a certain careless refinement about his toilet and utterance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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