As for myself, I took my station on the dickey, determined to let nothing escape me in a scene that I remembered with so much enduring delight.
When they were in the carriage together, the maid being then stowed away in a dickey or rumble behind, Sophie again whined and was repentant.
Within, there was a good-sized seat for the principal occupants, and outside a dickey behind, and a driving box before, though sometimes there was only one of these, and that transferable.
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Dickey(1996) has shown that this effect occurs in adults when sentences have three clauses.
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Dickey's function was to research foreign policy public opinion and to liaise with private organizations.
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It has the security of this country behind it, and it gives an interest which in the past could only be obtained -with a very "dickey" security.
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It must be yourdickeybow.
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Dickeynever married but raised several children left in her care.
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Dickeytends to use the slow knuckleball when he is behind in the count, using the fast one when he is ahead.
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Dickeyhas given us here is a fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it.
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In certain scenes, he also wears black boots, adickey, and a union suit.
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Dickeywas entrusted with rebuilding the program, and his six seasons at the school saw considerable change.
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Additional seating in the rear deck was known as a rumble seat or adickeyseat.
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Dickeynever overcame the hurt at not being able to play quarterback professionally.
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Dickeyhas been working as a character actress in both mainstream and independent films since the 1990s.
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Dickeywas the first pitcher in the major leagues to reach 10 wins in 2012.
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In 1922 a more conventional car came along, the 8/18, still a two-seater anddickey, with pressed steel chassis and shaft drive.
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Dickeyroutinely throws an unusually fast knuckleball at 80mph kph.
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