| 单词 | dinky |
| 例句 | “I wish I could go to a school like that. No such thing in this dinky little town.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z In fact, I found out since then that it really was a garage once, until somebody changed it into the world’s dinkiest house. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z They sat at a dinky table by a pool of water. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z No more cruising by with a dinky little wave and hoping she would smile at me. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Poppy pulled a handful of dinky loose change from his pocket and dropped it on the ground in front of three boys. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z You only sent one dinky card that whole time, though. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The house was a dinky thing perched high up off the road on a hillside so steep that only the back of the house rested on the ground. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “It was like a secondhand tin shop, a dinky little place over there on the campus,” he recalled years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z These were the dinkiest owls that Officer Delinko had.ever seen—only eight or nine inches tall. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother’s been on the dinky Ridgeland County Historic Home Council forever, but refers to Jackson’s home tour as “high cotton” compared to theirs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Venus was only a planet, he went on, and pretty dinky compared to real stars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I was expecting something dinky and dark, to match the outside. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And Billy and the rest were encouraged to shuffle around their dinky train and into the prison camp. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Leefolt don’t put up no dinky card table like the other ladies do. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Always carry waterproofs, a spare inner tube and one of those dinky little pumps. Beware jeans, avoid the gutter, keep your saddle dry … 10 tips to make cycling a delight 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z When the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard pronounced the miniature to be "one of the refuges of greatness", clearly it was our own dinky era that he was anticipating. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z But in this context, the words “the show must go on,” hoisted like a dinky white flag, feel callow. Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano Exits the Way That He Entered 2011-03-02T22:09:23Z But low-grade synthesizers, not punk guitars, are her instruments, and they give her a soundworld that turns dinky tones into a personal universe, “a planet of my own,” as one song promises. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z “Yard with a dinky patch of sun for vegetables” doesn’t have the same ring to it. Perspective | Elevate your gardening skills (and save space) with climbing crops 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z They look lost and abandoned, lit up with dinky light bulbs. Hong Kong's Conceptual Circus 2010-05-10T11:00:00Z My room was quite dinky but the bathroom was huge, and this made me feel safe. For once, I had time to spend 15 minutes on my teeth. And boy, did it feel good | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z There was glorious mango ice cream from a dinky corner shop. Where to Find Bangkok’s Best Street Food While You Can 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z There are no tourist-bait boutiques — no farmers’ markets or dinky little tearooms — just a handful of relics: a dingy pub, a school, a half-stocked grocery store, a one-man cop shop. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Kitty Flanagan cocreated and stars in this Australian comedy about a lawyer whose life collapses, so she finds herself working in a dinky suburban law firm. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z A dinky little mountain in the northern part of New Hampshire, the resort opened about 80 years ago as a backyard run for local schoolchildren and their parents. 2010-02-06T04:54:00Z A hefty zipper is more fun to pull than a dinky one. In Bed-Stuy, a New Store Is Like a Petting Zoo for Clothes 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z More important, he's suspicious about why this big gun landed in dinky little Battle Creek. CBS serving up a bowl full of Vince Gilligan in 'Battle Creek' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Its instruments, early on, were state of the art, though they are now primitive: analog synthesizers, a dinky electronic drum equivalent with only a handful of sounds. Spring Performance: Music: Kraftwerk Concerts at Museum of Modern Art in April 2012-02-24T21:12:20Z “She got the house in the suburbs while I’m living in a dinky walk-up apartment downtown,” he said. Dating my therapist 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Stay at Ritta, a dinky wooden “guest apartment”, set in a pretty garden and close to the old town. 20 of the best Baltic beach holidays 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Long waits for a table and abominable prices on everything from dinky hotel rooms to mediocre pasta are customary. | The Anti-Amalfi 2011-06-24T15:00:27Z He opened the post-9/11 Concert for New York seated cross-legged and alone on the stage, playing a dinky keyboard and singing Paul Simon's "America," albeit as an ode for a bygone nation. 'David Bowie Is': How do you fit a rocker into an art museum? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It looks like a fairytale castle, with dinky battlements and turrets. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z McAdams – delicate as a doll and nearly as dinky – is talking in her hometown, Toronto, where To the Wonder screened at the film festival. Rachel McAdams: 'With a Terrence Malick film there will be no shortage of beauty and surprise' 2013-02-14T19:00:00Z Big Bend Mountain itself was a dinky disappointment, and Henry’s tunnel was far less impressive than the one carved out by Whitehead’s imagination. Interview: Colson Whitehead 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The creaks, the view, the dinky mezzanine, suggest a bohemian stateroom in a slightly rickety ocean liner. Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights' 2012-10-04T19:30:02Z From 244 metres up, the towers of the City look like dinky chess pieces, the looping spaghetti of railway lines like a toy train set, commuters scuttling like ants below on the platforms. The Shard opens up to share its high, wide and handsome view 2013-01-11T08:03:00Z Her famous bunny madeleines in the semi-final were so dinky, it felt like vandalism to watch one disappear into Paul Hollywood. ‘I was pretty much mute at school’: how Bake Off’s Kim-Joy found happiness 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z As Price correctly perceived, diminutive doesn’t have to mean dinky. Art Review: Ken Price: Yes, the Ceramics Are Art 2013-06-20T23:21:14Z We went from being a dinky little label to doing what some people consider important work. ArtsBeat: What the Grammys Mean for the Numero Group Label 2012-02-12T19:31:01Z As before, its music is additive: lines and loops pile up, some dinky and some monstrous, all building a crescendo. Music Review: Lines, Loops And a Skyline Spectacle 2011-04-28T21:38:57Z Moments that would be eye-rollingly pat if they appeared in fiction are instead haunting here in their veracity, but the use of dinky re-enactment footage sometimes erodes the power in that contrast. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z On the table is a dinky necklace made of tiny skulls. Jenny Beavan: ‘There was Cate Blanchett looking like an angel, and me looking like a biker’ 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Every pub in this dinky little city is overrun by standups for one gloriously long weekend. Cat Laughs 2010-06-08T14:32:00Z That dinky hit sure felt like a home run to me. To win season tickets, all he had to do was hit a home run in Nationals Park. Could he swing it? 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Resent script, resent acting, resent dinky tripartite structure. Film review: Eat Pray Love 2010-09-23T21:49:00Z “Just one dinky little phone to keep in touch with his people,” a flabbergasted Johnson scoffed after dining with Nixon. Watergate: The Scandal That Never Goes Away 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s not that the façade is dinky or the plain entryway dingy: on a different street, in a different neighborhood, it would be perfectly fine. The “Poor Door” and the Glossy Reconfiguration of City Life 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z From the outside, one visitor recalled, the two-story wooden shack resembled “a secondhand tin shop, a dinky little place.” ‘Big Science,’ by Michael Hiltzik 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z We would happily host this dinky critter in the middle of our Easter spread. ‘Easter is the main event. Christmas is just the warm-up band’ | Stephen Bush 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Whenever would-be lovers lock eyes, we get, instead of rapture, the dinky ping of a triangle. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Yet over the last two years, the fleeting clubs he has hosted at dinky dim-sum parlors and flat-lining clubs have served as a raucous refuge for the fashion world’s young glitterati. Up Close: Travis Bass, Impresario of the Night 2012-11-05T22:37:03Z There's the cover of a Wizzard album, and a dinky jacket covered with a repeating pattern of ripe cherries. Glam! at Tate Liverpool: through a mirrorball darkly 2013-02-06T19:30:01Z In place of the teenage dumb act and dinky blow dry, there was a beatific mummy grin. Mothers, enough of the simpering please! 2013-06-29T06:29:01Z Jenga stacks, dinky stainless buckets, twee mini-frying baskets, fake newspaper cones, these all prompt one question: where are the rest of my chips? How to eat: chips 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Nearby is the Buddha Lounge, a dinky, quirky dive known for betting on your drink in a game of Liar’s Dice between you and the bartender. For Lunar New Year, take a nighttime stroll in San Francisco’s Chinatown 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Here, though, “Rude” felt dinky, lacking not muscle but propulsion; it just kind of lay there, accepting defeat even as the song’s narrator fights it. Magic! pulls out all its tricks at El Rey Theatre 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s not the scotch: those caps are dinky. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The fruits of that success are a newly discovered asteroid—an even dinkier Dinky, as it were—and a host of puzzles to solve. NASA Asteroid Mission Discovers Tiny Surprise Moon with ‘Really Bizarre’ Shape 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z It turns out that the asteroid Dinkinesh has a dinky sidekick — a mini moon. NASA spacecraft discovers tiny moon around asteroid during close flyby 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z He threw so many dinky passes last season what’s the point of having a big arm? Nothing has changed for Justin Herbert except for bank account and expectations 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z That’s close—one fifteenth the distance of Earth from the Sun—but remember, we’re talking red dwarf here, and a particularly dinky one. Most Planets in the Galaxy Orbit Stars You Can’t Even See 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Some people are going to want Jimmy to hurry up and become Saul Goodman and why is this dinky, blond ponytail in our way? Where does Kim end up after 'Better Call Saul'? Rhea Seehorn reveals her theory 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s way too large to fit inside my coat pockets, and most cases only come with dinky handle straps. My favorite thing about the Steam Deck is its ultra-portable case 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Beyond the scrum was a shrunken replica of the Olympic cauldron, a dinky thing propped on the promenade without majesty, maybe not even a sign, behind cheap sidewalk barriers. The Most Memorable Sports Moments of 2021, According to Us 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Ryan completed 20 of 27 passes against the Panthers, but it was mostly a bunch of dinky throws. Falcons deal with loss of Ridley, lack of deep pass threat 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Casey guffaws loudly at the 360-degree gallery teaser, but he’s not smiling on the next tee box, after sending his ball into one of the dinky bunkers to the right of the green. Ryder Cup: USA v Europe, day two foursomes – live! 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the dinky, 1.2-megapixel camera Apple used last year has been replaced with a 12-megapixel camera that plays nice with a feature to keep you centered in your video calls. Apple unveils new iPhone 13, iPads and Apple Watch Series 7 at its fall event 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z So an OLED, even one with as dinky a resolution as 720p, is going to likely be a major improvement. Nintendo never needed to fix the Switch; it’s not broken 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z She is there for the dinky parades, three or four blocks to the waterfront and back. Drained by a Year of Covid, Many Mayors Head for the Exit 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z A drumming clown of your nightmares is in the back with a tiny kit and a few dinky keyboards. 52 songs, four hours, one album: How jazz trickster Sam Gendel made a pandemic opus 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z We flew this dinky little kite I bought from the local 99 Cents Only store in March. L.A. Affairs: We fell in love when the world locked down 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z When else would there be the chance to find a Link Wray album, put it on his dinky record player and let his head fill with rockabilly? A comfy chair, a locked door, an old record. Covid Thanksgiving inspires new reasons for gratitude. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z I checked into nice hotels, put on makeup and fitted jewel-toned dresses, strode onto stages large and dinky, and tried to project authoritative calm. I Was a Screen–Time Expert. Then the Coronavirus Happened. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z It is Ottolenghi's most famous creation, oversized and uninhibited, more like a small pavlova than some dinky cookie. These three-ingredient meringues are the perfect excuse to eat dessert for breakfast 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “Wildflower,” by the Australian group 5 Seconds of Summer, similarly downsized from a planned soundstage shoot to each member performing on his own in front of a dinky green screen. Music videos in the age of quarantine: Zoom boxes, hazmat suits and sad twerking 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Then, at 18, it dawned on him that they needed this dinky putt for a birdie to win it all. Least popular tour pro, or did we all get him wrong? - Golf Digest 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z I bought it then as a big treat to myself when I lived in a dinky old crummy apartment. Where actress Sarayu Blue unwinds from virus sleuthing on Netflix's 'Medical Police' 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The first method predicted a brain weighing about 4 ounces, but the volume suggested a dinky 1.7 ounces. This Rodent Was Giant. Its Brain Was Tiny. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Some budget airlines, including Frontier and Spirit, shoehorn passengers into seats with legroom as dinky as 28 inches. No one weeps for the talls, I get it: But in air travel's legroom wars, we suffer 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Admittedly, it had been a dinky bedroom, but it made for a pretty nice closet. When a trip down memory lane hits a shifted wall | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Then El Ghazi nearly endeared himself to his teammates by racing on to a dinky pass by McGinn and unloading a shot from the edge of the area. Arthur Masuaku sees red as West Ham hold out for a point at Aston Villa 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z A sugar beet resembles one of the dinky purple beets you grow in your garden the same way that a Sherman tank resembles a Honda Civic. Analysis | My time among the beet jockeys of northern Minnesota 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z In high school, he and a friend began experimenting with rapping, recording themselves on a dinky USB microphone before the friend’s cousin let them borrow nicer equipment. With Billie Eilish and 'Euphoria' co-signs, rapper $not is a Gen Z star in making 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Bird is offering rentals for the low price of $24.99 a month, but it’s giving you a dinky, slow scooter with about 50 percent of the battery capacity of its standard dockless one. One month with a Bird rental scooter: far worse than a bike 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z He's thinking back to 1972 when intensive research into puffins started on this dinky Scottish Island where the Firth of Forth meets the North Sea. Is this still the best place to be a puffin? 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Maguire has a dinky array of passing and, when he marauds forward with the ball at his feet, he eats up ground and has defenders fearing he might just devour them, too. Manchester United go for potential but can Solskjær nurture it? | Paul Doyle 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z This was during World War I, a brutal conflict we rarely talk about, the one with the mustard gas and terrible trenches, a war that only rates a dinky little gazebo on the Mall. Perspective | This soldier was a ‘hero among heroes.’ So why was he denied a Medal of Honor? 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z “It’s not just a dinky little moon we’ve found,” he continued. Tiny new moon discovered around Neptune 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The first Yoga Book was littered with compromises: a dinky processor, the wrong ports, and even the wrong operating system. Lenovo Yoga Book C930 review: two screens and lots of compromises 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “I am not going to defend a congressman and his dinky paper,” Gurkaynak said in an email. Rep. Dave Brat, an economist, borrowed heavily from Bernanke in academic paper 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “We all fly commercial and even small jets, even my plane has problems from time to time and I fly a dinky little propeller plane,” he said. Steinbrenner says Yankees exploring rotation upgrade 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Much later, I remembered a word that best describes these museums: wunderkammer, a cabinet of curiosities, the dinky and congested collections of objects that were once so popular in Europe. Letter of Recommendation: Tiny Museums 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Because my home course is so dinky, I had an initial advantage over Alex. I Played TPC Sawgrass From The Shortest Tees And From The Tips - Golf Digest 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z I don't live in an apartment or have a dinky yard... my uses are not just as a commuter. Ford Changed Leaders, Looking for a Lift. It’s Still Looking. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z He was sitting in a stranger’s dinky motorboat, attempting to rescue neighbors and shuttle them to safety. This app maker says his work saved thousands during Hurricane Harvey — and he’s not done yet 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z It was 8:30 a.m. and there were already 20 surfers in the water despite the dinky, one-foot-high swell. When Surfing Rockaway, It’s Watch Out or Wipeout 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z “We would be traveling and stop in a dinky little town.” Kansas mother, daughter duo creates doll museum 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z This one, he said in a phone interview, initially appeared as “just a dinky little fuzzball,” showing no signs that it would eventually brighten and become visible to the naked eye. Thomas Bopp, whose name was memorialized in a comet, dies at 68 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z When he saw “a very dinky little sleeping-bag with a club-class sticker” that the traveller had left behind him, he decided: “That just about sums him up.” ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z I had always loved these dinky nail polishes – then I discovered that they have been vegan for more than five decades. Sali Hughes: the 50 best ethical beauty buys 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z The job of this rocket was to carry the lunar module, a comparatively dinky, bug-looking thing. The real story of the rippling flag on the moon, and other space lore 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z It seems hopelessly dinky for the mammoth job at hand, but every bit helps and you know she will not go unthanked. After the flood: 'No tourists please. Help welcome' 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z “Drifter” overcomes a dinky budget with inventive makeup effects, costumes and striking art direction. Horror-thriller 'Drifter' is a semi-successful exercise in genre homage 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z After all, it won’t feel like the biggest game of the year if you’re watching it on a dinky old screen. The 6 Best Super Bowl TVs For Any Budget 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z If you have a dinky monitor, it can be quite cool to play your favourite game on a virtual 100” screen. I tried to work all day in a VR headset and it was horrible 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Maybe everybody else has been so bogged down with government waste and inefficiency, given all those dinky and pointless units of government, that they haven’t had time to comply with the state law. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z That would be so much grander than a dinky car. My violent father drove me straight into America's arms | Anonymous 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Councilor Chuck Wood said the local tax was important because it would bolster the city’s “dinky” share of the state tax. Pendleton hazy on ballot measure for pot sales 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z As a child Mr Kinchen was bought a couple of pre-war dinkies as a child, which sparked his enthusiasm for the miniature vehicles, Mr Motley said. Rare Dinky toy collection fetches £150k at Devon auction - BBC News 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Flying cash, a dinky car, feeling happy and feeling frustrated - these are just some of the themes from the session. The Philippine election in emojis - BBC News 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z That "dinky discussion forum" was FX Sabers, and as Murphy and son bonded over lightsabers, he joined a community that was initially focused on helping owners repair and upgrade the licensed collectables. The greatest Star Wars lightsabers in the world are built by fans 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z This, even though the format itself remains loveless, due to its creaky packaging and dinky design. Kanye West abandons CDs – but others won't 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z On the ground floor of the old Masonic Hall is a dinky drugstore with an even smaller Christmas tree. In Big Lake, residents are riding out the latest oil bust 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z He then feeds Pereiro in the box and, after a shuffle this way and that, the striker offloads to Hendrix, who produces a dinky curler from 10 yards that De Gea saves well. Manchester United v PSV Eindhoven: Champions League – live! 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s a dinky, barely readable newspaper, but it’s still a newspaper. Wesleyan students slash campus newspaper budget after ‘Black Lives Matter’ op-ed 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Another attraction to look out is the dinky scheming of Wahbi Khazri - the Tunisian trickster can be a delight when in the groove. Bordeaux v Liverpool: Europa League – as it happened 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s hard to tell in the split seconds of the video how large the animal is, and whether it is full grown, but it’s clearly “not a dinky fish,” he says. Surfer Attacked by Shark ‘Did Everything Right’ 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The year before I became a professional journalist, I was so hard up for him that I spent the autumn of 2008 living in dinky Doylestown, Pennsylvania and volunteering on his campaign. Finally, the Obama I fell in love with | Steven W Thrasher 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z He then feeds Pereiro in the box and, after a shuffle this way and that, the striker offloads to Hendrix, who produces a dinky curler from 10 yards that De Gea saves well. Manchester United v PSV Eindhoven: Champions League – live! 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Today’s wireless speakers—not those dinky little Bluetooth ones, but real room-filling loudspeakers—rival the sound experience people use to wire up mansions. Ditch Your Old Hi-Fi: Wireless Speakers Make Home Audio Easier 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Another attraction to look out is the dinky scheming of Wahbi Khazri - the Tunisian trickster can be a delight when in the groove. Bordeaux v Liverpool: Europa League – as it happened 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z These dinky little speakers are made from real wood and are port in the base and include a 20-watt amplifier. Compact Ruark MR1 Speakers: Big Personality Without Wires 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just some dinky final island where the final boss and my missing daughter were lurking. 'The Witcher 3' Is Gaming's New Mount Everest 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z They negotiated the Google deal in a series of meetings in a Denny’s restaurant in Palo Alto, California, instead of YouTube’s dinky office located above a pizza parlor in nearby San Mateo. YouTube’s 1st decade shows sharing free content pays off 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z To keep their work areas clean, they store their ink in a contraption called a dinky dip. Calligraphers’ Guild carries on artistic lettering tradition 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s dinky and kind of earnest looking, and I can’t imagine a manager being taken seriously if they were using one to keep employees on their toes. I used a robot to go to work from 3,500 miles away 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z After playing sold-out stadiums, the elder Butler—the closest thing indie rock has to a veritable superstar—seemed ill at ease in a dinky outdoor courtyard where not every element goes according to plan. SXSW Music Diary: Arcade Fire Solo Sets Fail to Ignite 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z "If they have a magic interest, they have to come through this dinky little town," he says. Welcome to Colon, Magic Capital of the World 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Don’t think you can’t haul around a huge rocket launcher just because you’re a Hunter, and don’t think a dinky hand cannon would look silly in your giant Titan Titan hands. Lessons Learned From 50 Hours Of 'Destiny' To Date 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “Some people think it’s some dinky bells that we ring and that’s not the case,” she said. W.Va. handbell ringers heading to Nats’ game 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z I remembered my grandfather, the proudest man I knew, a three-piece tweed suit kind of guy, struggling in his dinky hospital gown, demented and terrified, after his heart-bypass operation twenty years before. What I Learned About Health Care When My Cat Died 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Skip the traditional dinky “I Heart Dad” coffee mug this year. 8 Free (or Really Cheap!) Father's Day Gifts 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z She gets annoyed by the erratic behavior of Chrome, the dinky trackpad, the occasional bugs and the smallness of desktop elements on the screen. Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Revisited 2014-04-14T13:05:53Z The spring training system in dinky exhibition parks, with walkie-talkies to replay trucks, is so last century. Boswell: MLB instant replay improves accuracy, adds strategy 2014-03-07T19:52:09Z She then goes on to explain that she lives in a dinky little town and the only Cadillacs she drives are in her dreams. Lorde's Anti-Bling Anthem <em>Royals</em> Tops the Charts 2013-10-04T17:06:00Z It is 60 years since Jack Odell first designed a dinky car for his daughter to take into class. BMW Z4: car review 2013-07-21T09:29:00Z After the speech, Heredia was whisked away in a dinky motorcycle taxi, one of the three-wheeled put-puts common in the developing world. Peru's dynamic first lady has presidential aura 2013-02-20T06:05:07Z I respond with my dinky Swiss army knife and follow him to collect firewood. Box Seats: Skis Help Sharpen Relationship With Risk 2012-12-29T16:22:50Z Apologies for the dinky size of these maps; here is a full-size version. The Stark Environmental Challenge of Asia's Megacities 2012-08-31T15:04:07Z So dinky in the flesh, an elegant, gently-spoken creature of beguiling mildness, Farah prowls with quiet malevolence on the track, rolling gently forwards at the hips. London 2012: Mo Farah's electric run reawakens an old Olympic folklore 2012-08-04T22:05:34Z Building a dinky little software business isn’t going to help.” Dell Says It Will Take 5 Years to Build a Software Business 'At Scale' 2012-07-19T19:48:05Z After all, the next transit is 105 years away — likely beyond all of our lifetimes but just another dinky speck in the timeline of the universe. Silhouetted Venus Reminder of Solar System's Size 2012-06-06T13:32:00Z It features a full-size steel frame mounted on two dinky wheels. Bike review: five great commuter bikes 2012-05-29T11:17:20Z Ron Hecklinski, who won 274 games and five sectionals in 18 seasons as the boys’ head coach at Anderson, kept his promise to resign before coaching “in some dinky little gym.” Farewell to Wigwam and Heyday of High School Basketball in Indiana 2012-03-24T16:02:23Z “Line repairers do not carry little dinky reticules like that,” scornfully declaimed the fireman. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z And when this dinky little boat gets to the dock, I'll ask you to get into my car and come up to Sherry's for tea. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z I saw a bunch of busy boys humped up around a dinky flag and started for 'em to ask 'em about it. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z When it comes to consumer-level IoT, the classic example is the Botanicall, a dinky little product which sends plaintive tweets when the soil it is planted in becomes dry, to ensure plants stay watered. Interview: Twine - The Internet of Things for Regular People? 2011-12-02T13:46:16Z The sword- forging contraption is so dinky, he could be making cappucino. Understudy Triumphs as New ‘Ring’ Rolls In: Manuela Hoelterhoff 2011-11-01T00:57:28Z All them dinky little love-birds would hop round your feet and chirp. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z "You have lived here wrapped up in yourselves and your dinky little town so long that mental asphyxiation is threatening you all." The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z About half a dozen of their friends traipsed along with them, and took one of the tables in the same parlor and went at a dinky game of $20 limit. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z Besides, I’d like going about in fancy dress all day, and wearing a dinky little cap. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z A very good thing I gave you those dinky Shoes this morning. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z The idea is to unite two dinky characters, Ilo and Milo, by switching control between them and navigating the duo through a series of maze-like levels. The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) ? part one 2011-07-12T06:03:12Z He looked at the Major, and his expression said, plain as print, "You don't really insist on my making this dinky little putt?" Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Also probable, but not as certain: a new version of the dinky $699 Mac Mini computers Apple sells as an alterative to traditional desktop computers. OS X Lion Coming, New MacBook Air, MacBook, Mini Better Be, Too 2011-07-08T18:11:10Z I reckon 'tis your soul which comes nigh to busting your dinky body. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z ‘I don’t believe I should ever have got up that great cliff but for those dinky Shoes,’ she added when she had told all; ‘nor over Pentire Glaze.’ The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z Of course that dinky little war in the Philippines wasn't to be compared with this, but there was lots of savage fighting just the same. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z He popped one of his dinky little drives into the air, but instead of dropping into the bunker it floated beyond it to the middle of the course and ran like a scared rabbit. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z But he wouldn’t give it up—nor the white vest and the dinky patent leather shoes he’s got on right now—for all the gold you could name. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z “They couldn’t do anything anyhow, with that dinky little craft against the Georgetown,” boasted Hank Dell. Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z As it was nowhere to be found, nor the wee Shoes, nor the dinky Lantern, she came to the conclusion that it must be true. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z There was some little dinky revolution going on and Wilson it seems had gone down there on some filibustering expedition. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z I realized they were heading for me, and with great dignity descended from the dinky little side car in which I had been traveling. Average Americans 2011-06-02T02:00:20.387Z The ninth hole, a dinky par 3 that’s visible from the first tee, has a rock wall in front of it, flashed with sand. On Par: When a Bad Golf Course Edges Into Goodness 2011-05-23T01:07:46Z What fun is it to walk down into that dinky little village keeping step like convicts? At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z But Joan said she believed it was something more than that, if there was any meaning in the words of the song the dinky old woman in the bal-bonnet had sung. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z "I should think it would be hard to work on such dinky little things," remarked James who had large hands. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z “That dinky little power-boat yonder keeps hovering just so far behind us,” he said, uneasily. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z You see, the little dinky had turned turtle when it dropped Herb out; so there it was, floating beside him, bottom-side up. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z Last of all comes Hannah, her hair as slick as a seal's, a dinky little hat set on top of it, and a parasol held over it all. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Joan said she might, but was afraid it was too heavy for a dinky little maid like her to carry. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z Within minutes of switching it on, sliding those dinky little icons around the screen, I was hooked. Macs give me a syncing feeling 2011-02-28T00:04:01Z Will and Bluff appeared at almost the same time, and it was to find Frank hastening to drop into the little skiff which they dignified by the better sounding name of dinghy or “dinky.” The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z I saw two lads in little dinkies like that one yonder, fishing over by the long island, and guessed that possibly they belonged to your party.” Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z “I used to have ’em buffaloed when I was with Duluth, Out in that dinky pine tree league, and here’s the honest truth: This Mathewson ain’t better. Right off the Bat Baseball Ballads 2011-02-13T03:00:19.390Z ‘I am Mother Betty, turned into a dinky bird for your sakes, and have flown up the witch’s stairs!’ The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z "Another thing you promised me," says she, "was that when you could afford it you'd take me on a real honeymoon trip to make up for the dinky one we had." Gullible's Travels, Etc. 2011-02-06T03:00:55.707Z He called the original renditions of the video board “dinky,” said they looked “like a little postage stamp.” Welcome to Jerry?s World 2011-02-05T02:54:03Z “Just look at the way the foam flies up before the blunt bow of the dinky!” Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z When I saw a man with a dinky Panama hat pulled down about his face, and wearing a big black mustache or beard, I knew he was a Frenchman. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z When I handed an attendant my dinky lock recently, she rolled her eyes and said, “They’ll clip that one immediately.” Urban Athlete: Winter Swims, With Views, in New York City 2011-01-20T22:35:33Z Ms. Duncan, who is 64 but seems considerably younger onstage, plays Marty, the instructor of a dinky community-center acting class in a small Vermont town. | New Jersey: Perky Becomes Poignant 2010-10-16T01:17:00Z One of those dinky little keyboards for people with teeny-weeny fingers. Pass notes: The Kindle 2010-09-21T19:00:00Z Nick clambered aboard the motor boat in a hurry, as though really afraid that the fish in its anger might leap into the shallow dinky to bite him. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z The store will distribute free and paid applications for everything from gaming to productivity tailored to netbooks, the dinky, low-cost notebook computers typically built around Intel's Atom processors. Left Out By Apple, Intel Launches AppUp 2010-09-14T22:24:00Z Less problematic but nonetheless off-putting were the interior details -- an overblown white two-story foyer and great room with soaring 22-foot ceilings that made all of the architectural elements look dinky. An imposing Georgian manse is brought down to a more human scale 2010-03-20T04:00:00Z “Some of these stores are old and dinky.” New Yorkers Ponder Sale of Duane Reade to Walgreen 2010-02-18T03:03:00Z In the same period the local pitcher, using a little dinky slow curve, held the visitors to one score. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager Throw him in the dinky when he comes along. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z It wasn’t more ’n a’ hour afterwards when somebody passed that I knowed–in one of them dinky, little buggies that ain’t got no cover. Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher You're nearly eighty miles up here from the nearest occupied house, with two pair of snowshoes for the three of you and one dinky pistol. The Voice of the Pack The sequestration must be complete when a man with a dinky little cap on his ear is not allowed to talk to the girls. Last Words Of course, each would miss it or else make a dinky little hit. Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside But when that big cloud sails over the moon I want to slip into my little dinky here, and paddle quietly ashore. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z It was from her–I’d know her little dinky l’s anywheres. Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher I've seen twenty thousand cold bucks lost and won on a dinky little pinto that wasn't worth twenty dollars hardly. The Garden of Eden “Me go down one o’ them dinky little ladders–and me with a hole as big as a half-dollar in the back of my stockin’? The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks We don't even have real big prizes—just a dinky little spoon sitting up on the mantel-piece to excite us as if it was a tiara. Ancestors A Novel “Since when did Buster put a motor in his dinky?” asked George, feebly. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z It was a big, old, slate roofed baracks, with jigsaw work on the eaves, and a lot of dinky towers frescoed with lightnin' rods. Side-stepping with Shorty He had shaved off his dinky mustache and changed the color of his eyes, but I recognized him.” Satan and the Comrades Winkle, the dinky Persian with a penchant for night life, has presented the family with five kittens. Cavalry of the Clouds Not far from the crossing could be seen a dinky engine puffing and snorting furiously in terrific effort to move up the hill its attached train of loaded ammunition cars. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" And there he sits in the dinky, bracing his feet against a knee of the boat, and holding on for dear life, while the fish runs away with him.” Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z There was a bunch of 'em, mostly young girls all togged out in pink and white, drivin' dinky Shetlands in wicker carts covered with daisies and ribbons. Side-stepping with Shorty Hello, girls, did your dinky white cake catch the gold piece? Two Little Women I'm for it," Kit Shelby cried; "I hated that dinky little old steamer, but now we're ashore in this live wire of a place, I'm as excited and glad as anybody. The Come Back Once she hit on the idea that her kingdom would be the “dinkiest” in Europe, indeed in the world, she was pleased. The Island Mystery Of course, once Jack fairly started after the little dinky that was being so vigorously towed by the captive fish, he had no difficulty in overtaking it. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z Course, that dinky tin pan they was in don't land flat. Side-stepping with Shorty And at that it doesn't cost nearly so much as the sum total of Jones' dinky display. The Clock that Had no Hands And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising Now I've got our dinky sending station set on the same wave length at a different frequency. The End of Time Oh! there’s the dinkiest little baby with a brown face. The Island Mystery Gently the paddle was wielded, and the little “punkin-seed of a boat,” as the boys sometimes termed the dinkies, was noiselessly wafted shoreward. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z Well, then, this is the game: down there in Carlina where we are going there is a one-horse republic where they used to have a dinky little kingdom. The Web of the Golden Spider Said it was a dinky darling and she wanted it. Harding's luck He'd have the whole country out and the trick played up big in every dinky newspaper. Rimrock Trail I don’t mean them dinky little things like they make now, but rale wearin’ things like they used to make.” Letters on an Elk Hunt There’s one dinky little bedroom for you and a cot bed for me, choked in bagdad. Turn About Eleanor It will be furnished with dinky old dull stuff, and those swell Japanese prints and paintings. The Readjustment From that place there is but one little dinky railroad and one of the greatest mobs I ever got into was at the depot in Munich. Birdseye Views of Far Lands She’s got an English class in a high-school in a dinky little burg out about twenty miles and goes out there every Thursday. The Dominant Dollar Don't have to say so," he drawled, "if you ain't, what have you-alls got them dinky little canoes for, an' if you were after 'gators you'd be packing big rifles 'stead of them fancy guns. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades "She has one of those dinky bonnets, dear old thing, that makes you feel awfully braced with life." Bones in London The clothes especially seemed ridiculously out of place for even a visitor on a ranch, and he had always detested those dinky half-shaved mustaches. Shoe-Bar Stratton They'll set up to a drink, Get your money 'fore you think, And you get the "dinky dink" In Kentucky. Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse She fell to thinking that she preferred this American boy in this American scene to a nimble gentleman saluting the Alps in a dinky green hat with a little feather. Free Air What kind 63 of a dinky little silver-plated wedding present do you think I am, anyway? At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Bones produced a dinky little pocket-book from his waistcoat and read his notes, or, rather, attempted to read his notes. Bones in London You women can gad about as much as you please, but I’m in wrong when it comes to eating sponge-cake and knuckling my knees under a dinky willow table. The Place of Honeymoons He just makes things snug and then goes below and starts pokin’ about in his dinky little cabin. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe It was no dinky six-by-four-inch pasteboard drawer, not two inches deep—no, sir! Penguin Persons & Peppermints Personally, I should prefer all those dinky white telegraph poles stretched with ribbon and bunched up with flowers to make an aisle for the happy couple to walk through. Patty's Social Season "That's my dinky little religion, dear old Miss Hamilton," said Bones. The Keepers of the King's Peace You come chasin' yourselves down here, scared out of your wits because a dinky little one cent newspaper's makin' faces at you. American Sketches 1908 First game of the season was with that little old dinky Normal School which had been scaring us so for the past five years. At Good Old Siwash Meanwhile she sets out, with my aid, row after row of dinky little deep boxes. Working With the Working Woman “And I wish you’d take off that dinky little scrap of blue, so I can see if you are still my Apple Blossom Girl.” Patty's Social Season A derrick operating a clam-shell unloaded the sand and gravel into a small hopper, discharging into dump cars operated by a "dinky" up an incline, passing over sand and gravel storage bins. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs I used to think you a dinky little dog, but I'm out of friends with you now. A harum-scarum schoolgirl And he was succeeding; such is the uplifting power of the spirit of true friendliness, even when dwelling in a dinky little man with whiskers absurdly swept by the rushing wind. The House of Toys Then came the giant sand dump, where the dinkies had filled a canyon with the sand from the river bed. Still Jim Bales of vellum arrived for to bind little dinky books; art rocking-chairs was shipped out o’ here by the carload. Iole The mixers discharged into 1 cu. yd. buckets set two on a car and eight cars were hauled to the work in train by an 18-ton "dinky." Concrete Construction Methods and Costs "It's just possible I may turn philanthropist, and give you all a dinky little surprise," she added casually, as she strolled towards the door. A harum-scarum schoolgirl One was an astute banker with a mouth delinquent borrowers hated to see, one was a woman who was known to be wise and one was a dinky little man with red whiskers. The House of Toys Puffing on the single-gauge track was a "dinky" engine, coupled to a flat car. Still Jim So he got it, rent free, and furnished it sparingly with furniture of a slabby variety until the effect produced might, profanely speaking, be described as dinky. Iole I had seventy-five hundred, all in the long green, in that dinky satchel of mine, when I came to this wikiup to join Wynn and Hogan. Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California Likewise a dinky pair of shoes with silver buckles, and heels on 'em that'll make you inches taller'n you are now. Kiddie the Scout And she mothered him, that dinky, absurd little man, and he bowed his head on her knee. The House of Toys The dinky whipped around curves and across viaducts, the grade rising steadily until just as Jim had made up his mind that his moments were numbered, they reached the first steep grade into the mountain. Still Jim Anyway, I would not dream of going so far as the Harbor in that dinky little Tocsin. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point Not some dinky little place filing letters or picking up chips. The Book of Business Etiquette You don't go ter bed wi' yer boots and breeches on; you sleeps in a dinky suit o' pyjamas with stripes on 'em, an' braid, an' fancy buttons. Kiddie the Scout Tuttle justified the hopeless ones by popping a dinky little fly into Sanger's hands. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Rags and red herrings, and broadcloth and books, and O. D. and Khaki, and horizon blue, crowded the dinky ding-ding tramway and counted out kopecs to the woman conductor. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 He had a dinky cloth cap of the same pattern, and the lengthiest face I ever saw on a man. Shorty McCabe But I figured out: there's camp-meetin's an' socials up there, an' a nice, dinky, white shirt once in a way goes pretty good. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance "Now," said Jack, "let's try and fix the dinky things under the blankets so they'll look like a couple of greenies sleeping sweetly, and dreaming of home." Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie "What are they doing in a dinky atoll like this?" the supercargo went on. A Son Of The Sun For the dinky little picture under the cameo is a dead ringer for the one Claire had shown us in the silver frame. The House of Torchy We may drink muddy coffee out of dinky brass cups with a lot of Syrian rug sellers down on Washington Street, or drop into the middle of a gang of sailors down on Front Street. Shorty McCabe "You didn't think I was going to stay in that dinky hospital when there was so much doing, did you?" laughed Frank. Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive "Oh, it's just a little dinky affair," laughed the traveller. Deep Furrows Allison, one-way, dump cars were used, being handled by “dinky” locomotives, of which there were three in use up to October, 1907, and four after that. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 He had managed to secure control of a dinky grain-carrying railroad and a few elevators. Shorty McCabe on the Job She was white all over, except for a gold streak around her, and a couple of dinky yellow masts. Shorty McCabe I don't care what the dinky thing's name is. Patty Blossom He used a dinky telephone that should have been in a museum, and a rural Central put him on the Area Officer's tight beam. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 A clearance diagram of one of the “dinkys” used in the tunnels, and its relation to the forms used, is shown by Fig. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 All of them discarded their tarred clothing, appearing in natty white “Americanos” and dinky straw hats, while some even sported swagger sticks. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Polite language is not adequate to describe the loading of our train: getting all the wagons on the dinky little flat-cars and the horses aboard. The Emma Gees As it was we could hang up all night at some dinky junction or wait over until next morning. Torchy and Vee The yacht was 'way up off the coast of Maine at the time, and the nearest place where it was safe to anchor was in the lee of a barren, dinky little island. Torchy At Hackensack, the principal cause of trouble was the smoke from the “dinky” locomotives. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 Let's see what the dinky thing is doing! The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays Field-work in the broiling sun and setting on a divan with a dinky fan to your face and a young man to peep over it don't hitch, somehow. Dixie Hart The station that Harry spoke about was a little dinky station that we had passed about a half of a mile back. Roy Blakely, Pathfinder A hot lot of young gold spooners they was too; some of 'em not as old as me by a couple of years, and swellin' around in dinky Tuxes168 and white kids. Torchy You see, Collie, he's gettin' what you might call a liberated education, full of big ideas—no dinky stuff. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail He was dressed in a new golf suit, complete—from the dinky cap to the Scotch plaid stockings. Roughing it De Luxe Telephone and telegraph wires run through the trenches and even railroad tracks are laid so that small engines go whirring through the ditches like "dinky" locomotives in a coal mine. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights He has to wear a stiff bandage on the dinky leg, 'n' I puts one on the left-fore, too—it looks better. Blister Jones She's a wide, heavy old party, with a dinky white cap on her white hair, and kind of a resigned, patient look on her face. Torchy Next morning we were taken off and put aboard a dinky little train. Into the Jaws of Death But I'm done with filling a dinky pad with rows of figures, all day long. Then I'll Come Back to You Mr. Austin says it would be a terrible mistake, that he's too young; and Seth Curtis says no rich man would be fool enough to pester himself with a dinky country church. Green Valley It was a bully place, I will say that, with plenty of light from a lot of small dinky windows that faced on three sides of the room. The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight "If you think it you could get two up-to-date lofts on Seventeenth, Eighteenth or Nineteenth Street, Abe, for what you pay it here in this dinky place," he said, "you got another think coming." Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Yesterday one of my people managed to get down in their dinky mine. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West The event was the openin' of the Pill Box; you know, one of these dinky little theaters where they do the capsule drama at two dollars a seat. Wilt Thou Torchy And if the dinky shoulder straps held it was all right; but if one of 'em broke there'd sure be some hurry call for four yards of burlap to do her up in. On With Torchy He was still stiff and proud, but a swift smile crossed his face as he looked down upon us, half-naked and sun-blackened there in our dinky little craft. The River and I Poor dinky little Othello! it shall have its occupation again to-day, and say just what it likes. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters The Loot is getting wabbly, With his dinky little pack,— He can hear the sergeant cussing But he doesn't dare look back. "I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919 Patching up their dinky little wings and stretching out their dam' little legs and feelers—me being what I am, and they being what they are! Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man "I've already exhausted my thanks to Santa Claus and here he comes with another package done up in dinky pink paper tied with baby ribbon—and the gold platter it's on goes with it!" The Miracle Man Everybody else who designs costumes, just draws them; dinky little water-colored plates, and the plates are sent out to a company like The Star Costume Company, and they execute them. The Real Adventure "Yes! he did—and he did Mary too—put the dinkiest little heart on her arm—we were under the cherry tree in the vegetable———!" Desert Love More than that, I'll bet there's not one mining claim out of fifty that we can't 'adverse' in the courts and take away from its dinky locater. Heart's Desire "Come in, Phil," he called out; "and look at the dinky chair somebody sent me!" The Younger Set Captain Cornelisz eyed Jacka for a full minute, and then a dinky little smile started in one eye and spread till it covered the whole of his wide face. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Do you mean to tell me that I'm hauling all of you around, with not a man among you able to blow a dinky little horn? Twelve Men "Then we'll have to play up to that location you filed by hiking to the Gavilan and going through the motions of doing assessment work on that dinky little claim." Copper Streak Trail “You ’m a dinky bit comical-tempered now and again, dear heart.” Children of the Mist We got over to Broadway, turned up that, and worked on through that dinky little grass plot they call a square, kind of aimless like and wondering where Ben in his grief would lead us. Somewhere in Red Gap "You've made me all over, Patty," he would sometimes say; "now, I really like these dinky doo-daddles better than the 'old oaken bucket' effects on which I was brought up!" Patty and Azalea A small boat, called the dinghy, or dinky, was trailed behind. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf He looked like a fashion plate himself and he swung a pair of dinky glasses on a cord as he listened to me and looked me over. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper Any kind of a dinky hit would score the tying run. Don Strong, Patrol Leader She wears a dinky miniature of you against her naked heart. The Common Law First it was a mineral claim; then he banked the future on timber, and when he got tired waiting for stumpage to soar, he put up a dinky sawmill to cut his own trees. The Rim of the Desert They gave me a dinky little pleated petticoat, and when I demanded breeks to wear underneath, I got the merry ha ha. A Yankee in the Trenches "Oh, you know they've started another one of those dinky revolutions in Panama, two generals fighting for the presidency," explained Kelsey. The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty Gee! who could dance with a little dinky devil like that! Every Soul Hath Its Song "By the way, Bub—how long has Her Majesty's dinkies given you?" Murder in Any Degree There isn't a pantry on the place, and only that one dinky little cupboard over there. The Phantom Herd Had you been here the night my dinky little train pulled into the station, you would have guessed that it was a big Fourth of July celebration or the Emperor's birthday. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration There were three little mice, playing in the barn— Inky, dinky, doodum, day! The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On "I'll never forget poor Bowles, the first time I saw him in his dinky red jacket and that Hooligan cap of his," reflected Chase, as if he had not heard Deppingham's remark. The Man from Brodney's I'm a good enough Yank to see if your dinky police is such an all-fired cute little bunch of wonder-workers as you say! Murder in Any Degree What is there in taking an old tub and flopping down that dinky stream? Cheerful—By Request Just now I might suggest to your Majesty to order some rooms got ready for us in your dinky little castle here. The Scarecrow of Oz So those three little owls flew back up in the barn— Inky, dinky, doodum, day! The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On They bothered him with their dinky deals, with their scrimping and scratching, and their sneaky attempts to hide their ugliness by the observance of one set day of sanctuary. Dust "The dinkies are all right—but—but a Yank, a real Yank, would 'a' got me in six months." Murder in Any Degree You just watch that dinky little vase on the table across the room there. Within the Law And so——But here's what bothers me: I like fabrics; dinky things like that; little drawings and elegant words. Main Street "You wouldn't drink with me, and I didn't like the domned, dinky, little pleated coat you wore," answered Jimmy. At the Foot of the Rainbow That one you had on in church yesterday was real dinky. Anne of the Island Probably derived from mainstream `dinky', which isn't sufficiently pejorative. :dinosaur: n. The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 If you want your dinky throne back you'll have to do as I desire; that is, sign the release and the sanction. The Mad King But way I figure it out——You see, I'm not interested in these dinky reforms. Main Street I wouldn't want to put in any dinky, one-horse affair. The Octopus : A story of California For Bill was a dainty kind of cuss, and his mind was mighty sot On a dinky patch with flowers and grass in a civilized bone-yard lot. Ballads of a Cheechako "What a dinky little flame," said one of his companions, with contempt. Stories from the Old Attic Why, we ain't one, two, three, with the dinky little twelve or thirteen millions we could swing. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation The Boss used for to go over there with a dinky fish-pole like a buggy-whip about once a week, and scout that stream for fish and bring back a basketful. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West I've seen you, time and again, work harder to earn a dinky vase or prize than at anything else under the sun. Fifteen Years with the Outcast "Here I've been a month in this dinky hole," which I thought strange, since we were surrounded by league upon league of the primal wilderness. Ruggles of Red Gap It came in five hours, a string of eleven match boxes on big, high wheels, drawn by a dinky little engine with the "con." Over the Top You'll be good fur something else besides holdin' one of them dinky little teacups, and talking about 'trouserings'—no matter what people say. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Yes, the kid was just that pore, pathetic kind to carry a dinky twenty-two, and with the tears runnin' down his cheeks begins to talk tall. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West "There's the dinky old town!" cried Andy, pointing with trembling finger. The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics I'm lying there on the bed, taking it all in, when up rides a dinky little officer on a horse. The Sorrows of a Show Girl Maybe if Oz were a little dinky insignificant country like America or Kansas, it would be okay. The Forest Monster of Oz Undoubtedly, then, the great battles in the present war, on the water at least, may be decided by these silently moving, dinky sized, almost imperceptible submarines which carry the ever-destroying torpedoes. America's War for Humanity The windows were that dinky kind that open outward and had little bits of panes. The Spanish Chest You can't tell me that you are going to build a railroad into Greenfield's town just to get a dinky little power plant in your own district. The Winning of Barbara Worth All this fuss about a dinky brown bird that can’t do anything but flop its wings and squeal when you go near it. Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites That dinky little safe in the corner hasn't got anything in it to speak of.' Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys "Awful dinky!" said Kit, as he pushed aside some cushions and sat down beside Patty, "but a jolly good house to visit in." Patty's Suitors Oh, I'll smash this dinky government—try to convict my kid, eh? The Ne'er-Do-Well We'll kiss this dinky flat a fond farewell—it's impossible, really—I refuse to share such a dark secret with you. The Auction Block And she lugs in a lot of corn husk and shows them how to make a few dinky baskets and thinks she’s doing some wonderful thing. Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites "I call the whole proceedings an outrage, and if you want to know what I would do about it, I would ask a Wellington official to sue this dinky little town for damages." Jane Allen, Junior H'm, will you tell me what he could have taken, with everything nailed down, the cabin door locked and even the little dinky fastened with a chain and lock. The House Boat Boys Why do you bother with a dinky office like the one you started out for? When Egypt Went Broke Well," Pearl began, "ye know I wash Mrs. Evans's dishes every day, and lovely ones they are, too, all pink and gold with dinky little ivy leaves crawlin' out over the edges of the cups. Sowing Seeds in Danny Ach, I found the dandiest nest out on one of the cherry trees and I know you like dinky birds and thought I’d get you an egg. Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites During the long, sunny spring day, their dinky little train whisked them briskly through the sweet and restful beauty of the English southern counties. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land He blew a dinky little tune I remembered hearing when I was a kid: Prettiest little gal in the country—oh! Sixes and Sevens We landed at a town on the coast, where a train of cars was waitin' for us on a dinky little railroad. Cabbages and Kings Now let us consider a little, dinky, old minah bird with one broken wing that cannot fly. On the Makaloa Mat "Not big, and not little dinky baby's teeth either," Billy had said, "... just right, and they fit you." The Valley of the Moon What do you let the girl chop the toast up into these dinky little chunks for? Babbitt You see, ma'am, I had a little hole in the ground—a dinky, hydraulic, one-horse outfit of a mine. The Night-Born "You don't call that dinky gardening farming," he objected, pointing to a piece of land barely the size of an acre, which they were passing. The Valley of the Moon "Just the same," Billy held stubbornly, "large scale's a whole lot better'n small scale like all these dinky gardens." The Valley of the Moon "I don't know which is the dinkier," she observed finally, "—owning a few little acres and the team you're driving, or not owning any acres and driving a team somebody else owns for wages." The Valley of the Moon "Say, let's forget it all now, an' you sing me 'Harvest Days' on that dinky what-you-may-call-it." The Valley of the Moon But old Silva never overlooked a bet, no matter how dinky. The Valley of the Moon They're so white an' regular, an' not big, an' not dinky little baby's teeth either. The Valley of the Moon |
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