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    1. Nick comes over at the end of the evening to congratulate me


    2. Nick drops in a couple of evenings a week to see his grandparents, and frequently calls in at my place for a coffee on his way home


    3. Poor old Nick gets it all when he calls round one evening just before the meeting


    4. Nick gives me a sympathetic grin as I hurry over to where Maggie means and get down to work


    5. ‘Oh, it was only a case of unscrewing the U bend and cleaning it out, Nick, those things get really clogged up with gunk sometimes


    6. ’ Nick told me in response to my question about where the railway line went originally


    7. ’ Nick said, giving me a kiss on the cheek, ‘You were brilliant!’


    8. ‘That would be very kind of you, Nick


    9. Nick comes round for coffee towards the end of the month and, in the course of the conversation, mentions that he and Jackie have split up


    10. As we munch our way through our slices of cake, Nick explains that the Troubadours won’t be meeting again until the New Year when we’ll start looking at the Easter production

    11. Nick rings at the weekend


    12. It is a new building and, several times, Nick has enthused at me about its many virtues


    13. ‘What was that for, Kate?’ Nick asked


    14. I giggle as Nick comments on how impossible it would be for me to have an illicit relationship with this lot around, then giving me a hug, gets into his car and drives off


    15. ‘So, are you going out with this Nick bloke?’


    16. I give her a hug and send her off into the hall where Nick is pouring sherry


    17. Nick has got some really excellent crackers with interesting trinkets inside them and reasonably acceptable jokes … for crackers


    18. We all look ridiculous in our paper hats but who cares! Betty is happy because she has Fred to herself and, although I know Rose and Janet are watching us and more or less taking notes, I am very content to have Nick at my side


    19. Nick appears at my elbow, an amused look on his face – he was clearly in on the secret - he hands me the tissue which his Gran has handed him in her usual, perceptive way


    20. ‘I can see that I’ll have to drag you back under that mistletoe …’ Nick whispered as I blow my nose

    21. They appear minutes later, Nick carrying a beautifully iced Christmas cake – I’d not thought of that


    22. Nick volunteers to help me and I see Janet and Rose exchange a knowing look …


    23. I carry all the dirty dishes out into the kitchen while Nick puts the chairs back where they belong


    24. Deciding that, as it is my day off, I shall wear something different, I trawl through the wardrobe, digging out a flattering, mid-calf length woollen skirt in a pretty shade of deep blue that Nick hasn’t seen yet … with a pretty light blue top and my best gold necklace (a present from the school when I left) it would look smart and it would make me feel partyish


    25. I tell her all about the day yesterday … leaving out some of the details with regard to Nick … and mention that I’m going for lunch with a couple of the residents today


    26. Sitting behind Nick, catching my breath, I contemplate the back of his head while Rose tells me how warm the beautiful shawl Nick gave her for Christmas is


    27. ’ Nick commented as I follow Rose down the path to his front door


    28. ’ Nick said coming up behind me


    29. That view is amazing!’ She smiles approvingly at my comment as Nick disappears off to the kitchen, and I call after him ‘Do you need a hand at all, Nick?’


    30. The meal is a jolly one, with Wally telling some amusing stories about Nick as a child which Nick takes in very good part

    31. Afterwards, I help Nick wash up


    32. ‘Oh heavens, I’d forgotten about that, Nick


    33. ‘It’s only that I’m totally relaxed, Nick


    34. now why am I not surprised by this? As promised, I send Nick a text message


    35. ’ Janet said equally straight-faced as she leaves the room, and I double up with laughter rapidly infecting Nick


    36. Nick comes over mid-morning by which time I have washed up the glasses and stowed the empty bottles in the recycling box


    37. I miss Nick so much it is a physical pain and the knowledge that I have hurt him merely adds to the torment


    38. Rose is very concerned that you’ve cut off communication with Nick, she hasn’t said much, but she sees a lot and she’s very close to him


    39. Nick was here … he doesn’t hate me … I take a deep breath


    40. I am still pondering Rose’s comment when Nick turns up to collect me

    41. One of the uncontaminated guys returns to the house with a view to exterminating the living dead, but soon he is surrounded by his ex good friends -Nestor, Nick, Apostolis and others- who look very ominous now


    42. while on Michaelmas Day, upon the blackberry Old Nick puts his feet


    43. in the nick of time to avoid any more of a scandal than was


    44. barbs, all the meanness and all the venom that Nick


    45. what was going on in her relationship with Nick


    46. The bartender looks totally dismayed, but Maggie appears in the nick of time to give him a hand


    47. There is usually a bottle of shampoo lying around in the bathroom that he can nick a couple of washes out of


    48. The house is in good nick


    49. another nick in the popularity armor


    50. They had no religion, yet Saint Nick intimidated













































    1. Nicked a student thesis and put it in a posh report, when all they needed to do was look at the bloody receipts!"


    2. and nicked the top of his free hand


    3. “I swear one this morning was stalking me and as soon as the chance came, it ran down the trench wall nicked the last bit of bacon off the tip of my bayonet and scarpered with it”


    4. It was March now and it still continued to rain heavily we were sat in a dugout which was reasonably cosy because someone had nicked a brazier from somewhere and we had bunk beds made out of chicken wire and wood it was sheer luxury


    5. As I made to strike with the knife Smith started screaming like a girl having her virginity nicked and all hell broke loose once again


    6. Devastated, I called the vet, sure the anesthesia tube had nicked her esophagus during surgery, and rushed her back


    7. It took him a few minutes to locate the problem - the main distributor lead had been nicked by a bullet


    8. "Well you see, Uncle Hobart and a few of his mates went round to the late-night store to pick up some extra beer for the party, and while they were there, he was nicked for trying to leave the shop without paying


    9. He was always too careless with the blade, and scraped the back of my neck, or nicked my ear


    10. Corsa’s could be easily nicked and there were a million of them on the road, not his choice of car but he was on a deadline

    11. “So they nicked your ball, that's not nice


    12. ” The tip of the sword nicked Simon’s skin and he felt a trickle of blood ooze out


    13. The bullet nicked his heart


    14. He slightly nicked me


    15. I tied it to the bush and nicked its neck with my dirk


    16. I must have nicked his heart or something with the sharp tip of the


    17. have nicked the bladder, as a uriniferous smell ran out with the intestines


    18. 'I nicked my blade on his belly


    19. Hours later, he stitched and stapled the boy back together after finding the nicked vein in his liver and repairing the punctured lung and torn bowel


    20. The bear seemed only to have been nicked on a shoulder, but he screamed and went after Finn faster then anyone would imagine a fat bear could run

    21. One was the challenge, even though I thought some kid had nicked them for his billy cart


    22. Gary believes when Donna was at Forrest’s penthouse, they somehow nicked his virus program, re-programed it and turned it into a BSV


    23. we’d nicked from the front door of Ms Courtney’s house and a


    24. What if the lizard disapproved, she thought, at having a little girl eating a part of it? But, she tried to reason, it hadn’t done anything when her father nicked off a piece of its leaf


    25. Rafael had nicked the neck of the man who held him and blood was spurting from the wound


    26. He came around, jerked his head and I nicked the lobe of his left nostril


    27. The bullet had only nicked his shin but he was


    28. The handle was nicked in several places and the wood had turned an orange color from the age


    29. “What’s all the fuss about a few stupid boxes of food, J? If they do happen to get nicked, there’s plenty of shops we can stop at


    30. “Perhaps they used it to go away in, or it’s been nicked if they left under duress

    31. The responsible Marketing guys each got chewed out in turn by the badly nicked and


    32. “I don’t think so…oh hang on a minute there was the bowling alley attendant, he thinks I nicked his bowling ball on purpose…he probably came here to teach me a lesson


    33. Might get nicked


    34. was nicked, the police talked about reducing the charges against me to “being an accessory” if


    35. Mei Yinxue that all in the Pugilistic Fraternity was the whore that was nicked the


    36. Therefore everyone in Pugilist nicked her as the Ageless Phoenix and a


    37. in the Pugilistic Fraternity had nicked her; And the loneliness of the Phoenix Ye


    38. some one in Pugilist that is nicked Heavenly Emperor?” Nangong Ping appeared to


    39. And this is Junior’s third protégé brother and is also one of the Zhijiao Twin Sword, who is also nicked the ‘Quiet Swordsman’ Shi Chen!”


    40. Therefore the people in the Pugilist nicked him as the Heavenly Crow Priest

    41. “The people in Pugilist has nicked you as the Cold Blood


    42. The man who was nicked Black Eagle trembling replied with his hands on


    43. Everyone in the Fraternity had nicked her ‘cold blood’ but they had also added a


    44. Mei Yinxue was nicked ‘Cold Blood’ but this old man blood was a hundred


    45. no wonder everyone in the Pugilist nicked you as cold blood


    46. Although she was nicked the Cold Blood Concubine but she was very


    47. Over one arm he’s slung his army knapsack filled with the two remaining grenades, some of last night’s ham and bread, and a large bottle of water he nicked from a store on the way


    48. With one powerful blow down came the axe but instead of chopping off the head the axe merely nicked his neck


    49. He had nicked my throat and drew a drop of blood, which to


    50. There was a large gash just under her ear from where a harpoon had nicked her, but the beautiful thing about a harpoon was that once it was thrown, the attacker was rendered defenseless and open





















    1. I had experimented during the day by nicking my finger on one of sharp corners of the camp bed frame, but I never did master writing in blood


    2. The local people bustle about, the women – as women anywhere, obviously shopping while herding small children and the men either busily rushing around or lounging staring into space – I watch as a woman with two children makes desperate attempts to stop the elder of the two under her care from pinching some fruit from a stall … the little devil waits until she is occupied in conversation with the stall owner before sneakily nicking an apple and ramming it into his pocket


    3. Glass showered over them, some small splinters nicking the skin on his cheek


    4. Standing on my toes, I lent into the crowbar, determined that an inanimate object wasn’t getting away with nicking my supper


    5. There were easier ways of nicking cars but Hobbs didn’t seem to be aware of it


    6. ’ Grasping the front of the Vassal’s overall he pressed the point of the knife into the coarse material and ripped upwards, nicking the fellow’s chin and bottom lip, from which blood began to flow freely


    7. Hacking blades were nicking chips out of the jambs about his ears, but the door flew open under the impact of his shoulders, and he went stumbling backward into the room


    8. “So why the hell didn’t they use it instead of nicking another motor?”


    9. Anyone intent on nicking two million quid would almost certainly put it in to their own account or a phantom account specially opened for the purpose, and not use someone else’s


    10. Nicking things was expected

    11. " Without warning, Layla fires a shot, nicking my ear and I scream


    12. His facial skin was quite smooth for a thirty-five year-old man and he took pride in shaving it closely each day with a straight edge razor, never nicking himself


    13. Now, only minor misdemeanours such as street mugging, burglary, rape and murder are untouched by the new broom that sweeps through the British Police force and we can all feel a lot safer in our beds that Pc Plod is out there nicking all the evil motorists before they slaughter us in our own homes


    14. They stop the locals nicking


    15. the material as close as possible without nicking or damaging the


    16. Nicking blemishes can be avoided by shaving lightly and only when necessary


    17. ‘I accused her of taking them, because she was always nicking my stuff


    18. They were just two leery lads who, in another life, might have been nicking lead off a church roof, and I mean that in a complimentary way


    19. Our Provisions were almost out, so there could be no Pyrate Feast of Salmagundy—that great peppery Stew of divers Meats and Fishes—which was usually cookt to celebrate the Taking of a Prize; but the Men made merry with the Grog, rolling Puncheons of Rum along the Decks only to hack ’em open with their Boarding Axes, and nicking Bottles of Brandy with their Cutlasses instead of troubling to uncork ’em


    20. For the drunken Orgy was yet in full force and the Men were nicking Bottles, drinking two Swallows or three from ’em, and tossing the Rest at Whitehead, who seem’d nearly dead with such Abuse

    21. Bullets suddenly whistled past Carroll’s face, nicking the brooding stone body of a crouching gargoyle


    22. Panicked, she kicked over her milk pail, nicking Dolores’s hand and causing her to curse, which startled Ramona enough that she fell off the fence


    1. Hopeful comics rehearse jokes, careful not to say anything above a whisper in case one of the enemy nicks a punch line


    2. He nicks his top lip shaving beneath his nose and dabs at it with toilet tissue, tearing off a small dot and sticking it onto the cut


    3. This time the kickback doesn’t startle him as much, and the bullet nicks the top of the target


    4. I didn’t believe it wise to alter into my human form just yet, for all I knew TJ may have been harbouring a stake beneath her jumper right now, and I didn’t want to go into battle today with any bothersome nicks that my brothers could take advantage of


    5. over and over the little nicks in her legs around her


    6. As with the previous crystal it took a third blow of the axe before it shattered violently - again, his hands were covered in what appeared to be shaving nicks from the tiny green slivers that had been scattered by its destruction


    7. It was blackly stained, and showed many deep nicks as if a keen edge, cutting through some yielding substance, had sunk into the wood


    8. cold water and shaved as best he could, trying to keep the nicks and


    9. there any nicks in the skin? Are there any bruises on it? Does it still have some of


    10. severe nicks in the walls and rough spots in the floor of a pocket

    11. “Have your nicks graduated to new heights?”


    12. appeared this morning with fresh shaving nicks caused


    13. are round the back, but watch that nobody nicks


    14. Rolled edges as well as nicks will show up in its reflection if the


    15. A hand is exposed to their nicks, the rapacious nips


    16. When five long minutes had passed, the mirror reflected back two clean-shaven faces, one unspotted yet still tense, the other smiling from one ear clear across to the other, his face covered with nicks and bits of bloody tissue


    17. You tend to attract more attention when everyone in your group looks like a refugee from a Stevie Nicks concert


    18. It looked like a bow and the branches, complete with nicks in the blunt ends for the bowstring to fit into, looked like arrows


    19. I had gotten a few nicks and scratches the first several times, but by the end of my session, I was avoiding all of them completely


    20. Nicks whinging stopped and he started to hobble and pulled pathetic pained expressions

    21. ’ Nicks ears must have been burning


    22. He took Nicks tissue wrapped dentures out of his shirt pocket and placed them in the box


    23. CONS: Stubble reappears quickly, risk of cuts and nicks to the skin, risk of ingrown hair if blade is not sharp


    24. Look for razors with safety guard wires over the blades to minimize the risk of cuts and nicks and skin irritation


    25. Splash the skin with cold water after shaving to help stop any bleeding from small nicks and also remove any traces of soap or lather


    26. As the skin on the scrotum is loose, special care must be taken to avoid nicks and cuts as this area will bleed profusely


    27. Then if the oil comes in contact with the skin, olive oil will be much better for the scalp, especially if there are nicks during shaving


    28. avoid repeat strokes over the same area to minimize the risk of nicks and razor burn


    29. I pulled a folded cloth out of one of my pockets my hands slick with blood from one of her inflicted nicks on me


    30. There was bad blood between them at first, says Mr Vincent, and the lord Harry called farmer Nicholas all the old Nicks in the world and an old whoremaster that kept seven trulls in his house and I'll meddle in his matters, says he

    31. With her finger, she finds the nicks on the house’s sides, the slope of its roof


    32. healed razor nicks still showed


    33. There are a few new nicks, but it still looks functional


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    Synonyms for "nick"

    nick notch snick dent ding gouge chip score mar cut indent slit scrape scratch indentation dint jag

    "nick" definitions

    an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)


    (British slang) a prison


    a small cut


    cut slightly, with a razor


    cut a nick into


    divide or reset the tail muscles of


    mate successfully; of livestock