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crick
1. Watson, Crick, Franklin and Wilkins accompanied it
2. "…shiners in that crick a yours—good for nothin' but bait
3. Not a pretty sight, so I settled for a crick in the neck and looked up at Gregor"s face
4. That aspect of your relationship reminds you of the way Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA
5. My neck was getting a painful crick in it from holding the thin cell phone between my ear and shoulder
6. “I wonder what Crick would think about his helixes being entwined serpents
7. maybe I shouldn’t be so hard on him; after all, Crick reports that the idea of the entwined helixes came to him in an LSD session
8. "This here crick is private property
9. "You boys stay off this crick now, do ya hear?"
10. including the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, Francis Crick, have
11. The karate training had tired hum and the awkward sleep on the chair had left him with a crick in his neck
12. —It gives them a crick in their necks, Stephen said, and they are too tired to look up or down or to speak
13. Jim warn't on his island, so I tramped off in a hurry for the crick, and
14. We heard them come along towards the crick, but couldn't see them; they seemed to stop and fool around a while; then, as we got further and further away all the time, we couldn't hardly hear them at all; by the time we had left a mile of woods behind us and struck the
15. The majority of dairymen have a cross manner at milking time, but it happened that Mr Crick was glad to get a new hand—for the days were busy ones now—and he received her warmly; inquiring for her mother and the rest of the family—(though this as a matter of form merely, for in reality he had not been aware of Mrs Durbeyfield's existence till apprised of the fact by a brief business-letter about Tess)
16. When the milking was finished for the evening they straggled indoors, where Mrs Crick, the dairyman's wife—who was too respectable to go out milking herself, and wore a hot stuff gown in warm weather because the dairymaids wore prints—was giving an eye to the leads and things
17. The milking progressed, till towards the end Tess and Clare, in common with the rest, could hear the heavy breakfast table dragged out from the wall in the kitchen by Mrs Crick, this being the invariable preliminary to each meal; the same horrible scrape accompanying its return journey when the table had been cleared
18. "'Tis coming!" cried Mrs Crick, and the attention of all was called
19. Such unequal attachments had led to marriage; and she had heard from Mrs Crick that Mr Clare had one day asked, in a laughing way, what would be the use of his marrying a fine lady, and all the while ten thousand acres of Colonial pasture to feed, and cattle to rear, and corn to reap
20. Dairyman Crick was discovered stamping about the house
21. Dairyman Crick withdrew, and Tess dropped behind
22. The cows jumped wildly over the five-barred barton-gate, maddened by the gad-fly; Dairyman Crick kept his shirt-sleeves permanently rolled up from Monday to Saturday; open windows had no effect in ventilation without open doors, and in the dairy-garden the blackbirds and thrushes crept about under the currant-bushes, rather in the manner of quadrupeds than of winged creatures
23. memorandum-book," replied Crick, with the same intolerable
24. At this moment of the morning Angel Clare was riding along a narrow lane ten miles distant from the breakfasters, in the direction of his father's Vicarage at Emminster, carrying, as well as he could, a little basket which contained some black-puddings and a bottle of mead, sent by Mrs Crick, with her kind respects, to his parents
25. The dairyman himself had been lending a hand; but Mr Crick, as well as his wife, seemed latterly to have acquired a suspicion
26. "Now, who mid ye think I've heard news o' this morning?" said Dairyman Crick, as he sat down to breakfast next day, with a riddling gaze round upon the munching men and maids
27. "And had he married the valiant matron's daughter, as he promised?" asked Angel Clare absently, as he turned over the newspaper he was reading at the little table to which he was always banished by Mrs Crick, in her sense of his gentility
28. her first man would trouble him," said Mrs Crick
29. Dairyman Crick, who was there with the rest, his wrapper gleaming miraculously white against a leaden evening sky, suddenly looked at his heavy watch
30. Before discussion of the question had proceeded further there walked round the corner of the settle into the full firelight of the apartment Mr Dairyman Crick, Mrs Crick, and two of the milkmaids
31. She had been even more struck with the look of the girls who followed Crick than abashed by Crick's blunt praise
32. Or he would ask her at night, when he accompanied her on some mission invented by Mrs Crick to give him the opportunity
33. "Crick didn't exactly say that he would no longer require you
34. When they reached the dairy Mr and Mrs Crick were promptly told—with injunctions of secrecy; for each of the lovers was desirous that the marriage should be kept as private as possible
35. What should he do about his skimming? Who would make the ornamental butter-pats for the Anglebury and Sandbourne ladies? Mrs Crick congratulated Tess on the shilly-shallying having at last come to an end, and said that directly she set eyes on Tess she divined that she was to be the chosen one of somebody who was no common outdoor man; Tess had looked so superior as she walked across the barton on that afternoon of her arrival; that she was of a good family she could have sworn
36. In point of fact Mrs Crick did remember thinking that Tess was graceful and good-looking as she approached; but the superiority might have been a growth of the imagination aided by subsequent knowledge
37. Izz mentioned the omission of the banns to Mrs Crick, and Mrs Crick assumed a matron's privilege of speaking to Angel on the point
38. Yet everything was in a stir; there was coming and going; all had to dress, the dairyman and Mrs Crick having been asked to accompany them as witnesses; and reflection or deliberate talk was well-nigh impossible
39. Inside this cumbrous and creaking structure, and behind this decayed conductor, the partie carrée took their seats—the bride and bridegroom and Mr and Mrs Crick
40. Her eyes could dwell upon details more clearly now, and Mr and Mrs Crick having directed their own gig to be sent for them, to leave the carriage to the young couple, she observed the build and character of that conveyance for the first time
41. Their route lay near the dairy from which they had started with such solemn joy in each other a few days back, and as Clare wished to wind up his business with Mr Crick, Tess could hardly avoid paying
42. Mrs Crick a call at the same time, unless she would excite suspicion of their unhappy state
43. Then Mrs Crick emerged from the house, and several others of their old acquaintance, though Marian and Retty did not seem to be there
44. Perhaps something unusually stiff and embarrassed in their attitude, some awkwardness in acting up to their profession of unity, different from the natural shyness of young couples, may have been apparent, for when they were gone Mrs Crick said to her husband—
45. And Pa said, “How’s it look to you, John? Seems to me if that crick comes up, she’ll flood us
46. A sort of crick was in my neck as I gazed up to the two remaining horns; yes, TWO of them, one for Queequeg, and one for me
