Uncle Carey had given Dinnie a nickel for some candy, and, as usual, Satan trotted down the street behind her.
At Rammelsberg in the Harz it forms a bed in argillaceous schist, and at Mansfield in Thuringia it occurs in the Kupferschiefer with ores ofnickel and cobalt.
The principal alloys in which it forms a leading ingredient are brass, bronze, and German or nickel silver; under these several heads their respective applications and qualities will be found.
On the end of this lead pipe may be a brass ornickel compression cock over the sink.
For the kitchen sink, nickel fittings are preferable to brass, because they are more easily cleaned.
A couple of bullets whizzed past Sefton's head, one of the pieces of nickel chopping a slice out of the lobe of Farnworth's left ear.
Keep down, lads," ordered the general sharply, for the nickel bullets were singing overhead like a swarm of angry bees.
A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, asnickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing.
The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.
Made of nickel steel, U bars, screwed together so as to take the pieces rapidly.
European engines, and none of them have any Chrome nickel crank shaft, on 5 bearings.
In these days the brass and the nickel and all the rest of the former gay trimmings have departed from the locomotive.
The Lackawanna has a handsome new terminal at the harbor-front, into which enter not only its trains but those of the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburg and the Nickel Plate lines.
You must of seen hundreds of them nickel things that men pay money for.
All we needed to do was put the stuff up in sacks at a nickel a throw.
The buildings on the one next to it are worth about a plugged nickel apiece--and that would make exactly as good a location.
The system of coinage in the United States since 1873 embraces standard coins of gold, silver, nickel and copper, but gold alone actually furnishes the standards of value, all other coins being at present subsidiary.
In nickel and copper coins no effort has been made for many years to maintain a standard of value, the amount of metal in any of them being far less in value than their face.
Polished brass or nickel signs at the square stone entrances announced the firm and the nature of the business in rather neat and reserved terms.
The bath was a handsome affair, done in white enamel, with a large, blue-bordered stone tub and nickel trimmings.
Last New Year there was some blokes come along an' give us a nickel apiece all round.
We gave them a nickel apiece all around, and were going to give them a dollar apiece to-night.
In 1889, Schneider invented his process of making nickel steel, and thereby effected an improvement in steel that was first utilized in making armor, and afterward in making other articles of many kinds.
Nan stood leaning against the wall with her hands behind her, watching the manoeuvres of the leathern rag as it flashed up and down the nickel spokes and around and about the hubs, guided by the dexterous hand of the little governess.
The coin was only, a nickel but that mattered not to Prince Ivan.
Now, as he faced the morning light, hungry, ragged, and with only the American nickel in his pocket, he smiled at fate and went on without fear to enter whatever adventure might come.
It is for the very poor people who wish to give me a nickel and yet get the nickel back.
Even if he were the proper kind of man, he would have been powerless, for, in 1661 Goswin Nickel was deposed solely because of his rigidity towards the most influential members of the Order.
All three had refused the honor and Father Nickel wrote to the petitioners that it was contrary to the rules of the Order to accept such ecclesiastical dignities.
Nickel also sent a grand circular letter to recall the Order to the observance of Apostolic poverty.
As for the "grand circular letter," which Father Nickel sent out to the whole Society, that document was nothing but an academic disquisition on the relative importance of poverty as against the two other vows.
He ain't been sick, but he took that bath you ast him to, and where's his nickel at?
It appeared a very innocent enemy as it stood there in the half light, announcing in printed letters across its face, that seven out of every ten persons who put a nickel in the slot, received a prize in money.
I've been saving every nickel I made for nearly twenty years to buy back our place.
Because of their wearing qualities and economy, however, copper and nickel are the two metals commercially used for electrotyping.
Cuba paid high prices for oil imports in the face of slumping prices in the key sugar and nickel industries and suffered a slowdown in tourist arrivals following September 11.
French Government interests in the New Caledonian nickel industry are being transferred to local ownership.
She put the nickel up on a shelf and went back to her dishwashing.
The sheen of the nickel on the typewriter, a new machine, attracted every glance.
These are made of brass, nickel plated, and do not affect the compass-needle.
It is made of brass, nickel plated, and may be used anywhere without affecting the magnetic needle.
He threw hisnickel on the bar, raised the glass, set it down without tasting it and strolled toward the door.
When she handed hernickel to the conductor, she felt almost guilty, and it seemed as if he could see her intention in her eyes; but she told herself that she was not sure she was going to get off at all.
Shirley's cheeks grew red with excitement, for the nickel was burning in her hand, and she knew in her heart that she was going to spend it getting off that car near that barn.
And now suddenly a big temptation descended upon her, to spend that nickel in car-fare, riding to the barn and getting out for another closer look at it, and then taking the next car on into the city.
It was the nickel she put in her pocket last night when she went for the extra loaf of bread and found the store closed.
It was her Father's beautiful out-of-doors, and she had paid her extra nickel to have a right to it for a little while.
Was it wild and foolish, was it not perhaps actually wrong, to spend that nickel that way when they needed so much at home, and had so little?
She had made johnny-cake instead, and supper had been late; but the nickel had stayed in her coat-pocket forgotten.
