Examples of using Bicky in English and their translations into German
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Political
Bicky wavered.
What-o!" said Bicky.
Bicky, old man.
Halloa, Bicky!" I said.
Bicky will never know.
By George!" said Bicky.
Bicky seemed a bit surprised.
My heart bled for Bicky.
I had met Bicky for the first time at a species of beano or jamboree down in.
What's the trouble, Bicky?
Well, I wish," said Bicky gloomily,"that he knew a way to get me out of the hole I'm in.
Then old Chiswick turned to Bicky.
No, sir." I began to understand why poor old Bicky was always more or less on the rocks.
He was trying tosquare all this prosperity with what he knew of poor old Bicky.
Take the rather rummy case, for instance,of dear old Bicky and his uncle, the hard- boiled egg.
I imagine that Bicky in the past, when you knew him, may have been something of a chump, but it's quite different now.
You have only to say the word, you know, Bicky, old top.
That's all very well," said Bicky, wonderfully braced,"but if I can't get the money any other way.
Leaning out of the window, watching the street for Bicky and his uncle.
What do you mean by playing this trick?" Bicky seemed pretty well knocked out, so I put in a word.
Bicky thanked him heartily and came off to lunch with me at the club, where he babbled freely of hens, incubators, and other rotten things.
The only figure I will recognize," said Bicky firmly,"is five hundred quid a year, paid quarterly.""My dear boy!
Bicky laughed, what I have sometimes seen described as a hollow, mocking laugh, a sort of bitter cackle from the back of the throat, rather like a gargle.
You have deliberately deceived me as to your financial status!""Poor old Bicky didn't want to go to that ranch," I explained.
Very good, sir." When I took dear old Bicky aside in the course of the morning and told him what had happened he nearly broke down.
I have simply spent my life scattering largesse to blighters I didn't care a hang for; yet here was Inow, dripping doubloons and pieces of eight and longing to hand them over, and Bicky, poor fish, absolutely on his uppers, not taking any at any price.
When I got backold Chiswick had gone to bed, but Bicky was there, hunched up in an arm-chair, brooding pretty tensely, with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth and a more or less glassy stare in his eyes.
I suppose I was a bit homesick at the time, and I rather took to Bicky when I found that he was an Englishman and had, in fact, been up at Oxford with me.
I was sorry if Bicky was in trouble, but, as a matter of fact, I was rather glad to have something I could discuss freely with Jeeves just then, because things had been a bit strained between us for some time, and it had been rather difficult to hit on anything to talk about that wasn't apt to take a personal turn.
And one had to admit that it took a lot of squaring,for dear old Bicky, though a stout fellow and absolutely unrivalled as an imitator of bull-terriers and cats, was in many ways one of the most pronounced fatheads that ever pulled on a suit of gent's underwear.