What is "chits"

Usage examples of "chits".

It was something he was used to, and offering the chits a slight smile, he memorized the faces for future reference.

Valentine concentrated on thoughts of ugly old chits and losing at faro.

Tracey was probably making the rounds, telling all the chits stories of his heroic deeds in the Peninsula.

Zachary could answer the shy squeak of Mary Gorman, a half dozen Witfeld chits jumped in to do it for him.

As he returned to his position he concentrated on images of ugly chits and rotten vegetables.

The third and largest collection of chits belonged to young men like his brother, young scholars and country squires without town bronze to protect them, or other innocents up River Tick.

The lady patronesses were just as logy and disinterested in platter-faced chits as Aunt Harriet.

One of the scandal sheets even had the nerve to ask for proof that a parcel of chits had tried to drug the ton.

Set the puppy up as manager of Delmere, or call in some chits in the War Office and make some poor sod take him on as a secretary, if he can read.

He was still a rake, and what a swath he would cut through the ton with his elegant new dignity and his romantic limp to remind the feather-headed chits of his heroism.

The importuning chits more closely resembled grasping harpies than innocent maidens hoping to catch his eye.

Kenward and James could leave in the middle of the night if need be, and neither of these chits had better get in the way.

If she suspected how little contact he wanted with marriageable young ladies, she might have realized that a better strategy for protecting the school would be to send the chits charging at him.

After meeting those outspoken school chits, he could almost believe the headmistress had maneuvered him into making the wager in the first place.

At last count he owned three phaetons, four coaches, a barouche, and five curricles, and he could think of at least two cronies in London who would die of laughter if they ever saw him driving five little chits in a cart.