What is "dinny"

Usage examples of "dinny".

True, it would be of no consequence to the rich bachelor globe-trotter whether Dinny used the printing-equipment or not.

Zimmerman, of his easy grace, his urbane manners, his charming personality, his casual allusions to the places he had seen--Singapore, Calcutta, Moscow--mentioning them in about the same tone Dinny might have used when speaking of Oak Grove or Zanesdale or Unger.

Happy to have a congenial companion, Dinny worked on the ads all afternoon and early evening.

That night, Dinny recognized for the first time unmistakable signs of his talent as a potential novelist.

The utter futility of life had laid so low an estimate on the claims of personal safety that Dinny was indifferent to bruises or the hazard of broken bones.

Coach Roberts, Dinny observed that the personnel of the combating squads could easily be identified even in their muddy, handed-down toggery.

Friday morning, as Dinny entered the rapidly filling classroom of Professor Grover, and looked about for a vacant chair, the long arm and beckoning fingers of Barney Vaughn summoned him to a seat in the back row, where he was received with friendly smiles.

His Fagans had vanished, their places taken by four strangers who suddenly went about the business of dipping finger-tips in the huge marble shell, touching themselves with an adroitness that could not possibly have been achieved through experience, but must be accounted for by some instinct which Dinny knew he did not possess.

Sea in which the Fagans were so confidently at home, the sublimity of it all began to lay hold on Dinny Brumm.

They rose, they sat, they bowed, they crossed themselves with sure, deft strokes, Dinny trying to keep pace with them in the rising, and sitting, and kneeling, feeling himself a mere stumbling baby trudging with short, drunken steps in the wake of experienced track-sprinters.

On the way down the hill, she promised to ask Father Donovan for some little books he might read, though Dinny was not sure he wanted them.

Father Donovan and delivered into the hands of Dinny, at his case, by Kitty Fagan--a book he opened at one a.

President Braithwaite, whom he sincerely admired, Dinny impulsively pledged himself to attend the feast.

Uncle Miles and Aunt Martha, Dinny thought he would wait until these unctuous defaulters had had time to concoct some ingenious explanation.

Christmas party, which was going to be dull with an exceeding great dullness, no matter how the Braithwaites might tear their hair to make it interesting, Dinny went skating in the park.