What is "nellie"

Usage examples of "nellie".

Churchill, Alfonso Circuit Judge, The Clapp, Homer Clark, Nellie Clute, Aner Compton, Seth Conant, Edith Culbertson, E.

Abel would help his mother set up the tables on the church lawn tomorrow, then come help Nellie carry the breads and pies over.

Proscription is the work of a bunch of bureaucrats, a lot of nervous nellies, grounders all.

It had begun modestly, as most good mysteries do, with a small item on the back page which briefly mentioned that a wealthy farmer named Amos Grundle had mysteriously vanished and that his wife, Sarah, had committed suicide by cutting her wrist arteries, both events coinciding with the disappearance of the Grundle servant, a girl named Nellie Hearthstone.

Proving that Grundle was a Jekyll and Hide prove that Grundle was infatuated with Nellie and intended to kill his wife and marry her.

There was a little wharf, at which the Seaburys kept a couple of rowboats, and, as six were too many to go into one craft, Nellie and Jerry occupied the smaller, while Bob and Ned, Olivia and Rose, got into the other.

And on into the surgical unit, where Bardie began hooking up the heart-lung machines and the auxiliary anesthetizer while Nellie slipped a shunt into the relatively undamaged right arm to start the flow of supplements into his bloodstream and to service his bodily fluids.

There followed at least twenty mysterious names and acts, among them,"THE COCHRANE FAMILY, Five in Number, comprising Sarah, Nellie, Maggie, Butch, and Bill, in their American Songs and Dances," "ROBB WILTON, who will open his New Budget of Comicalities, including his Impersonation of the Midland Railway Guard," "THE FLYING PONGO, Daredevil Aerialist," "YOUNG & DEAN, the Eminent Negro Entertainers," "The World-Renowned BOSQUET TROUPE in The Wild West," "BELLA BIJOU & LILY GRAY, Sensational Duetists," and so on.

If you crossed an oversized typewriter with a television set you'd get something like Nellie, and if you go to Heathrow you'll see dozens of them in the booking hall.

Grace and Nellie had received permission to be absent from Hope during the supper hour, and Tom had telephoned to the hotel at Cliffwood, about twenty miles away, asking the proprietor to reserve a table for them and prepare dinner for six.

There was the Pikes' Nellie, burrowing her way through a tangle of wild daisies and bachelor's buttons.

Nellie Fleisher received a term of 10 years in a Federal detention home.

Briefly Effie remembered the little luntman Wennil Drook, who had lit the torches before Nellie.

Nellie couldn't move but just stood there watching him as he sat on the edge of the table eating apple slices.

Jane Edmonds was spooning oatmeal into Nellie, not quite one, while four-year-old William stood on a stool and manfully pumped water into a kettle fresh off the stove.