What is "nickers"

Usage examples of "nickers".

Whinney leaned against the woman, making soft nickers of distress, her forelegs spraddled, breathing hard and quivering.

If the Nickers had the gengineers undo their changes, that would only mean that they were once more consorting with the enemy.

Mike Nickers had recently retired from his position as a recruiter for the Daisy Hill Truck Farm, and he was bored.

Yet as soon as they saw the Nickers, their eyes went suddenly wide, their mouths opened, their torsos leaned back, away, their hands full of pamphlets jerked upward as if to erect a paper barrier before them.

Nor did he wonder that they seemed surprised to find that the Nickers were not quite the traditional model of human being.

She herself and all the others in the room, all except for Sheila Nickers, were unmodified humans.

The police were unsympathetic, though they did not quite tell the Nickers it was their own fault.

The company that owned the building trusted that they, the Nickers, understood why they had until the end of the month to move.

Sam Nickers stood on the crest of a small rise in the city park, his hands deep in the pockets of the coat he had put on over his coverall.

Briefly, she then related what the Nickers had told her of the Engineer recruiters at the door with their pamphlets.

A few minutes later the Nickers were standing in the door of another apartment.

The apartment was now as nearly identical as it could be to the one the Nickers had been forced to leave.

When she pointed one thick hand toward the window, Sheila Nickers followed the gesture with her feet.

Certainly, they could not see the Nickers settling into their new apartment, accepted by beings who were like them in color yet as unlike them in basic design as it was possible to be and still share genes, free of the prejudice that had plagued them in the outside world.

The Nickers still stood in the doorway, watching, smiling, recognizing familiar dynamics, appreciating the evidence of a teacher whose control of her class, while not absolute--as it should never be--was certainly unquestioned.