"Dink" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cappy briskly, "sit down and tell me of your adventures during your first week as a business man. Of course, I hear from Florry that you have opened a dink of an office somewhere—got desk space with the Alaskan Codfish Corporation, haven't you, with the use of their telephone, ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32-bit architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream 'dinky', which ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... "I dink so too," he answered slowly. "I vill see dot der guard is all right, an' den vill get some sleep, for I am ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... up, trying to avoid the appearance of eccentricity. At or about the same moment, the old Finnish pilot, with whom I had formed an acquaintance, came along, and said good-naturedly, "Hello, sir! I dink you pe sea-sick." "Sea-sick?" said I, a little nettled. "Oh no, Herr Pilot, I'm an old sailor, and never get sea-sick." "Vel, I dought you was sick—you look bad, sir," answered the good old pilot; "de sea is very rough, sir." Here the steamer took a ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne
... not money. My Brita iss born, and little Jan, and I dink alvay, 'I must haf home vere dey may know more;' and all de days it iss America dat dey say iss home for all, and much money—so much no man can be hungry, and vork iss for all. Brita iss ready, and soon ve come, and all de ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various
... like his fader!— So, ven der vimmen said "Vot a purty leedle baby!" Katrina shake der head. I dink she must a-notice Dot der baby vas a-gryin', Und she cover up der blankets Of ...
— Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems • James Whitcomb Riley
... wife, and his son's family, were driven from it to the hills for safety—but the old man's telling of the story can not be improved upon. It ran like this: "Last year, ven I svwim out fon dot leedle home off mine, mit my vife, unt my son, his vife unt leedle girls, I dink dot's der last time goot-by to dose proberty! But afder der vater is gone down, unt dry oop unt eberding, dere vas yet der house dere. Unt my friends dey sait, 'Dot's all you got yet.—Vell, feex oop der house—dot's ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley |
