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Use in Literature

Blackie

There is a story of Professor Blackie at Edinburgh making a tirade against the stuffiness of the old English universities to Jowett, the incisive Master of Balliol.–Arthur Christopher Benson in Escape and Other Essays.

Blackie can nab The Kid an' I'll annex Miss Abigail Prim.–Edgar Rice Burroughs in The Oakdale Affair.

Blackie was rolling a cigarette.–Edna Ferber in Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed.

Besides, Blackie and I are newspaper men.–Edna Ferber in Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed.

Blackie was watching me out of the tail of his eye.–Edna Ferber in Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed.

Blackie summoned the wan ghost of a smile to his lips.–Edna Ferber in Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed.

Blackie struck a match and held it for an instant so that the flare of it illuminated his face as he lighted his cigarette.–Edna Ferber in Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed.

Blackie never went to school to speak of.–Edna Ferber in Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed.

Blackie had come in his red runabout, and now he tucked us into it, feigning a deep disgust.–Edna Ferber in Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed.

Blackie had a way of inquiring after its progress in hushed tones of mock awe.–Edna Ferber in Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Blackie 1
• Blackie – "Columbus" 3
• Blackie – "Little" 4
• Nonfiction Usage 5
• Script Usage 5
• Journalism Usage 5
• Patent Usage 6
• Bibliographic Usage 6
• Encyclopedic Usage 123
• Lexicographic Usage 125
• Index 132