Example Sentences

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The manner in which that clockwork johnnie stopped in his tracks and eyed us as we passed?”

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.

Probably the chappie thought he was some kind of a confidence johnnie or something.

From Piccadilly Jim by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Or, never mind—perhaps that clever johnnie will be coming later; you can tell me all about that afterward.

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.

Been let in by a curate johnnie who'd rushed him for a Service for Men to-morrow night at Clapham.

From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May

Because," said Dorothea, "that johnnie was my father.

From The Tree of Heaven by Sinclair, May