dandy
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Adrienne cuts her leg on a rock, but Sara tends to it immediately with her handy dandy first aid kit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
All seemed just dandy until both eagles left their nest unattended, and ravens swooped in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
Wherever the crowd, the dandy is always with us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The dandy, it turns out, is a local teenage fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who just happened to be at a real crime scene.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
Nothing but the sound of the horses shifting as we worked, Miss Maggie sneezing at the dust stirred up by the dandy brush.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
Some gentlemen are dandies, but most dandies are not gentlemen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
He donned a royal blue Valentino cloak that paid homage to Andre Leon Talley, former editor-at-large on Vogue whom Anna Wintour called "a dandy among dandies."
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
The collection was inspired by aviation, and there were tailoring traces from the golden era of flight when dandies like Charles Lindbergh made history with solo crossings of the Atlantic.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2023
Warblers are the diminutive dandies of the birding world.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2022
But the Fashion Minister barrels in, followed by his team of dandies and a wardrobe closet with massive carriagelike wheels.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Then maybe, just maybe, you could put in for the difference between the price of the humdrum machine and the price of the dandier dander remover.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
It has drawn lumbersexuals of the dandier sort — furniture designers, creative directors, advertising executives and weekend carpenters — who don their finest houndstooth and tweeds for the occasion.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2015
“There’s surely not a dandier picture in the world than a girl sitting in the shade sewing—white things,” he said at last, by way of greeting.
From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum
There's not a dandier, better pal anywhere, than what Chum's been to me.
From His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
“The amazing Master Tool Corporation, a subsidiary of Fly-By-Night Industries, has entrusted who? Me! To show you! The handiest and the dandiest kitchen tool you’ve ever seen.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
“As a young writer, I was the dandiest, cleverest wit and wise guy — a cinch if one possesses the meager gifts,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
Of course, he looks great: a steel-grey silver fox, these days, but still flash in light parka and kick flares, quite the dandiest man in Blacks, the Soho club where we meet.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2010
Christopher Isherwood, that permanently promising young man, seemed during the '30s to be the two dandiest literary dactyls since Joyce's Malachai Mulligan.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Why, I got right here the dandiest outfit of swell jewellery," he cried, grinning amiably up at the man's threatening eyes.
From The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum
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