Sentence examples for old nick himself from inspiring English sources

This is the moment when unsuspecting revellers might be snared by Old Nick himself.

Soon a young boy calling himself Sal appears claiming (for reasons never satisfactorily explained) to be Old Nick himself.

It swims in and out of sense: "The baby has no name better nick a name, better Old Nick than no name".

I've just been invited to stay in an old nick, not at the pleasure of Her Majesty but of a swish hotel chain that converted it.

When Ma's captor, "Old Nick", bleats that she has no idea how hard the world is for him, he sounds less like a kidnapper than a self-justifying wife-beater.

Their captor, "Old Nick", delivers their food, a weekly "Sundaytreat" (new trousers, painkillers), and takes grotesque satisfaction in raping Ma while Jack counts the creaks in the bedsprings from the wardrobe which serves as his bedroom.

Season 2 episode 4, titled, "Blood in the Streets," opens as 19-year-old Nick steps up, again.

Even children get older, Nicks once reminded us, and her sandpaper contralto isn't as reliable as it once was.

"AHS" would count as a rare scripted-TV appearance for the 65-year-old Nicks, the scarf-clad songwriter behind "Dreams," "Edge of Seventeen" and other hits.

Real shy and clumsy, always nicks himself shaving.

Below his ear a spot of blood had dried where he'd nicked himself.