ARTY • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Arty

"Arty" Quotes from Famous Books

... don't know as I begrudge that, though your election, Arty, cost me four hundred and seven dollars and—I've got ...

— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend

... Battery, and Major Bartlett of C Battery, dined with us that night, and the best story told concerned an extremely non-military subaltern, newly attached to the D.A.C. When instructed to deliver an important message to "Div. Arty."—the Army condensation for "Divisional Artillery"—he pored long and hopelessly over a map. Finally he appealed to a brother officer. "I can't find the village of 'DIVARTY' on the map," he said, and, of course, sprang into ...

— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)

... enough to eat, and time to read, and a little amusement, he would be as brave as you are, Mr. Tuke!" said Alice. "—But you can't mean to say there will be no more of anything for us after this world! To think I should never see Arty again, would make me die before my time! I should be so miserable I would hardly care to keep him as long as I might. We must die some day, and what odds whether it be a few days sooner, or a few days later, if we're never going to ...

— There & Back • George MacDonald