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"You have not been to see me for ever so long," said she, rubbing her beaky nose. "Your Royal Princesses have taken up too much of your time, I suppose. Oh, I know all about them." "I am sorry they did not stay for a few days," replied Giles in his most amiable tone. "I wished to introduce them to you." "You mean present me to them," corrected the old dame, who was a stickler for etiquette.
He was hatless, and the sun glinted on dark red locks of the same warm, burnished hue as the skin of a horse-chestnut. The intensely blue eyes gleamed at her from under dominant, strongly-marked brows, and the beaky, high-bridged nose, long-lipped mouth, and stubborn chin all connoted the same arrogant virility.
He stood about five feet nought and tipped the beam at seven stone nothing. He had a mild chinless face and his long beaky nose, round large spectacles, and trick of cocking his head sideways when conversing, gave him the appearance of an intelligent little dicky-bird. I remember very well the occasion of our first meeting.
There was nothing I should have wished better than to have gone straight to him, for if, as some said, he had Jewish blood in his veins, he was the best Jew that I have heard of since Joshua's time. If you were in sight of his beaky nose and bold, black eyes, you were not likely to miss much of what was going on.
She was nibbling her lips, trying not to smile. "Very well, dear," she said. "I'll send Alice at half-past six. Run along." Tara gave her hand a grateful little squeeze and ran. She would have hated the "beaky mother" worse than ever could she have heard her remark to Lady Despard, when they were alone. "Really, a most obstinate, ungoverned child.
And one great white swan fluttered into the old man's lap and sat there letting himself be stroked and patted, stretching his long neck up to Comgall's face and trying to kiss him with beaky lips. You can imagine how the pupils stared at this strange sight. For they knew that the swans were as truly strangers to Saint Comgall as to the rest of them.
The garden of his dreams of the world before the deluge in the quiet coloured end of a July evening; the garden vitally inwoven with his fate since it was responsible for the coming of Joe Bradley and his 'beaky mother. Such gardens bear more than trees and flowers and fruit. Human lives and characters are growth of their soil.
Caught sight of your photo." "Tell me," she said. "If it had been the photo of a woman with a bony throat and a beaky nose would you have read them?" He thought a moment. "Guess not," he answered. "You're just as bad," he continued. "Isn't it the pale-faced young clergyman with the wavy hair and the beautiful voice that you all flock to hear? No getting away from nature. But it wasn't only that."
She had no beaky nose, no thin face, no sharp, small, black, bright eyes; she was fair, as Esther was fair; her forehead and face were broad, her eyes large and open; yet she was a Jewess, plainly a Jewess; such a Jewess as are many still to be seen in Palestine, at least, if not elsewhere.
"Well," he answers, "I don't wind out the confidential advice to old Beaky, and that sort of thing. I do the tips, yer know. 'Cap'n Kit, that's my name." "What, the Captain Kit?" I says. O' course I'd heard of him. "Be'old!" he says. "Oh, it's easy enough," he goes on. "Some of 'em's bound to come out right, and when one does, you take it from me, our paper mentions the fact.
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