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He was in the Royal Navy, I have been told, and he had to give it up because his people " "More luck. The Royal Navy! Huh, all gold braid, an' buy your own vittals. There's no money in that game." "Money is not everything in the world. A man's career may be more to him than the mere monetary aspect of it." "If ever you meet my missus, you 'll hear the other side of the question, Miss Maxwell.
You round a ridge of yellow rock, and three Zuñi boys are loping along the trail in front of you red headband, hair in a braid, red sash, velvet trousers the most famous runners of all Indian tribes in spite of their short, squat stature. The Navajo trusts to his pony, and so is a slack runner. Also, he is not so well nourished as the Zuñi or Hopi, and so has not as firm muscles and strong lungs.
She flung back the stiff braid, and laid her finger on the extinguisher of the shaded lamp, as a hint for him to go. "Anne," he whispered, "Anne " The whisper struck fear into her. She faced him calmly, coldly; not unkindly. Unkindness would have given him more hope than that pitiless imperturbability. "Have you anything to say to me?" she said. "No." "Well, then, will you be good enough to go?"
He, indeed, calls the language he wrote in "Inglis," but it is a different English from that of Chaucer. They were both founded on Anglo-Saxon, but instead of growing into modern English, Barbour's tongue grew into what was known later as "braid Scots."
IKTOMI is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet. His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands. Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders. He even paints his funny face with red and yellow, and draws big black rings around his eyes.
The Sohlbergs, returning home at six o'clock from some reception farther out Michigan Avenue, had stopped, at the wish of Harold, merely to pass the time of day with Mrs. Cowperwood. Rita was exquisite in a pale-blue and lavender concoction, with silver braid worked in here and there. Her gloves and shoes were pungent bits of romance, her hat a dream of graceful lines.
Sandworth's appearance was the chord which resolved into one burst of sound all the various motives emitted by the different temperaments in the room. Every one appealed to her at once. "Just a touch of gold braid on the collar, next the face, don't you " "Why not a real supper at midnight, with creamed oysters and things, as they do in the East?"
"Frolic and frisk and flounce!" Jane obeyed. And waltzed up to the bill-board. "Say! what's the price of that big braid?" she called between her tortoise-shell teeth. She had spied the red coronet, and was admiring its plaited beauty. From under those long, square brows, the little old gentleman frowned across the table at her. "I'll quote you no prices," he answered.
Then Katty washed up the dark floor-margin, and the table had its crimson-striped cloth on, and mother brought down the brown stuff for the new sofa-cover, and the great bunch of crimson braid to bind that with, and we drew up our camp-chairs and crickets, and got ready to be busy and jolly, and to have a brand-new piece of furniture before night.
Fuselli's eyes followed the curves of his brilliantly-polished puttees up to the braid on his sleeves. "Parade rest!" shouted the lieutenant in a muffled voice. Feet and hands moved in unison. Fuselli was thinking of the town.
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