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White and soft over the wide, sloping upland lay the snow, marked across with the zigzag gray lines of the fences, and spotted here and there with little clumps of woods or patches of bushy pasture. The sky above was white as the earth below, being mantled with snow-laden cloud not yet ready to spill its feathery burden on the world.

'Yes, Catherine and Agnes are at the school; and Rose, I think, is practising. 'Ah, well, said Mrs. Thornburgh, settling herself in a chair close by her friend, 'I wanted to find you alone. Her face, framed in bushy curls and an old garden bonnet, was flushed and serious.

At that time he was probably scarcely forty years old, short in stature and very erect, with a shrewd face whose features indicated an iron sternness of character, an impression heightened by the thick, bushy brows which met above his nose. He himself said that people in Pomerania believed that men with such eyebrows stood in close relations to Satan.

Seen from behind, the legs should be wide apart and straight, and not cowhocked. The dog should not be higher at the quarters than at shoulder. STERN Set on fairly high, strong at root, and tapering, but not too long. Neither too much curved nor carried too high; well, but not too much, feathered; a bushy tail is better than too little hair.

He was rather tall, standing about five feet ten inches in his morocco slippers; very dark so much so that I strongly suspected the presence of negro blood in his veins with a thick crop of jet-black hair, a luxuriantly bushy beard, and a heavy thick moustache, all very carefully trimmed, and so exceedingly glossy that I thought it probable that the gloss was due to artificial means.

It occurred to me that I might possibly learn something of interest if I watched the doctor's movements at the hours indicated. "Your symptoms rather puzzle me," said the doctor at last, eyeing me from beneath his bushy black brows. "To tell the truth, I fancy you must have eaten something poisonous at one of the restaurants.

The hill on the other side of the little vale, which was of an oval figure, narrowest at its outlet, was rough and precipitous, like that on which they lay; but the two uniting above, bounded the head of the vale with a long, bushy, sweeping slope a fragment of a natural amphitheatre which was evidently of an easy ascent, though abrupt and steep.

"I reckoned that they would pass, on their way to the bushy kloof, within about five and twenty yards of me, so, taking a long breath, I got my gun well on to the lion's shoulder the black-maned one so as to allow for an inch or two of motion, and catch him through the heart.

The stakes were now daubed over with soft earth, to conceal the white colour of the wood; the remaining chips were picked up, and all traces of the work completely obliterated. This done the hunters withdrew from the spot. They did not go far; but choosing a large bushy tree to leeward, all three climbed up into it, and sat concealed among its branches.

"Daat it do, mass'r, down to de berry small ob her back." "Luxuriant?" "What am dat, mass'r?" "Thick bushy." "Golly! it am as bushy as de ole coon's tail." "Now the eyes?" Scipio's description of the quadroon's eyes was rather a confused one. He was happy in a simile, however, which I felt satisfied with: "Dey am big an round dey shine like de eyes of a deer."