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Our cats are sleek and slumberous; here they prowl about haggard, shifty and careworn, their fur in patches and their ears a-tremble from nervous anxiety. That domestic animals such as these should be fed at home does not commend itself to the common people; they must forage for their food abroad. Dogs eat offal, while the others hunt for lizards in the fields.
"We are looking for an officer who promised to aid us in finding our friends in the hospital or at least in getting news from them," said the elder of the two, a fine-looking, though distressed and careworn woman of forty. "Sho! wal. I s'pose he's got other things to look after, like as not!" And the soldier, in his sympathy, cast his eyes around in search of the officer.
He turned out, notwithstanding his self-satisfied and cheery exterior, to be of a careworn temperament. Patusan." He was going to carry the gentleman to the mouth of the river, but would "never ascend." His flowing English seemed to be derived from a dictionary compiled by a lunatic. Had Mr. If disregarded, he would have presented "resignation to quit."
On the deck would appear the form of Hudson himself, displaying the chart to his men; his countenance careworn and sad, but still concealing, under the appearance of calmness and indifference, the apprehensions and forebodings, which harrowed his mind.
But then how her mother's weary, careworn face had brightened, and glowed into pleased surprise as she caught the first glimpse of her; how lovingly she had folded her in those dear motherly arms, and said, actually with lips all a tremble: "My dear daughter! what an unexpected blessing, and what a kind providence, that you have come just now."
Hugh had seen him once, and afterwards had never felt strong enough to repeat the process. "Must you go back?" he asked. "No," she said. "Mrs. Loftus and he are great friends. I should be rather in the way." And she sat down by him. "Are you feeling ill?" she said, gently, noticing his careworn face. "No," he replied. "I was only thinking.
The momentary despondency that had clouded her brilliant countenance had not only disappeared, but she had quite forgotten, and certainly would not admit, that she was anything but the most sanguine and energetic of beings, and rallied Endymion unmercifully for his careworn countenance and too frequent air of depression.
He has this to say of a chance meeting with Webster in Boston, at this period: "I saw Webster on the street but he was changed since I saw him last black as a thunder-cloud, and careworn.... I did not wonder that he depressed his eyes when he saw me and would not meet my face."
She was not more than twenty, he decided, but she looked older, so careworn and sad was her face. "They's one thing ag'in' yeh," Troutt, the liveryman, was bawling to Hartley: "they's jest been worked one o' the goldingedest schemes you ever see!
Especially at eventide, when the heat of the day is softened by twilight shadows, and a gentle breeze comes wandering along, touching with fairy fingers the careworn face and tired hands. The sun had sunk below the horizon. As I now directed my gaze to the western sky, one of those rarely beautiful phenomena which sometimes accompany sunset in early spring, was spread before me.
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