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Only for a single case more can I still find room that of the subterranean clover, which has been driven by its numerous enemies to take refuge at last in a very remarkable and almost unique mode, of protecting its offspring. This particular kind of clover affects smooth and close-cropped hillsides, where the sheep nibble down the grass and other herbage almost as fast as it springs up again.
Alma's feelings were less troubled, and as we turned back into the house I could see that she was saying to herself: "Thank goodness, she's gone away." A day or two later Doctor Conrad came, according to my father's instructions, and I was glad to see his close-cropped iron-grey head coming up the stairs towards my room.
Two were Space Force lieutenants; the third was a youngish civilian with close-cropped blond hair, in a checked woolen shirt. Tony Lattimer and his helpers. "Don't tell me Martha finally got something out of that stuff?" he asked, approaching the table. He might have been commenting on the antics of the village half-wit, from his tone. "Yes; the name of one of the Martian months."
He is a spare man, with closely cropped gray, or rather white hair, close-cropped whiskers fringing round his chin, and a close-cropped white mustache, with his under lip and a portion of his chin bare beneath, sunburnt and weather-worn.
Lying on her back she turned herself to and fro, and the gleaming iron shoes flashed nearer and nearer to Vogt's head, at last striking him so that his helmet flew off and the blood gushed from beneath his fair, close-cropped hair. Klitzing saw the increasing peril, and of a sudden flung himself blindly beneath the infuriated, plunging hoofs.
"Let's see your face!" Joses, who was standing by the steps that led up to the weighing-room, leapt on to them and snatched the cap from the jockey's head. He stood displayed before them, fair-haired, close-cropped, shy, and a little sullen. There was a moment's pause. Then divergent voices shot heavenward and clashed against each other. "It is!" "It's her!" "That's Miss Woodburn!"
The tall, thin, loose-jointed man, resting with one hand on the pulpit at his side, in every way belied the pompous tribute which had just been paid him. I watched him. I studied the face masked in a close-cropped gray beard. I studied the angles of the loosely hung limbs and the swinging body clad in unobtrusive brown. For a moment I doubted. Then he spoke.
He has a firm, pale face, of which the only distinction is that it has a look of quiet strength and self-confidence. He has rather thick dark hair, and a close-cropped beard, sprinkled with grey; strong, ugly hands, and serviceable feet. His dress is precise and deliberate, but in no particular fashion.
His voice showed such entire conviction, and at the same time such a complete freedom from anything threatening or aggressive, that all her fear left her at once. It was a mistake nothing worse! But was she absolutely sure, without her glasses? All she could see was that the face was that of a hard man, close-cropped and close-shaved, square and firm in the jaw.
His lips trembled slightly under his close-cropped mustache. "Then," said Brett, "this is a good opportunity to ask you, sir, if you have any objection to me as a candidate for your youngest daughter." Mr. Callender raised his eyebrows. So small a thing as contemplated matrimony did not disturb him under the circumstances. "My boy," he said, "I take it you are in earnest. I don't object to you.
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