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Auld was singularly deficient; nature, which fits nobody for such an office, had done less for her than any lady I had known. It was no easy matter to induce her to think and to feel that the curly-headed boy, who stood by her side, and even leaned on her lap; who was loved by little Tommy, and who loved little Tommy in turn; sustained to her only the relation of a chattel.
At the same moment a young curly-headed bowman, whose broad shoulders and deep chest told of immense strength, as clearly as his frank, laughing face and honest hazel eyes did of good humor and courage, sprang forward sword in hand and took his place by Nigel's side. "Nay, comrades!" said he. "Samkin Aylward cannot stand by and see a gallant man shot down like a bull at the end of a baiting.
On the way to Charleston a fight had taken place between them and the real sailors, during which one of their number a curly-headed Irishman named Dailey, who was in such high favor with the Rebels that he was given the place of driving the ration wagon that came in the North Side at Andersonville was killed, and thrown under the wheels of the moving train, which passed over him.
He saw in a swift panorama the intense inner life of a curly-headed child roaming in the narrow cincture of the Ghetto, amid the picturesque high houses. A reflex of the child's old joy in the Festivals glowed in his soul.
"My father was a shoemaker, you see, and we lived not far away from where Karl's people lived. Many a time my father sent me to their house on the Bruckergrasse with mended shoes. Then I would see Karl, who was just as big as I was, but not so old by a year. Such a fine boy! Curly-headed he was, and fat like a little barrel almost.
I broke it to him as gently as I could that it would have to wear out or be cut out, and tried to make him see that it was better to be a bald-headed boss on a large salary than a curly-headed clerk on a small one; but, in the end, he resigned, taking along a letter from me to the friend who had recommended him and some of my good bone-meal.
He made instant apology; but his penitence was forgotten in the discovery that the curly-headed divine was also an old student of Professor Mansfield.
"It's a lovely place, and there has to be rules where there's so many." "There don't have to be hair-crimping rules, Mrs. Prindle huh!" As the curly-headed maker of the hated law walked across the lawn. Miss Castlevaine sent her an annihilating glance. "Is that Miss Sniffen?" queried Miss Mullaly, adjusting her eyeglasses. Miss Castlevaine nodded.
For example, he sent his eldest son to study at Kazan with the result that during the son's second year at the University he, the son, brought home with him a curly-headed Jewess, and said to his father: 'Without this woman I cannot live in her are bound up my whole soul and strength. Yes, a pass indeed!
Near the old princess, and filling up almost the whole space between the two windows, was a flaxen curly-headed young man, a hussar, with a rosy face and prominent eyes. 'What a funny little thing! Zinaida was saying; 'and its eyes are not grey, but green, and what long ears! Thank you, Viktor Yegoritch! you are very kind.
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