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"He'll be there. And don't forget to report once a day to the Chief." "I won't." "And if anything unexpected turns up," said Carter, "and you need help, take a good look at that nurse that is passing." Jane turned curiously to inspect a buxom girl in a drab nurse's costume who was wheeling a baby carriage along the sidewalk near-by.
Normally he admired the office, with a pleased surprise that he should have created this sure lovely thing; normally he was stimulated by the clean newness of it and the air of bustle; but to-day it seemed flat the tiled floor, like a bathroom, the ocher-colored metal ceiling, the faded maps on the hard plaster walls, the chairs of varnished pale oak, the desks and filing-cabinets of steel painted in olive drab.
For the life of her she could not feel that it mattered whether the windows were clean or dirty; life was drab and cheerless outside them, anyway. Billy Louise in the last few months had tried to picture herself alone, with mommie gone. Her imagination was too alive and saw too clearly the possibilities for her never to have dwelt upon this very crisis in her life.
Dugdale, we can't wait all day," said the officer. "Well, will thee read it for me?" returned the Quaker. The officer complied, and the man in drab said, "Yes, thee may go in, now. I am inclined to throw no obstacles in the way of the execution of the law of the land." On approaching the door, the men found some forty or fifty nails in it, in the way of their progress.
I was compelled to receive a dab from the child's nose, by way of a kiss, in return for buying him off with honour. The child stumped away on the pavement fronting our hotel, staring at its fist that held the treasure. 'Poor pet wee drab of it! exclaimed my father. 'One is glad, Richie, to fill a creature out of one's emptiness. Now she toddles; she is digesting it rapidly.
Her two sticks were bare and brown, her snugged canvas drab, her brasses dull, her anchor mottled with rust. The half-nude brown bodies of the crew informed Ah Cum that the schooner had come up from the South Seas. The boiling under her stern, however, told him nothing. He was not a sailor. It would not have interested him in the least to learn that the tub ran on two powers wind and oil.
Over this bright province Britain raised her flag, but only Medallion and a few others loved it for its own sake, or saluted it in the English tongue. In the drab velvety dust of these four corners, were gathered, one night of July a generation ago, the children of the village and many of their elders. All the events of that epoch were dated from the evening of this particular day.
in that modest dwelling we were just looking at, not glorious, yet not unlovely in the youth of its drab and mahogany, full of great and little boys' playthings from top to bottom, in all these summer or winter nests he was always at home and always welcome.
From a dull drab grey, the dog's hair had washed pure white, not a spot or a blemish on it, and in an agony of grief the little pagan boy realized that through his own action he had endangered the life of his dog friend; that should his father and his father's friends see that small white terrier, they would take it away for the nation's sacrifice.
By a curious mental twist he felt greater freedom, larger opportunities in drab surroundings such as these than in the broad issues and weighty responsibilities of his own life. Choosing a corner seat, he called for coffee; and there, protected by shadow and wrapped in cigarette smoke, he set about imagining himself some vagrant unit who had slipped his moorings and was blissfully adrift.
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