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When they went into the room, Darnley took the Queen round the waist, and Lord Ruthven, who had risen from a bed of sickness to do this murder, came in, gaunt and ghastly, leaning on two men. Rizzio ran behind the Queen for shelter and protection. 'Let him come out of the room, said Ruthven.
I don't make my living that way," she answered cheerfully. "Perhaps I'd better see the little girl, Miss " she added after a few moments' thought. "Hepzibah Toothacre is my name," remarked the gaunt woman as she turned away leaving the young lady standing on the step. Dorothy made a wry face. "Toothacre or some kind of acher I should think," she said to herself.
In a little while I came to his door and was confronted by a thin, gaunt, bespectacled woman, who called back to a man inside: "Henry, here's a little boy says Dr. Gridley said you were to cut him a double handful of peach sprigs." Henry now came forward a tall, bony farmer in high boots and an old wool-lined leather coat, and a cap of wool. "Dr.
"Folks will say you are jealous and mean, and that I was an unfaithful fool for listening to you, but I will have to stand it." "Well, I'll simply be obliged to be away," Henley said, doggedly. "The business won't be put off, and and " "And you are a heartless brute!" the gaunt woman cried, as she whirled from him and strode into the house.
The student whose state of mind is in the majority of cases created by his surroundings, ought in the place where he is studying to see facing him at every turn nothing but what is lofty, strong and elegant.... God preserve him from gaunt trees, broken windows, grey walls, and doors covered with torn American leather!
The chief clerk at Fields, Jones & Houseman's was a tall, gaunt, old-young man with a hawk-like nose that carried eyeglasses perched perilously astride it, and he had a tongue that spit caustic. But the chief clerk's ugly words did not annoy Mr. Neal if his inquiry had been successful.
Out of the red glare shot a huge gaunt figure with long white teeth and slavering jaws, the king wolf, to the warriors the demon wolf. After him came a full score or more of wolves, almost as large, and howling their terror to the moon.
Then she was high and dry on the shingle, with the retreating tide going out to sea to flood coasts elsewhere, only indicating that it had not quite gone yet by a faint splash and ripple on the shore; and, deserted by the element that should have supported her and did when she moved and had her being, gliding through the waters "like a thing of life," the wretched steamer stood up so gaunt and grim that she seemed more than twice her natural size.
The wolves of the time, greater, swifter and fiercer than the gaunt gray wolves of northern latitudes and historic times, ran well, but so did contemporaneous man run well, and the chase was hard.
Late in the afternoon an aged, gaunt man drove an incongruous, two wheeled, breaking cart into the stable yard behind the parsonage. After hitching an aged, gaunt white horse, he approached the field's edge, where Gordon was harvesting.
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