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For my part, I'd rather sleep in your little crib than have those great gruff-looking figures staring at me by the firelight, and shaking their heads with every wind on a winter's night." And the valet took a pinch of snuff as he drew Beck's attention to the faded tapestry on the walls.
For my part, I'd rather sleep in your little crib than have those great gruff-looking figures staring at me by the firelight, and shaking their heads with every wind on a winter's night." And the valet took a pinch of snuff as he drew Beck's attention to the faded tapestry on the walls.
He approached a gruff-looking officer of forbidding aspect and addressed him in French. "Where to?" he asked. "To the attack," was the reply. At the same moment a bugle rang out. Others took it up. It was the command to advance. Right, left, front and rear of where Stubbs and Chester stood the troops began to move.
This aroused the curiosity of the townsfolk and caused all sorts of malicious gossip. The working men did not belong to the place, but were brought from a distance. Dark and short and rather gruff-looking, they did not understand the local speech, and seldom showed themselves in the streets. "They are wicked and dark" was said about them in the town.
ON the second day of June, 186 , a young Norseman, Halfdan Bjerk by name, landed on the pier at Castle Garden. He passed through the straight and narrow gate where he was asked his name, birthplace, and how much money he had, at which he grew very much frightened. "And your destination?" demanded the gruff-looking functionary at the desk. "America," said the youth, and touched his hat politely.
As we passed her there flashed through my mind the thought that there might be opportunity for work on that vessel next day. Sure enough, when morning came, the staunch bark Mary Melville lay quietly in front of the mill. Without loss of time my inquiry was made: "Do you want any men on board this ship?" A gruff-looking fellow eyed me all over as much as to say, "Not you anyhow."
I found the streets crowded with gayly-dressed, vivacious Mohammedans and Hindoos and solemn, gruff-looking Afghans. Some were on foot; some on horseback, astride splendid horses brought from the Deccan; many rode in eckas, a few in baillies two varieties of native vehicle. The dwellings in the city, built of mud with tiled roofs, were mostly but one story in height.
The compact, highly finished, yet proudly simple construction of the carriage; the quantity of neat, well-arranged trunks and conveniences; the loads of box coats and upper benjamins on the dickey and the fresh, burly, gruff-looking face at the window, proclaimed at once that it was the equipage of an Englishman.
Augustus found it "deuced unpleasant," he told me, as, instead of remaining quiet until he knew his ground, he proceeded to commit a series of bêtises. The first afternoon I subsided into a low chair, and a gruff-looking man handed me some tea, and patted and talked to a bob-tailed sheep-dog that was near. I don't know if he expected me to answer for the dog, and so make a conversation.
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