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"Look! what animal is that?" ejaculated the professor, in a husky whisper. "I do not know him. He is new to me a new species! And the gorilla, too; what a splendid specimen! Von Schalckenberg fell suddenly silent, constrained thereto by his interest in the impending drama, for it was evident that the leopard meditated an attack upon the gorilla.

In the castrated female, the pelvis does not grow to the normal feminine size, the breasts do not swell as they should, more or less hair comes out on the face, the voice is low-pitched, and tends to be rather husky, the legs are longer, and again, the mentality is dulled. That is, a masculine sort of woman is produced.

He was a tempestuously organized creature, of a martial front and a baby heart, most fortunate in his breadth of shoulder, his height, and the readiness of the choleric blood to come into his cheeks, the eagerness of his husky voice to bluster.

Malcolm went over to the corner where the husky young Englishman stood, alone and unheard, and gave him some assistance with the tenor, while the doctor joined the other young men, and sang bass like a native.

Her voice became husky and then failed; and feeling that the interview had lasted long enough, the girls kissed her and they all took leave, wondering whether they had done harm or good by their visit. 'One thing we might do, said Allan, after they had trudged for awhile in a somewhat uncomfortable silence, 'we might take a look at Andrew MacPeters.

Those on the bank could almost hear it travel. Then followed what seemed an interminable interval. But it was seconds only before a faint call came back. "Hoo-y!" The policeman was given no opportunity for reply. The doctor's great husky voice anticipated him. "Ho, Steve! It's Doc Ross!" He had recognized the answering voice and flung his excited greeting in a tumult of feeling.

At times, when not near the scrub, they would burrow deep into a great drift of snow and sleep in the warmest kind of a nest, a trick that the husky dogs, which are but wolves of yesterday, still remember.

She struck her hand on the back of the bench. Vincent Marsh sat down beside her, his eyes on hers. He said in a curious, low voice, rough and husky, "I wish you would do something for me. I wish you would think with all your might, deeply, just why you are so opposed to his doing what evidently seems to him a very saintly and heroic action; and then tell me why it is."

David Marshall had forgotten everything but his main points and the facts that supported them. He began in the very midst of things. He spoke a minute and a quarter plainly, simply; and sat down the instant he had finished. He had spoken in his usual husky and sibilant voice. Nobody had called "Louder!" however because nobody had really wished to hear.

He cut two tufts of wild grass with his wife's largest dressmaking-scissors; he informed Ted that it was all nonsense having a furnace-man "big husky fellow like you ought to do all the work around the house;" and privately he meditated that it was agreeable to have it known throughout the neighborhood that he was so prosperous that his son never worked around the house.