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Stubbs had gone back on him because he knew that he was in trouble." When he went toward the booth Mr. Lord looked at him around the corner of the canvas for it seemed to Toby that his employer could look around a square corner with much greater ease than he could straight ahead with a disagreeable leer in his eye, as though he enjoyed the misery which he knew his little clerk had just undergone.
"If you don't think you'd have to beat your way, to reach the wood pile to-night," retorted Tom, "then just go out again and face the wind and storm. Hen, are you going?" "No, I'm not," snapped Dutcher. "Then I'm a prophet," declared Reade solemnly. "I can see you and me having trouble." "I won't go," cried Hen, with an ugly leer. "I know what you want to do.
Stella wet her handkerchief and bathed her throbbing forehead, then took a deep draft, and felt much refreshed. "Here's your canteen," she said. Again the flap was thrust aside, and the ugly face looked in upon her with a leer. "Where are we, and where are we going?" asked Stella. "We're in the Wich " "Hey, Jack, stow that," cried the driver. "But it won't do no harm "
You might as well dress like one of them barefooted dancers, only calling 'em barefooted must be meant like sarcasm and they'd die before they'd let a daughter of theirs make a show of herself like that for odious beasts of men to leer at, and so on until a couple years later Mrs.
And then Tarrano ordered thrown upon himself the lights and sending mirrors so that his own image might be available to all of the public and Earth officials who cared to look upon it. Within the circle of mirrors he stood drawn to his full height; his eyes flashing, heavy brows lowered, and a sardonic smile almost a leer pulling at his thin lips. The embodiment of defiance.
The coarse suggestiveness of the words, the cheap passions which they implied, the leer and pomposity with which they had been uttered by the comedian, the unhealthy, narrow-chested, pavement-bred audience by which the effort had been greeted with applause, the total uncleanness and unnaturalness of city-life, came vividly home to him.
The man's evident intention, made obvious by his manner and his leer at the old woman, was to say something against her; the Prince was in a mood to quarrel with any one, on any ground at all, who did not cower to him. "Prince, she it is who ran ever with the white woman, as a dog runs in the dust." "What does she here, then?" "Ask her!" grinned the trooper.
Though he sometimes flushed and stammered, and never for a moment was at his ease in my presence, yet, to my inexpressible disgust, there was a self-complacency in his manner, and a kind of triumph in his leer, which very plainly told me how satisfied he was as to the nature of the impression he was making upon me. I would have given worlds to tell him how odious I thought him.
"Who's that?" he demanded, angrily. "Open the door an' you'll see." The voice was that of Matthew Quintal. McCoy let him in at once. "See here," he cried, eagerly, holding up the bottle with a leer, "I've got it at last!" "So any deaf man might have found out by the way you've bin shoutin' it. Why didn't you open sooner?" "Never heard you, Matt. Was too much engaged with my new friend, I suppose.
The occupant and owner was invisible. But she could hear his voice. He was remonstrating with the little man in the doorway. Lavinia touched the man on the shoulder. He turned, stared and seeing only a pretty girl favoured her with a leer. "How much does Mr. Vane owe you?" said Lavinia, chinking the coins. "Eh, my dear? Are you going to pay his debt? Lucky young man.
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