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'Are there only you two, then? inquired Florence. 'Only us two, said the man. 'Her mother his been dead these ten year. The girl made an impatient gesture with her cowering shoulders, and turned her head another way. Ugly, misshapen, peevish, ill-conditioned, ragged, dirty but beloved! Oh yes! Florence had seen her father's look towards her, and she knew whose look it had no likeness to.
The hippopotamus is the chief treasure of the collection, an immense, almost misshapen, mass of flesh. At this moment I do not remember anything that interested me except a sick monkey, a very large monkey, and elderly he seemed to be. His keeper brought him some sweetened apple and water, and some tea; for the monkey had quite lost his appetite, and refused all ordinary diet.
As Henry leaned forward to listen better his figure was distorted like that of a misshapen giant. "Steer straight toward the north, Paul," he whispered. "We must shake them off somehow or other." Silently the boat slid through the water but they heard again those signal cries, the hoots of the owl and now they were much nearer.
To all appearances the room was empty, save for some pieces of poor furniture. But the visitor, blinking at the sudden transition from light to darkness, walked over to a rough couch, where lay the misshapen jockey Peacock, either asleep or deep in thought. Jasper shook him angrily by the shoulder, and a sullen scowl darkened the little monkey-like face as he recognised his visitor.
It was a strangely misshapen presentation of the normally spick-and-span Average Jones that gently rang the basement bell of the old house at the specified hour. All his pockets bulged with lumpy angles.
He carried in his hand a short whip, resembling a carrot in shape, and evidently of such a description as no man that had any regard for his health would wish to come in contact with, especially from the hand of such a double-jointed but misshapen Hercules as bore it. "Ted, how goes it, my man?" "Ghe dhe shin dirthu, a dinaousal?" replied Ted, surveying him with a stare.
This criticism was drawn from him by a misstep into the mud, but he quickly regained the ill-paved sidewalk and continued his course with unbroken cheerfulness. The night was dark, the few and widely scattered street lamps burned dimly, and the city loomed through the dusk, misshapen and obscure.
And as he sat there a grotesque, misshapen figure in gaudy motley an ungovernable rage possessed him. What was to become of them now? Without the Count of Aquila's stern support the garrison would have forced her to capitulate a week ago. What would betide, now that the restraint of his formidable command was withdrawn? "She will know her folly when it's too late.
I wish that some of the passionate interpreters of love would make a work of imagination that should render with verisimilitude the love-affair of two absolutely grotesque and misshapen persons, without any sense of incongruity or absurdity. I should be loth to say that love depends upon physical characteristics; but I think it must be confessed that impassioned love does so depend.
Paul was little and misshapen, and that that was his thorn in the flesh." "I don't think that can be true, or he would never have compared his body to a tabernacle, for, oh dear! it won't stretch an inch to give a body room. I don't think either, if that had been the case, he would have said he didn't want it taken off, but another put over it.
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