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Most of the men approached Marmaduke, and shook his offered hand, hoping that the Judge was well; while Major Hartmann having laid aside his hat and wig, and substituted for the latter a warm, peaked woollen nightcap, took his seat very quietly on one end of the settee, which was relinquished by its former occupant.
He attributed these things to sleepiness; in fact, he was sickening to a fever. "You look mighty peaked," said the spokesman. "Got water? Anything we can do for you?" "Nothing the matter with me, except that I'm pretty well played out. And I've been anxious. There was a boy lost, or hurt I don't know which. But it's all right now. They lit two fires.
"Good-bye, Briar Farm!" she whispered, kissing her hand to the quaintly peaked roof just dimly perceptible "Good-bye, dear, beloved home! I shall never forget you! I shall never see anything like you! Good-bye, peace and safety! good-bye!" The tears rushed to her eyes, and for the moment blinded her, then, overcoming this weakness, she set herself to walk quickly and steadily away.
It is not unreasonable to suppose that the local habits and recollections of the first settlers may have had some influence on the physical character of the streets and houses in the New England metropolis; at any rate, here is a similar intricacy of bewildering lanes, and numbers of old peaked and projecting-storied dwellings, such as I used to see there.
Always in these pauses the same face confronted her across the fire: the face of a young man in a blue jersey and a peaked cap, a young man with crisp dark hair and dark eyes, gay and challenging.
In the room which follows this shining exhibition of autographs there is a crush. On trestles disposed around the wall trophies are arranged peaked helmets, knapsacks covered with tawny hair, ruins of shells. The complete uniform of a German infantryman has been built up with items from different sources, some of them stained.
This English ship was large and handsome, and I was sorry to see her so ill occupied, as she went roving about the seas, and we met her again at the Canaries, where we arrived on the 13th of the same month of April, and had good opportunity to wonder at the high peaked mountain in the island of Teneriffe, as we beat about between that island and Grand Canary for four days with contrary winds, and indeed had such evil weather till the 14th of May, that we despaired of being able to double the Cape of Good Hope that year.
At noon, our latitude, by observation, was 35° 27' S. and longitude 209° 23' W.; Cape Dromedary bore S. 28 W. distant nineteen leagues, a remarkable peaked hill, which resembled a square dove-house, with a dome at the top, and which for that reason I called the Pigeon House, bore N. 32° 30' W., and a small low island, which lay close under the shore, bore N.W. distant about two or three leagues.
Out over the peaked city that had been pitched rather than built, and on beyond over the frozen stubble of fields, sounded the bugle-cry of the reveille, which shrills so potently: I can't get 'em up; I can't get 'em up; I can't get 'em up in the morn ing!
Her forehead was high and wrinkled; her eyes were large, gray, and prominent; her nose was long, and aquiline: her mouth of vast capacity, her visage meagre and freckled, and her chin peaked like a shoemaker's paring knife; her upper lip contained a large quantity of plain Spanish, which, by continual falling, had embroidered her neck, that was not naturally very white, and the breast of her gown, that flowed loose about her with a negligence that was truly poetic, discovering linen that was very fine, and, to all appearance, never washed but in Castalian streams.
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