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I don't hide because I'm haughty, but because I'm weak and soft." In appearance Mr. Crossley did not suggest his name. He was a tallish, powerful-looking person with a smooth, handsome, audacious face, with fine, laughing, but somehow untrustworthy eyes at least untrustworthy for women, though women had never profited by the warning.
A great black ship is anchored near, and on the deck I see a man lying, apparently very ill. He is a powerful-looking man, fair, and very much bronzed. Seven or eight Englishmen, in very light clothes, are standing on the road beside the boat. 'January 28, 1898. 'A great black ship, anchored in 'a river or lake, naturally suggests the Suez Canal, where, in fact, Mr.
She wore a new and elaborate motoring costume, charmingly becoming, and was in the act of mounting to a seat beside Valentine Corliss in a long, powerful-looking, white "roadster" automobile.
John Drake, to a big and powerful-looking man standing near, "this is the new lad, whose skill in swimming, and whose courage, I told you of yesternight. He will, I doubt not, be found as willing as he is brave; and I trust that you will put him in the way of learning his business as a sailor. It is his first voyage.
Eliotson, a dark, sombre, taciturn, powerful-looking man, with coal-black hair, and a beard as black, fringing round his face; Mr. Charles Reade, author of Christie Johnstone and other novels, and many plays, a tall man, more than thirty, fair-haired, and of agreeable talk and demeanor.
A lad and a man now stood upright and motioned to the girls. "Where's Neil?" said Biddy. "Neil could not come, Miss Biddy, so I'm taking his place," said the deep voice of a powerful-looking man. He had a black beard down to his waist, flashing black eyes, a turned-up nose, and a low forehead. A more bull-dog and ferocious-looking individual it would be hard to find.
There were no signs of any change in his condition, but he was still breathing heavily. Then they heard a shout behind, almost in their ears. The porter staggered to his feet. "It's all right now, sir!" he exclaimed. "They've brought blankets and a stretcher and brandy. Here's a doctor, sir." A powerful-looking man, hatless, and wrapped in a great ulster, moved towards them.
His unpleasantly red face grew even redder, and for a moment he seemed to meditate some spirited answer. Then apparently he thought better of it, and slouching after me up the platform, possessed himself of the larger and heavier of my two bags, which I had carefully left for him. The trap proved to be a ramshackle affair with an ill-kept but powerful-looking horse between the shafts.
It was not a very powerful-looking charm a dozen lines of a letter from Elinor Piper asking him to come to Southampton, but it began "Dear Ted" and ended "Elinor" and he thought it would serve.
They were intelligent, powerful-looking animals, and were used, he told us, for hunting the kangaroo. Before a fire in a smaller hut on one side of the main building, two joints of mutton were roasting.
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