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Asses they had, and mules for the paths of the mountains to the east; geese and hens enough, and dogs not a few, great hounds stronger than wolves, sharp-nosed, long-jawed, dun of colour, shag-haired.
"Is there any one here going to L to-day?" "I shall go half way there," said a short, sharp-nosed, black-eyed man, who sat reading an eastern paper. "Could you take a passenger or two?" "I'm pretty well loaded," he answered; "but I always find room for one more, seeing it pays." "It's a clergyman's wife and children," said the clerk, in a lower tone.
And I say this out loud," turning to glare at the intruder, "and I don't care who comes to poke fun at me for sayin' it." A sharp-nosed female followed Mr. Bassett. She spoke with evident feeling and in a voice that trembled and shook when her emotion carried it aloft. SHE'D had enough of high-toned religion. Yes, and of them that upheld it.
At one end of the long vista of this gallery is a bust of the present Prince Doria, a smooth, sharp-nosed, rather handsome young man, and at the other end his princess, an English lady of the Talbot family, apparently a blonde, with a simple and sweet expression.
"Please do not handle the bedspreads and curtains. They will fall to pieces " I heard no more, for the vanguard had pushed him aside and was swooping down upon me. A sharp-nosed lady led the way. She was within three feet of the bed and was stretching out her hand to touch the proscribed fabrics when I sat bolt upright and yelled: "Get out!"
Sim, as he was called in the locksmith's family, or Mr Simon Tappertit, as he called himself, and required all men to style him out of doors, on holidays, and Sundays out, was an old-fashioned, thin-faced, sleek-haired, sharp-nosed, small-eyed little fellow, very little more than five feet high, and thoroughly convinced in his own mind that he was above the middle size; rather tall, in fact, than otherwise.
I only came out to talk with you." "If you didn't surrender, then excuse me, and go ahead and put up a fight," laughed the policeman, handily removing Evarts's revolver from a hip pocket. "Now, look in here, Tom," urged Dick. "Do you see what caught my eye?" Prescott pointed to a sharp-nosed cylinder, some eight feet long.
He was a small, lean, bony, sharp-nosed Scot who had fled Scotland during the Panic of '37, landed in New York, and stopped. He solemnly declared that he had never been west of the Hudson River nor north of 181st Street in the more than fifty years he had been in the country. He had a mind like that of a robot filing cabinet.
"If only you did your work, and were orderly." "That's impossible for the likes of us," said a sharp-nosed old man. "You say, 'Why do you let the horse get into the corn? just as if I let it in.
They were not so much envious as in awe of Miss Mitchin's; it seemed to belong to the same unattainable world as Newport and the giant New York hotels. The Applebys didn't know it, but Grimsby Center had become artistic. They couldn't know it, but that sharp-nosed genius-hound Miss Mitchin was cashing in on her salon.
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