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It is no other than the great Gourou himself, the king of sleuths, as they say in the books I used to read. Good morning, Baron." The sharp-visaged little Minister of Police came up to the table and fixed an accusing eye upon his sovereign, the literal truth, for he had the other eye closed in a protracted wink. "I regret to inform your majesty that the enemy is upon us," he said.
Hastily surveying the exterior of the shop, and fancying that it was precisely the one at which his inquiries should commence barbers in that age being as famous for their gossiping propensities as in this Fernand entered, and was immediately accosted by a short, sharp-visaged, dark-complexioned old man, who pointed to a seat, saying in a courteous, or rather obsequious tone, "What is your will, signor?"
I could note the scowling, sharp-visaged bigot, wrapt up in the nice observance of trifles, correcting others, if the object of their supplications embraced anything within a whole hemisphere of heresy, and not so much happy because he thought himself the way of salvation, as because he thought others out of it a consideration which sent pleasure tingling to his fingers' ends.
Janice could have wished that the spinster would give more of her attention to her cats and Ambrose, the parrot, and less to neighborhood affairs. For the child knew that not even a peddler came to the door that the sharp-visaged woman behind her bowed blinds did watch to see what Janice did. "She watches every move I make, Daddy," complained the girl one day.
Certainly that small, sharp-visaged gentleman does not give much outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual power he possesses and wields over this realm of England just now. His bodily presence might almost be described as St. Paul's.
Hillyard was speculating for the twentieth time on these important matters with a vague hope that one day the door of the sedan chair would open, when another door opened the door of the restaurant. A sharp-visaged man with a bald forehead, a clerk, one would say, or a commercial traveller, looked round the room and went forward to Hillyard's table. He went quite openly.
A thin, black-eyed, sharp-visaged, middle-aged lady, dressed in black and wearing a knitted shawl perhaps the mother of the three young people he had just seen came half-way down the strip of red carpet on the stairs, inspected him, and went up again. It was all more disconcerting than he had expected.
She'll regard it as the thin end of the wedge getting her nose into a house of this kind. Irresistibly the words conjured up a vision of some sharp-visaged female marauder insinuating the tip of a very pointed nose between the great front door and the lintel. 'I only hope, the elder woman went on, 'that I won't be here the first time Donald encounters your new friend on the doorstep.
Jaynes, a sharp-visaged little woman, to whose energetic control her absent-minded, studious husband surrendered the parsonage and all it contained.
They said, "If we had known it would come out in this way, we would have let shoot Butler at the first. He would have done it quicker than a flash." One little, sharp-visaged, dark-featured South Carolinian, who seemed to be the leader of the gang, was particularly displeased.
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