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On a long extended healing diet he lost a significant amount of weight and seemed down right skinny, causing all who knew him well and cared about him to tempt him with all kinds of scrumptious delicacies from the best of kitchens. But this case was like Luigi Cornaro, a man who never again could look like a hunk.
Bolster came up more slowly and reluctantly grasped his hairy fist in her large, skinny hand. The 'Squire stood up before them in his most impressive attitude. "Hold on," suddenly called out Tom Welch, who was the "guard-house lawyer" of Co.
So it was Dicky's turn to choose, and Marmaduke waited breathlessly. He hoped that he would be chosen first, second anyway. He ought to be, for wasn't it his ball they were going to play with! But "I'll take Reddy," said Dicky; "Sammy," said Fatty; "Skinny," chose Dicky next;
"And they've been practicing in the park ever since the snow melted. How can we lick 'em now?" Sid shrugged his shoulders aggravatingly. "Haven't you any brains at all?" John stormed. "I'm captain," Sid snapped back at the insurgents. "I'm running this team. If you don't like it, you can quit!" The voice of Skinny Mosher, the peacemaker, broke in: "Aw, kids, never mind. 'Tain't so bad as it looks.
Carolyn June exclaimed, with the uncomfortable feeling that the big Greek's look had touched her with something vile and unclean. After the parade disbanded Carolyn June and Skinny rode back to the car where Old Heck and Ophelia had remained. "You made a darned good-looking cowgirl!" Old Heck said proudly to her as she stopped Red John by the side of the Clagstone "Six."
This person bore down upon me and gently extracted my bag from my grasp. He stood about six feet three; his face was long and brown and grave; his figure was spare and strong. Atop his head he wore the sacred Arizona high-crowned hat, around his neck a bright bandana; no coat, but an unbuttoned vest; skinny trousers, and boots.
Thus the spirits of his earlier days thronged his fancy, as he slumbered there; but the pale ghost in his heart, pointing with its skinny finger backward, came not to him as he lay there dreaming, with his cheek upon his hand.
'Lady and gentleman? inquired Wardle, almost breathless with impatience. 'Yes, sir. 'Tall gentleman dress-coat long legs thin body? 'Yes, sir. 'Elderly lady thin face rather skinny eh? 'Yes, sir. 'By heavens, it's the couple, Pickwick, exclaimed the old gentleman. 'Would have been here before, said the hostler, 'but they broke a trace. ''Tis them! said Wardle, 'it is, by Jove!
"Now, this gal can be made useful. She can help me in the house, and she can help outside, too. "She's a poor, unfortunate creature I know and humbly is no name for her looks! But mebbe we can send her to the school nearby, and she ought to get some color in her face if she's out o' doors some and some flesh on her skinny body.
It has often been said that Macbeth approaches the nearest of all Shakespeare's tragedies to the antique model: and in nothing is the resemblance clearer than in the employment of the Witches to point their skinny fingers into the fated future. In Romeo and Juliet, inward foreboding takes the place of outward prophecy.
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