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He was a handsome man, as tall as Tuttle, but more slenderly built, with clean-cut features, dancing black eyes, and a black mustache that swept in an upward curve over his tanned cheek. His friend scrutinized him anxiously as he slid cartridges into the empty chambers of his revolver. "Sure you 're sober, Nick?" Ellhorn laughed. "How the devil can I tell?
Such people have very fine hair and fine skin. Their nerves are sensitive and close to the surface. Their entire build of body is delicate and slender. Their hands and feet also are usually delicately and slenderly fashioned; their shoulders are narrow and oftentimes sloping. It is folly to talk of building up rugged, muscular and bony systems by means of strenuous exercise in people thus endowed.
Francis Craye, Bishop of Markborough, was physically a person of great charm. He was small not more than five foot seven; but so slenderly and perfectly made, so graceful and erect in bearing, that his height, or lack of it, never detracted in the smallest degree from his dignity, or from the reverence inspired by the innocence and unworldliness of his character.
Most readers have read something of the history of Assyria, of the effeminate Sardanapalus, of Semiramis, and of the more fabulous Ninus. These three names are the three landmarks of Assyrian history; and the long lapses of time which separate them are shrouded in mystery, and up to late years have been filled up only by fanciful histories but slenderly based on fact.
By an old settlement, almost all the landed estates of the Baron went, after his death, to a distant relation; and it was supposed that Miss Bradwardine would remain but slenderly provided for, as the good gentleman's cash matters had been too long under the exclusive charge of Bailie Macwheeble to admit of any great expectations from his personal succession.
"Oh, come in, Eve bring some matches. Are the collars piquet, Harry?" "No, they hadn't got piquet, but they're the plain shape you like. You may thank us they didn't send you things with little rujabiba frills." Eve came slenderly down the room and Miriam saw with relief that her outdoor things were off.
He was forty-six, gray as a rat, earnest, thoughtful, slenderly educated, slouchily dressed and clay-soiled, but his heart was finer metal than any gold his shovel ever brought to light than any, indeed, that ever was mined or minted.
'Play well thy part; there all the honour lies. God, who has builded up some of the towering Alps out of mica-flakes, builds up His Church out of infinitesimally small particles slenderly endowed men touched by the consecration of His love. III. Lastly, let me remind you of the harvest reaped from these slender gifts when sedulously tilled.
One night, sitting on top of the Taj Mahal, 'neath the Blue Moon of Persia, Warble cried, "Shall I go back to Butterfly Thenter or shall I not?" "Spin a toddletop," said Petticoat, taking one from his pocket. She spun it and it came up pickle foundry. So Warble said, "All right, dear, I'll go home with you whenever you're ready," and she kissed him slenderly. Ptomaine Haul.
So it was, I say, with the young of my class and most of the young people in our world. So it came about that I sought Nettie on the Sunday afternoon and suddenly came upon her, light bodied, slenderly feminine, hazel eyed, with her soft sweet young face under the shady brim of her hat of straw, the pretty Venus I had resolved should be wholly and exclusively mine.
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