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He did it with wonderfully light touches, and yet the whole thing was to be seen the little old maid in her exquisite clothes, her unmistakable stamp of timid good breeding, her protecting adoration combined with bewilderment; the long, lean, not altogether ill-looking New York bounder, with his slight slouch, his dangerously unsophisticated-looking face, and his American jocularity of slang phrase.
"Oh! no one here knows another; and this fellow is a splendid swordsman, like all the Creoles, you know. He has used the trick to advantage, and has created an impression. By the by, now I recollect, you are no slouch at that yourself. What are you up for?" "Captain," I replied. "Good! Then we must go the `whole hog' in your favour.
It is curious to watch their sunburnt faces and uncouth ways as they slouch along, their hands busy with their beads, and their lips never ceasing for a moment to mutter prayer after prayer.
A green hand will spend half a day cleaning a gun, and then do the work imperfectly; an expert does the job efficiently in ten minutes. This was an expert. Undoubtedly this was a true son of the mountain desert. He wore his old slouch hat even in the house, and his skin was that olive brown which comes from many years of exposure to the wind and sun.
“Always unruly, the foreman tells me. I don’t believe we shall be able to keep him.” Hosmer then spoke a few words through the telephone which connected with the agent’s desk at the station, put on his great slouch hat, and thrusting keys and hands into his pocket, joined Thérèse in the door-way. Quitting the office and making a sharp turn to the left, they came in direct sight of the great mill.
I'm such a slouch that I should just sit down and write, looking every which-way but I know you can't." She came back to the studio an hour later, and waited impatiently for Cornelia's appearance.
His black slouch hat was pulled far down over his face. John saluted: "This is General Sherman?" "Yes," was the quick, pleasant answer as the tall, gaunt form slowly rose. John noted his striking and powerful personality the large frame, restless hazel eyes, fine aquiline nose, bronzed features and cropped beard.
"Dropped off at the tank, and walked down to see how the river work was coming on." Toward dusk Welton entered the boarding house where Bob was sitting rather gloomily by the central stove. The big man plumped himself down into a protesting chair, and took off his slouch hat. Bob saw his low, square forehead with the peculiar hair, black and gray in streaks, curling at the ends.
The man who wore a slouch hat and shaggy overcoat offered the policeman one hundred, then five hundred, then one thousand dollars to be released. As he had less than the first mentioned sum on his person the officer treated his proposal with virtuous contempt.
"Those were the clothes that Juan Sola wore when he ran up the gang-plank in Havana, with a big slouch hat over the chestnut hair, that even danger of discovery could not tempt her to cut, and a fat cigar between a red, laughing pair of lips that accidentally, maybe, blew a cloud of smoke into the face of the chief of police, who was watching that plank, and made the features of the young man very indistinct indeed.
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