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They grew in large clusters among the bases of the leaves; and Guapo was not long in ascending several trees for the jara is a smooth-skinned palm, and can be climbed and breaking off the spadices, and flinging them to the ground. He had soon collected a bag-full, with which he hurried back to the house.
Clean-limbed, smooth-skinned, slender, and supple, his Indian blood showing chiefly in a slight swarth of complexion and aquilinity of feature, he now approached his twentieth year and began to gain the strength of his manhood and to give promise of more than the average stature and physical power.
"Would you have your fair greyhound, dear lady, grow up a tall and true Cotswold dog, that can pull down a stag of ten, or one of those smooth-skinned poppets which the Florence ladies lead about with a ring of bells round its neck, and a flannel farthingale over its loins?" Mrs.
He was dark, and smooth-skinned, and full of a stealthy vigour. 'I don't like porter, Maxim, she replied. 'You must ask for champagne, came the whispering, gentlemanly voice of the other. Gerald suddenly realised that this was a hint to him. 'Shall we have champagne? he asked, laughing. 'Yes please, dwy, she lisped childishly. Gerald watched her eating the oysters.
Whether this visitor be hairy or smooth-skinned, a manufacturer of honey, a canner of animal flesh or without any determined calling, whether she be Spider, Butterfly, Fly or Beetle makes no difference: the instant the little yellow louse espies the new arrival, it perches on her back and leaves with her. And now it all depends on luck!
The immense agility and ferocity of the wild beast, the terrible snap of his long-toothed jaws, and the admirable training in which he always is, give him a great advantage over fat, small-toothed, smooth-skinned dogs, even though they are nominally supposed to belong to the fighting classes.
Mixed with all these animals, there wandered about great herds of elephants and rhinoceroses; not smooth-skinned, mind, but covered with hair and wool, like those which are still found sticking out of the everlasting ice cliffs, at the mouth of the Lena and other Siberian rivers, with the flesh, and skin, and hair so fresh upon them, that the wild wolves tear it off, and snarl and growl over the carcase of monsters who were frozen up thousands of years ago.
His smooth-skinned face was contracted, and the sweat stood beaded on his forehead. "I I can't stand it. I've got my duty to do. This man has made a confession." "Your pardon," said the foreigner. "I have lived and fed on and slept with that memory, ever since. On my release I left my country. The enterprise of which I had been the head, dye-stuff manufacturing, had interested me in chemistry.
She said: "O smooth-skinned warrior, O Lily and Rose of battle; here on my side yesterday was the token of the hart's tyne that gored me when I was a young maiden five years ago: look now and pity the maiden that lay on the grass of the forest, and the woodman a-passing by deemed her dead five years ago."
A growl of assent came from the blacksmith "All right, then. See you remember it. An' now get outa the way or I'll walk over you." Long slunk back, muttering inarticulate threats, and Saxon moved on as in a dream. Charley Long had taken water. He had been afraid of this smooth-skinned, blue-eyed boy. She was quit of him something no other man had dared attempt for her.
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