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"What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable.
Really! I should like to see it. A few radishes and spindly lettuce, I suppose?" "Say, come have a look!" says I. And when I'd pointed out the half acre of potatoes, and the long rows of corn and string beans and peas and I hope I called 'em all by their right names I sure had the old girl hedgin' some. But trust her!
But she wasn't as spindly as he used to think. And her dark hair, even features and slim hands were nicer than he recalled. "I hear you fellas got your space-armor sample, Frank." "Yep we did. We're ordering more." Her expression became speculative. Her brown eyes lighted. "I've been wondering if I should look Outward, too. Whether it makes sense for a girl." "Could be I've heard."
His trousers had once been white cotton drill, but the whiteness had long before given up the unequal struggle against grime and grease and subsided to a less conspicuous, less perishable grey. They had been cut off just below the knees and, unhemmed, hung flapping with every step he took above a stretch of white-socked, spindly shanks. But it was the coat he wore which held Caleb spellbound.
But it was nothing new to run into Nancy Codiss, the spindly fifteen-year-old next door. He had a sudden, unbelievably expansive impulse. "Hi, Nance," he said. "I didn't get much supper. Let's go down to Lehman's for a hamburger and maybe a soda." "Why good Frankie!" They didn't talk very much, walking down, waiting for their orders, or eating their hamburgers.
Their squaws, fat and unattractive, squatted outside the single store of the place. We saw also a dozen or so white men dressed very plainly and shabbily, tall, lank, and spindly, rather weakly in general appearance, their faces sallow, their eyes rather childish but crafty and treacherous, their hair thin and straight.
At no hour of the day was it advisable for a relative to approach the neighborhood in fastidious company, unless prepared to acknowledge kinship with a spindly young person either eating bread-and-butter and apple sauce and powdered sugar, or all too visibly just having eaten bread-and-butter and apple sauce and powdered sugar.
Whether the soil suits or not and, for the most part, it does not suit rhododendrons are thrust in everywhere. Just walk in amongst them behind the show and look at the spindly, crooked stems, straggling how they may, and then look at the earth under them, where not a weed even will grow.
Some, on the theory that the female generally obtains a more vigorous initial start in life, and in very infancy presents a more robust appearance, heroically weed out weak and spindly seedlings with occasionally happy results.
But possibly his mind filled in a hiatus here, and there was no mistaking that what she said about her father impressed him profoundly. "I ... I really seem to have known. You might call it a sort of of premonition if you wanted to ... Though you'll naturally not think I've acted that way." Mr. V.V. stood by a spindly table, carefully examining a small but costly vase, the property of Mr.