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'Ee up, niggur," he continued, grasping the long hair of the savage, and holding the face upward; "let's get a squint of your phisog. Hooraw! Coyote 'Pash! Hooraw!" And a gleam of triumph lit up the countenance of the old man as he uttered these wild exclamations. "Apash, is he?" asked one of the hunters, who had remained near the spot.
When the people had all gone away, Menie and Monnie sat down on the side of the sledge. Nip and Tup were busy burying bones in the snow. The other dogs had eaten all they wanted to and were now lying down asleep in the sun, with their noses on their paws. Everything was still and cold. It was so still you could almost hear the silence, and so bright that the twins had to squint their eyes.
For the rest, there was a fierce little squint out of one eye; the nose had a rakish twist to one side; while his large mouth, and great white teeth, looked absolutely sharkish when he laughed. In a word, no one, after getting a fair look at him, would ever think of improving the shape of his nose, wanting in symmetry as it was.
He recited to the gunsmith the complaint of the thief and the statement of the tailor, whereupon the gunsmith said: "Oh great and mighty Khan, this tailor knows not whereof he talks. I need both of my eyes; for while it is true that I squint one eye along one side of the barrel of the gun, to see if it is straight, I must use the other eye for the other side.
Mr List's squint assumed a portentous character, which seemed to threaten a prolongation of this controversy, when his companion, who had been looking sharply at the old man, put a timely stop to it. 'Who knows, said he, with a cunning look, 'but the gentleman may have civilly meant to ask if he might have the honour to take a hand with us! 'I did mean it, cried the old man.
Take a squint along the gun till you get the notch on the muzzle against the target; then raise your gun's breech till the notch is a little below your target. Those wooden quoins under the gun will keep it raised if you pull them out a little." Hugh lay down flat on the grass and moved the gun carefully till he was sure the aim was correct.
I wonder what makes any one squint like that!" "Had one of his eyes knocked out and put in again upside down," said Dick. "Get out!" cried Tom. "Haugh, haugh, haugh, haugh, haugh, haugh!" cried Solomon. "There, he's laughing at you. I say, Dick, do you think he really does watch us?" "Sure of it. He thinks I houghed the poor horses.
I didn't pay so very much attention to it at the time, and it had slipped my mind. But this must be it!" "Do you mean to say that any man was going to take this beautiful timber away from us on that kind of a technicality?" "I believe that's just what he did." Two days later Elliott straightened his back after a squint through the compass sights to exclaim: "I wish we had a dog!"
Gruner, greengrocer, was standing at the door of his shop looking both ways down the street at once, owing to a remarkable squint, and his reception of Sam was unfriendly, but quickly checked at the sight of his companion, whose extraordinary terms of intimacy with his errand boy rendered the good man nearly speechless.
We did not find the deepest dungeon below the castle moat, though we looked everywhere for it, but we found everything else you can think of belonging to castles even the holes they used to pour boiling lead through into the eyes of besiegers when they tried to squint up to see how strong the garrison was in the keep and the little slits they shot arrows through, and the mouldering remains of the portcullis.