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For women, as it seems to me, like strong men more than weak ones, feeling that they need some staunchness, something to hold fast by. And of all the men in our country, although we are of a thick-set breed, you scarce could find one in three-score fit to be placed among the Doones, without looking no more than a tailor.
When I arrived at the house to which I had been directed, in one of the dark alleys near the shore, I was ushered into a small, darkened room. A stout, thick-set man, in a seaman's dress, heard my message, received my parcel, without once opening his lips, and locked the door. Hungry, disappointed, and alarmed at this unlooked-for reception, I stood for some time lost in amazement.
Then came the pears the "blanquettes," the "British queens," the "Beurres," the "messirejeans," and the "duchesses" some dumpy, some long and tapering, some with slender necks, and others with thick-set shoulders, their green and yellow bellies picked out at times with a splotch of carmine.
He was a middle-sized, thick-set, commonplace, grave, quiet man; very powerful but not apparently so; one whom it was impossible to "find out" unless he chose to let himself be found out. Above all, he was a reserved man. Everybody knew well enough, at least among his intimates, that he was named Gorman; but not one of the number knew what his Christian name was.
The whole scene shone and sparkled so brilliantly in the morning sun, that one could almost fancy it was one of the regions of fairyland! When young Gregory came on the quarter-deck, no one was there except Jim Croft, a short, thick-set man, with the legs of a dwarf and the shoulders of a giant.
Below middle height, thick-set and powerfully built, with a big head, narrow eyes, and a massive chin, Hartley Parrish, in his absorbed concentration on his business, had no time for the acquisition or practice of the Eton manner. It was characteristic of Parrish that, seeing Bude at a dinner-party at Marcobruaner's, he should have engaged him on the spot.
He began to tick off the candidates one by one. "One two three! Not one of you has much to bless himself with." At last he pitched upon a son-in-law agreeable to him a short, thick-set lout who happened to have a well-to-do father. "Well, are you content to have him?" inquired Master Jock of the girl. Susie blushed up to the ears and replied in a scarcely audible voice
In person he was short and thick-set, and having suffered severely from the small-pox during his infancy, was by no means prepossessing in his outward appearance. The second-lieutenant, whose name was Price, was a good-looking young man, who kept his watch and read Shakespeare.
Both the officers quickly made their appearance under its arched avenues; they were accompanied by a little thick-set man, with a phlegmatic, almost sleepy, expression of face the army doctor. He carried in one hand an earthenware pitcher of water to be ready for any emergency; a satchel with surgical instruments and bandages hung on his left shoulder.
The scaffold creaks to the winds that rock it!" The little thick-set slater sat with both arms on the table, staring right in front of him with veiled eyes. When the song was over he raised his head a little. "Yes, that may be all very fine for those it concerns. But the slater, he climbs higher than the mason." His face was purple. "Now, comrade, let well alone," said Stolpe comfortably.
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