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"There's strawberries, blueberries, apples, potatoes, sweet corn let's go right away, Grand-daddy." Granny Whiskers sat silently rocking while the others chattered eagerly. Grand-daddy watched her as she wiped away a tear and sighed wearily. "What do you say, Granny? You enjoyed last summer's vacation at the Lake, didn't you?" he asked.
Or on the open road in the night: solemn again the mood of the doughboy as he recollects some of those lonely night rides. Here on his back in the hay of the little sled he reclines muffled in blankets and robes, his driver hidden in his great bearskin parki, or greatcoat, hidden all but his two piercing eyes, his nose and whiskers that turned up to shield his face.
When young, he must have been a very handsome man; even now, although nearly fifty years of age, and his hair and whiskers a little mixed with grey, he was a fine-looking personage, of florid complexion, large blue eyes, nose and mouth very perfect: in height he was full six feet; and he walked so erect that he looked even taller. There was precision, I may say dignity, in all his motions.
The longer that Pinkie Whiskers looked at the tadpole, the more proud he grew to think that he had caught him. At last the tadpole found his voice and said, "Oh, please put me back in the water. I want to go home." Pinkie Whiskers jumped when the tadpole spoke. Someway he had not thought about a tadpole having a voice or being able to talk. "No, my little tadpole.
Her little finger touched Val's thumb they were holding the same hymn-book and a tiny thrill passed through her, preserved from twenty years ago. He stooped and whispered: "I say, d'you remember the rat?" The rat at their wedding in Cape Colony, which had cleaned its whiskers behind the table at the Registrar's! And between her little and third finger she squeezed his thumb hard.
He was of a tall, straight, well-knit-together habit of body, with broad shoulders and a well-rounded chest. His head seemed almost too small for his extraordinary developed body, especially as the chestnut-brown hair was clipped quite short. His face was of a deep red, and shaved to the chin, but a pair of small well kept semicircular whiskers helped to give it character.
They were about the same height, and there was the same stoop observable in the shoulders; the features also were similar in cast, and sallow in hue; the same the black eyes and hair. John had large whiskers, otherwise the likeness would have been more striking; and his face was not disfigured by the strange black mark.
As I said, we went into the ante-room, and there I got my first peep at the divinity that doth hedge not a king, but a commissioned officer in Her Majesty's N. W. M. P. An orderly held us up, and when MacRae had convinced him that our business was urgent, and not for his ears, he graciously allowed us to enter the Presence who proved to be a heavy-set person with sandy, mutton-chop whiskers set bias on a vacuous, round, florid countenance.
Champneys found himself staring and being stared at by the usual crayon portraits of defunct members of the family, at least he hoped they were defunct, the man with a long mule face and neck whiskers; and opposite him his spouse, with her hair worn like mustard-plasters on the skull. "Male and female created He them."
Millions of butterflies with long whiskers gleamed golden above the reeds; beyond the garden they were driving the cattle. In fact, it was a perfect picture. "Of all I had seen the only thing I understood was that Sasha was kissing Zinotchka. That was improper. If maman heard of it they would both catch it.
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