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From his ears hung crescent-shaped silver ear-rings studded with coral and turquoise; a necklace of the same barbaric magnificence was about his neck, and his arms were covered with bracelets. His deep-set eyes, his flat nose, his mouth set in a thousand fine wrinkles, the whole aspect of him, breathed a sly and impish drollery.
Presently, after she had disappeared, he turned to the colored man who stood waiting, Bibbs's traveling-bag in his hand. "What do YOU think of it?" Bibbs asked, solemnly. "Gran'!" replied the servitor. "She mighty hard to dus'. Dus' git in all 'em wrinkles. Yessuh, she mighty hard to dus'." "I expect she must be," said Bibbs, his glance returning reflectively to the black bull beard for a moment.
That night, at the Traders' Club, Bobby was surprised when Mr. Trimmer walked over to his table and dropped his pudgy trunk and his lean limbs into a chair beside him. His yellow countenance was creased with ingratiating wrinkles, and the smile behind his immovable mustache became of perfectly flawless circumference as his muddy black eyes peered at Bobby through thick spectacles.
The body should never be permitted to settle. In Cuba, the women have enormous hips because they sit so much and are inactive. Each muscular movement should reflect health and youth until one feels hardy and young. One should breathe all the fresh air that she can consume. Breathing is a vital force which sends blood to fill out wrinkles and eradicate blemishes and spots.
"Can't afford to let any fellow get away who can bake potatoes like Wash can." "Bring him to me, please," demanded Grace. "Now, Washington, what happened to frighten you so?" she asked in a soothing tone, at the same time patting the colored boy on his kinky head. Wash rolled his eyes from side to side and twisted his head as if to smooth out the wrinkles in his neck muscles. "Speak up.
There is nothing more to be said." His eyes lingered for a moment on her thin bosom where the bones were beginning to be faintly visible through the ivory flesh. Then he looked at her sharpened face and saw that the three little wrinkles were stamped indelibly between her eyebrows. As he watched her she lifted her head with the babyish tilt he had first seen under cherry-coloured ribbons.
But as we rode out she came at a run, holding her skirts high with either hand, raised her old eyes bright and anxious in their setting of fine wrinkles, and said: "'Tidden sorrow for her?" A shrug of the shoulders was all the answer she got.
This is the warehouse from which I shall daily, for the best part of the next two months, draw my supply of nascent grubs. The Volucella's egg remains where it is, with its white color always strongly marked against the brown of the background. The shell wrinkles and collapses; and the fore end tears open.
"It certainly could stand being pressed, all right." "Yes, perhaps it wouldn't hurt it to be pressed." "But gee, the coat doesn't need pressing. No sense in having the whole darn suit pressed, when the coat doesn't need it." "That's so." "But the pants certainly need it, all right. Look at them look at those wrinkles the pants certainly do need pressing." "That's so.
They are not in any danger, let us devoutly hope." The two wrinkles deepened, and the wise one sighed. "I hope not," she answered, bending her small, round, anxious face over her sewing, and attacking it vigorously. "They never struck me, you know," returned Mrs.
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