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You dribble and dribble and half the time make a foul when you might have played into Hester's hand." Berenice shrugged her shoulders; her bead-like eyes snapped; but she made no reply. While this conversation was going on between them, Erma Thomas had hurried up to Hester. "Berenice is determined not to play ball into your hands. It's pure jealousy. Do some playing, Hester, and make goals.
"Look here, Bunny!" cried Waller, catching the man by the wrist, while an inquisitive-looking robin hopped nearer to them from twig to twig, and sat watching them both with its bright, bead-like eyes. "Look wheer, my lad?" "Look here! You don't want fifty pounds." "Oh, don't I! Hark at him!" cried the man, laughing, and addressing the robin. "Why, what good would it be to you?" "What good, lad?
The tiny inverted face is full of expression, the bead-like eyes gleaming brightly from out of their furry bed. The small moist nostrils are constantly wrinkling and sniffling, and the large size of the alert ears shows how much their owner depends upon them for information.
She fixed her bright bead-like eyes upon her guests as they advanced, and asked in her cracked, harsh tones: "Who comes here?" "Two persons desirous of testing your skill," answered Cuthbert boldly. "It is told me that you can read the future; I would ask if you can also look back into the past?" He felt the snake-like glance bent fixedly upon him.
Altogether she was a charming little old lady, with a pair of bead-like eyes as black as sloes. Happy that captain a sea-captain, by the way, long since dead round whom she had fluttered in days gone bye, and happy that son Joseph round whom, when at home, she fluttered now. But Joseph was not often at home at the time we write of.
Her hands were clasped above the stout cane and her bead-like eyes surveyed the advancing figure. At two yards' distance it paused. The heels came together with a swift click. He bowed in military salute. The old woman achieved a stiff courtesy and waited. The dim eyes peered at him shrewdly.
It balanced itself on the limb, leaning over and cocking its bright bead-like eyes at her, as if admiring the sight. What it saw was a slender girl of eleven, taller than most children of that age, and more graceful.
In advanced cases, bead-like swellings are sometimes to be detected over the position of the valves, and, on running the fingers along the course of the vessel, a firm ridge, due to periphlebitis, may be detected on each side of the vein. When the limb is œdematous, the outline of the veins is obscured, but they can be identified on palpation as gutter-like tracks.
With his head full of whims, no fortune, and three daughters to marry, the poor Colonel, who put on only two or three times a year, for official solemnities, his uniform, which he kept in camphor, dined every Sunday night with Madame Roger, who liked this estimable man because he was her husband's best friend, and had invited him with his three little girls, who looked exactly alike, with their turned-up noses, florid complexions, and little, black, bead-like eyes, always so carefully dressed that one involuntarily compared them to three pretty cakes prepared for some wedding or festive occasion.
At the aspect of those bead-like eyes, resolute although ill at ease, like a snake striving to charm an adversary, a tremor of half-recollection shone in her gaze and the color flooded her face. Mechanically, sweeping back the straggling lock of hair, she raised herself without removing her eyes.
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