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Hundreds of eccentric figures crowded the galleries some absurdly fat, some ludicrously thin; some old, some young; some bow-legged, some knock-kneed; some short, some tall; some brown, some yellow; some got up for effect in gorgeous wrappers; and all more or less hideous.
I was just coming over to see if you would give me a little, he wound up, in a tone of apology. The Squire, with a brow all clouds, observed that when children were bow-legged it was entirely the fault of their mothers. 'Ah, yes, said the Rector, with a sigh. 'Mrs. Leonard is a slatternly woman no doubt of that. But when you've said that you haven't cured the child.
"Sir, the black tulip has been stolen from me," said Rosa. "But I only saw it two hours ago!" replied the president. "You saw it where?" "Why, at your master's! Are you not in the service of Mynheer Isaac Boxtel?" "I, sir? Certainly not! But this Isaac Boxtel, is he a thin, bald-headed, bow-legged, crook-backed, haggard-looking man?" "You have described him exactly."
Brought there as a child between the crinolines to stare at tight-trousered dandies in whiskers, riding with a cavalry seat; to watch the doffing of curly-brimmed and white top hats; the leisurely air of it all, and the little bow-legged man in a long red waistcoat who used to come among the fashion with dogs on several strings, and try to sell one to his mother: King Charles spaniels, Italian greyhounds, affectionate to her crinoline you never saw them now.
"Louise, how'd you know that?" asked Pan in surprise. "Don't give me away. Blinky told me. He's one of my friends and he's a white man if I ever saw one.... He has been in love with me. Wanted me to marry him! Poor crazy boy! I sure had to fight and get drunker to keep from more than liking him. He spent all his money on me and I had to make him quit." "Well, that little bow-legged cowboy liar!
Its lower limb curves like those of the other apes, and its soles are turned toward one another; in brief, it is naturally bow-legged, a character that adapts it for a tree-climbing life. This animal also is nearly, though not quite, erect.
The upper boot, with the hair as usual outside, corresponds with the other in shape, except that it is much more full, especially on the outer side, where it bulges out so preposterously as to give the women the most awkward, bow-legged appearance imaginable.
"Get away from there!" shouted Morris, in uncontrollable rage, "or I'll smash this bunch of shingles on your cursed head. Don't you open that ugly p'tater trap at me, you bow-legged little skunk! I'm goin' to lick you like a sock before I'm done with you." He would have done so then had he been on the ground, but he disdained taking the trouble to climb down.
"I'll pay ye five hundred dollars to set down that sack and step out there into the middle of that square and I call on all here as witnesses to that offer," he cried, noting that citizens were beginning to creep back into sight once more. "Five hundred dollars for you, you bow-legged hen-thief! You sculpin-mouthed hyena, blowing up men's property!" "Hold on," counselled Mr. Luce.
Indeed, Pietro Andrei's death seemed to be nobody's business, though we are told that not so much as a sparrow may fall unheeded. The Abbe Susini was coming now a little fiery man, with the walk of one who was slightly bow-legged, though his cassock naturally concealed this defect.
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