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Unwilling to listen longer, the mate turned with a grunt of disgust and walked away. After he had gone, the cook stood for a time by the galley, looking pensively at the stars. Long-armed, broad-shouldered, bullet-headed, he seemed a typical savage.
"From time to time, as you hurtled through the star spaces, I picked up scraps of conversation with my instruments. Also, I knew something of what Wolden has been working on all these years." "Now, you're quibbling," Gunnar jeered. "Get on with your speech, Grim Hagen." Grim Hagen bowed to the broad-shouldered little man. "Some day, Gunnar, I may have to kill you " "Now. Now."
All their attention was riveted on the doors that led the way into the Mayor's private office. Presently these doors swung open, and the tall, broad-shouldered figure of the town's chief executive strode forth, followed by his secretary and Timothy Cockran, the Commissioner of Streets and Highways.
Meanwhile the good-natured and loquaciously-inclined driver had turned his head and was subjecting the man cantering alongside of his stage to a rigid inspection. With his knowledge of the various types of men in California at that time, he had no difficulty in placing the status of this straight-limbed, broad-shouldered, young fellow as a native Californian.
Lights flared on the deep porch, and the old-fashioned iris door dilated to frame the black silhouette of a stocky, broad-shouldered man. "Good evening, sir," he said. "I was expecting you. That the new vet with you?" "Your pipeline's still working, I see," Alexander said. "Yes, this is Dr. Kennon Evald Blalok I wanted you two to meet." Kennon liked the gray middle-aged man.
He belonged to a splendid type I had to admit that, even if I didn't forgive him big, clear-eyed, ruddy and broad-shouldered and there was something tremendously compelling and manly about him that seemed to sweep me off my feet.
This was merely a broad-shouldered, well-built, well-groomed youth, about twenty-three years of age; his face was square and rather stolid, clean-shaven, brown-complexioned, with honest eyes and a firm-set mouth. As he stood at the door he adopted the wooden expression that a University man always wears in the presence of strangers.
On the snow remained the imprint of her knees. Wrapped in a large, dark mantle trimmed with fur, she seemed amidst the surrounding white very tall and broad-shouldered. The border of her bonnet, a twisted band of black velvet, looked like a diadem throwing a shadow on her forehead. She had regained her beautiful, placid face with grey eyes and pearly teeth.
Such was the Honourable Captain Delmar. Mr Hippesley, the first lieutenant, was a broad-shouldered, ungainly-looking personage. He had more the appearance of a master in the service than a first lieutenant. He was a thorough seaman; and really, for a first lieutenant, a very good-natured man.
He was a figure to be remarked in any company tall, broad-shouldered, straight-hipped, with a head proudly poised on the firm column of the neck, and short brown curls clustering over the square forehead.
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