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Updated: May 27, 2025
This was an old man of medium height, dark complected and thin, whose white beard was a contrast to his glittering vivacious eyes, which gave his face extreme animation. Over his shoulder he wore a long cape; a mitre on his head and a crosier in his hand gave him the aspect of a Bishop. At sight of him, Friar Rodriguez yawning, murmured: "Dreams of my fertile imagin !"
'Tennyrate Josiah and I had to be separated at the outset of our journey, he settin' with a man acrost the aisle; Blandina got a seat with an aged gentleman while I sot down with a pale complected woman in deep mournin'. Or at least what mournin' she had wuz deep. She wore a thick crape veil and black cotton gloves. But her dress wuz chocklate delaine.
"Thai silk. Just as I thought; if these things were not so large or so strong, or at least stronger than the average woman, their texture..." "The silkiness?" "Yes, the silkiness the silkiness might seem to some like that of a woman's hands. Fortunately you are darkly complected. That makes you more masculine in a pretty boy, middle aged man sort of way."
Shad tried to signal to her behind his back some mysterious warning, and even Mr. Hicks looked jocular. Kit leaned both hands on the railing, and stared hard at the trespasser. He was a young man, dressed in a light gray suit with high sport boots. He was, as Mrs. Gorham expressed it later, "light complected" and tanned so deeply that his blonde, curly hair seemed even lighter.
She spread them out before her on the table, and said: "Sir to you which I speaks. You 'av been terrible crossed in love, and your 'art 'as been much panged. But you'll get over it and marry a light complected gale with rayther reddish 'air. Before some time you'll have a legercy fall down on to you, mostly in solick Jold. He wants to defraud you out of your 'onesty. Your 'art is right.
"Look like?" said Sam in a perplexed voice. "Well, the girls all think he looks pretty good. He's dark complected and he's a mighty smart young feller. Great on jumpin' and runnin'. Say, he's a crackajack. Why, at the Dominion Day picnic! But you must a' heard about him. He's the chap, you know, that won the hundred yards. Plays the pipes and " "Plays the pipes?" cried Dr.
Says I more mildly, as he took up his hat and little box he had, and started for the door, and seein' I was goin' to get rid of him so soon, I felt softer towards him, as folks will towards burdens when they are bein' lifted from 'em, "I dare persume to say, you thought I was a single woman, havin' been told time and agin, that I am young-lookin' for my age, and fair complected.
But to ask, How far, in all the several infinitely complected departments of social business, in government, education, in manual, commercial, intellectual fabrication of every sort, man's Want is supplied by true Ware; how far by the mere Appearance of true Ware: in other words, To what extent, by what methods, with what effects, in various times and countries, Deception takes the place of wages of Performance: here truly is an Inquiry big with results for the future time, but to which hitherto only the vaguest answer can be given.
"A stout old party, fair complected, who played the flute." "That's him!" cried Phelps, half-starting from his chair. "I reckon he must be up Jaluit way," said Tom coolly, "Captain Cole being bound for the Marshalls at the time." I could feel them shooting glances all around us.
He might 'a' knowed!... This Oscar person is pretty soft.... Mighty nice kid, little Selden is! Smart too. She's some schemer!... Too smart for Oscar!... Different complected, and all that; but her ways she sort of puts me in mind of Miss Sally." Mr. Oscar Mitchell was a bachelor, though not precisely lorn.
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