United States or Albania ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The big, gaunt man, with deeply-lined face and iron grey moustache, who had paused to smile at the conversation, feigned an expression of disapproval as she looked up smilingly into his face. "Persecution! For shame, Doctor Marsh, to be making such a suggestion. It's logic I'm teaching Tim the apples, Tim, the apples!" "They're not apples, miss," replied Tim. "What are they, then?"
"Tell me," continued the Sheikh; "this young man can he make cures can he bind up wounds and attend to an injured or dying man?" "He has been my servant and has helped me for years," said the doctor. "Hah!" Then there was silence again, and Frank gazed at the deeply-lined, calm and impassive face before him with a feeling of resentment.
He was apparently of more than middle age, with deeply-lined face, tall, and with an expression the coldness of which was only slightly mitigated by a sensitive mouth that seemed at once cynical and humorous.
His deeply-lined, finely-chiselled face and slow-moving, heavily-pouched eyes were turned upwards towards the carved and painted ceiling, with that inscrutable expression which had been the despair and the admiration of his Continental colleagues upon the occasion of the famous Congress when he had made his first appearance in the arena of European diplomacy.
On an assembly which had been jaded and almost tortured by this tremendous display, it was Mr. Davitt's fortune to come with his first speech in Parliament. For hour after hour he had sate, very still, with deeply-lined face, but with a restless and frequent twist of the heavy dark moustache, that spoke of the intense nervous strain to which this weary waiting was subjecting him.
"I don't want French, nor German, nor music," quoth the young lady, "but I do want to be helped to make very smooth and flowing verses, and I want to have the plots of my novels cut up and criticised for I don't mind telling you," continued Jasmine, looking full into Miss Egerton's deeply-lined and anxious face, "that I mean to live by my pen.
As she bent her fine, deeply-lined face over them, and the work they held, while the little Virginia sat nursing a doll at her feet, she often stitched into the garments that they fashioned yearnings, thoughts, questionings of the youth her brother's child whose picture, as she had conceived him from descriptions she had heard, she carried in her heart.
He was tall and thin, with a narrow head and a deeply-lined, clean-shaven countenance, the cold immovability of which was sometimes broken up by an unpleasant smile, that merely widened the pale set lips without softening them, and disclosed a crooked row of smoke-coloured teeth, much decayed.
For we'll want every scrap of Comic Relief we can get by-and-by, Saxham, if the other one doesn't turn up say by the middle of January." "I understand, sir." Saxham, to whom this man's face was as a book well loved, read in it that the Commissariat was caving. "There has been another Boer cattle-raid?" The face that was turned to his own in reply had suddenly grown deeply-lined and haggard.
His grey hair, cut short about a massive head, and his grave, resolute face, square-jawed, and deeply-lined, marked him as one to whom respect was due apart from his clothes. We bowed to him as we took our seats. He acknowledged the salute, fixing us a moment with a penetrating glance; and then resumed his meal.
Word Of The Day