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The stipple of time dots so lightly, so slowly, that at the age of ten a human countenance should present a mere fleshy tabula rasa, but now and then we are startled by meeting a child as unlike the round, rosy, pulpy, dimpling, unwritten faces of ordinary life, as the churubs of Raphael to the rigid forms of Byzantine mosaics, or the stone portraiture of Copan.
It pained him to notice that, though the suffused sweetness and the dimpling smiles were still as he remembered them, they didn't keep out of her face certain lines that had not been there when he saw her last. "I think I ought to tell you," she said, after long reflection, "that I understand that sort of sympathy better now than I did some years ago.
He kicked and gurgled, seized one of his upraised feet and thrust a pink big toe in between his white milk teeth. "That's more than you can do, Lafe!" challenged the girl. She glanced up, dimpling with merriment, met the adoration in his eyes, and looked down, blushing. He attempted to speak, but the words choked into an incoherent sound like a sob.
'Willy! The voice sounds to him like some fairy dream, and the black eyes are raised from the ground with sudden wonder, the long silky eyelashes thrown back till they rest on the delicate brow, and a deeper blush is burning on those dark cheeks, and a smile is dimpling about those scarlet lips.
"Was he a scrum-half, too?" asked Sally, dimpling. Ginger looked shocked. "You don't have two scrum-halves in a team," he said, pained at this ignorance on a vital matter. "The scrum-half is the half who works the scrum and..." "Yes, you told me that at Roville. What was Gerald Mr. Foster then? A six and seven-eighths, or something?"
Do this, sad visaged power, while I write, while eyes read these pages. And who will read them? Beware, tender offspring of the re-born world beware, fair being, with human heart, yet untamed by care, and human brow, yet unploughed by time beware, lest the cheerful current of thy blood be checked, thy golden locks turn grey, thy sweet dimpling smiles be changed to fixed, harsh wrinkles!
Miles Peter Andrews, called "The Bath Picture," in which Lady Margaret was thus introduced: "Remark too the dimpling, sweet smile Lady Marg'ret's fine countenance wears." The following is the passage in Mr.
His words were unheeded: he was led away and bound, and as the sun was rising on the next morning the sentence of courtmartial was executed upon him. At noon Mary returned from the parsonage, her eyes dancing and her mouth dimpling with smiles. Going to Putnam, she said, with a dash of sauciness, "I have succeeded, general. I found a lad last night to take your message.
His natural attitude was not the meditative, nor his natural mood the sentimental; impressionable he was as dimpling water, but, almost as water, unimpressible: the breeze, the sun, moved him metal could not grave, nor fire brand. Dr.
While they were at work, it made them merry to hear the mill-sails whirring through the air, and to see, at intervals, the trees above the quarry bowing their heads, and the reeds waving in the swamp, and the water of the meadow-ponds dimpling and rippling, as the wind swept over the Levels.
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