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George looked slowly at the 'man of the world's' fattish, sallow face, and a little grim smile lurked about the curves of his cheeks and his heavy-lidded eyes. 'No, no, my fine fellow, he thought, 'I'm not going to tell you. For though he mixed with Dartie a good deal, he thought him a bit of a cad. "Oh, some little love-lady or other," he said, and chalked his cue.
"I found George B. Tapley in a little tent with a window flap open. He was a fattish man with an immediate eye, in a black skull-cap, with a four-ounce diamond screwed into the bosom of his red sweater. "'Are you George B. Tapley? I asks. "'I swear it, says he. "'Well, I've got it, says I. "'Designate, says he.
That sleek head, those puppy-dog eyes, fattish red cheeks, high collars, pearl pin, spats, and drawl-pah! the imbecility, the smugness of his mug; no go, no devil in any of his sort, in any of these fish-veined, coddled-up young bloods, nothing but playing for safety! And he wheezed out: "Milk and water masquerading as port wine." Bob Pillin frowned.
However his health seemed unimpaired so far, and looking at his noble, clear-skinned countenance which had grown fattish of late, Pyotr Petrovitch for an instant was positively comforted in the conviction that he would find another bride and, perhaps, even a better one.
And though he trembled with cold and fright to think of the cruel long nails and of the high whistling sound of the cane and of the chill you felt at the end of your shirt when you undressed yourself yet he felt a feeling of queer quiet pleasure inside him to think of the white fattish hands, clean and strong and gentle.
But the nourishment of dead leaves soon became unbearable, and likewise did the sap-wood, or second rind of young trees, such as elders and aspen trees, which they beat to a pulp between stones, have to be given up. At the time of the two previous famines, some wretched people were said to have supported themselves with a kind of fattish clay. Not far from Yvon's hut was a vein of such clay.
Strangely moved, Soames looked at the Cook's pleasant fattish face, all little puckers from staring at fires. "That'll do him a world of good, sir," she said. A mutter came from Timothy, but he was clearly speaking to himself, and Soames went out with the cook. "I wish I could make you a pink cream, Mr. Soames, like in old days; you did so relish them. Good-bye, sir; it has been a pleasure."
'Come in, Sorr! thundered O'Flaherty, unlocking the door, in reply to a knock, and expecting to see his 'ojus French damon. But it was a tall fattish stranger, rather flashily dressed, but a little soiled, with a black wig, and a rollicking red face, showing a good deal of chin and jaw.
Guided by the light, Joel led his oxen and the chariot entered the yard. Like all other rural homes, Joel's was spacious and round of shape. The walls consisted of two rows of hurdles, the space between which was filled with a mixture of beaten clay and straw; the inside and outside of the thick wall was plastered over with a layer of fine and fattish earth, which, when dry, was hard as sandstone.
Of course, there's nothing in out and out sporting." "Oh, I haven't decided on anything. My head is better." "Sure! If the dose I gave you don't knock it you can get one at the drug store two blocks up Sixth Avenue that'll do the trick. Got a dinner date?" "No. I haven't anything on hand." "I think you and I might work together," said Ida. "You're thin and tallish. I'm short and fattish.
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