fee-gure

Updated: May 23, 2025

Percy Douglas was a fine-looking man, "wid a chest on him an' well hung a fine fee-gure of a man," as O'Donohoo pronounced it. He was tall and erect, he dressed well, wore small side-whiskers, had an eagle nose, and looked like an aristocrat. Like many of his type, who start sometimes as billiard-markers and suddenly become hotel managers in Australia, nothing was known of his past.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush