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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Most of the little wrinkles are my own ideas, too." "That sideboard?" I asked, indicating a frail-looking but artistic bit of furniture built into the wall. "That, too combination of sideboard and silver-safe." "Safe!" I laughed. "You don't keep the silver in there?" "Why not?" "My dear man, any one could pry that door off with a pen-knife." "Admitted.
She was such a frail-looking girl that Thea ought to have felt sorry for her. True, she had an arch, sprightly little manner, and a flash of salmon-pink on either brown cheek. But a narrow upper jaw gave her face a pinched look, and her eyelids were heavy and relaxed. By the morning light, the purplish brown circles under her eyes were pathetic enough, and foretold no long or brilliant future.
The elder and larger of the two was a rather coarse-looking youth of seventeen. His name was Bartlett Cloud, shortened by his acquaintances to "Bart" for the sake of that brevity beloved of the schoolboy. His companion, Wallace Clausen, was a handsome though rather frail-looking boy, a year his junior. The two were roommates and friends.
All he's said so far is that they've come ever so far, and that he liked riding on the cars first-rate, only mommy cried so much and wouldn't eat every time he did. From the way he talked they suspect that the young woman may have come from the West somewhere." "She is young then, Hugh?" "Yes, not over twenty-five or so, the doctor says, but frail-looking.
An ubiquitous cud of fine-cut, flattening his cheek and saturating his veins, possibly explains his life of semicontent for tobacco is a sedative. The mother was a washed-out, frail-looking reminder of youthful attractions, essentially of the nervous type. She was not without pride in her Cavalier stock and the dash of Cavalier blood it brought. The elder sister had none of her mother.
There were four of these, each capable of holding twenty quarts, and the spectators were not wholly at their ease, as can after can of the explosive fluid was poured into these frail-looking vessels, even though the moonlighters handled it much more carefully than Ralph had seen them handle that which had been used at the Hoxie well, on the famous night when Mr.
After a short, stiff climb amid natural rockeries of jagged limestone, we passed under a rock archway or bridge, under which were perched frail-looking raised native huts of the watchers. As we stood under this curious archway we looked down a precipice on our left.
A frail-looking, diminutive man, with narrow chest and round shoulders and features like those of a dying patient, walking with his hands behind him, his hat on the back of his head, and his broad lower lip projected, as if he had something on his tongue that wanted listening to, such was his aspect; and if one joined company with him, the strangeness grew from moment to moment.
'Well it oughter be all right, retorted Bert; 'it's been bilin' ever since 'arf past eleven. Bert White was a frail-looking, weedy, pale-faced boy, fifteen years of age and about four feet nine inches in height.
The mother had no English, so smiled expansively, her bony arms folded across her stomach. Her oldest daughter, a frail-looking girl in the twenties, but with a sad and spiritual beauty of the Madonna in her big eyes and straight black hair, gave us a shy good-day.
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