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Updated: May 5, 2025
The Bald-faced Kid often boasted that everybody's business was his business a large contract on any race track of the Jungle Circuit. His stop watch told him what the horses were doing, and stableboys, bartenders, and waiters told him what their owners were doing, the latter vastly more important to the Kid. At all times he used his eyes, which were sharp as gimlets.
Small and keen, they seemed to bore through a man like steel gimlets, and everyone who met their gaze felt he was confronting a beast, a savage power, inaccessible to fear, ready to strike unmercifully. "Well, pack off, dirty vermin!" he said gruffly. His coarse, yellow teeth glistened terribly through the thick hair on his face. The men walked off uttering coward abuse.
"If you mean to imply that the laugh may be on me at the last," he returned, while the points of blue light seemed to pierce Stephen like arrows no, like gimlets, "well, you're wrong about one part of it for if that ever happens, I'll laugh with you because of the sheer rotten irony."
Jeff shook his head. The little man looked at the boy sharply. The eyes under his shaggy brows were like gimlets. "Come up to the school with me. I'll see your teacher, son." Jeff walked beside him. He knew by the sound of the voice that his rescuer was a Southerner and his heart warmed to him. He wanted greatly to ask a question. Presently it plumped out. "Was it in the war, sir?"
A skull cap hid his baldness, a fringe of gray below it suggesting what was not beneath it. His little eyes were like steel, humorously glinting gimlets in the process of boring, the old face wrinkling up around them as pliantly as a dough eraser. In fact, when he laughed his little chin with the tip of beard did curl up like one of those rubber-toy faces where chin kicks brow.
Pernell's tool-chest and taken out a number of planes, a small saw, gimlets and a hammer. "But we haven't any patterns," said Winifred. "You know we had a pattern for the chair." "We don't need any pattern for a table. It is just a top and four legs, one at each corner," declared Ruth. "We can begin on the table to-day; then we can look at sofas and beds and make patterns, if we need to."
For, thank God, I proved to be not only `sound in mind and limb, but taller and broader-chested than most lads of my age. While as for my sight "By Jove, Trimmens," observed the doctor, "I think he could pretty nearly see through that bulkhead and the Bill of Portland beyond! He has eyes like gimlets!" "Yes, sir!"
She was very long, and very thin, and very angular, and she was reading poetry out loud to herself as she trailed about in her long draperies. "'Oh, moon of my delight...." she declaimed, then her eye met William's. The eyes beneath her pince-nez were like little gimlets. "How dare you stare at me, you rude boy?" she said. William gasped.
She went in but stood at the door, as she saw there were people there. The young surgeon had surrendered his chair to an elderly gentleman wearing several decorations. He was the chief physician of the hospital, and his eyes were like gimlets. Gervaise tried to see Coupeau over the bald head of that gentleman. Her husband was leaping and dancing with undiminished strength.
Every day brought us a fresh supply of pearls, and when we found that it began to fall off we produced some fresh articles to tempt them: gaily-coloured handkerchiefs and cloth, nails, scissors, hammers, gimlets, and similar things. All this time we had not gone on shore.
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