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She responded, twisting her body and face towards him, so that her sweet and ingratiating smiles could not be seen by the motorman. Then, she reversed the process and gave a few fleeting smiles to the grim-looking motorman. It was as clear a case of How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away, as one could well see. Just then the car came to a transfer point.
Ascending the great spacious stair, the wall alongside which was covered with family portraits, grim-looking heroes in mail, or prim dames with bouquets in their jewelled hands, we reached a species of gallery, from which several doors led off. Here a servant, dressed in deep black, was standing to announce the visitors.
Immediately before the Prince came, on a small elephant, A hard-faced, severe-looking man, by office the distributor of alms, which he flung in showers of small copper money among the Fakirs and beggars, whose scrambles to collect them seemed to augment their amount; while the grim-looking agent of Mahomedan charity, together with his elephant, which marched with half angry eyes, and its trunk curled upwards, seemed both alike ready to chastise those whom poverty should render too importunate.
As for little Alice, she sat in Grandfather’s lap, and seemed to see the very men alive, whose faces were there represented. Turning over the volume, Laurence came to the portrait of a stern, grim-looking man, in plain attire, of much more modern fashion than that of the old Puritans. But the face might well have befitted one of those iron-hearted men.
Peter Dale, Labour Member for Newcastle, was the first to make a direct appeal. He was a stalwart, grim-looking man, with heavy grey eyebrows and grey beard. He had been a Member of Parliament for some years and was looked upon as the practical leader of his party. "We've heard a lot of you, Mr. Maraton," he declared, "of your fine fighting methods and of your gift of speech.
The only place where he found temporary peace was under the roof of the grim-looking house in College Street. From the first Doctor Queerington had championed his cause, and urged upon him his hospitality. To be sure the Doctor's hospitality usually began and ended with his welcome, after which he would take himself off to the study, and leave his guest to the care of the family.
He halted, and the mare stood still, again blowing softly through her nostrils. The old man, with shaking hands, took from under his coat the heavy article that had sagged his pocket. It was a black, old-fashioned, seven-chambered revolver, well oiled and as grim-looking as a rifled cannon on a battleship.
And, luckily, Raeburn thought her paleness accounted for by yesterday's headache and the wakeful night, and never suspected the true state of the case. On they went, past fascinating marble shops and jewelers' windows filled with Florentine mosaics, across the Ponte Vecchio, down a shady street, and into the rough-hewn, grim-looking palace.
"There is no such designation in France, said a grim-looking, hard-featured man, who, wearing the tri-colored scarf, sat at the table beside the clerk. "'I was never called by any other, rejoined the youth, proudly. "'Citizen Meringues, interposed the commissary, mildly, 'what is your age?
Lieutenant Danvers, who was on board at each test, was also much pleased, though he did not express it. The cheering news was taken to David Pollard, in hospital, and greatly lightened his days of suffering and waiting. And now, for two days, the grim-looking little submarine fleet had lain at moorings.
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