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Updated: June 29, 2025
On the way to the ramada the Father could not help looking round once or twice at the prisoner, who followed with hangdog look, escorted by the scandalized Indians from the Mission and a mob of astounded Elcuanams.
Father wouldn't write me about it, for he never will put a line on paper where any one's reputation is concerned." "THIS story," said Mr. Harry, "is about one of the hired men we had last winter, whose name was Jacobs. He was a cunning fellow, with a hangdog look, and a great cleverness at stealing farm produce from father on the sly, and selling it.
No longer a road-house on the incandescent road to dawn, there is something hangdog about its very waiters, moving through the easy maze of half-filled tables; an orchestra, sheepish of its accomplishment, can lift even a muted melody above the light babel of light diners. There is a cabaret, too, bravely bidding for the something that is gone.
As soon, too, as the gathering twilight afforded some shield to their secret designs, sundry young men with liberally greased hair, their arms stiff in the sleeves of the unusual and Sunday coat, their feet, accustomed to the immediate contact of the soil, encased in well larded shoes, might have been seen gliding under the shadows of friendly fences, and along bypaths, with that furtive and hangdog air which, in all ages, has characterized the chicken-thief and the lover.
Do you think you could speak to the governor for me, Mr. Pendennis?" "And tell him what?" "I've gone and done it, sir," said Huxter, with a particular look. "You you don't mean to say you have you have done any wrong to that dear little creature, sir?" said Pen, starting up in a great fury. "I hope not," said Huxter, with a hangdog look: "but I've married her.
Ah! if your honour saw my poor laboratory, I could show you heads and hands, feet and lungs, which have been long supposed to be rotting in the mould. Out upon thee, slave! Thinkest thou to disgust me with thy catalogue of horrors? Tell me at once where thy discourse drives. How can thy traffic with the hangdog executioner be of avail to serve me, or to help my servant Bonthron?"
Next." The man who had just been accused of the robbery was now presented by the secretary. He formed a marked contrast to his partner, being tall, dark and slender, with a hangdog expression on his face. "What's your name, and what have you got to say about the disappearance of the diamonds?" pursued the relentless inquisitor. "Carol Linescu. I used to run a livery stable in Bucharest, Roumania.
Hester had not only now moved away from the door, but she had flung it open, and Dent, muttering much, with his face white, and a very hangdog expression on it, slunk down the stairs. He said to himself: "There ain't no use in life bandying words with her; and it's true what she says there ain't a man or woman in Liverpool what wouldn't do her bidding."
"I'll nae deny I take a wee drappie now an' then," the woods-boss admitted frankly, albeit there was a harried, hangdog look in his eyes. Bryce sat down at his desk, lighted his pipe, and looked McTavish over soberly. The woods-boss was a big, raw-boned Scotsman, with a plentiful sprinkling of silver in his thick mane of red hair, which fell far down on his shoulders.
The children were coming out of the schoolroom in little groups of twos and threes the girls discussing Anne's martyrdom sympathetically, the boys with hangdog self-consciousness. Inside the room, Anne, released from her ordeal, had gone to her desk and was sitting there with her head up.
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