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A heavy-set, bow-legged man led the procession to the bar. He straddled forward with a swagger. The bartender was busy dusting his stock. Before the man had a chance to turn, the butt of a revolver hammered the counter. "Get busy here! Set 'em up, Mike. And jump!" snarled the heavy man. The barkeeper took one look at him and filed no demurrer.
If this failed, she walked between the angry youths and read the riot act to them. "Some will," admitted Larson. "More of 'em won't." Mollie rose, to step down from the platform. She did not reach the stud table. A commotion at the front door drew her attention. Mrs. Gillespie was a solid, heavy-set woman, but she moved with an energy that carried her swiftly.
Just how mentally disturbed the old man was it was difficult for the girl to judge. But she feared that he had, after all his claims, absolutely no influence with the Chinamen. She believed that the leader of the Orientals was the heavy-set Chinaman who had struck Chessleigh Copley down with the club.
Ivy was greatly addicted to motions; in fact, it was one of her missions in life continually to move that things should be other than they were, without in any way supplying the motive power to change them. While thus engaged she was interrupted by a belated caller. He was a short, heavy-set young man, with a square prominent jaw, and a twinkle in his eye. "Mister Decker!" exclaimed Mrs.
It was my relief, Dave Evans, one of the best pals whom it has ever been my lot to soldier with. Dave was a heavy-set man, strong as an ox; I think he could have almost felled a bull with his fist, so powerful was he. I re-lit the candle after closing the door.
Welse." The speaker, a strong-faced, grizzled man, heavy-set and of military bearing, pulled up his collar and rested his hand on the door-knob. "I see already, thanks to you, the newcomers are beginning to sell their outfits and buy dogs. Lord! won't there be a stampede out over the ice as soon as the river closes down!
Most excited of all seemed to be the miner for he certainly was a miner who had been added to the party: a short, heavy-set man, very shaggy and weather-worn. He carried knife and pistol, and appeared to be good reinforcement. "Did you get that up on that hill?" he demanded. "How much more is there of it? It's gold quartz, sure as shootin' an' plaguey rich. Say I want some o' that, myself. Hooray!
There are probably more races than one represented among these skulls. Some of them are surely well-deserving of the title of low brow. Their heavy ridges over the eyes, their small foreheads, their massive, heavy-set jaws show a race of men far less endowed mentally and much better endowed in the matter of brute force than the men of to-day.
"Come, you have got to go with me." Margaret could do nothing but stare at the man before her. He was heavy-set and powerful, and wont to having his own way. "Mr. Styles " she began, but he put his hand over her mouth. "You are sick out of your head," he interrupted. "I know what is best, and you must do as I say. Come on." And he pulled her forward by the hand. "Where to?" "Not very far."
He stepped forty-five minutes later into an office in which sat two men with their feet on a desk. The one in his shirt-sleeves was a smug, baldish young man with clothes cut in the latest mode. He was rather heavy-set and looked flabby. The other man appeared to be a visitor. "This the office of the Denver Terminal Stockyards Company?" asked Dave.
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