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That's right enough for women and girls; makes 'em look smooth and nice and pretty, and fills up all the holes and corners; but a soldier wants bone and muscle good, hard, tough muscle and sinew, and that's what you have got now. Look at me." "Yes, I have looked at you time after time, Serge, and you look hollow-cheeked and haggard and worn."
"How -how many jewels are left on it?" demanded Mr. Macey. "Come right up! I'll tell you all about it when you get here." Then the teamster rang off, after giving his name. The real estate man came in a hurry, in a runabout. His wife, pallid and hollow-cheeked, rode in the car with him. To Mr.
He was hollow-cheeked and pale, almost unearthly. And the woman, with her serious, conscience-harrowing question tortured him on the quick. 'They are not roused to consciousness, he said. 'Consciousness comes to them, willy-nilly. 'But do you think they are better for having it quickened, stimulated?
At three-and-twenty she had possessed a sweet, simple comeliness on which any man's eye would have rested with pleasure; at forty she was wrinkled, hollow-cheeked, sallow, indelible weariness stamped upon her brow and lips. She looked much older than Mary Barfoot, though they were just of an age. And all this for want of a little money.
Before this hollow-cheeked skeleton of a boy Helen Ward felt strangely like one who, conscious of guilt, is brought suddenly into the presence of a stern judge. "Why, Bobby," she faltered, "I I came to see you and Maggie I was at the Interpreter's this afternoon and he told me I mean something he said made me want to come." "The Interpreter, he's all right," said the boy. "So's Mary Martin."
Every month as it wanes brings you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly.... Ah! realise your youth while you have it.
Oh, how they longed for even a bit of the hard black bread which was Lenten fare at the monastery beyond the hills! Day by day they grew more hollow-cheeked and despairing. At last one evening they came to Fronto in a body such a weak, pale body. "Take us back to Nitria, or we starve!" they cried. "We can endure this no longer!"
He became somewhat gaunt and hollow-cheeked, and his beard and moustache, which of course he could not shave, and which, for a long time, presented the appearance of stubble, added to the lugubriosity of his aspect. As a climax to his distress, he one day lost his dog!
Where did she want to go? To Böhnke, the schoolmaster. He must come, he must help her. Had he not sworn to do so? Had he not sworn without her asking it that he was hers for ever and ever, through all eternity? In her mind's eye she saw his pale face, thin and hollow-cheeked, consumed with passion, and his feverish eyes, feverish with his longing for her.
"O, ring off!" cried Theydon, who pictured the secretary as a lanky hollow-cheeked Scot, a model of discretion and trustworthiness, no doubt, but utterly unequal to a crisis demanding some measure of self-confident initiative. In reality, Mr. Macdonald was short and stout, and quite a jovial little man.
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