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Updated: May 29, 2025
The relic said: "An' is it mesilf, Dennis Hooligan, that ye'd be takon' for a dirty Injin, ye drawlin', lantern-jawed, spider-legged divil! By the piper that played before Moses, I'll ate ye!" I went away from there.
"Strange! that I should be so much more prejudiced than I knew. What will you think of me when I tell you that your profession does not seem half so shocking now that I know you to be the son of an artist, and not a journeyman butcher or a laborer, as my cousin told me." "What!" exclaimed Cashel. "That lantern-jawed fellow told you I was a butcher!"
Even this enough in itself to inflame any English stomach is reduced to 1/2 lb. a day. As I stood at the gate this afternoon taking my first breath of air, I watched the weak-kneed, lantern-jawed soldiers going round from house to house begging in vain for anything to eat. Yet they say the health of the camp as a whole has improved. This they attribute to chevril.
The last of the four who habitually sat with us was Giojoso, the seneschal, a lantern-jawed fellow with black, beetling brows, about whom the only joyous thing was his misnomer of a name. Of the table that we kept, beyond noting that the fare was ever of a lenten kind and that the wine was watered, I will but mention that my mother did not observe the barrier of the salt.
You are like all the Connecticut men I ever see, a nasty, mean, long-necked, long-legged, narrow-chested, slab-sided, narrow-souled, lantern-jawed, Yankee cheat. "'Well, sais I, 'that's a considerable of a long name to write on the back of a letter, ain't it?
She was speculating on the outcome of this new condition of affairs when the door opened and Walker thrust his lantern-jawed face within. He grinned cheerfully. "I've come to fetch you to yo' cabin, miss," he announced. "The ship's under weigh, an', as yo' pwobably winging wet, the captain says you ought to change yo' clo'es." Joey followed her out, but deserted her instantly.
"Upward of four thousand dollars," tapped out Wicks. "That's big money, but the more men that split it the less each feller gets, so they don't want too many from Viper." Halloway realized at once that this lantern-jawed operator had a swift and sure sending finger, and when the answer came it was, in contrast, labored and ragged.
He was followed by another person, a tall, lantern-jawed man of the artisan type, who looked around defiantly as he came into the room. "Does Anton Von Barwig live here?" demanded the first comer. Von Barwig did not know the gentleman who made the inquiry. "Why, it is Schwarz! how do you do, Mr.
Perceiving a lean, lantern-jawed young man, with straight, lank black hair, in a caped riding-coat of brown cloth, and yellow buckskin breeches, his knee-boots splashed with mud, the scowl upon that august visage deepened until it brought together the thick black eyebrows above the great hooked nose. "You announce yourself as a lawyer of Gavrillac with an important communication," he growled.
But Ralston, not to be frustrated, carried the matter to Monck, then on the high road to recovery. "What in thunder is the matter with the young ass?" he demanded. "He gets more lantern-jawed and obstreperous every day." "Leave him to me!" said Monck. "Discharge him as cured! I'll manage him." "But that's just what he isn't," grumbled Ralston. "He ought to be well.
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