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That little soft-eyed exquisite thing with the hair like a midnight cloud. "Some looker!" he commented, approvingly, and wished he were in Courtland's shoes. "She's got in her work all right," he commented to himself. "Old Court's fallen already. Guess I'll have to buy a straw hat, it'll be more edible." Courtland was like his gay old self when he got back to the dormitory. He joked a great deal.
"Well," he resumed, "I've built up a pretty good business here, but I'll have to quit and leave you some day, and reckon you won't be satisfied to stop at the hotel all your life. You're smart and a looker, and I guess you want to go out and see the world. That's all right, and you'll be able, as far as dollars count; but I can't go with you and you can't go alone." Sadie shivered.
By Jove, he is some looker too," replied Mr. Duckworth with reluctant enthusiasm. "And there is the High River Captain," said Mrs. Waring-Gaunt, "on the grey." "Oh, yes, Monteith, he played for All Canada last year, didn't he?" said Nora with immense enthusiasm. "He is perfectly splendid." "I hear the High River club has really sent only its second team, or at least two of them," said Mrs.
It was the mode to do this, and it was rather a stigma upon any young man of family not to have been an occasional looker on at that perpetual military game. His brother Frederic, as already narrated; had tried his chance for fame and fortune in the naval service, and had lost his life in the adventure without achieving the one or the other. This was not a happy augury for the head of the family.
And yet I don't think he's sleepy really, somehow." "Sleepy?" exclaimed Spike. "Well, I guess not! Lazy I dunno, but he sure is all to the wide-awake-o. When he looks sleepiest, I guess he's widest-awakest. And he ain't a isn't a bad looker, is he?" "He has nice eyes!" Hermione admitted. "Oh, I don't mean his eyes!" quoth Spike disgustedly. "I mean his arms an' legs an' shoulders."
Barbara's very young and romantic, and although she has not known him long " "She has known him for about two weeks," Cartwright rejoined. "Perhaps it's long enough. Shillito's what Canadians call a looker and Barbara's a romantic fool. I've no doubt he's found out she'll inherit some money; it's possible she's told him.
"When I found it was gone, I pretty nearly gave it up for lost." "'One for all and all for one," quoted Bob. "We'll teach Buck Looker and his set to let us alone, if it's possible to teach them anything. But I suppose we might as well run along now, because it's getting pretty late." "I happen to know that there's a big pan of rice pudding in the ice box," said Jimmy.
In one way or another the four friends frequently came into conflict with Buck Looker, the bully of the town, and his two boon companions, Carl Lutz and Terry Mooney, who were of the same stripe, though they deferred to Buck as their leader. Ever since the wonderful new science of radio had come into such worldwide prominence, Bob and his friends had been intensely interested in it.
No looker on can be interested, except for a bet, and then it is a mere affair of money; he cares not for your luck sympathetically, or for your play.
They think I'd marry a man who's got no more'n two words on his tongue and half that number of ideas in his head who can't think without its giving him a headache who comes of no class of people his father and mother were hedge people up at Anvil Green who gets eighteen bob a week as my looker who " "Don't get so vrothered, Joanna.
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