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I like the cut of him a great deal better than I liked Ted Barton." "Look at Barton's shoulders, Mr. Wilson." "Lumpiness isn't always strength. Give me nerve and fire and breed. That's what wins." "Ay, sir, you have it theer you have it theer!" said the fat, red-faced publican, in a thick suety voice. "It's the same wi' poops.
If she chose she might easily decide upon the one step which would be irretrievable. The Count de Brensault was a small man, with a large pale face. There were puffy little bags under his eyes, from which the colour had departed. His hair, though skilfully arranged, was very thin at the top, and his figure had the lumpiness of the man who has never known any sort of athletic training.
"Incense?" "I have been to the service at St. Silas', and I was in the fumes of it." "Oh St. Silas." "Yes. I go there sometimes." "Indeed. You go there!" "You see, Jude, it is lonely here in the weekday mornings, when you are at work, and I think and think of of my " She stopped till she could control the lumpiness of her throat. "And I have taken to go in there, as it is so near."
Not only that, but the hand, which was lying over the left hand on the body's breast, showed an odd lumpiness at the knuckles of the first and second fingers. Racey stuffed his tobacco-bag into his vest pocket and knelt beside the body. It was cold, of course, but had not yet completely stiffened. He laid the two hands side by side and compared them.
Furthermore, there was that odd lumpiness about the knuckles of the first and second fingers, a lumpiness that gave the knuckles almost the appearance of being double. He picked up the dead hand and gingerly fingered the lumpy knuckles. Then, in a flash of thought, it came to him. The hand was broken. He raised his head and looked across the room.
To "plim "up implies a certain amount of enlargement, and consequent tightness or firmness. Snow-flakes are called "blossoms." The word snow-flake is unknown. A big baby is always a thing to be proud of, and you may hear an enthusiastic aunt describing the weight and lumpiness of the youngster, and winding up with the declaration, "He's a regular nitch."
Scenes from the miracles of Our Lord occupy the two side panels, which are subdivided so that there are four scenes in all; they are so quaint as to be really grotesque, but have a certain blunt charm which is enhanced by the creamy lumpiness of the material in which they are rendered.
'But it is absurd of the man to write so long after! said Lady Mottisfont, with a lumpiness about the back of her throat as she thought how much Dorothy had become to her. 'I suppose it was when you first found her that you told him this? 'Exactly it was then.
The left hand was as it should be no lumpiness, bruises, or any discolouration other than grime. But now that the two hands were side by side the difference in the right hand was most apparent. Certainly it was badly bruised across the knuckles and the skin was broken, too.
The next thing that he noticed was that the edge of the sea against the sky began to look irregular and blotted, a little lumpy here and there, and as he looked this lumpiness grew and rose higher. He turned as the step of the officer sounded close to him. "That's land, I suppose?" he said. "Yes, father; we shall be in by half-past five. . . . Beg your pardon, father, are you staying long?"
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