Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
The treacherous mud-heaps, the window-panes incrusted with deposits of dust and rain, the mean-looking hovels covered with ragged placards, the grimy unfinished walls, the general air of a compromise between a gypsy camp, the booths of a country fair, and the temporary structures that we in Paris build round about public monuments that remain unbuilt; the grotesque aspect of the mart as a whole was in keeping with the seething traffic of various kinds carried on within it; for here in this shameless, unblushing haunt, amid wild mirth and a babel of talk, an immense amount of business was transacted between the Revolution of 1789 and the Revolution of 1830.
Cold, narrow lanes, between tall, ugly, mean-looking whitewashed houses, sour bread, pavements most uncomfortable to the feet, enormous prices for poor living; beggars, pickpockets, ancient temples and broken monuments, and clothes hanging to dry about them; French soldiers, monks, and priests of every degree; a shabby population, smoking bad cigars, these would have been some of the points of my description.
He asked for a ticket for himself and one for his slave to Philadelphia. This caused the principal officer a very mean-looking, cheese-coloured fellow, who was sitting there to look up at us very suspiciously, and in a fierce tone of voice he said to me, "Boy, do you belong to that gentleman?"
The man who came for Le Grande had a strange, mean-looking face; but we must hasten." Leah, so long accustomed to sorrow, evinced no unusual emotion at these apprehensive words of Mr. Gardner; but calmly asked: "Do you suppose any harm has come to my husband?" "I cannot say, madam; I trust not." "What motive could that man have had for deceiving Emile?"
I therefore directed my steps to the house, and on entering it found the landlord standing in the kitchen. Just then two mean-looking fellows, who had been drinking at one of the tables, and who appeared to be the only customers in the house, got up, brushed past the landlord, and saying in a surly tone, we shall pay you some time or other, took their departure.
'You had better perhaps count it, she said in a low voice 'forty in notes, the rest in gold, and narrowed her eyes beneath her veil upon her husband's very peculiar method of forgetting his responsibilities. 'French? she said with a nod. 'How very quaint. Lawford's eyes fell and rested gravely on the dingy page of Herbert's mean-looking bundle of print. A queer feeling of cold crept over him.
He went on silently and solemnly till he came to Swallow-street, then turning into it, he stopt at a small and mean-looking house, knocked at the door, and without asking any question of the man who opened it, beckoned her to come after him, and hastened up some narrow winding stairs.
The next dwelling they approached was very small and mean-looking. It seemed to Horace Danforth to contain only one apartment, warmed by an ill-constructed clay chimney, and lighted by one small, square window. That window, however, was not only sashed and glazed, but shaded by a plain muslin curtain. "Here," said Mr. Grahame, "lives one of those pupils of whom I spoke just now.
"They have no time to sit anywhere." It will be seen that our grey skies and mean-looking dwellings have compensations. "Nine hours' rolling at anchor" was Arthur Young's experience of a Channel passage in 1787, and on the return journey he was compelled to wait three days for a wind.
Below him, the mean-looking, smooth-coated black dog is the unbeaten Pip, winner of the renowned Cambrian Stakes at Llangollen as many think the best of all the good dogs that have come from sheep-dotted Wales. Beside him that handsome sable collie, with the tremendous coat and slash of white on throat and face, is the famous MacCallum More, fresh from his victory at the Highland meeting.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking