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Duncan, looking very hard at Cynthia in a near-sighted way, and, not knowing in the least who she was; "you haven't seen Senator and Mrs. Meade, have you, Janet? They were to be here at eight o'clock." "No," said Janet, turning again to Cynthia and scarcely hearing the question. "Janet hasn't seen them, Dudley," said Mrs. Duncan, going up to Mr.
"An attentive examination of the book will prove to you that no other troupe of itinerant performers passed through the place during that month; and it is clear that it must have been the Grasshopper with whom the lad went away. You will then peruse the man's description. Vigoureux, born at Bourgogne, Vosges. Age, forty-seven. Height, six feet two inches. Eyes, small and gray, rather near-sighted.
Lord Fairfax was now nearly sixty years of age, upwards of six feet high, gaunt and raw-boned, near-sighted, with light gray eyes, sharp features and an aquiline nose. However ungainly his present appearance, he had figured to advantage in London life in his younger days. He had received his education at the university of Oxford, where he acquitted himself with credit.
Like the general store, the door was closed, and just above the catch, flapping languidly in a rising prairie breeze, was the mate to the black rag dangling at his back. The spectator's shaggy eyebrows tightened in genuine surprise, and with near-sighted effort he inspected the fronts of the short row of other buildings along the street.
Van Dorn was at a slight disadvantage, being somewhat near-sighted, and having been obliged to take off his glasses when donning Mike's costume. "I know them," said Jack, "they are two of the three that were outside the cabin, and one of them is about the biggest coward that breathes; we could dispose of a regiment of such men, but I prefer to get along without trouble if we can."
If certain things happen, I shall foresee what the result must be. If certain other things happen, I shall know that I am right. Events fall out as you expect, and you smile with satisfaction, feeling your wisdom justified. It ought to make you happy. But does it?" Miss Terry regarded the Angel doubtfully. "Look now!" he went on, holding up a rosy finger. "You are so near-sighted!
He had that dull-looking, boiled eye which is often to be seen in the heads of people who have applied themselves during many years to a weary and laborious course of study; and which would have been sufficient, without the additional eyeglass which dangled from a broad black riband round his neck, to warn a stranger that he was very near-sighted.
It's only a friend of my father's, and he's so near-sighted I suppose he did not see anybody here," she replied in a flutter. "Confounded little manners," said the captain, staring at me. I was dumb and my limbs seemed to be rigid. "Is he deaf too?" asked the captain with a grin. "Confounded little manners, really."
She stared a moment, and then, being near-sighted, got down on her knees, that she might look more closely. "She is going to pray to it," cried the farmer; and the simple people, aware of Mrs. Rhamm's devotion to this ancient god, laughed as if Sydney Smith had launched his wittiest sally. "Mrs.
But it was probably due to her exasperation at the wasted stroke that she let him have it. "I'm tired of that word. It means to be suicidally selfish. There's not another word in the language so abused." "Didn't catch the word that annoys you," the young man smiled. "Practical! You used it yourself. It means to tear down and not build up, to be so near-sighted you can't see beyond your reach.
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