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His features were peaky and sallow, and his little pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished. He pushed his face forward as he spoke and his lips and eyelids were continually twitching like a man with St. Vitus's dance. I could not help thinking that his strange, catchy little laugh was also a symptom of some nervous malady.
"But she probably didn't use lorgnettes then, and " "Her nose was just as sharp though 'peaky' I used to call it," nodded the Duchess. "And she has actually sent Lisbeth away dear child and to such a horrid, quiet little place, too, where she'll have nobody to talk to but that young Selwyn. "I beg pardon, Duchess, but " "Horace Selwyn, of Selwyn Park cousin to Lord Selwyn, of Brankesmere.
In his rude hovel, with all the sublimities of Nature around him, this child of the wilderness looks up to the summits of the Atlas, "with peaky tops engrailed," and immediately thereafter looks down again to attend to the engrailing of his neat five-franc pieces, which can hardly be told from the genuine. This multiplication of finance was punished under the beys with death.
In his opinion, and his sister Susan's, the only fit thing to be done with her was to place her with the two aunts at Coalham to be educated. He came down to Rock Quay to inspect her. It was a cold, raw day, with the moors wrapped in mist, and the poor little maid looked small, peaky and pinched.
Further south the Tihamah Mountains begin with the peaky Jebel el-Kurr, another remarkable block which has long been in sight. Its neighbour is the bluff-headed Jebel el-Wasil of Marwat; whilst the trap-blocks, already mentioned as the Jibal el-'Akabil, finish the circle.
My eyes rested particularly upon Ferguson's scorbutic features, Saxon's hard aquiline profile, the German's burly face, and the peaky thoughtful countenance of the Lord of Wark. 'If naebody else will gie an opeenion, cried the fanatical Doctor, 'I'll een speak mysel' as led by the inward voice.
Only say to yourself, 'I won't give in so much for him! and you will be surprised yourself to see how well and how quickly it will all pass away. Only have a little patience." "Aunt," replied Liza, "it has already passed away. All has passed away." "Passed away! how passed away? Why your nose has actually grown peaky, and yet you say 'passed away. Passed away indeed!"
Next to him sat two other men of about the same age, one with a trimming of fur to his coat, which gave him a dignity which was evidently dearer to him than his comfort, for he still drew it round him in spite of the hot glare of the faggots. The other, clad in a dirty russet suit with a long sweeping doublet, had a cunning, foxy face with keen, twinkling eyes and a peaky beard.
Like most of the "jebels," or mounts, in this region, compared with the spacious wilderness about them they are but toy hills. Few of them are much over 150 feet high, large as they often loom in the deceiving light of the Soudan. Many are but 50 feet in height, and there are regular, peaky, and prettily-shaped little mountain ranges, the summits of which overtop the plain but five to ten yards.
What are you doing here on a summer afternoon staring into a wigmaker's window?" "I am Barnard's locum; he is in practice in Fetter Lane." "I know," said Thorndyke; "we meet him occasionally, and very pale and peaky he has been looking of late. Is he taking a holiday?" "Yes. He has gone for a trip to the Isles of Greece in a currant ship."
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