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But his chin was hard as flint and it bruised my knuckles; while his great body was podgy and of an india-rubberlike flexibility. For my pains, he brushed my ear and drew a little blood, with the grin of an ape on his brutish face. He threw up his arms to guard, feinted at me, and rushed in.
Just beneath us there was such a one of great size and luxurious appearance, with its owner, a fat old man, leaning out, half his gross body through the window, and his podgy hand, gleaming with diamonds, outstretched as he urged his chauffeur to make a last effort to break through the press.
"Now if he was only a handsome young gentleman, and Miss Bessie could take an interest in him, there'd be more sense," Emily remarked from her side table. "Don't be such a ridiculous old thing, Emily!" "Well, he've got his kerridge!" "And a pretty sight he looks driving in it! podgy, fat, vulgar man!" "Miss Bessie would never look twice in that direction, I'm sure," Mr. Gibbon declared, and Mrs.
At length the Mayor came in by a little door and appeared before us, awkward and podgy in his dress-coat, which was too large for him, and which his scarf caused to rise up.
Nobody could have told its sex. It cast a look of stupid discomfort at Maria, then its rasped little face opened for a wail. "Shet up!" said the mother, and she dragged more forcibly at the podgy little arm, and the child broke into a lop-sided run towards the cars. Maria had no time to get a ticket.
He stretched out a short, podgy leg and contemplated the bare instep and the grass slipper hanging by the toes. "You can't make him drunk?" he would add, after a pause of stertorous breathing. "No, Mr. Hudig, I can't really," protested Willems, earnestly. "Well, don't try. I know him.
I know too much. It isn't men like me who go under. No. No." He saw then her white face and strange grey ghostly eyes as though her soul had gone somewhere on a visit and the house was untenanted. He felt again the gulp in his throat. He bent forward, resting his fat podgy hand on her knee. "Don't you worry, Maggie dear. I've always noticed that things are never bad for long.
They continued discussing the story for some time as though its creator was elsewhere. He kept very still. Maria already slept in a soft and podgy ball on his lap.... "I am a lonely old thing," he said suddenly, with a long sigh, for in reality he was deeply disappointed at his failure, and had aspired to be their story-teller as well as playmate. Ordinary life bored him dreadfully.
He had remembered his father as short, spare, black-haired, grim, pale this gentleman, who was now watching him, bulged in the cheeks and the stomach, was highly coloured with purple veins down the sides of his nose and his rather podgy hands trembled. Nevertheless, it was his father.
To lend the touch of humor, which always lurks behind other people's tragedies, he held his top-hat by the brim in his right hand, as though he were taking a collection, while from his left, like a feather-duster, trailed an enormous bunch of roses. He was a short man in the late thirties, red-headed and inclined to be podgy.
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