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"What statue is that?" asked Caesar, indicating the one in the middle of the square. "That is Marcus Aurelius." "An Emperor?" "Yes, an Emperor and a philosopher." "And why have they made him riding such a little, potbellied horse?" "I don't know, man." "He looks like a man taking a horse to water at a trough. Why does he ride bare-back? Hadn't they invented stirrups at that period?"
Their admiral, a Royal Naval Reserve lieutenant, who, in peaceful 1914, was still the immaculate third officer of a crack Western Ocean passenger liner, looked out of his wheelhouse windows and surveyed the potbellied, lumbering cargo carriers steaming by with all the kindly tolerance of the regular man-of-war's man.
Moritz when we met her at church and I became her lover; and I want Lucy to have my two Blakes and the dear little Martin Schongaun Madonna and Baby dear little potbellied baby, sucking his little sacred thumb in a garden with a beautiful wall and a little pigeon-house turret. I bought it myself, and do rather think it was clever of me all for a pound.
Their Life and whole personal Environment has melted into air. The Mitre Tavern still stands in Fleet Street; but where now is its scot-and-lot paying, beef-and-ale loving, cocked-hatted, potbellied Landlord; its rosy-faced, assiduous Landlady, with all her shining brass-pans, waxed tables, well-filled larder-shelves; her cooks, and bootjacks, and errand-boys, and watery-mouthed hangers-on? Gone!
On a very ancient-looking black oak stand cupboard below and shelves above was ranged a vast assortment of crockery ware, and on the walls hung potbellied metal jugs and cans which shone like silver. Two doors led to the other rooms of the house, one of them wide open. One corner of the room was occupied by a great wooden bin eight feet square, filled with dried bracken.
Approaching with due precaution, Lanyard peered in. The light came from a single electric bulb and a potbellied sheet-iron stove, glowing red. Near by, in a chair tipped against the wall, sat the watchman, corncob pipe in hand, head drooping, eyes closed, mouth ajar. A snore of the first magnitude seemed to vibrate the very walls.
Last comes Contempt, and laying violent hands on him drags him into the presence of Despair; it is now time for Hope to take wing and vanish. Naked, potbellied, pale and old, he is thrust forth, not by those golden gates by which he entered, but by some obscure back-passage. One hand covers his nakedness; with the other he would fain strangle himself.
Above and beyond this, Loiseau was noted for his practical jokes of every description his tricks, good or ill-natured; and no one could mention his name without adding at once: "He's an extraordinary man Loiseau." He was undersized and potbellied, had a florid face with grayish whiskers.
Both iv thim was on th' stand." "Br-r-r!" cried Mr. McKenna, entering stiffly and spreading his hands over the potbellied stove. "It's cold." "Where?" asked Mr. Dooley. "Not here." "It's cold outside," said Mr. McKenna. "It was ten below at Shannahan's grocery when I went by, and the wind blowing like all possessed. Lord love us, but I pity them that's got to be out to-night."
Above and beyond this, Loiseau was noted for his practical jokes of every description his tricks, good or ill-natured; and no one could mention his name without adding at once: "He's an extraordinary man Loiseau." He was undersized and potbellied, had a florid face with grayish whiskers.
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