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But the forge glowed red; and there was a faint hammering such as Cupid might make when he sharpens his arrow-points. Later she came forth with a queer-shaped, handled thing in one hand, and a portable furnace, such as are seen in branding-camps, in the other. To the corral where the Sussex cattle were penned she sped with these things swiftly in the moonlight.
“They are not a bit like cocoa-nuts,” Stephen remarked as the first came to the ground. “They look more like queer-shaped gourds.”
The idea that any one had found Markham in such a place and at such an hour was too extraordinary to be credited. Toyner looked eagerly into the mist. He could see nothing but queer-shaped gulfs of light between trunks and branches. Again his boat rubbed unexpectedly against a stump, and again the strange premonition of approaching death came over him.
On the following Friday evening, when Ellis jumped off the car opposite his home on the Hawkins, he saw in the road, halted, a train of vast and queer-shaped waggons in charge of two traction-engines. They were painted on all sides with the great name of Jenkins. They contained Jenkins's roundabouts and shooting-saloons, on their way to rouse the joy of life in other towns.
He had a peculiar scar, shaped something like a horseshoe over one of his eyes." "That's the man! You remember that queer-shaped scar over one of his eyes, don't you?" and Bud turned excitedly to Thure. "Yes," answered Thure. "He must have just got back from the cave. What was he doing, Uncle Frank?" and he turned eagerly to Mr. Holt.
These windows were wholly composed of stained glass, engraved with every imaginable fantastic design imps, satyrs, dragons, witches, queer-shaped trees, hands, eyes, circles, triangles and cats.
Harris, the assistant with the queer-shaped head, who was the first person he had known at the shop and had attached himself to Philip, could not conceal his bitterness. "Some people 'ave all the luck," he said. "You'll be a buyer yourself one of these days, and we shall all be calling you sir."
He wore a pea-coat, a tall and very shiny black hat, white trousers, and neither shoes nor socks. His feet were like flat-irons turned the wrong way, and his legs seemed to be slipped into the middle of them, like the handles of two queer-shaped hoes.
But jest at that minute, before I could frame a reply, even if I could have found a frame queer-shaped enough to hold my curious curious feelin's Miss Plank knocked at the door and said she wuz ready to go we had made arrangements to go together that mornin' and Josiah tackled her about the whale; and sez she briskly "Oh, yes; the whaleback Christopher Columbus!
He turned and saw the landlady slowly going downstairs again, still shading the candle with her hand and peering up at him from time to time as she moved. A black, ugly, unwholesome object, he thought, as she disappeared into the darkness below, and the last flicker of her candle threw a queer-shaped shadow along the wall and over the ceiling.
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