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Updated: June 1, 2025
I don't like the job, I confess; but still the Admiralty must be obeyed. "'Oh, my lord, said the other, 'she's the very thing; she's a rakish-looking craft, and will do admirably. Any repair we want, a few days will effect; secrecy is the great thing. "'Yes, said the admiral, after a pause, 'as you observed, secrecy is the great thing.
Harry exclaimed, stopping, as he spoke, to look off to sea; "there's a rakish-looking lugger don't you see? just there, to the south-east, near Bass Rocks. I wonder what she is after." "After?" answered Drake, "why, probably running down to Penzance."
Their heads are bound with jaunty silk handkerchiefs; they wear rakish-looking short jackets, down the back of which their luxuriant black hair dangles in two tresses; but the crowning masterpiece of their costume is that wonderful garment which is neither petticoat nor pantaloons, and which can be most properly described as "indescribable," which tends to give the wearer rather an unfeminine appearance, and is not to be compared with the really sensible and not unpicturesque nether garment of a Turkish lady.
These words the old man uttered, as he pushed his wherry from the beach, and pulled up the harbour towards a fine corvette which lay at anchor off Gosport. The Lilly was a fine, rakish-looking corvette, with a crew of one hundred and twenty, officers and seamen, as Joe Simmons informed Bill. The old man went up the side with him. "There's the first lieutenant," he said.
It is simply an epitome of the difficulties too commonly met with in the field bright sunshine, good weather, ripe crops, and men half unconscious, or quite, snoring under a hedge! There is no encouragement to the tenant to pay high wages in experiences like this. A third example is a rakish-looking lad just rising into manhood.
Her large and portly person was clothed in a gay cotton print of many colors; and upon her head was twisted a bright silk handkerchief, with a most rakish-looking bow which reposed over her left ear.
If Sergius' anticipation had been fulfilled; if, in place of the elegant, rakish-looking chevalier in florid garb, he had been confronted by an individual awry in body or hideous in feature, he would not have been confused, or stood repeating to himself, "My God, can this be a son of the Hegumen?" That one so holy could have offspring so vicious stupefied him.
The individual who had accosted him, seen by the glow of a distant street-lamp, was thickset and rakish-looking, with a heavy mustache. He repeated his question uneasily. "If I've made a mistake " he went on. "No, you are not mistaken," said Nevill. "But how did you learn my name, and what do you want with me?"
The rain fell in torrents, and the ship was going seven knots through the water. On the clearing up of the fog, the chase was again visible. The sun broke forth, and the rakish-looking brigantine appeared to have carried on all sail during the squall.
Through the door of the garage a long, rakish-looking racing car was being pushed out by Jim and his sleepy groom. There was a cheery shout from the taxi, and Helene heard a ripping sound. Shirley reappeared, carrying an oblong box. "I have the gas generator: it was built in, under the seat, and controlled by a battery wire from the front lamp, Jim. A nice little mechanism.
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