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He was a tall, well-proportioned man, of dark complexion and regular features, with black, unkempt hair and restless brown eyes. He was clothed in a faded and stained butternut suit of flannel, consisting of a loose frock and baggy trousers, the legs of the trousers being tucked into the tops of road-worn boots. His hat was a battered and frayed broad-brimmed felt. Mrs.
'I heard it might have been some matter touching the integrity of certain regiments, the Chaplain insisted. 'The matter was not in any way open to my ears, said the Havildar-Major. 'Humph! The Chaplain drew his hard road-worn feet under his robe.
Cholera, that ancient scourge of the East which finds its easiest prey when men are physically impoverished with great exertions, now attacked the dusty road-worn corps, three Gurkhas being the first victims, while seven or eight more men were down the same evening. At the same time came a call from Mr.
What on earth could Dick mean by accepting for himself and chums a dinner and dance invitation when they had nothing to wear save their road-worn and travel-stained hiking clothes? "Dick is getting careless -making such an engagement for us for to-morrow evening," Tom confided to Hazelton, when the news was related to him. "Well, you won't need to mind, anyway," laughed Harry gleefully.
The face was the countenance of a man who was somebody; the clothing was the road-worn garb of a vagrant. "Here, you!" called the farmer. "I hear you," said the man who called himself Walker Farr, smiling and putting subtle insolence into the smile. "Do you want a job?" "No, sir." "Have you got a job?" "Yes, sir." "What is it?"
They went past me every day, hundreds of them, padding down the Nieuport road, their feet tired from service and their boots road-worn crowds of men beyond numbering, as far as one could see into the dry, volleying dust and beyond the dust; men coming toward me, a nation of them. They came at a long, uneven jog, a cluttered walk.
We were a mixed company aged road-worn pilgrims, bright boys come from a local watering-place by coach, red-kerchiefed peasant women, pleasant citizens' wives in town-made blouses, Caucasians, a Turk, a Jew, an Austrian waiter, and many others that I took no stock of.
The onlookers saw a long, jaded-looking flock of poor people toiling up the hilly road from Jaffa, wearing Russian winter garb under the straight-beating sun of the desert, dusty, road-worn, and beaten.
Yet still the attack has failed, and that failure, while it dispirits the Patriot Army, inspires the Rebel Army with renewed courage. Under these circumstances, Friday, the 19th of July, is devoted to reconnaissances by the Engineer officers of the Union Army; to the cooking of the supplies, which have at last arrived; and to resting the weary and road-worn soldiers of the Union.
Yet still the attack has failed, and that failure, while it dispirits the Patriot Army, inspires the Rebel Army with renewed courage. Under these circumstances, Friday, the 19th of July, is devoted to reconnaissances by the Engineer officers of the Union Army; to the cooking of the supplies, which have at last arrived; and to resting the weary and road-worn soldiers of the Union.
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