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Bushy side whiskers, shot with grey, flanked his rubicund visage, and he threw out his feet as he walked with the air of a man who is on good terms with himself and with every one around him. At No.13 he stopped and rapped loudly upon the door with the head of his metal-headed stick. "Mrs. McTavish?" he asked, as a hard-lined, angular woman responded to his summons. "That's me, sir." "Mr.
Sabbath merry-makers missed the rubicund face and maudlin jollity of their old vicar; the ignorant and vicious disliked the new preacher's rigid morality; the better informed revolted at his harsh doctrines, austere life, and grave manner. Intense earnestness characterized all his efforts.
His rueful and disconsolate face became jovial and rubicund, his eyes stood out like a lobster's, and his spirits, which before were sunk to the depths of despondency, were now elated in proportion; all day he was singing, whistling, laughing, and telling stories. Being mortally afraid of Jim Gurney, he kept close in the neighborhood of our tent.
Late one afternoon about this time, Franz might have been found together with his friends Krafft and Schilsky, at the latter's lodging in the TALSTRASSE. He was astride a chair, over the back of which he had folded his arms; and his chubby, rubicund face glistened with moisture.
Before he could answer, "I reckon on the continent of England," he was gathering an ample tithe of drubbing. "Come and recite your lesson in arithmetic?" said he to Boone, in a voice of thunder. The usually rubicund face of the Irishman was by this time a deadly pale. Slate in hand, the docile lad presented himself before his master. "Take six from nine, and what remain?" "Three, sir." "True.
The decanters and wine-bottles on the move, and the beer and soda-founts pouring out continual streams, with a whiz. Stage-drivers, etc., asked to drink with the aristocracy, and mine host treating and being treated. Rubicund faces; breaths odorous of brandy and water. Occasionally the pop of a champagne cork. Returned home, and took a lesson in French of Mons.
"No," breathed Esther dolefully. "But I shall take it out myself soon." "In this world," said the rubicund man, shaking his head sceptically, "there ain't never no knowing. Well, how much d'yer want?" "I only want a shilling," said Esther, "and threepence," she added as a happy thought. "All right," said the rubicund man softened. "I won't 'aggle this mornen. You look quite knocked up.
A good-looking girl of some sixteen years of age entered in company with an old man, short of stature but with a rubicund, chubby face. "Good-day, sister," was the girl's greeting, as she kissed Madame Deberle. "Good-day, Pauline! good-day, father!" replied the doctor's wife.
Heavy drafts have introduced a large and untempered element into our composition. Many of the subalterns are obviously "new-jined" as the shrewd old lady of Ayr once observed of the rubicund gentleman at the temperance meeting. Their men hardly know them or one another by sight.
The Swiss, who had been pale and gloomy enough a short while before; was rubicund and affable. Sara glanced at me and squeezed my hand; I had conquered. When the play was over, M F asked me if I would allow him to call on me. I embraced him in reply.
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