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Thy nose is sharpish at th' end; thou'rt more like thy father than ever thou wert before. Lord! child, what's the matter? Art thou going to faint?" For Mary had sickened at the mention of that name; yet she felt that now or never was the time to speak. "Father's come home!" she said, "but he's very poorly; I never saw him as he is now before.
"And though," I continued, rather severely, "you wished to turn me from the door, on a night when you should not have shut out a dog." "Well, it was hard: but what can a body do? I thought more o' th' childer nor of mysel: poor things! They've like nobody to tak' care on 'em but me. I'm like to look sharpish." I maintained a grave silence for some minutes.
From this point the path zigzags up, until men in single file can reach the summit. The ridge then dips into the hollow plateau where the village lies, and then runs up two hundred feet to the cliff, making a descent of the better part of a mile. On the far side the hill slopes away to the Khanki Valley. "We are going to begin with a sharpish climb," Lisle said to another officer.
'E'es, I'll take it, he replied, holding out his hand. 'Tom Brice, you won't deceive me? 'Noa, sure, said Tom and Meg nearly in the same breath. 'You are an honest English lad, Tom you would not betray me? I was speaking imploringly. 'Noa, sure, repeated Tom. There was something a little unsatisfactory in the countenance of this light-haired youth, with the sharpish up-turned nose.
But father headed 'em, and turned 'em towards the peak. The dog worried those that wanted to stay by the yard or turn another way. We dropped our whip on 'em, and kept 'em going. In five minutes they were all a-moving along in one mob at a pretty sharpish trot like a lot of store cattle. Father knew his way about, whether the country was thick or open. It was all as one to him.
A big fellow with a broad grey hat and feathers, and all long hair and ragged lace, spurred at me, and, if I hadn't been tidy sharpish, he'd have rode me down.
Towards morning, however, I woke again, and had to pull the quilt back into its place, and when I started after breakfast to see what the dam looked like, there was a sharpish frost, which, coming after a day of thaw, had given the ice such a fine smooth surface as we had not had for long.
Thereupon the natives first gazed stupidly, not believing their eyes, then pounced on him and dragged him before the podesta, Clement went with them; but on the way drew quietly near the prisoner and spoke to him in Italian; no answer. In French' German; Dutch; no assets. Then the man tried Clement in tolerable Latin, but with a sharpish accent.
He asked me another question or two, and then went into the station-master's office." "What was he like?" "Not much older than yourself, in a brown suit, tall and thin, with sharpish features and quick smiling eyes." Barrant! Charles recognized the description with a sinking heart. He turned away with a sickening sense of the impotence of his own efforts.
"Oh! it wasn't as bad as it sounds he was asleep coiled up there to get warm sharpish nights on the prairie in August but darn it! Mattie!" wrinkling up his nose in disgust, "I hate the sight of the brutes!" "But you wouldn't be afraid of a man, Will!" "Well, no," admitted he. "I've never been troubled much that way. You see, everybody has a different fear to throw a crimp in them.
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