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"You the colonel!" exclaimed Frank, suspicious that he was again being ridiculed, and thinking it impossible that this slim, rosy-faced youngster, who was scarcely stouter than Hugh, and who was washing in a tin basin, could be the commander of all these soldierly-looking men, many of whom were old enough to be his father. "Yes, I'm the lieutenant-colonel.
Hamilton from Chiefswood, the present inhabitants of Lockhart's cottage, dined with us, which made the society pleasant. He is a fine, soldierly-looking man though affected with paralysis his wife a sweet good-humoured little woman. He is supposed to be a writer in Blackwood's Magazine. Since we were to lose the Lockharts, we could scarce have had more agreeable folks.
Then, after deceiving us with false promises my friend General Carmen and myself he hunted us with his bloodhounds, and we escaped as by a miracle. Now he protests that he never saw me before. What say you, señores, am I not right in stigmatizing him as a murderer and liar?" "Quite right!" said a middle-aged, soldierly-looking man.
But we won't talk about it. They are well and happy. And this one" here he took down the photograph of the man in full uniform "is the Grand Duke Vladimir. Yes, a soldierly-looking man none of the others are like him. But come now, tell me of yourself you have some one at home, too?" I nodded my head and mentioned my mother and the others at home. "No sweetheart yet? No?
From his gentlemanly deportment and ability he was on familiar terms with the officers, and popular among the men. Withal, he was a finely formed, soldierly-looking man.
To either side the main street lay long narrow dark alleys, in which flared single lights, across which flitted mysterious long-robed figures, from which floated stray snatches of music either palpitatingly barbaric or ridiculously modern. There the authority of the straight, soldierly-looking Soudanese policemen ceased, and it was not safe to wander unarmed or alone.
He was a fine, tall, soldierly-looking fellow, and had served in various parts of the world. "Let us sit down," the sergeant said; "this bush will give us a little shade. How long have you been in the army, lad?" "Better than two years. Directly the campaign is over I shall give up my trumpet, and hope I shall get my stripes soon." "How old are you nineteen?" "Not for some months yet, sergeant."
He was at once sent for, and proved to be one of the stable servants, a rough, soldierly-looking man, who made no difficulty in telling that M. de Nid de Merle had bidden his own troop to use every effort to reach the Widow Laurent's house, and secure the lady.
He was a tall, soldierly-looking man, upright in stature, his face very bronzed and tanned. He wore neither moustache nor beard, his hair was cropped quite close to his head, like a Frenchman's; but, of course, what was so very remarkable about him was that total absence of eyebrows and even eyelashes, which gave the face such a peculiar appearance as you say, a perpetually astonished look.
After having taken it off to cool, I was much surprised on being suddenly accosted by a fine soldierly-looking man, who exclaimed, 'How do you do, my little fellow? What is your name?
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