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The two solemn-looking deacons on either side of the dogmatic speaker raised approvingly their eyes, and after balancing themselves a moment upon their toes, settled back upon their heels as grave and decorous as before. Brother Job Manning arose hastily, and said: "My wife, Nancy Manning, is as good a Christian woman as the town of Newberg holds.
While we were waiting at a railway station one morning a solemn-looking old man, who, from appearances, might have been a contemporary of Mahomet, or the nineteenth incarnation of a mighty god, squatted down on the floor and gazed upon us with a broad and benevolent smile.
Its plain wooden pews and old-fashioned elevated pulpit rather pleased than offended David, and the air of antiquity about the place consecrated it in his eyes. Men like whatever reminds them of their purest and best days, and David had been once in the old Relief Church on the Doo Hill in Glasgow just such a large, bare, solemn-looking house of worship.
And here we are at the sign of `Apollo and the Razor. Apollo, you see, is bestowing the razor on the Triptolemus of our craft, the first reaper of beards, the sublime Anonimo, whose mysterious identity is indicated by a shadowy hand." "I see thou hast had custom already, Sandro," continued Nello, addressing a solemn-looking dark-eyed youth, who made way for them on the threshold.
Crossing a quiet and shady court-yard, paved with stone, and frowned upon by old red brick houses, on the doors of which were painted the names of sundry learned civilians, we paused before a small, green-baized, brass-headed-nailed door, which yielding to our gentle push, at once admitted us into an old quaint-looking apartment, with sunken windows, and black carved wainscoting, at the upper end of which, seated on a raised platform, of semicircular shape, were about a dozen solemn-looking gentlemen, in crimson gowns and wigs.
Vivyan was waiting for him in the breakfast-room, and presently, as she stood there, the door opened, and a very solemn-looking face appeared. Arthur had been nerving himself for this time; he had been trying very hard not to cry; and he had succeeded pretty well until now, although on the way down stairs he had to bite his lips very hard as he felt the tears in his eyes.
So far as Leonard could see, there was not a man among them who stood less than six feet in height, and they were broad in proportion hugely made. In appearance they were neither handsome nor repulsive, but solemn-looking, large-eyed, thick-haired between black and yellow in hue and wearing an expression of dreadful calm, like the calm of an archaic statue.
You know, I played quarter behind him for three years, and Miss Fairbanks is interested, I know." "You did? Well, if he bucked up as he did this afternoon, you must have had good hunting. Well, then, when that committee met you never saw a more solemn-looking bunch in your life. You would think they had all lost their mothers-in-law.
A solemn-looking minister, with red hair, who was present, and whose eyes twinkled some through the smoke, said to another: "Charlie, you remember you were completely gone on the professor's niece who was visiting there from Poughkeepsie? What become of her." Charlie put his feet on the table, struck a match on his trousers, and said: "Well, I wasn't gone on her, as you say, but just liked her.
Then we were to turn our backs and begin our retreat, before any person came out of the infected house. I set out with Pierre, a solemn-looking boy of about twelve years of age, who cast upon me sidelong glances of silent scrutiny. We passed down the village street, with its closely-packed houses forming a very nest for fever, until we reached the road by which I had first entered Ville-en-bois.
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