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Cried she, "Why, that's more than our whole income for a year has been!" "You are forgetting these improvements add to the value of the property. I've bought it." That quieted her. "You are sure you didn't pay those decorators and furnishers too much?" said she. "You don't like their work?" inquired he, chagrined. "Oh, yes yes, indeed," she assured him. "I like plain, solid-looking things.
With these preconceived ideas, it was an unexpected satisfaction to see quite a simple-looking, unassuming establishment, which any well-to-do farmer might make and own. The house is rather a large and solid-looking building, erected by Mr. Mechi himself, but not at all ostentatious of wealth or architectural taste.
Why there should be foam-bubbles there then, and not always, I do not know. But there they were and such colours! deep rose and grassy green and ultramarine blue; and, above all, one dark, yet brilliant and intensely-burnished, metallic gold. All of them were of a solid-looking burnished colour, like opaque body-colour laid on behind translucent crystal.
Uncle Piper, on the other hand, is introduced, as all of Tasma's characters are, in sundry solid-looking pages of direct narrative. It is true that their humour and epigram make bright reading, but they are necessarily without the power of pithy dialogue to create a vivid impression of character. Whether Uncle Piper is a type of Australian plutocracy need hardly be discussed.
Hilyard, mum. 'Tis only warmth she wants." Why did she want warmth? When it was summer. She was sure it was summer. She remembered seeing the sun overhead hanging in the middle of the sky just like one of those solid-looking gold halos which the Old Masters used to paint round the head of a saint. At least ... had it been in the sky ... lately? To-day?
The local man in charge sits at that table in the corner" he nodded toward a clean, solid-looking young fellow, who was enjoying his dinner and chatting with Abe Lee. In the lobby, a few minutes later, Greenfield whispered to Holmes: "Introduce me to that young man, Willard."
She was a stoutly-built female, life-size, standing upon a solid-looking pedestal fully four feet broad. Desmond measured the distance separating him from the nymph. It was not more than twenty yards at the outside and the pedestal would conceal him from the eyes of Strangwise if the latter should turn round before he had made his second bound and reached the steps at the side of the house.
She had never possessed a rich or complete costume in her life; and there was a wondrous novelty in the anticipation of wearing dresses that were not remodelled from Pamela's or her mother's cast-off garments. When the carriage drew up before the door of the solid stone house, in the solid-looking, silent square, she required all her courage.
She had had a moment of tremor when Fraulein had said in her slow clear English, "I leave you to your pupils, Miss Henderson," and with that had gone out and shut the door. The moment she had dreaded had come. This was Germany. There was no escape. Her desperate eyes caught sight of a solid-looking volume on the table, bound in brilliant blue cloth. She got it into her shaking hands.
The wooded hills in the first flush of autumn beauty sloped softly down to the green meadows, and as the carriage crossed the solid-looking old stone bridge, Violet exclaimed with transport, at a glimpse she caught of a gray ruin the old priory! She was so eager to see it that she and Emma left the carriage at the park gate, and walked thither at once.
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