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Fortunately, from a boy up, together with a lengthy, oblong, square-jawed face, he had been given by Nature a single-minded view of life. In fact, the mysterious, stout tenacity of a soul born in the neighbourhood of Newmarket could not have been done justice to had he constitutionally seen any more than Mr. Stone himself two things at a time.
Before the thick brown muscular fingers had choked the scream that rose in her throat, the key crashed in the lock, and the door was violently kicked open, admitting ... No portrait is required of that burly, bald-browed, sharp-eyed, grizzle-bearded, square-jawed farmer, of the bronzed and sun-cracked countenance, implacable under the slouch-hat with the orange-leather band.
Marion was easy. She knew Natalie's game; it was like her own. But this big square-jawed man at the head of the table frightened her. And he hated her. He hardly troubled to hide it, for all his civility. Even that civility was contemptuous. In the drawing-room things were little better. Natalie had counted on Marion's cooperation, and she had failed her.
He looked at Nick, square-jawed and determined; but Nick vigorously shook his head. "I am not with you. I don't agree. I never shall agree." Max's cynical smile became more pronounced. "Then you will have to act against your judgment for once. There is no alternative. And I shall go Home by the first boat I can catch." "And leave her to fret her heart out," said Nick.
He was a tall, square-jawed man, with a short, cropped iron-gray beard and small blue, twinkling eyes. "Will you join us and have some supper?" asked Tad politely, walking out to greet the stranger. "Thank you; I will, young man," smiled the stranger. Tad introduced himself and companions. "You probably have heard my name before, young men.
"I reckon so," said the corporal, sizing up the score or more of lean, square-jawed cowboys, "and in that case we might just as well return to camp." He took leave of the three comrades, who thanked him for his escort, and with the troopers at his heels galloped off.
Now, when he realised that Maurice O'Donnell loved her, he cursed his own folly that he had dared to think of winning her. What girl with eyes in her head would take him, gray and square-jawed, before the gallant-looking fellow who was the ideal patriot. And Ellen Ellen, of all women living, was best able to appreciate O'Donnell's qualities.
Beef-coloured face, blue eyes, a square-jawed chap. Yes, you might like him. He might amuse you. He's a great liar." Lucy thought that she might like Mr. Urquhart. On those lines the party was arranged: the Blisses because "we owe them a dinner; and I think the Judge will be amused by Jimmy;" the Worthingtons make-weights; but "She's a soft pink woman, like a Persian kitten." "Does Mr.
Scrambling hastily into the nearest motor car I shook hands with this shortish, broad-shouldered, square-jawed man and bared my head, for, so far as these great works were concerned, he was in very truth a superman. Thus I left him to oversee the building of these mighty ships, which have been and will ever be the might of these small islands.
Plainly a Wrykynian. Mike made for him. "Can you tell me the way to the school, please," he said. "Oh, you're going to the school," said the other. He had a pleasant, square-jawed face, reminiscent of a good-tempered bull-dog, and a pair of very deep-set grey eyes which somehow put Mike at his ease. There was something singularly cool and genial about them.
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