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His forehead was a fine one, high and broad; with, to use the terms of physiognomy, the frontal sinus boldly marked. The squareness of it showed "ratiocination"; and the fulness under the eyes "language". He had the short, broad nose that marks energy; the square chin marked despite a thick, unkempt beard and massive jaw that showed great resolution. "No bad man for the Desert!"
One of the skippers insisted that she was the Hornet, from the unusual shortness of her lower masts, and the immense squareness of her yards. But the puzzle was, if it were the Hornet, why she did not shorten sail. Still this might be accounted for, by her either wishing to make out what we were before she engaged us, or she might be clearing for action.
Mrs. Tom was very golden-haired and blue-eyed and pink and white, but none was further removed from insipidity than she. Her features were strong, particularly her mouth and chin, and she had a repose of manner, a squareness of shoulder, and a serenity of expression that gave her an almost solid appearance.
I suggested what I knew to be the impossible; after I suggested it, it was my business to make it possible. Don't you think that a pretty good sense of justice?" he asked of Ernestine. "What might be called an inner squareness," said Georgia, as Ernestine responded only with the fine lights the story had brought to her eyes. Karl did not seem to have heard the story.
Scudder's, and had the gentle Mary for his catechumen, a richer life seemed to have colored his thoughts, his mind seemed to work with a pleasure as never before. Whoever looked on the forehead of the good Doctor must have seen the squareness of ideality giving marked effect to its outline.
The shape of his head, the squareness of his jaws, the straightness of his thick lips, all seemed to speak of a hard and inflexible disposition. His hair was coal black, coarse, and without the slightest sprinkling of grey. He had the neck and throat of a fighter. But for that single, livid, blue mark across his forehead, he carried with him no signs of his accident.
The object which the Serjeant had in view was so good that it seemed to him to warrant some slight deviation from parallelogrammatic squareness; though he held it as one of his first rules of life that the end cannot justify the means. On Sunday they all went to church, and not a word was said about the tailor. Alice Bluestone was tender and valedictory; Mrs.
"Bein' square himself, he won't take nothin' but squareness from nobody, and while he's lookin' out for his own chances he looks out for the other fellow's, too. Times and times he's handed back nickels and dimes when change wasn't made straight," contributed a second. "There's two or three store men in town got their eye on him.
After a second and a longer look, however, the experienced master ventured to add that the stranger had the squareness and symmetry of a cruiser, but of what size he would not yet presume to declare.
'Now, said the taller of the two, the squareness of whose shoulders signified that he wore epaulettes, 'now you must do the best you can for yourself, Bob. I have done all I can; but th'hast thy work cut out, I can tell thee. 'I wouldn't have run such a risk for the world, said the other, in a tone of ingenuous contrition.
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