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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Yes, I assure you, Georgina," she said, "my dear children have never had a secret from me in their innocent lives." When the men came in from the dining-room, one of the old fellows came and talked to me, and I discovered he is the Duke of Lancashire. He is ordinary looking, and his shirts fit so badly that nasty sticking-out look at the sides, and not enough starch.
No, not Ida; she would only make a fool of herself on board; and besides, she had such horrid sticking-out ears, with a pull at them, which made her scream, and her mother rebuke him; while Mr.
It was lovely of you to let that girl ride in your place, but if you're going to kick about walking, you'll spoil it all." "I'm not kicking. And anyway, Mops, you were the noble one yourself. You walked just so I shouldn't be lonesome." "'Course I did! What's lots of fun for two is awful poky for one. Come on, I'll race you to that big sticking-out tree!"
On her thin wrists and long hands there was always a pair of bright red mittens, only her finger-tips showing. Her far-sunken and toothless mouth was always working, with a sucking motion of the lips; and her round little knob of a sticking-out chin munched up and down when she spoke, a long, stiff whitish hair slanting out its middle.
The baby, who had hitherto maintained a passive indifference to external phenomena, lifted elbows and toes, blew bubbles from his tiny mouth, and stared at the finger with the most ravishing, roguish smile, as though saying: "I know that great sticking-out limb, and there is a joke about it which no one but me can see, and which is my secret joy that you shall never share." "Tea ready?"
It appeared curious that it should afford some comfort to the evaded pursuer, to make an offer at upsetting the escaping youth, an offer which could not possibly be successful. But very often, in after-life, have I beheld in the conduct of grown-up men and women the moral likeness of that futile sticking-out of the foot.
The cat the pupils of his eyes like vertical slits in green-yellow stone gave one quick look at, and through, the open window. He had the impression, framed in the window, of a bobbing, black, "square" bowler hat not often seen these days and a red face with small eyes, and a sticking-out beard of aggressiveness. This was no Hawkley. The cat knew it, as he knew, probably, the alien tread.
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