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Orme hurried his own pace, and in a moment he heard the sounds of a short, sharp struggle a scuffling of feet in the gravel, a heavy fall. There was no outcry. Orme broke into a run. At a point where the path was darkest he checked himself for an instant. A little distance ahead a man lay flat on the ground, and bending over him was a short, stocky figure. Orme leaped forward and swung his cane.
The teams consisted of five men each. The only Lakerim men on the Kingston team were Tug, the chief, who had been a great runner of 440-yard races, and Sawed-Off, who had won the half-mile event on various field-days. The other three were Stage, Bloss, and MacManus. All of them were stocky runners and inured to hardship.
It rolls up dunes about the stocky stems, encompassing and protective, and above the dunes, which may be, as with the mesquite, three times as high as a man, the blossoming twigs flourish and bear fruit. It is this nearness of unimagined help that makes the tragedy of desert deaths.
Once " Here she was interrupted. The door from the school-room swung wide with a bang. Gwendolyn, looking up, saw her nurse. Jane was in sharp contrast to Miss Royle taller and stocky, with broad shoulders and big arms. As she halted against the open school-room door, her hair was as ruddy as the panel that made a background for it. And she had reddish eyes, and a full round face.
Archibald Lansing arrived very promptly a short, stocky young man of clean and powerful build, with dark, keen eyes always alert, and humorous lips ever on the edge of laughter under his dark moustache. His manner with Drina was always delightful a mixture of self-repressed idolatry and busily naïve belief in a thorough understanding between them to exclude Selwyn from their company.
Three boys stood impatiently kicking the dew off the tall grass in Ring's back yard, only pausing from their scanning of the beclouded, dawn-hinting sky to peer through the lightening dusk toward the clump of cedars that hid the Fulton house. "He's not up yet, or there'd be a light showing," grumbled the short, stocky one of the three. "Humph it's so late now he wouldn't be needing a light.
With them came a Yorkshire groom, a stocky little fellow, in velvet breeches, who made that mysterious hissing noise, traditionary in English stables, when he rubbed down the silken-skinned racers, in great perfection.
Each kept his left foot forward; each crouched, as it were, inside the shield tight against his shoulder; each held his axe aloft. Each struck, each dodged, Almo awkwardly, his axe trailing behind him after it missed. The stocky man thought he saw his chance and whirled his weapon, bringing it down in a terrible sweep.
Then when this warm greeting was over, Drusus had to salute Titus Mamercus, a solid, stocky, honest-faced country lad of eighteen, the son of the veteran; and after Titus since the Mamerci and Drusi were remotely related and the jus oscului less legally, the "right of kissing" existed between them, he felt called upon to press the cheek of Æmilia, Mamercus's pretty daughter, of about her brother's age.
It seems that she had promised him her picture! She sends it later, and it is still in the Mozart Museum, showing her, as Jahn declares, to have a good-natured and cheerful face, and rather a stocky figure; he adds, "Without being beautiful she seems right pleasing."
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