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Instead of a stupid countenance, for one instant he had a glimpse of the sharpest, brightest eyes he had ever looked into. And they were hard, cruel eyes, too, with a glint of daring in them. And, as Ned glanced at his figure, he thought he detected a trace of military stiffness none of the stoop-shouldered slouch that is always the mark of a moulder.
He does that way because he's all the time looking down at his new patent-leather shoes first pair he ever had. He'll be plumb stoop-shouldered if he don't hurry up and get the new kicked off of 'em. I'll have to get him a nice warm box-stall in some place that ain't so much on the band-wagon as this one. The ceilings here are too high fur Billy.
The door opened slowly to let in a tall, stoop-shouldered man with a long face and long teeth. "Who's the frawg?" he asked in a startled way, with one hand on the door knob. "All right, Smiddy; it ain't a frawg; it's a guy Chris knows. He's taken his uniform off." "'Lo, buddy," said Smiddy, shaking Andrews's hand. "Gawd, you look like a frawg." "That's good," said Andrews.
He knows they hain't had much schooling any of 'em, only Katy, an' he says that sometimes he 'most wishes that that she hadn't, neither." Nathan Kelsey's voice had sunk almost to a whisper, and with the last words his eyes sent a furtive glance toward the stoop-shouldered little figure in the low rocker.
That same sandy-bearded, bespectacled and stoop-shouldered ex-cadet Jordan was even now eyeing Dick from a little distance. "Humph! Prescott feels mighty big at this moment!" growled the young scoundrel. "I wonder how he'll be feeling at midnight, down in cadet hospital, when the surgeons tell him he has no chance of ever being a sound man again? Confound him!
So I trails along until she brings up beside another party who seems to be waitin' patient just under the front windows. He's a tall, stoop-shouldered gent, with a grayish mustache and a good deal of gold watch chain looped across his vest.
She came forward, a bony, stoop-shouldered woman of thirty-five years who had been a spooler since she was fifteen. "Seventy-seven hours for the week" he went on mechanically, studying the time book, "making six dollars and sixteen cents. Rent deducted two dollars. Wood thirty-five cents. Due commissary for goods furnished here, Mr.
"The clerk was slim and stoop-shouldered. The tailor to his royal highness could not have made a coat hang right on him. "'Now, you are kicking so much, Johnnie, on my clothing, you go here in this store and pick out some coats your size from other people and let's see how they fit. Let's put this thing to a fair test. "'That's square, said Green.
Ruth had already seen the tall, stoop-shouldered figure, who looked as though he had been powdered with flour, coming down the short path from one of the open doors of the mill to the road, where a little, one horse wagon stood. He bore a bag of meal or flour on his shoulder which he pitched into the wagon.
The present watcher, a stoop-shouldered, big, rusty-black bird, was quite indifferent to human presence; he sat on his post like a usurer on his high stool, calculating and immovable. Janet knew what was in his mind. She drew the lamb a little closer and tucked her skirt in around it. Again she fell to contemplating the prairie and the sky.
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