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Updated: May 21, 2025
The dead air of the hallway suggested petty crookedness. Milt felt that he ought to fight somebody but, there being no one to fight, he banged along the flapping boards of the second-floor hallway to the ground-glass door of Silberfarb the Society Tailor, who was also, as an afterthought on a straggly placard, "Pressng & Cleang While U Wait." He belligerently shouldered into a low room.
But all the time he was going somewhere, and I suspect that for once in his life Casey Ryan went fast enough to satisfy him. At last he felt brush sweep past his body, and he knew that he must have been swept to the edge of the lake. He clutched, scratched his hands bloody on the straggly thorns of greasewood, caught in the dark at a more friendly sage and gripped it next the roots.
And their admiration of her was nothing to Sara Lee's feeling toward them. She loved them all boys with their first straggly beards on their chins; older men, looking worn and tired; French and Belgian; smiling and sad. But most of all, for Uncle James' sake, she loved the Belgians. "I cannot tell you," she said breathlessly to Henri. "It is like a dream come true. And I shall help.
Bridgie gazed at the buckled, high-heeled shoes peeping from beneath the flounces, and wondered if it could really be that they held the same little feet which used to patter about, buttonless, and down at heel; she looked at the jaunty, outstanding bow which tied back the hair, and contrasted it with the wisp of ribbon twisted to the proportions of a tape, and knotted like a cat-o'-nine-tails, which used to bind together the straggly locks, and as she looked, she felt shall it be confessed? a pang of longing and regret for the days that were no more.
He watched the figure before him a bowed, undernourished little man, with one shoulder lower than the other, a straggly brown moustache stained with coffee, and stumpy black teeth, and gnarled hands into which the dirt and grease were ground so deeply that washing them would obviously be a waste of time.
She never got much farther than recognizing the tiger lily and the wild rose, but she rediscovered Hugh. "What does the buttercup say, mummy?" he cried, his hand full of straggly grasses, his cheek gilded with pollen. She knelt to embrace him; she affirmed that he made life more than full; she was altogether reconciled . . . for an hour. But she awoke at night to hovering death.
It was the figure of a man, much emaciated from hunger. But the eyes showed bright from under the matted hair and from out of the straggly beard. Inez, who had come ashore with the first boat-load, sprang forward. "Padre! Padre!" she cried, opening wide her arms, "I have found you at last! Padre! Padre!" The others drew a little aside. Once more the Tartar was under way.
Pixie must surely have an inspiration at last; and so she had, for the big straggly writing set forth an extraordinary sentence: "How sharper it is to have an ungrateful child, than it is to have a serpent's tooth!" "Humph!" mused Pixie, gnawing her pen, "there's a queer sound to it too.
Kit glanced up from Uncle Cassius' letter with a preoccupied expression. "Whiskers?" she repeated. "Why, I don't know; Walt Whitman, Ibsen, Longfellow, Joaquin Miller? Tolstoi had long straggly ones, didn't he?" "These were kind of bushy ones. I think it was Carlyle." "Wait a minute while I read this thing over carefully again," Kit warned them.
Look here, if you only want a tackle for a week or so, why don't you take Robbins? He's a good man, Robbins." "Is he? Which is Robbins?" Mr. Boutelle pointed him out. Detweiler shook his head. "Too straggly, 'Boots. Try again. Either Cupples or Thayer, I guess it will have to be. Sorry, you know." "Oh, yes, you're plumb broken-hearted, aren't you?" asked "Boots" with bitter sarcasm.
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