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Updated: May 15, 2025
She was a beautiful creature, certainly; one of those striking-looking women of whom something is always expected, until they drop quietly out of youth into middle age, and the world finds out that they are, after all, not heroines of romance, but merely plain, honest, good women; good wives and good mothers who love their homes and husbands well, though it has pleased nature in some strange freak to give them the form and feature of a Semiramis, a Cleopatra, or a Jeanne d'Arc.
Thus, instead of only practising a desultory accomplishment, she was able to compose and arrange her tuneful ideas correctly. A dark striking-looking girl interrupted them. This was Cecil Rolleston, the eldest daughter of the house, or rather she stood in that relation to the Colonel, being the offspring of his first wife.
Morris used to say jokingly, when the parrot pushed herself into notice by her loud jabbering. 'Neither of them can endure to have any one else receive attention when they are present. "Although Bessie had not a pony to ride on as Johnny had, she took a great many jaunts around the parlors on the cat's back. This cat was a great pet in the house. A very striking-looking cat he was too.
As she entered the room a man rose quickly from the piano and came forward to meet her. There was a kind of repressed eagerness in the action, as though he had been waiting with impatience for her coming. He was a striking-looking man, tall, and built with the slender-limbed grace of a foreigner.
I only hope he had honestly paid the tax, which we were all then exclaiming against so fondly does custom cling to deformity. Despite the powder, the blue coat, and the shabby velvet breeches, Mr. Charles was a very handsome and striking-looking man. No wonder the poor hay-makers had collected from all parts to hear him harangue. What was he haranguing upon?
He also wore a bristling iron-grey beard that grew in form of a fringe or ruff, and added an air of ferocity to his make up. As this striking-looking individual entered the cabin and rolled into a seat at the table, he cast one glance, accompanied by a grunt, at Cabot, and then proceeded to attend strictly to the business in hand.
Poor Rattazzi was there too. He was not a striking-looking man, but agreeable and excessively polite. He rarely talked politics I rather suspect from the fear of compromising himself but his conversation was was pleasant and varied.
She was easily the prettiest and most striking-looking woman in the room, and for an instant Ford stood gazing at her, trying to find in the self-possessed young woman the deserted wife of the steamer. She did not see Ford. Her eyes were following the progress down the hall of a woman, and her profile was toward him.
He wore a business suit of rough material and fashionable cut, but he wore it like a man who did not give much thought to his clothes. "What a striking-looking man," said Philip, motioning with his hand towards the anteroom as he greeted Mr. Mavick. "Who, Ault?" answered Mavick, indifferently. "Ault! What, Murad Ault?" "Nobody else." "Is it possible? I thought I saw a resemblance.
Bertie had the happy knack of appearing equally charmed, whether presented to a beauty or the reverse; but he inscribed himself very low down on her card, remorselessly ignoring the intervening blanks, and then approached Cecil, who, in black and amber, was the most striking-looking girl in the room.
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