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A rough, stubbly, and anything but cleanly beard, which was submitted to the razor only on festal occasions, gave an additional wildness to a countenance which was furrowed across the forehead and down either cheek with deep lines blotched and freckled. As for the mouth, it was a perfect study in itself.
On the stubbly grass lay little Mike, whining and biting at a spot on his side where the tawny hair was already matted and dark with flowing blood. Made speechless by the clutching pressure in his throat, and suddenly dizzy from a mist which rose before his eyes, the man bent and lifted the panting animal his bosom friend and faithful companion through many days and nights in his trembling arms.
My heart began to beat against the ceiling of my head, and my lungs all choked up in my throat. When I guessed he was getting within kicking distance I glanced round so's to dodge the kick. He let out; but I shied just in time. He missed fire, and the slipper went about twenty feet up in the air and fell in a waterhole. He was done then, for the ground was stubbly and stony.
It was bad luck at first afterwards it was my clothes. I have been selling matches for a month it has brought me in two shillings a week." "How old are you?" Brooks asked. "Thirty-four, sir." Brooks nearly dropped his pen. "What?" he exclaimed. "Thirty-four, sir. It is four years since I lost my situation." The man's hair was grey, a little stubbly grey beard was jutting out from his chin.
He washed himself in a frenzy of remorse and resolve, and scoured his hands with yellow soap, silver sand, and a stubbly scrubbing-brush until they tingled. Then he fell upon the family stock of hair-oil, which was kept in a medicine-bottle in the kitchen cupboard, and, except on Sundays, was held sacred to the girls.
People say all manner of things about the folly of girls; but nothing but this nothing short of this would have convinced me that it was possible that Fanny should have been such a fool. An ape of a fellow not made like a man with a thin hatchet face, and unwholesome stubbly chin. Good heavens!" "He has talked her into it." "But he is such an ass.
His ruddy face had yellowed and the firm flesh had loosened and sagged. I had never noticed that his stubbly hair was so grey. He could scarcely sit still on the chair by my bedside. I told him of Cliffe's suspicions. We were a pair of conspirators with unavowable things on our minds which were driving us to nervous catastrophe. Edith, said I, was more suspicious even than Cliffe.
And when the hail destroyed your crops, did I not give you the corn on which you and your whole family lived comfortably during the winter?" But at this mild reproach, stubbly Hanák only wiped his bloody mouth, and bellowed with bestial pride: "There's no Hanák here! I'm Hanák no longer. I'm a rebel patriot, that's what I am!" The poor Leather-bell was quite unable to help his master.
It creaked on the rusty hinges, and Mark stared with all his might as he saw a man emerge, a man who did not look like a tramp, for his clothes were of good material and cut, and fit him well. Nor did he wear a stubbly growth of beard, but, on the contrary, his face was clean shaven. The man was about Mark's size, perhaps a little taller, and nearly as stout.
Sometimes, when he used to stand chafing his stubbly chin in the evening at the slit cut in the stones for his window, looking at the red brick chimney-pot he could see over the penitentiary-wall, it seemed like something of outer life, and he would mutter, "She said the boys would never know." "I never felt sorry for the little whiffet before," said the fat jailer, when he came out.
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