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Brentwick was a man of tallish figure and rather slender; with a countenance thin and flushed a sensitive pink, out of which his eyes shone, keen, alert, humorous, and a trace wistful behind his glasses. His years were indeterminate; with the aspect of fifty, the spirit and the verve of thirty assorted oddly.
"I wished them good night, and one of them gruffly bade me good night too; but I could not make out who they were, though one did for a moment strike me to be Desborough, and both were tallish sort of men." "You're a lad of penetration, Bill; now saddle me Silvertail as fast as you can." "Saddle Silvertail! surely father, you are not going out yet: it's not day-light."
In front of him he saw, in the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger and a little knot of roughs.
He was a tallish, stoutish, pale, black-bearded man. I think we liked him: he had travelled a good deal, and had stories which amused us on our school walks, so that there was some competition among us to get within earshot of him. I remember too dear me, I have hardly thought of it since then! that he had a charm on his watch-chain that attracted my attention one day, and he let me examine it.
Burchill since he left and that's six months since." Mr. Halfpenny contrived to give his companion a nudge of the elbow. "Is it, indeed, ma'am?" he said. "Ah! That gentleman who called, now? I think he must be a friend of ours, who didn't know we were coming. What was he like, now, ma'am?" "He was a tallish, fine-built gentleman," answered the landlady. "Fresh-coloured, clean-shaved gentleman.
Yet I am a tallish man, and these potters appeared to me to be undersized, and somewhat thin too! But what elbows! What glaring egoistic eyes! What terrible decisiveness in action! 'Now then, get in if ye're going! said a red-haired porter to me curtly. 'I'm not going. I've just got out, I replied. 'Well, then, why dunna' ye stand out o' th' wee and let them get in as wants to?
"Yes!" cried Lucy, clapping her hands; and then she proceeded to tell her news with theatrical volubility. "Mr. Sharp, the manager, wants a lot of tallish girls, and I told him I knew of a perfect dear. He said: 'Bring her on, then, and I flew home to tell you. Now, don't look wild, and say no.
The front line of a stretch of tallish buildings stood out in relief against the background of a wet moon and showed him, high up on the iron ladder which flighted down the face of one house of the row, two dark clumps, one placed just above the other. Ginsburg slipped into a protecting ledge of shadow close up against the buildings and edged along nearer.
Thay sed I could go in an' vinish the sausingers now, an' that wur what I intended to do. I asked the young 'ooman for a bottle o' ale, when she put a tallish bottle down wi' a beg head; an' as I wur dry I knocked the neck off, an' the ale kum a-fizzing out like ginger pop, an' 'twer no use to try to stop the fizzle. I had aal I could get in a glass, an' it zeemed goodish.
At eight o'clock next morning Hartnoll and I were eating our breakfast when the waiter brought a visitor to our box a tallish midshipman about three years our senior, with a face of the colour of brickdust and a frame that had outgrown his uniform. "Good-morning, gentlemen," said he; "and I daresay you guess my business. I'm to take you on board as soon as you can have your boxes ready."
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