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The thin-faced women, rat-faced children and ancient men have crept out from their cellars and gathered about the priest; the lamp has been lit, the Host uplifted. The Hun is aware of this; with malice aforethought he lands shells into the cathedral every Sunday in an effort to smash the altar. So far he has failed.
"Were I but as other men! Had I but mine eyes!" he screamed, "I would overwhelm the place in an hour. Hundreds to one you are and you are mocked, robbed, slaughtered." A thin-faced, evil-looking, squint-eyed Hindu whose large, thick, gold-rimmed goggles accorded ill with the sword that lay athwart his crossed legs, addressed him in English. "Easy to talk, Moulvie.
On another occasion ... we mustn't forget that the ship had crossed the line and was adding up south latitude every day by then on another occasion, about seven in the evening, Powell on duty, heard his name uttered softly in the companion. The captain was on the stairs, thin-faced, his eyes sunk, on his arm a Shetland wool wrap. "Mr Powell here." "Yes, sir." "Give this to Mrs Anthony.
The author of it pulled open the door and the whistle tailed off into a faint "phew" at sight of the embarrassed group. The new-comer was a thin-faced lad with light sandy hair cropped close to his square head. He had light, undetermined eyes that were keen and lively. Christopher had beaten him in the matter of size, but there were latent possibilities in his ill-developed form.
"Good-mornin' to ye, Jimmy Bourke," said he each morning, and after that uttered no word until the evening, when it was, "Good-night to ye, Jimmy Bourke," with a final rap, rap, rap of his pipe. The cook, a thin-faced, sly man, with a penchant for the Police Gazette, secretly admired him. "Luk' out for th' Rough Red; he'll do ye!" he would whisper hoarsely when he passed the silent scaler.
On the fourth day, while at Natchez, taking in freight and passengers, Walker, who had been on shore to see some of his old customers, returned, accompanied by a tall, thin-faced man, dressed in black, with a white neckcloth, which immediately proclaimed him to be a clergyman.
The 'handfasting' thus concluded, 'Ye hae forgot the bride ale! cried many voices. 'We mun drink their health, Provost, ye ken. Bring oot the ale, canny man! 'Ay, or clairt, suggested a thin-faced scrivener. 'A mutchkin o' usquebaugh for ilka man, shouted a burly flesher, ''tis mair heartenin'.
They hung to her bows and pulled her for'ard deck under emerald-green rollers. They clung to her stern and hoisted her nose till Big Ivan thought that he could touch the door of heaven by standing on her blunt snout. Miserable, cold, ill, and sleepless, the emigrants crouched in their quarters, and to them Ivan and the thin-faced Livonian sang the "Song of Freedom."
The news editor was thin-faced and nervous and alert and immaculately groomed. Bat was round-faced and sleepy-eyed tortoise-shell eyes and all that prevented his suit from looking positively slovenly was that his own ample avoirdupois filled every wrinkle. The news editor adjusted his glasses to his nose and answered, "Yes, Yes," impatiently over the telephone.
Grayson did not allude to the subject, and Harley respected his silence, although devoutly grateful for the reply that he had made. Other telegrams caused by the threatened revolt in the mountains were also passing; some of them stopped at the house of Mr. Plummer, in Boisé, and upon the trail of one of these telegrams, a forcible one, came a thin-faced and quiet but alert man, Mr.
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