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Updated: May 25, 2025
Soon, however, one becomes case-hardened, and only suffers the immediate annoyance consequent upon its tickling and pricking. There is also a large assortment of spiders. We have, too, one of the ugliest-looking creatures that I have ever seen. It is a kind of animal which no one would wish to touch: if touched, it will bite sharply, some say venomously.
"Where?" questioned Bob, who had swum a little way out of sight beyond a curve in the creek. "Over there beside our clothes. But, I say, what a horrible face he has got! He looks as if a lion had started to chew him and changed his mind! He's the ugliest-looking freak I ever saw."
Toward evening we entered Progreso a village reputed among the natives to be a nest of thieves and assassins. While Thornton was away buying meat and I was rearranging our pack, six of the ugliest-looking Mexicans I ever saw strolled across the plaza, evidently to size up our outfit.
If sold, we shall have left on our hands one of the driest and ugliest-looking old bachelors this side of the grave, which we will cheerfully throw in if at all acceptable to the purchaser. Old maids and rich widows are requested to give their particular attention to this special offer. Don't pass by on the other side. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home!
Canoes quickly gathered round her, full of the ugliest-looking natives they had yet met with. Their skin was nearly black, their heads covered with thick woolly hair, their foreheads low and receding, their faces broad, with high cheek-bones, their noses flat, and their mouths large.
Ah, he wants a lump of sugar." Luke had approached a very strongly-built cage. Its occupant was one of the largest and ugliest-looking monkeys Andy had ever seen. It bristled and snarled at Andy, but as Luke opened the cage door leaped into his arms, snuggled there, and began petting his face with one paw. Luke gave the animal a lump of sugar, coaxed it, stroked it.
"He will be here within an hour," Jeffords answered, "and when he comes you will know him because you will see riding ahead of him the ugliest-looking Apache in Arizona carrying a lance." And because Jeffords had exchanged no word as yet with the Indians, the two white men marveled again. The old-timer led them to the chief's lodge, where they sat down and waited.
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