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But he had a really remarkable pair of jet-black whiskers, which fully made up for any deficiency as to his head; he had also dark eyes, and a beaked nose, what may be called a distinguished mouth, and was always dressed in fashionable attire.
Old Roland was very eager about this, to impress the voyagers on board the Lorraine, no doubt, and he rose in haste. "Good-bye, my boy." He kissed Pierre on the whiskers and then opened the door. Mme. Roland had not stirred, but sat with downcast eyes, very pale. Her husband touched her arm. "Come," he said, "we must make haste, we have not a minute to spare."
Caldigate, as he looked at the man, distrusted his gardener's judgment. The coat and hat and gloves, even the whiskers and head of hair, might have belonged to a gentleman; but not, as he thought, the mouth or the eyes or the hands.
Frikkie had a voice like a bell, and whiskers like the father of a family, and stood six foot two in his naked feet, and lacked no excellence that a sturdy bachelor should possess.
Wa'al, the committee knew Dave was his brother, an' one on 'em come to see him to see if he'd come forwud an' help out, an' he seen Dave right here in this room, an' Dave made me stay an' hear the hull thing. Man's name was Smith, I remember, a peaked little man with long chin whiskers that he kep' clawin' at with his fingers.
This was Muoniovara, on the Swedish side the end of our Finnish journey. As we drove up to the red two-story house, a short man with dark whiskers and a commercial air came forward to meet us. I accosted him in Swedish, asking him whether the house was an inn. He replied in the negative, adding that the only inn was in Muonioniska, on the Russian side, a mile or more distant.
Durant, and as Hugh was leaving the house Jenny bounded after him, saying, "Oh, Uncle Hugh, you'll come to-morrow night, won't you? No matter if you are a grown-up man, in the junior class, trying to raise some whiskers! You will be a sort of restraint, and keep us from getting too rude. Besides, we are going to have tableaux, and I want you to act the part of bridegroom in one of the scenes."
"You wouldn't have believed me. The goblin was disappearing. I had to shoot quick." "Why shoot at all?" "Sir, there are certain manifestations I object to on principle. What self-respecting ghost ever wore whiskers?" "This was no ghost. You shot the man's hat off." "Then what the blazes are you growling at?
‘Why, you know whom I mean, my dear—the young man with the black whiskers and the white cravat, who has just come out at our assembly, and whom all the girls are talking about. Young—dear me! what’s his name?—Marianne, what is his name?’ continued Mrs. Malderton, addressing her youngest daughter, who was engaged in netting a purse, and looking sentimental. ‘Mr.
He was thinking of the baby, and it seemed as if his thoughts flashed like fire to the other. Adare was laughing softly in his beard. "You should have seen the kid last night, Philip. When they woke 'im he stared at me for a time as though I was an ogre, then he grinned, kicked me, and grabbed my whiskers, I've just one fault to find. I wish he was a dozen instead of me. The little rascal!
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