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From time to time this hand clenched tightly and spasmodically into a fist, large, heavy-boned and wicked-looking. The man lay in the dry grass of a tiny glade that ran down to the tree-fringed bank of the stream.
Everywhere about them the fire gleamed on small-arms of one kind or another. Nearly every man carried a wicked-looking hanger at his side and most had one or two pistols tucked into waistband or holster. This desperate gang was in a constant commotion. Even as Jeremy watched, a half dozen men were rolling a barrel up the beach.
Frequently, too, there glided by one of those roguish, rakish, wicked-looking craft an opium clipper, fleet as the sporting dolphin, and armed to the teeth, for she has foes on every side; the pirates long to make her their prey, and the mandarin junks ought to do so, but dare not. For several hours the frigate and the brig lay becalmed close together. Alick and Terence went to pay Jack a visit.
"Hello, Martin Macy," said Perry shortly, "where's this stone-age champagne?" "What's the rush? This isn't an operation, understand. This is a party." Perry sat down dully and looked disapprovingly at all the neckties. Baily leisurely opened the door of a wardrobe and brought out six wicked-looking bottles and three glasses. "Take off that darn fur coat!" said Martin Macy to Perry.
Well, my lad, you leave the matter with me, and I will report. You can look over the yards if you like." Venning spent the rest of the morning among the wicked-looking sharks of the Navy, and he went back depressed with the thought that his "sneak-box" was merely a plaything.
"The Church Fountain is broken, and Terli has escaped," said the good folks the next morning and the old people shook their heads gravely, in alarm but I suppose Terli had had a good lesson, for he never troubled the village any more. He was a wicked-looking Imp, and he lived in a bed curtain. No one knew he was in the house, not even the master and mistress.
On first entering the arena he tosses up his head and shakes the shaggy black locks of wiry hair from before his small wicked-looking eyes, looks half alarmedly, half defiantly around, and stamps three or four times with one fore foot on the ground, partly, as it would seem, in wonder and doubt, and partly in increasing anger.
'What are you doing with the child? she said to Maggy. She was young far too young to be there, Heaven knows! and neither ugly nor wicked-looking. She spoke coarsely, but with no naturally coarse voice; there was even something musical in its sound. 'What are you doing with yourself? retorted Maggy, for want Of a better answer. 'Can't you see, without my telling you?
The most extraordinary activity prevails in the police department. Nothing like it has been seen since we can remember." "I was sitting here," said the judge, "in this old pulpit, holding court, and we were trying a big, wicked-looking Spanish desperado for killing the husband of a bright, pretty Mexican woman. It was a lazy summer day, and an awfully long one, and the witnesses were tedious.
A disquieting thought flashed into Nanna's mind, the remembrance of those carefully arranged broken wires in the empty house not more than a block away from the Citadel Square. Then of those other wires in the temple of the Shining One, spluttering their wicked-looking sparks.
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