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He laughed with Myrtle, jogged her elbow when she was filling cups, made deep mock bows to the waitresses as they came up for coffee. Myrtle was enchanted by his humor. From the other end of the room, a matron among matrons, Carol observed Myrtle, and hated her, and caught herself at it. "To be jealous of a wooden-faced village girl!" But she kept it up.
She smiled in friendly fashion and closed the door with a little slam to make sure that it latched. Valeria stood for a moment with her hands hanging straight at her sides, staring absently at the door. Then she glanced at Walt, staring wooden-faced from his gilt frame upon his gilt easel, and shivered.
The sentence meant for farewell she did not catch, for she was staring at a wooden-faced portrait upon an easel, the portrait of a man with a drooping mustache, and porky cheeks, and dead-looking eyes. "And I expected bearskin rugs, and antlers on the walls, and big fireplaces!" she remarked aloud, and sighed.
The thought, as he sliced into the rough, that the patent wooden-faced cleek which he intended to purchase next morning might have made all the difference, completely spoiled his enjoyment. I remember him calling me up on the telephone at three o'clock one morning to tell me that he had solved the problem of putting.
The night was so clear, the skies so ruddily beautiful, the air so soft, and out here on the open sea all hearts were light and happy. "Who's that wooden-faced beggar over there that's too high and mighty for a little fun?" asked Storaker the painter, of his friend the sculptor Praas. "That fellow?
A few century-old dolls still survive Revolutionary times, wooden-faced monstrosities, shapeless and mean, but doubtless well-beloved and cherished in the days of their youth.
"In a way, that's so," the manager doubtfully agreed. "I don't want a disturbance in my hotel; I've had enough." "Very well," said Walters, seeing he could expect no help from him. "But I'm not going to have this wooden-faced Scotchman in my room. The fool won't let me move. If you don't take him away, I'll break the furniture. I can do that, although I'm not able to throw the big brute out."
He was a wooden-faced boy, who seemed to have hard brains and a soft head, for his forehead looked nubbly, and there were rounded off corners at the sides. "Let Dr Grayson hear you say " "No, no, Hippetts; this is not an examination," cried the doctor testily. "That is not the sort of boy I want. He must be a bright, intelligent lad, whom I can adopt and take into my house.
"Well, she did well for hersen," said Mrs. Brunt, with the same gentle melancholy. "She married a stiddy man as 'ull keep her well all her time, and never let her want for nothink." "A sour, wooden-faced chap as iver I knew," said Mrs. Jellison, grudgingly. "I don't have nothink to say to him, nor he to me.
The wooden-faced Augustus retired to the next room and reappeared carrying a tray upon which were a decanter and glasses. "Gentlemen," continued the Major, "I have often testified to my admiration and regard for your perhaps I may now say OUR charming village. This admiration and regard has extended to the fair daughters of the township.
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