United States or Burundi ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


He pointed to one of the youngest-looking of the monitors, who would also have been the most striking in personal appearance had not the almost hectic rose-colour of his cheeks, and the quiet shining of his blue eyes, under the soft hair that hung over his forehead, given a look of greater delicacy than was desirable in a boyish face. "Wrong, wrong, wrong," chuckled Walter and his sister.

"Doctor has given me red lips!" said Cherry, trembling, and trying to smile to the nurse in attendance. "I guess the good Lord gave you your looks," Miss Maloney said generously. "You're the youngest-looking to be married!" she added. "I said to my sister last week, 'That lady has been married nearly six years! 'What! she said, 'That little girl of eighteen !"

"Why, she's the youngest-looking and most beautiful lady at court." "So she is, my boy so she is. Heaven bless her!" "And as for you, father, you talk about looking old, and about me growing big and manly; I shall never grow into such a fine, handsome officer as you." "Why, you wicked, parasitical, young court flatterer!" cried Sir Robert; "you're getting spoiled and sycophantish already."

He had become nearly a mental and physical wreck when he took to his bed with an abolished appetite. There have since been some ten years of nearly perfect health, and now in his seventy-seventh year he is the youngest-looking man for his age I have ever seen. He walks the streets with the gait of a youth of twenty. To do without food without hunger does not tax any vital power, as Dr.

I really think that he is, on the whole, the youngest-looking man of fifty that I know, at least when he is animated. His house is magnificent. It is in Moray Place, the newest pile of buildings in the town, looking out to the Forth on one side, and to a green garden on the other. It is really equal to the houses in Grosvenor Square.

The officers smiled in spite of themselves, as they drank the proffered wine, and the youngest-looking of the party, a brisk, handsome fellow, entered into the spirit of the captain with ardor, though he evidently thought he should trap him into a confession unawares, by the apparent carelessness and bonhomie of his manner. "Bravo, Andrea!" he cried, merrily. "So! let us all be friends together!

I told her that even if she is the youngest-looking old lady in Rome it would never do in the world to set herself in contrast to such blue eyes and pink skins and such yellow hair: that Nubians were much more appropriate and that nothing could be more trying than Saxons, even for a bride. She told me I mustn't make fun of her old age and decrepitude.

He had just seated himself, when a man entered the office and looked about him inquisitively. "I would like to see the editor," he said. "I am the editor," said Harry, with dignity. The visitor looked surprised. "You are the youngest-looking editor I have met," he said. "Have you filled the office long?" "Not long," said Harry. "Can I do anything for you?" "Yes, sir, you can.