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He was red-haired, ferret-eyed, and an excellent scout, but scrappier and more inarticulate in his manner of speech than any human being I had ever encountered. His conversation was a series of rapid interjections, jerked out at intervals, and made comprehensible by a running play of gesture and attitude. "Well, yes," he said, when I tried to draw him out on the Matabele mode of fighting.
'Here's a young gentleman as I've been more than a father to yes, more than a father to for when did his own father ever give him a ferret-eyed rabbit, a real ferret-eyed rabbit thoroughbred? 'Why, I gave you one of my five-shilling pieces for it, said I; 'and the rabbit was in a consumption and died in three weeks. But Tom still addressed the sea.
She was a ferret-eyed, blond-haired, spindle-legged little creature whose mind was a cross between that of a parrot and a sheep. She was suspected of copying answers from other girls' slates, although she had never been caught in the act.
We pass the "cattymount," and presently come to a table at which a young and handsome "pilgrim," and a ferret-eyed sharp are engaged at cards. The first mentioned is a tall, robust fellow, somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty-three years of age, with clear-cut features, dark lustrous eyes, and teeth of pearly whiteness.
Still, whenever Minnie Smellie, flaxen-haired, pink-nosed, and ferret-eyed, indulged in fluent conversation, Rebecca, remembering the old fairy story, could always see toads hopping out of her mouth.
Duty and inclination thus happily wedded, Pringle set himself to goad ferret-eyed Creagan and the heavy-jawed sheriff into unwise speech. And inattentive Anastacio had a shrewd surmise at Pringle's design. He knew nothing of the fight at the Gadsden House, but he sensed an unexplained tension and he knew his chief.
Flog my Jemmy my own, dear, darling Jemmy a nasty lean " "Go down below, Moggy," said Jemmy Ducks, pushing her towards the hatchway. "Snivelling, great-coated " "Go below," continued Jemmy, shoving her. "Ferret-eyed, razor-nosed " "Go down below, will you?" cried Jemmy, pushing her near to the hatchway. "Herring-gutted, bare-poled " "Confound it! go below." "Cheating rip of a wagabond!
Flog my Jemmy my own, dear, darling Jemmy a nasty lean " "Go down below, Moggy," said Jemmy Ducks, pushing her towards the hatchway. "Snivelling, great-coated " "Go below," continued Jemmy, shoving her. "Ferret-eyed, razor-nosed " "Go down below, will you?" cried Jemmy, pushing her near to the hatchway. "Herring-gutted, bare-poled " "Confound it! go below." "Cheating rip of a wagabond!
It was rather a shock to see such a girl under such distressing circumstances. "We've lost so much lately," a small ferret-eyed man was saying, "that we must make an example of some one. It's serious for us detectives, too. We'll lose our jobs unless we can stop you boosters." "Oh I I didn't mean to do it. I I just couldn't help it," sobbed the girl over and over again.
"I spoke generally, but perhaps I was thinking of women," was the answer. "Of one man, however, beware. There is a little, ferret-eyed devil at Court who can spy out secrets almost before they are conceived the English Ambassador, Lord Cloverton. He is a great man, and I hate him."
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