"What wind blew that thing into your cabin?" asked the General, squinting up his snow-blinded eyes at the dim corner where Kaviak sat.

My loins into my paunch like levers grind: My buttock like a crupper bears my weight; My feet unguided wander to and fro; In front my skin grows loose and long; behind, By bending it becomes more taut and strait; Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow: Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit of squinting brain and eye; For ill can aim the gun that bends awry.

I was with Madame d'Esparbès de Lussan, my friend, the most amiable woman in the world, and the prettiest, though she squinted a little, and was slightly deformed.

A dull but crafty old eye squinting down the stem assured itself that the tobacco was well alight before the match was thrown away.

Some (reasoning thus) assert that squinting Manuel was aware of this axiom, and that he respected it in all his dealings with Freydis and Alianora.

" Composedly he sat down upon the grass and began to acquaint her with his knowledge and opinions concerning Henry, the fifth of that name to reign in England, and the son of that squinting Harry of Derby about whom I have told you so much before.

"Yes, squinting Henry of Lancaster would cross the world, much less the Severn, to make quite sure of Richard's death.

Just look here; here is an admirable likeness of squinting Joe, as you have named him.

the bluff, squinting King replied.

There is no way for you to get into, nor for me to get out of, this place of buttered willow wands, until I have deluded and circumvented this pestiferous, squinting young mortal.

I squinted along my hickory stick which was even then beginning to assume, rudely, the outlines of an axe-handle.

" "G-g-guess you're about r-r-right, Steve!" declared Toby Jucklin, instantly; "to t-t-tell you the t-t-truth, I've been squinting that same p-p-patch of white myself q-q-quite some little time now.

Racey stopped and swept with squinting eyes the place where he knew the bridge to be.

You squinting rascal, do not think to swindle me out of eternal bliss by any such foolish talk!

It was awkward work, because, if people saw them looking about, they'd 'ave started looking too, and twice Sam nearly fell over owing to walking like a man with a stiff neck and squinting down both sides of his nose at once.

Then without moving his hand, he lowered his head and squinted down the sights.

If you didn't squint" "Squint!" "What do you call that affection of your eyes?"

Ben squinted another critical survey of the "miss'able Linkinite.

" "G-g-guess you're about r-r-right, Steve!" declared Toby Jucklin, instantly; "to t-t-tell you the t-t-truth, I've been squinting that same p-p-patch of white myself q-q-quite some little time now.

I guess you can squint out the valley between the mountains.

"Was it for this hunched, draggled, mud-faced wench that you left us, you squinting old villain?

Between the children's sallow, screwed-up, squinting little visages the calm, unconscious face of the nun shone white like a flower.

the saucy hint Show me, base knave, which way you squint, If t'other night your master lost Three lambs, am I to pay the cost?

Between the children's sallow, screwed-up, squinting little visages the calm, unconscious face of the nun shone white like a flower.

There they held the second Edward to reign in England, who was the unworthy son of Dame Ellinor and of that first squinting King Edward about whom I have told you in the two tales preceding this tale.