Lady Mary was pouring out the tea, a most unusual thing; and Maulevrier was sitting on a stool at her feet, with his knees up to his chin, very warm and dusty, eating pound cake.

Tom turned slowly, and then took a long look at him over the counter through halfshut eye-lids, with chin upraised, as if he had been suddenly afflicted with short sight; and worked on meanwhile steadily at his pills.

" "And," said Prank, utterly taken aback by Tom's business-like levity, "you would actually have stood to shoot, and be shot at, across a handkerchief?" Tom stuck out his great chin, and looked at him with one of his quaint sidelong moues.

"Young man," said the standing figure, pointing to a ring on the finger of the other, "when your chin has got a stiffer crop on it you'll know better than to take your nap in street corners with a ring like that on your forefinger.

"Make a mark on me with your white pencil," she would say, offering her dark cheek to Reuby, who would scrawl hieroglyphics all over it from hair to chin.

The masked man moved slightly to one side and his clenched fist caught the warden on the point of the chin.

Yet as her small, trim, youthful figure, with its simple Leghorn straw hat confined by a blue bow under her round chin, passed away before him, she looked more like a child than ever.

It was about time, for Mrs. Ellsworth, up in the bare suite, and Mrs. Van Kamp, down in the draughty barn, both wrapped up to the chin and both still chilly, had about reached the limit of patience and endurance.

" "Then why do you do it?" asked Miss Annie, with a little upward pitch of her chin.

He is just tall enough to rest his chin upon one's knee and look up with all his soul into one's eyes.

Under the chin, long hair, about the same colour as on the crown of the head, which should be a bright, golden tan, and not on any account intermingled with dark or sooty hairs.

The "sleeve dog" and the "chin dog" are common and appropriate appellations in the East.

There has lately been a tendency to lay too much stress upon diminutive size in this variety of the dog, to the neglect of well-formed limbs and free movement; but on the whole it may be stated with confidence that the Japanese is prospering in England, thanks largely to the energetic work of the Japanese Chin Club, which was formed some three years ago to promote the best interests of the breed.

When the breed was first introduced under this name into this country, underjaw was accounted of little or no importance, whereas now a prominent chin is rightly recognised as being one of the most important physical characteristics of the race.

First and foremost, both in importance and in beauty, comes the Griffon Bruxellois, a cobby, compact little dog, with wiry red coat, large eyes, short nose, well turned up, and sloping back, very prominent chin, and small ears.

" "What happened?" "He rubbed his chin with both hands in a way he had when he was thinking.

" Nick put out his hand to the newcomer who had a haughty beak of a nose, little forehead, and less chin.

Montagu Jerrold crooked his elbow and lifted the brown strong hand of High-pockets to a level with his own weak chin, before he deigned to shake it.

Time was when something could be inferred from a lip, a mouth, a chin,when character could be found in the contour and color of a cheek; but that time has passed.

"Oh, I had no idea of walking in fog up to my chin," said Mrs. Purcell; "so I took the short cut.

Red lips and a round receding chin.

There's the nose and chin exactly of the extraordinary hag you gave your silk pocket-handkerchief to at parting.

The beard of a David hid his redundancy of chin; he wore no watch chain out of refinements and his modest clerical garments were made by a West End tailor....

Robert saw Braddock as he went in, a middle-aged man of high color and an obstinate chin.

He was a stout and well built man, of a dark, swarthy complexion, with keen, ferocious eyes, huge whiskers, and beard under his chin and on his lips, four or five inches long; he was a Portuguese by birth, but had become a naturalized Frenchmanhad a wife, if not children (as I was told) in France, and was well known there as commander of a first rate privateer.