" At the Hardwick place, where the front lawn sloped down with its close-trimmed, green-velvet sward, stood two horses.

I caught a momentary glimpse of a square-shouldered man with a close-trimmed auburn beard crouching in the stern, and then the next moment a wave broke right against our bows, drenching all three of us in a cloud of flying spray.

This face possessed a pair of keen gray eyes, a distinguished nose, and a determined mouth beneath a close-trimmed moustache with flecks of gray in it.

This little Englishman with jaunty air And tweed cap perched awry on close-trimmed hair He, with his faded wife and noisy band, Has come from Home to seek a promised land He feels himself aggrieved, for no one said That things would be so big and sooutspread!