He is a big dog, with longish thin legs, and I suppose the water had less grasp on them, than upon mine.

After that we had a longish drive, through different parks and villages, and finally arrived at Sans Souci, where we dined.

One night as I sat eating Mrs. H-'s soda-bread, her husband told me a longish story, much the best of all I heard in Rosses.

" There was a longish pause.

Of the remaining two, one was a Greek from Smyrna, and the other, a rather well-dressed man with longish grey hair, Josef Frohnmeyer of Hamburg, a name also to conjure with in the financial world.

Another longish interval then came, in which nothing of note in the construction occurred, and the next interesting date is 1418, when a competition for the design for the dome was announced, the work to be given eventually to one Filippo Brunelleschi, then an ambitious and nervously determined man, well known in Florence as an architect, of forty-one.

It is a fine-meshed, longish, four-cornered net, having its ample sides fastened to two poles of bamboo, which at the bottom were provided with a kind of wooden shoes, which curve upwards towards the stems when pushed forwards.

In the black gloom we could make out a longish clump of men who stood four abreast, scuffling their feet upon the miry wet stones of the square.

Approaching Des Sarts more nearly we came to a longish stretch of highway, which the French had cleared of visual obstructions in anticipation of resistance by infantry in the event that the outer ring of defenses gave way before the German bombardment.

'Mr. Hammond was at Oxford,' Lesbia said, reproachfully; and then, after a longish pause, she clasped her hands upon the arm of Lady Maulevrier's chair, and said, in a pleading voice, 'Grandmother, Mr. Hammond has asked me to marry him.' 'Indeed!

Hair on face of same description as on body, but short (about a quarter of an inch long), in appearance almost smooth and straight; a slight beard is the only longish hair (and it is only long in comparison with the rest) that is permissible, and this is characteristic.

At first I thought him very plain, that is for about three minutes: he is pale, thin, has a wide mouth, thick lips, and not very good teeth, longish, loose-growing, half-curling, rough black hair.

They had probably both got firsts, but Jane's would be a safe thing, and Johnny would be likely to have a longish viva.

The root resembles that of the peach-tree; the leaves are green, longish at the point, and narrow, an inch and half long, and jagged all round.

They wore their hair longish, and it appeared like rough, black caps, which now and again fell over their faces and was flung back by a toss of their heads.

His unshorn face was tanned a deep brown which with his rough clothing and longish hair gave him rather a forbidding aspect, and the lines into which his face fell in moments of repose were almost unpleasantly severe; but his eyes which had formed the painter's habit of looking critically through their lashes had a way of opening wide at unexpected moments and staring at her with the disconcerting frankness of those of a child.

They are about the size of large finchesslender in shape, with longish tails.

"["A longish chin.

He stood before the portrait of Daniel Kain, his father, a dark-skinned, longish face with a slightly-protruding nether lip, hollow temples, and a round chin, deeply cleft.

It's a longish way.

Armed with that desk and its supply of stationery, Mary Elizabeth Braddonvery fond of writing her name at full-length, and her address also at full-length, though the word "Middlesex" offered difficultiesbegan that pilgrimage on the broad high road of fiction, which was destined to be a longish one.

" "It'll be a longish night," commented Glover.

It is known by the name of the Spout House, and the waterwhich flows all the year from a longish spout, with an overflow one by its sidecomes direct from the little drop well in Betty B.'s garden, after having its voice stripped and boxed therein; and, falling out of the spout into a deep stone basin and culvert, runs through the town to join the Town Beck.

"At worst it's but a knock on the head and a longish snooze.

He gave two blows at longish intervals, and then three blows in quick succession.