He said nothing more until we stopped before the Vantine house, but I could see, from his puckered brows, how desperately he was trying to untangle this quirk in the mystery.

retorted Godfrey, curtly, and he sat regarding the cabinet with puckered brows.

Though I had never spoken to them, I knew them allthe Penfields, father and son, tall and lean with bony faces and sandy hair and eyebrows, and restless, pale blue eyesSquire Land, small and ascetic, his lips constantly puckered as though he had tasted something unpleasant.

He made a rambling statement, almost incoherent, which I did not understand, though, to be sure, I listened very intently, and from a word or two he incautiously let drop, I am afraid that" He stopped and frowned and puckered his lips as if reluctant to continue.

Andy's lips puckered slightly in a comical twist.

Kitwater was suspicious, Hayle was morose, while little Codd repeatedly puckered up his mouth as if he were about to whistle, but no sound ever came from it.

He had a sad, uncertain, mournful drab face, puckered into a peculiar expression about the mouth.

" She puckered her brows in the darkness with genuine distress.

Not a hundred?" The Lensmand puckered his brow and thought a moment.

Old Anazeh on my right sat in grim silence, quizzing each talker in turn with puckered eyes.

His face was grave, his lips were puckered and protruded.

Curlydown's hair had fallen from his head, and his face had become puckered with wrinkles, through anxiety to make these markings legible and intelligible.

They were hard, wizened, wiry fellows too, with fierce puckered eyes and bristling moustaches, old soldiers who had fought and fought, week in, week out, for many a year.

The captain sprang upon the bulwarks and held on by the mizzen-shrouds, a strange little figure with flying skirts and puckered eyes.

The old man who, with thin wiry legs, walked by his side, in a dingy white coat, and blue facings, and great pewter buttons, with his silver gray hair escaping from under his battered three-cocked hat; and his shrewd puckered resolute face, in which the boy could read no promise of sympathy, showing so white and phantom-like in the moonlight, was, as he thought, the incarnate ideal of a fairy.

The husband stood with his hands dangling at his side, his lips all puckered, his hair awry, and the tears streaming down his red cheeks.

His Eyes were sunk into his Head, his Face was pale and withered, and his Skin puckered up in Wrinkles.

A fine network of wrinkles puckered about the corners of his eyes and mouth.

Later, when they had reached town, were warmed and fed and when even Billy was thinking seriously of sleep, Dill came over and sat down beside him solemnly, folded his bony hands upon knees quite as bony, regarded pensively the generously formed foot dangling some distance before him and smiled his puckered smile.

So it was with a light heart that he swung down from the train at Tower, after his homing flight, and saw Dill, conspicuous as a flagstaff, waiting for him on the platform, his face puckered into a smile of welcome and his bony fingers extended ready to grip painfully the hand of Charming Billy.

He puckered his face into a smile.

Mrs. Ferret came to see Charlton, and smiled her old sudden puckered smile, and talked in her jerky complacent voice about the uses of sanctified affliction, and her trust that the sudden death of his sister in all the thoughtless vanity of youth would prove a solemn and impressive warning to him to repent in health before it should be with him everlastingly too late.

" Mrs. Blows puckered her brow.

" Katherine's brow puckered still more as she stood upon the seesaw of duty and ambition, perplexed to know which way to turn.

It was then that I saw Markovitch's face that had been puckered with pleasure like the face of a delighted child suddenly stiffen, his hand moved forward, then dropped.