Before Hill could respond a small boy entered the shopa ragged, shock-headed dirty urchin, bareheaded and barefooted.

Its shock-headed pony, driven by an aged negro who scolded both children with a worn and practised garrulity, was turned in another direction.

Along the edge of this position lay the Arab hosta motley crew of shock-headed desert clansmen, fierce predatory slave dealers of the interior, and wild dervishes from the Upper Nile, all blent together by their common fearlessness and fanaticism.

He saw a shock-headed tribesman plunge his great spear through the back of their own little bugler from Mill-street.

He rang a small bell, and a gaunt shock-headed country man-servant came running at the call.

The shock-headed boots had all this time been listening with the greatest interest.

The Boy is an ordinary snub-nosed, shock-headed urchin of thirteen, with no special claim to distinction save the negative one of being an only child.

" Conceive a rough, ugly, shock-headed Scotchman, standing up in the Caledonian chapel, and dealing "damnation round the land" in a broad northern dialect, and with a harsh, screaking voice, what ear polite, what smile serene would have hailed the barbarous prodigy, or not consigned him to utter neglect and derision?

Now she seldom smiled or sang, and among the few bits of comedy in her sad days, were the visits of Kit Nubbles, her grandfather's errand boy, a shock-headed, shambling, comical lad, whose devotion to the beautiful child verged on worship.

He was a shock-headed, shambling, awkward lad, with an uncommonly wide mouth, very red cheeks, a turned-up nose, and certainly the most comical expression of face I ever saw.

Bright-eyed, shock-headed, uncombed, unwashed, but exceedingly happy gipsy children were tumbling over one another on the wet turf, showing so much of their brown skin between their rags that they would have been more comfortable and quite as decent had they been naked.

Shock-headed Peter Just look at him!

his nails are never cut; They are grimed as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare, Never once has combed his hair; Anything to me is sweeter Than to see Shock-headed Peter.

Our little, shock-headed, sunburnt, thick-lipped Canadian (who happened most miraculously to be the husband of my pretty servant, Mrs. Pillon) shouted vociferously as the animals lagged in their pace, or jolted against a stump, "Marchez, don-g," "regardez," "prenez garde," to our infinite diversion.

Tackled upon the subject, the "ordonnance" in question, Waddell's servanta shock-headed youth from Dundeeadmitted having communicated the information; and added "She's a decent body, sirr, the lady o' the hoose.

"That shock-headed fellow took 'em!" exclaimed the landlady.

" That was true, but nevertheless the smooth villain Monckton obtained a great ascendency over this rough, shock-headed ruffian Burnley, and he got into no more scrapes.