The messenger from the legation was a youngish man, with waxed moustache and wearing an eyeglass.

"Yes, sira youngish man.

I can't tell what it will bring, but enough to put our youngish old friend easy for some time to come.

A woman (the younger of the two seen in the phaeton) drove up for Major Calvin Blake; a youngish rather than a young woman, slight, with an effect of stateliness, and not unattractive.

At Perryville a number of passengers boarded the up-river boat; two or three drummers; a yellowed old hill woman returning to her Wayne County home; a red-headed peanut-buyer; a well-groomed white girl in a tailor suit; a youngish man barely on the right side of middle age who seemed to be attending her; and some negro girls with lunches.

The youngish man piloted the girl down, holding her hand, although both could have managed better by themselves.

The youngish man and the girl were engaged in some sort of intimate lovers' dispute.

The youngish man drew the girl in the tailor suit close to him and started through with her.

II A somewhat shabby-genteel, youngish man appeared at the head of the stairs; he was wearing a silk hat and a too ample frock-coat.

Then Mr. Oxford, the youngish Jew who had acquired Parfitts, who was Parfitts, also cut a picturesque figure on the face of London.

One of the pepper-and-salts did speak nicely, and so did one of the new peoplequite a youngish person; but they all had such a lot of words, when it would have done just as well if they had simply said that of course our side was the right onebecause trade was good when we were in, and that there are much better people Conservatives than Radicals.

At supper we sat more or less anyhow, and I happened to be next the youngish person who spoke.

Our Father is a youngish Man, but then our Mother is somewhat older, and not likely to have any Children: His Estate, being £800 per Annum, at 20 Years Purchase, is worth £16,000.

but I am still as Youngish as ever in my ways,Brigham-Youngish, I mean; at any rate, I always want to give a little love to all the poor things that cannot have a whole man to themselves.

but I am still as Youngish as ever in my ways,Brigham-Youngish, I mean; at any rate, I always want to give a little love to all the poor things that cannot have a whole man to themselves.

CHAPTER III The Earl of Carbury was a youngish man with no sort of turn for being a nobleman.

He began rolling the stones aside, and guided by the groans he and Roy soon pulled out a youngish Turk and laid him on the side of the road.

And there was the colourful, youngish widow, Mrs. Truesdale, who wrote free verse about the larger intimacies of life, and dressed noticeably.

The first landlady Lewisham interviewed didn't like ladies, they required such a lot of attendance; the second was of the same mind; the third told Mr. Lewisham he was "youngish to be married;" the fourth said she only "did" for single "gents."

Sometimes we thought that he was an oldish man that looked young, and at others that he was a youngish man who looked old.

John Darling, a youngish man of wealth and an extremely liberal disposition, came from Australia to visit his connexions in the West of Ireland andif opportunities occurredto help them.

Our Father is a youngish Man, but then our Mother is somewhat older, and not likely to have any Children: His Estate, being £800 per Annum, at 20 Years Purchase, is worth £16,000.

She was canning fruit when Hannah came with the message that some of the governor's kin had come from the East, and remembering to have heard that Richard once had an uncle somewhere in Massachusetts, she had no doubt that this was a daughter of the old gentleman and a cousin of Richard's, especially as Hannah described the stranger as youngish and tolerably good-looking.

A youngish man in a well-fitting captain's uniform, accompanied by his wife and two pretty babies, was preparing to take his leave.

I could have chattered filially to him; but he is a youngish man, who came only six months ago.