 I often coaxed mother to run about and see some of the neighbors' dogs with me. But she never would, and I would not leave her. So, from morning to night we had to sneak about, keeping out of Jenkins* way as much as we could, and yet trying to keep him...  The Fall of the Curtain - Page 127by Harold Begbie - 1901 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Lubbock - 1845 - 192 pages
...larger end, are stuck into the river bank, five or six yards apart, and the professor of the gentle art, with a pipe in his mouth and his hands in his pockets, keeps eyeing the bungs, as they bob in a row like coal barges at anchor. Should a bite be signified,... | |
 | Menella Bute Smedley - 1865 - 330 pages
...brought to a stop by a rather handsome, but decidedly rakish-looking man in a shabby morning coat, with a pipe in his mouth and his hands in his pockets, who was lounging before the door, and who unmistakably barred her passage. " Are you sure you are coming... | |
 | 1895 - 482 pages
...rage and horror he started off post haste for Hawthornden. In this way it happened that as Mr. Blunt, with a pipe in his mouth and his hands in his pockets, was taking a morning stroll, he saw his enemy of the previous evening advancing towards him. Pride... | |
 | Holman Freeland - 1903 - 360 pages
...sarcastic aside. " Thou hast said it ; and then, because you see a man strolling about in the morning with a pipe in his mouth and his hands in his pockets, you hoot and say, ' Out upon the sluggard ! ' Yet as likely as not his mind is hard at work, observing,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 712 pages
...with, but here is a whole townful of people rusted away by pure vicious idleness ; every man you meet with a pipe in his mouth and his hands in his pockets, and a scowl on his brow, looking as if he would commit any crime if he had bodily strength to compass... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 724 pages
...with, but here is a whole townful of people rusted away by pure vicious idleness ; every man you meet with a pipe in his mouth and his hands in his pockets, and a scowl on his brow, looking as if he would commit any crime if he had bodily strength to compass... | |
 | Margaret Robson Stacpoole - 1914 - 360 pages
...or written so well — but for you. I can't explain, but there it is." A tramp coming along the path with a pipe in his mouth and his hands in his pockets made Phyl withdraw her hand. " Here's the Labour Question," said Chatterton. " Bless it ! " He took... | |
 | 1923 - 890 pages
...he waved a shaving-brush with a gesture of friendly greeting. He was followed by another young man with a pipe in his mouth, and his hands in his pockets, who approached with the air of a rather shy schoolboy about to enter a drawingroom full of company.... | |
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