A rather small woman, of delicate mould but resolute bearing, she shrank a little from the first contact with the Bottoms women.She came down in the July, and in the September expected her third baby. Her husband was a miner. They had only been in their new home three weeks when the...
But it’s small, a very small thing–only 19 inches by 23 1/4 inches. It looks like it was pinned up on something. It was not hung on a building. It was rather discreet. Nobody wants to stand up and say, “I hate people.” The Know Nothing flag is small enough to tuck ...
small fund of sense for such performances was pretty well exhausted and then I discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance, and in a manner that did not quite please him, as he thought, probably with reason, that it tended to make me too ...
Besides, her ugliness is compounded by her poodle, a "pursy old overfed" dog, Winnie, for "her small ribboned gray feet immobile on the shoekit...dingy old wool Winnie whose bad smell filled the flat on the cushion beside her"(AM, 7). Here, Grandma Lausch, together with her dog ...
Sanders made an attractive addition to our small company, and we all drank a great deal of beer together. About ten o'clock Wyland left us for a moment to speak to some one at a table near by, and Rutherford, into the sudden hiatus of talk, remarked: "Oh, by the way, you mention...
Then, at the peep-show, she explained the pictures, in a sort of story, to which he listened as if spellbound.He would not leave her.All the time he stuck close to her, bristling with a small boy's pride of her.For no other woman looked such a lady as she did, in her little ...