Curled
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'It is to have his hair
curled
like that,' thought the Lieutenant of the 96th, 'that this damned idiot has been keeping us waiting.'
...Everywhere hypocrisy, or at least charlatanism, even among the most virtuous, even among the greatest'; and his lips
curled
in disgust ...'No, man cannot place any trust in man.
He
curled
down in the weeds and soon began to snore.
I will have my hair curled, and put on my black frock coat."
Bang, bang, went a couple of guns--the smoke swept quickly away over the field, and
curled
into the air.
On his short, round body, he wore a close covering, ornamented with small slashes; a short cloak dangled at his back; the collar was cut into curious peaks, which served the goblin in lieu of ruff or neckerchief; and his shoes
curled
up at his toes into long points.
Sam left it with the landlady, and was returning to pull his master's boots off, after drying himself by the kitchen fire, when glancing casually through a half-opened door, he was arrested by the sight of a gentleman with a sandy head who had a large bundle of newspapers lying on the table before him, and was perusing the leading article of one with a settled sneer which
curled
up his nose and all other features into a majestic expression of haughty contempt.
The word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!"Thick clouds of smoke
curled
through the room and out at the open window.
He
curled
himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird.
I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form
curled
up in the recesses of his armchair.
The pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still
curled
upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night.
These flat brims
curled
at the edge came in then.
The lash, however, was
curled
upon itself and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord.
Between the roars of the ordnance, strains of uncouth music would break from the red walls, and presently some officer of the court would ride out of one of the gates, followed by all his retinue, each man gorgeous as a cock-pheasant in spring, his moustache fresh oiled, and
curled
fiercely over his ears; or one of the royal elephants, swathed in red velvet and bullion from shoulder to ankle, would roll out under the weight of his silver howdah, and trumpet till the streets were cleared for his passage.
At this word APOLOGIES, a cloud passed over the brow of Athos, a haughty smile
curled
the lip of Porthos, and a negative sign was the reply of Aramis.
Lastly, her hair, which, from being light in her youth, had become chestnut, and which she wore
curled
very plainly, and with much powder, admirably set off her face, in which the most rigid critic could only have desired a little less rouge, and the most fastidious sculptor a little more fineness in the nose.
When at last, about midday, he did descend, he was so fine with his
curled
hair, his shining teeth, his quizzing glass, his snow-white ruffles, and his laughing eyes, that I could not take my gaze from him.
Her queenly figure was moulded upon large and noble lines, while her face, though already tending to become somewhat heavy and coarse, was still remarkable for the brilliancy of the complexion, the beauty of the large, light blue eyes, and the tinge of the dark hair which
curled
over the low white forehead.
A drunken man, snoring horribly in his breathing, was
curled
up in the passage, absolutely oblivious to the stream of people who flowed round and occasionally over him.
Herbert and Pencroft turned the angle of the Chimneys, not without having cast a look at the smoke which, just at that place,
curled
round a point of rock: they ascended the left bank of the river.
This tail formed a regular peninsula, which stretched more than thirty miles into the sea, reckoning from the cape southeast of the island, already mentioned; it
curled
round, making an open roadstead, which marked out the lower shore of this strangely-formed land.
Smoke
curled
up from among the rocks of the islet.
A faint smile even
curled
his lips.
The high cap no longer invested his brows, which were only shaded by short and thick
curled
hair of a raven blackness, corresponding to his unusually swart complexion.
The attendants of the Abbot crossed themselves, with looks of pious horror, and the very heathen Saracens, as Isaac drew near them,
curled
up their whiskers with indignation, and laid their hands on their poniards, as if ready to rid themselves by the most desperate means from the apprehended contamination of his nearer approach.
Attended by this gallant equipage, himself well mounted, and splendidly dressed in crimson and in gold, bearing upon his hand a falcon, and having his head covered by a rich fur bonnet, adorned with a circle of precious stones, from which his long
curled
hair escaped and overspread his shoulders, Prince John, upon a grey and high-mettled palfrey, caracoled within the lists at the head of his jovial party, laughing loud with his train, and eyeing with all the boldness of royal criticism the beauties who adorned the lofty galleries.
A stern smile
curled
the Prince's lip as he spoke.
His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff
curled
black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
His mother, a thin old woman with black eyes and
curled
hair, screwed up her eyes as she recognized her son and her thin lips smiled slightly.
She knew the feeling and knew its symptoms, and recognized them in Anna – she saw the quivering light flashing in her eyes, the smile of happiness and elation that involuntarily
curled
her lips, and the graceful precision, the exactitude and lightness, of her movements.
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