 Short and stout, with a square face, sunburned into a preternatural redness, clad in a loose duck "jumper" and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As he...  The Luck of Roaring Camp: And Other Stories - الصفحة 130بواسطة Bret Harte - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 279عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Axel Nissen - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As he stooped to deposit at his feet a heavy carpet-bag he was carrying, it became...covering. Yet he advanced with great gravity, and after having shaken the hand of each person in the room with labored cordiality, he wiped his serious, perplexed... | |
 | Louis Le Baut - 1959 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...he was admitted at once without question... He advanced with great gravity, and after having shaken the hand of each person in the room with labored cordiality,...wiped his serious, perplexed face on a red bandanna 40 handkerchief, a shade lighter than his complexion, laid his powerful hand on the table to steady... | |
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