 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1873 - 794 pages
...work. " ' Tristram Merton, come into Court.' There came up a short manly figur e, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth and one hand in his waistcoat...is an expression of great power, or of great good humor, or both, you do not regret its absence." And this figure proceeds to discourse in a rapid, oratorical,... | |
 | Scotland - 1876 - 810 pages
...show him to us ns " a short, manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckeloth, and one han<i in his waistcoat pocket. Of regular beauty he had...there is an expression of great power, or of great goodhumour, or both, you do not regret its absence." He was "utterly destitute of bodily accomplishments... | |
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There came up a short manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat pocket. Of regular beauty he had little to boast ; but in faces where there is an expression of great power, or of great good humor, or both,... 
