| 单词 | thickset |
| 例句 | She was in bed with a thickset man; both were nude and uncovered. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The thickset man shrugged away from the wall as I warily came to a stop, and walked slowly into the street. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He was shorter than Ron, thickset, with a number of burns and scratches up his muscley arms. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The last housegirl, brought by a relative of Gabriel’s, was thickset and had arrived clutching a duffel bag. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Then a tall, thickset man in blue presses his palm against my chest and he’s pushing me back out through the doors, his wedding band cold on my skin. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was thickset and grizzled, dressed in a heavy rancher’s coat that had seen its share of labor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Both of them were thickset and looked extremely mean. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The Welshman who had spoken was a short, thickset fellow from the sappers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was a tall man, about six feet, thickset—big but not fat. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His solid, thickset body spoke of fights that he had started and won, and the buck-teeth that gaped through his lips made him seem vaguely dangerous. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A thickset young man in a plaid shirt got out of the passenger side and gestured for Salvador and Lupita to come up to the car. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Felicia watched the thickset butchers cleave and carve the flesh like sculptors, could scarcely tell them apart, in fact, from the marbled slabs of beef at their elbows. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just why do you think,” carefully inquired Major Sanderson, the soft and thickset smiling staff psychiatrist to whom the colonel had ordered Yossarian sent, “that Colonel Ferredge finds your dream disgusting?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Vinterberg also makes excellent use of Mikkelsen’s own past as a dancer, mining the incongruously fluid body language of a tall, thickset man with a jaw that seems carved out of lead. ‘Another Round’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The clubs don't seem to mind the soliciting, either: Possessed and Measle chat amiably with the thickset bouncer manning the line at Fabric. Street music: Why face-to-face mixtape selling still matters 2011-01-13T22:30:02Z In the portrait a bewigged, thickset Bach gazes warily at the viewer while holding the score for one of his canons. A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z A ruddy, thickset man in his 60s with bright blue eyes climbed out and greeted me, friendly but clearly wondering what I was doing there. 100 Years of Gratitude 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Norm Decoteau, a thickset man with a camouflague hat and a handlebar mustache, asserts that Trump might be “an idiot, but he’s smart enough to bring good people under him.” How is Trump winning over Massachusetts Republicans? He speaks their language. 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z "Bwowff!" soothes her thickset confidante, jowls swinging approvingly at her choice of metaphor. With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses 2011-03-05T00:07:26Z For a font with such a thickset look, it retains a remarkably unthreatening demeanour. True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z Our laughter pierced the thickset quiet, as seemingly the whole neighborhood had opted for the comfort of the indoors that evening. A very Scandinavian al fresco holiday happy hour 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z In the cab to the museum, he had been talking to the driver, a thickset American man, about the election. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The author’s moral horror was matched only by his physical disgust for the “swarthy, balding, thickset, burly, mustachioed gnome.” He Was a Prominent Holocaust Survivor. But His Story Was a Hoax. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The same small quick eyes, the same thickset imperturbable body; the same schedules. The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel – read the exclusive first extract 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z When he appeared, led by two thickset Hungarian police officers, he looked like a student on a Eurail trip gone wrong. How Football Leaks Is Exposing Corruption in European Soccer 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Her knees were lovely and brown, though possibly a little thickset, but as it was a case of Mother Fist and her Five Daughters up in the pebble-dash cottage, this was not a deal-breaker. Fiction by Kevin Barry: “The Coast of Leitrim” 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z His wife, who had high cheekbones and a wide face, sat with him, alongside a thickset younger man in his 30s - their son. Myanmar woman escapes Chinese captors after 6 years 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z We retreated to the back of the crowd, but soon a thickset man in fatigues and a balaclava began jostling Salinas and calling to his comrades. “Fake News” and Unrest in Nicaragua 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Kulagin’s second, a thickset man in a trilby hat, was talking to him, gesturing, pleading: Major Allen, the Service officer on Watch detail tonight. The geopolitics of the afterlife get messy in the new sci-fi spy novel Summerland 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z The sheep’s owner, Ala, was a short, thickset man with green eyes. The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s angry young men 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Now they are back together: Joe, tall and thickset, was released by Arsenal after five years for a perceived lack of pace. Premier League Castoffs, Starting Over at Age 11 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z A thickset officer with his face covered waved to his colleagues to drag the man away. Victory in Mosul leaves survivors reeling: ‘We got our city back, but there is nothing for me in it’ 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z One was a thief, a svelte man with long hair and a beard; the other was a thickset North African who was in for nine years. The Prophet of France’s Fracture 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Green, 6 feet 5 inches and thickset, carried a tough guy’s commanding demeanor through a long career as a player, manager and team executive. Dallas Green, Who Led the Phillies to Their First Title, Dies at 82 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Like its owner, the sheep was thickset and close shaven. The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s angry young men 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z A thickset Catholic businessman with silvering hair and bloodshot eyes, he was wearing a loose denim shirt. After the Islamic State 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z A thickset man with a red beard and a tattoo sleeve wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat high-fived his smaller friend in a white “Make America Great Again” hat. At Donald Trump’s hotel in Washington, his delirious supporters celebrate 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Late one evening in Washington, we walked by a thickset monolith that glowed with a cold marmoreal light, as if James Turrell had built a fortress for some paranoid ice king. Could Hillary Clinton Become the Champion of the 99 Percent? 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Estis is, much like the man who built Trump World Tower, thickset, restless, plain speaking and motivated by a desire to win. New York Above 800 Feet 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s fitting that Morris cites the thickset Wayne Rooney as an inspiration for his game; they’re cut from the same block of clay. Jordan Morris, Jürgen Klinsmann and surviving the US Soccer Hype Machine 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Early on Thursday evening, at a Shut Down Trump rally on Manhattan’s Forty-second Street, a thickset man in an orange beanie took the mike. Donald Trump vs. New York City 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z In a bullish, barnstorming and rather thickset way. South Africa v England: third Test, day two – as it happened 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z They called him Big George, for he was a thickset, brawny man, weighing perhaps 210 pounds. The Lonely Death of George Bell 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The real celebrity in the house this June evening, though, was a thickset man in a dark suit, cheerfully posing for photo after photo with fans. Blackhawks Fans Show That Chicago Can Love a Winner, Too 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z He now lives in a Little Earth townhouse, where he spends most days cradling his 3-month-old grandson in thickset arms pocked with track marks. Amid Little Earth’s poverty and pain, a protest culture aimed at Redskins’ name Major Frederick Duprez, a tall thickset figure, commands a mixture of about 200 regular French troops and Foreign Legionnaires. CAR: Where rumours can kill 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z In a bullish, barnstorming and rather thickset way. South Africa v England: third Test, day two – as it happened 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The blond, thickset actor's on-screen persona could range from professorial to unkempt, from the aloof intellectual to the everyman. Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dead of suspected drug overdose 2014-02-03T04:55:31Z "Ron was small and thickset and he said it helped tremendously with the effects of G-force, he could take up more G-force," he said. Honouring Churchill's 'Few' pilot 2012-12-31T01:28:17Z Addicted to Painkillers, Unready for Help "I'm addicted to painkillers," J., a thickset construction worker, told me on a recent afternoon in the emergency room, his wife at his side. Well: When a Drug Addict Isn't Ready to Accept Help 2012-10-01T16:03:25Z Approaching them with stealthy steps was a short, thickset, bullet-headed man holding an automatic pistol. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Palpi short, much compressed, obtuse, remote, not touching the tongue, covered equally on both sides with thickset hairs concealing the joints. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z In stature they are short, but thickset, and remarkably active. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z But do not the turnpikes, or fall-stops, with which these rivers are thickset, contravene also the rights of nature? The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z To the right was the church, with its thickset tower, and the sun shining feebly on the wet surface of its leaden roof. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z He was one of two thickset, unshaven men who were engaged in playing cards on a corner of the table. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z He is a short, thickset man, looking about fifty, with grizzled hair and beard. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z From head to heel, his body had all over A quickset, thickset, nat’ral, hairy cover.” Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z I found a very stout, thickset, little old woman, who greeted me with an affable bow and waited for me to speak. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Williams appears to have differed from the ordinary Indian type, although he was thickset, dark haired, and swarthy of skin. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z We shall never see his curly head and thickset figure more. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z They are short and thickset, with little agility. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z He promised to be too thickset For jockeying, so left it soon. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z A little dark-haired, thickset girl sat on a stool learning to sew. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z She closed her eyes and drew a composite sketch of him in her mind: around 33 years old, fairly thickset, round, chunky face, low forehead, small eyes, fleshy lips that he tended to leave open. Taken by Pirates 2011-10-08T04:27:21Z “Our friend Pinto,” he mused as a thickset figure jogged past. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z He was a thickset man, with an ugly, intelligent face and alert, nearsighted eyes behind enormous glasses with tortoise-shell rims. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Some one was speaking—a rather short, thickset man, sitting heavily on his horse. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z They are stumpy plants, growing from a foot to three feet or so in height, and a foot or more in diameter, like a thickset post. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z He skinned them because he knew the extreme difficulty of scraping the thickset hard scales. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Just then a slip of a girl,—not over 14, I should say—accompanied by a thickset young bull-dog, with an abnormal development of teeth, ran up to meet us. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z With some difficulty Roland complied, and in obedience to his peremptory mandate to come out and show himself, there stepped into the moonlight a powerful, thickset ruffian, armed with a cudgel. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The man who had intervened was a short, thickset fellow, with lowering eyebrows and a crop of closely-cut hair. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z He was short and thickset, with immense chest power—probably a swamp moose. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z One was an elderly, thickset priest with a dense, brown beard. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z A form bulking large in the doorway caused her to cease her meditation, and look keenly at a thickset man standing there. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z Six days later, the phone rang and a thickset voice demanded the money. Special report: If Monterrey falls, Mexico falls 2011-06-01T12:19:56Z The short thickset French Canadian of the black-eyed-Susan type, came forward, with outstretched hand, from the back of the passageway; there was good friendship in her hearty grip. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z From his car, Robinson would sometimes watch Canaura—thickset and bald, with a jutting forehead and acne scars over his cheeks—lug a fishing rod and cooler of bait over to the canal. Cargo Theft: The New Highway Robbery 2011-05-26T21:00:03Z The speaker was a short, thickset man, who had a way of turning his head quickly from side to side as he spoke. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z A short thickset man, smelling of wine, said to me: "I'm arresting you!" The Mysterious Sketch 2011-05-03T02:00:14.907Z Presently this gang rolled round an abrupt corner, to collide heavily with a thickset man, buttoned up to the chin in a thick blue coat, and smoking a cigar of abnormal dimensions. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Pierre is a short, thickset, walnut-stained man of thirty-five, almost pure Indian, and almost a perfect specimen of physical development. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z The cowherd was broad-shouldered, thickset, and bony, his face roundish and his cheeks red, while there was something of impudence in the chin, mouth, eyebrows, and little waxed moustache. The Yellow Rose 2011-01-12T03:00:29.407Z A short, thickset man, who did not belong to the battle-ship's company, for he was a prisoner. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z The stiff, thickset figure of the man who clanked up the steps of the porch was unfamiliar to her. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z He was a man of about fifty, with a thickset body and a heavy face, slow of movement, but with bright, intelligent eyes. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z There was an excellent thickset gentleman in Madrid, a literary pluralist, who combined the offices of "own correspondent" to several London journals. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z He even flattened the thickset Davis while setting a screen. NBA Finals: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics in Game 1 2010-06-04T04:00:00Z Lange was stowing away his hammock but a few hours after the Wasp had gotten under way, when the short, thickset man approached him. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z "Will she?" observed the duke from the depths of his thickset throat. A Poached Peerage It consisted of muscular youths, for the most part fair and of ruddy complexions, with thickset figures. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers M. Ferrand was fifty years of age, but did not appear forty; he was of middle height, with broad and stooping shoulders, powerful, thickset, strong-limbed, red-haired, and naturally as hirsute as a bear. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 This man presented, in fact, the exaggeration of what there is of short, thickset, and condensed, in the type of the Hercules Farnese. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Our guide was a strange specimen, a short, thickset man with a queer Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, and an Irish name, like Duffy or McCarthy, I forget which. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 He was a thickset, deeply tanned man of middle age, with a shrewd, blue eye. The Land of Strong Men The next moment the hall door opened, and a short thickset man, armed with a powerful bludgeon, rushed out and made straight towards him. Tony Butler He was a big, thickset man, nearing middle age; the bruiser build, physically; but with a solidly intelligent-looking head and trustworthy eyes. The Book of Susan A Novel A short thickset man and another man of a slighter and more gentlemanly build. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life He was a stout, thickset, little man, with a round, good-humoured, ruddy countenance, and somewhere about fifty years of age at the period to which our story refers. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative The prisoner was almost a giant, thickset and broad-shouldered. Peasant Tales of Russia His figure was thickset, but had not as yet acquired the squatness of later days. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series But conversation soon faded out between us, as we made our way through etched mysteries of black and silver under thickset leafless branches. The Book of Susan A Novel They turned; it was the short thickset man who had been the other's companion in the conversation above recorded. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life Essentially irremediable, commonplace nature of the man; all that was in him now gone to the tongue; a squat, thickset, low-browed, short, grizzled little man of fifty.' Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series As the colt stood wondering, a thickset, short-legged, grayish coloured animal, covered with long, bristling quills, emerged from the leafage and came crawling down the trunk toward him. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life On rocky ground it is a rough, thickset tree, about forty to sixty feet high and one to three feet in diameter, bark thin and gummy, branches rather naked, tassels, leaves, and cones small. My First Summer in the Sierra He was a short man, not fat, but thickset like Conlon; only, with a higher-strung vitality, carrying with it a sense of intellectual eagerness and edge. The Book of Susan A Novel It was a fight between a tribune and a scholar; between a short, thickset, long-maned lion, and a tall, slender, delicate fox. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things "Here, sir," replied a short, thickset man, with a sailor-like shuffle in his walk. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Major Chapelle was a thickset, balding man in his late forties. Narakan Rifles, About Face! I uttered a cry of joy when Pierre Bohren appeared, a man of low stature but thickset limbs, and Jean Almer, who was tall and robust. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century They were certainly a villainous and dirty looking lot of savages, short, thickset, round faced, heavy featured, with coarse, black, matted hair and little twinkling eyes. Gold His body was thickset and short, his face that of a seaman—square, ruddy, frank, and pleasant. Skipper Worse He was a short, thickset youngster of about sixteen and he walked with a peculiar stride, for his legs were slightly bowed. The Boy Scout Fire Fighters A roar of laughter greeted him; these dark, thickset Cossacks with slanting eyes were from the Urals. The Crimson Tide A Novel He was a short, thickset, red-faced man with a very pompous air. Raiding with Morgan “He is a thickset, jolly looking, curly headed fellow, with a thick neck, a bulldog jaw, and a big voice,” replied Talbot. Gold He recognized him by the gray beard and thickset figure. The Vagrant Duke One was Mr. Scully, he of the ground-floor apartment, the other a short, thickset man, who at once announced himself as the janitor of the building. The Film of Fear And his iron will can be divined from the seeing how he is made, so very thickset and squat, with a square head and no neck, with short, thick hands, and coarse voice. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal He saw in Morton a thickset, heavy man with a massive head and brain. Raiding with Morgan The eyes of the short, thickset man were narrow and greyish green in a round, smoothly shaven face. The Dark Star Wherever the stone column has been used in buildings of mediocre size, the architect seems to have been driven by some optical necessity to make his angle columns more thickset than the other supports. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Then the burly, thickset, powerful figure of a bearded man pushed through, traversed the reed-beds, and, leaping from boulder to boulder, crossed the river. The Dop Doctor The thickset insect astonishes me with the elegance of its work, which is irreproachable in its geometry: the neck is shorter, but nevertheless combines grace with strength. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The man in the road, a short, thickset brigand by the look of him, rushed up to the car, hat in hand, his face beaming. Juggernaut “What do you know about this!” growled the thickset man, in utter disgust. The Dark Star He was a man of about forty years of age, thickset and large-limbed for a Malay, with a round bullet-shaped head, and a jolly smiling face. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula The stage leisurely caught up to him until the horses’ heads were opposite his thickset form. Mountain Blood A Novel Leaning over the gates is a thickset man gazing with repugnance upon a lettuce leaf which he is holding in his right hand. Sundry Accounts He was a dark man, with a skin of oily sallowness; thickset, with something of the slow ungainliness of a toad. 'Me--Smith' The thickset man advanced his face, and the bread became a physical threat in his hand. Tales of Space and Time He was a thickset man, dressed in sailor's clothes, in no way like the clothes the pirates had worn. The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure The thickset, young man remuttered the period that they were there for the stuff. Mountain Blood A Novel At a little distance was a grove of oaks and beeches, and good shelter; but Eleanor's strength could not move the man thither; he was a great, thickset, burly fellow. The Old Helmet, Volume II These people have an olive complexion, broad flat noses, and thick lips; some are strong, looking robust and athletic, others are slender and weakly in appearance; and others, again, thickset and repulsive-looking. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century She was told that she would go up a dingy staircase with a roll of papers under her arm; that she would see a dark man, thickset and of quiet demeanour. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance Jacob Brattle, himself, was a low, thickset man, with an appearance of great strength, which was now submitting itself, very slowly, to the hand of time. The Vicar of Bullhampton He was donning his working garments in very leisurely fashion when a short, broad-shouldered, thickset young man came back toward him from the office. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man He was a man of middle age or upwards, of middle height, and thickset. Simon "Yes, that she has, sir," said the old groom, riding up at a jog-trot on his thickset brown cob. Vixen, Volume I. They descended the slope, an easy one, for a quarter of a mile, and came to a valley thickset with bushes and blackberry vines containing sharp briars. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Three pairs of very keen eyes fixed on a neat, rather thickset figure that came rapidly toward them. The Rapids He looked as massive as the Ranger expected, and was typically thickset, but he was even heavier and stronger than he looked. Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel And then the thickset form of Simon Rattar appeared dimly on the gravel, crossing to the lawn beyond. Simon Two seats ahead sat a thickset man with very long, oily black hair. The Adventures of Bobby Orde She was a singular-looking girl, short and dark, with a curious effect of squareness in her thickset figure. Peggy Then, to the young man's amazement, Clark began to laugh, not riotously but with a gradual abandonment that shook his thickset body with successive convulsions of mirth. The Rapids A thickset personage, sitting near him, officiated as secretary—to judge at least from the inkstand with which he was provided. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 In person, he was a thickset man of middle height and elderly middle age, with cold steady eyes and grizzled hair. Simon Back in the shadow, in an open doorway, Mrs. Mosby and a stout, thickset man with stubbly black hair were talking in low tones. Stubble Bannon, a short, thickset man with a mop of unruly black hair shoved a pair of tongs into Ben’s hands and quickly explained how to hold the rivets with which the group was working. Daughters of Doom This child is small, like a dwarf, and yet thickset, like one of the Cabiri, distorted, and with a miserable aspect. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul He was a short, thickset man, not in the least like Lawrence, who was ten years his junior. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 He sprang to his feet, carbine in hand, for from out the thickset jungle there emerged a thing of horror to look upon. Tessa 1901 This red-bearded, short and thickset Devon skipper, bold of speech as of action, was now the most renowned sailor of England, with a name that inspired terror on every coast of Spain. A History of Sea Power Rao Khan was a short, thickset man, with a round, smooth face. The River of Darkness, or, Under Africa Forty-eight pounds, full measure, the record salmon of the river—a deep thickset fish, whose gleaming silver sides and sharp teeth proved him fresh-run from the sea! Days Off And Other Digressions But they did not see him just at first because of his short, thickset stature. The Gods are Athirst "I'll bet that's the new boss at the upper quarries," said one, pointing to a short thickset man making his way up the platform. Flamsted quarries Out of the shadows a fourth form had materialized, a thickset man who approached us with a firm stride. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Just then a thickset man with a red handkerchief tied round his head came forward to the stall and demanded a glass of beer. Fighting the Flames A thickset, gray-haired man sat near by, undergoing the process of shaving by a very nervous negro. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War The third fugitive was also a young man, and a negro, short, thickset, square, tough as india-rubber, and black as the Emperor of Zahara. The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar As the long convoy proceeded up the street, a carriage drawn by four horses clattered up from the opposite end, a county court official beside the coachman, behind, two gentlemen, one lean, the other thickset. Debts of Honor The man opposite him was rather short and thickset. The Highgrader A short, thickset, wiry little man, dressed in white flannels, who had been lolling in a deck chair, now came forward and shook hands with me. A Master of Mysteries The thickset man was also exercising the privileges of his rank; but the more he berated his attendant's awkwardness, the more nervous the other became. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War His curious eyes at once perceived the hideous, thickset lizard that lay flattened upon the shadowed sand as if in a torpor. Bloom of Cactus He was a short, thickset lad, with a beaming countenance, red cheeks, blue eyes, and light curly hair. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters He was a short, thickset man with a German cast of countenance. Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls The lieutenant was very short, thickset, deep-chested, and powerful. Hunting the Lions The latter pointed to a wall tent contiguous, and was cursed by the thickset man for not minding his business. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Lennon stood a good six feet in his boots, but Slade over-topped him by two or three inches and was no less thickset than tall. Bloom of Cactus The thickset youth behind him, with the shock of flaxen hair and imperceptible moustache, is Herr Winklemann, a German farmer’s son, and a famed buffalo-hunter. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood This was an ample affair with an elaborate handrail, whose function was nullified by potted plants, and with a commodious landing, whose corners contained many thickset palms. On the Stairs He was a short, thickset man, about thirty years of age, with a nose which had a red club to it, very dirty teeth, and large black whiskers. Peter Simple In short, he was one of those ethereal priests the Roman Catholic Church produces every now and then by way of incredible contrast to the thickset peasants in black that form her staple. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 She found that the person to whom she had been so unceremoniously handed over, alike by Madam, Lady Delawarr, and Molly, was a thickset man of fifty years, partially bald, with small, expressionless features. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) He was a short, very thickset little man, with very long arms—a squat, apelike figure. The Girl in the Golden Atom I don’t think Mr Reeks will grow much more, though; he’s too thickset. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy The jaguar is larger, sturdier, and altogether more thickset than the leopard, whose limbs are the beau ideal of symmetry and grace. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Very olive he was—and is—and his blue eyes shone out of the dark face from under the same thickset and long lashes. Short Stories of Various Types He was considerably under the average height, but thickset and strong. The Kentucky Ranger The policeman who appeared in answer to this summons was a thickset sturdy Norfolk man, with an intelligent face and shrewd dark eyes. The Shrieking Pit A thickset, short, swaggering man tramped in after him. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories But Gordon saw one of the bartenders paying money to a thickset person with an arrogant sneer; he knew then that the few profits from the cheap beer were never going home with the man. Police Your Planet Short, thickset, and muscular in person, and strong in intellect Stephen A. Douglass came to be known as 'The Little Giant.' Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail The other was a thickset man of mature years with a freckled face, bushy red beard and the neck of an ox. The Child of Pleasure It is presided over by Justice Joseph Dowling, a short, thickset man, with a handsome face, and a full, well-shaped head, indicating both ability and determination. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City I warned him; and then I got speech with the driver, a squat, thickset Irishman, whose face and brogue were both strange to me. Branded He pointed out a kind of thickset tower which crowned a pretty village set in orchards. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 "Come, boys," squeaked Captain Clark, a short, thickset fellow who looked much older than the others and who spoke in a peculiar cracked voice. Captain Jinks, Hero The schooner captain way a stout, thickset man with a face bronzed to the color of mahogany and a head of hair as red as a Pittsburgh furnace at midnight. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World There was a shrine in this room for private devotions, the corresponding spot in the adjoining room being a rough opium-couch already occupied by two lusty thickset "slaves to this thrice-accursed drug." An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma The question came from a thickset man, of about middle age, upon whose upper lip bristled a fringe of reddish hair. The Border Boys Across the Frontier One of the speakers, a thickset, heavy-browed man, came down the store, stared rudely at Mrs. Costello as he passed, and going out, got into a waggon that stood outside, and drove away. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 A Novel The guns and carriages would thunder and bump and clatter over the pavé, the thickset horses straining at their harness, the drivers urging them on. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" He was a thickset chap, husky and fast. Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball It went winding up, under trees of great beauty, thickset, and now for long default of mastership, overbearing and encroaching in their growth. Wych Hazel "Nay, Sholto, what need?" grumbled another, a very thickset palmer he; "if the maids be within, let us burst the gates, and go and take them out!" The Black Douglas But farther on we came into the lower land of a creek bottom, and here a thickset undergrowth robbed us of any view and made the march a toilsome struggle with the bushes. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady An hour passed, and then a short, thickset, bearded man, accompanied by a small staff, appeared. The Tree of Appomattox The light fell sideways upon his thickset form and large hairy face. The Mormon Prophet It was an afternoon wonderfully like a Wagner opera, thickset with recurring motifs.... Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books No military procession would have heralded his way through crowded streets, thickset with the banner and the plume, the glittering saber and the polished bayonet. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Also he had glimpses of the thickset figure of Horace Gower walking along the cliffs. Poor Man's Rock A thickset hedge may be rendered defensible by throwing up against it a slight parapet of earth. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. As she spoke, a short thickset man, with black twinkling eyes and ruddy cheeks entered. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three The individual who had accosted him, seen by the glow of a distant street-lamp, was thickset and rakish-looking, with a heavy mustache. In Friendship's Guise They were short and thickset, with bull necks, bullet heads, shocks of thick black hair, low foreheads, large mouths, dark complexions, and sullen expressions. Ishmael Or, In the Depths He is thickset, heavy, bulky in the girth, flat-footed, iron-handed, slow to move. The Children of the King He was a shorter man, but very thickset, with arms like steel. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay In the hall, aided by Franklin, Mr. Ras Fendihook divested himself of his outer wrappings and revealed a thickset man of medium height, rather flashily attired. Jaffery He was strong and thickset, and looked as though he could endure hard work without wincing. Unleavened Bread He was a thickset heavy-looking man, florid, with a military moustache, the last time I saw him. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) Close to the side they were, when I saw the thickset pirate swing as easy as a child across Jacques' back. The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven His presence, too, did not lend itself to oratory; short and thickset, and careless in his dress, he formed a contrast to the romantic figure of D'Azeglio. The Liberation of Italy She took us aside, as soon as we were released from the formal welcome of Mr. Jornicroft, a thickset man with a very bald head and heavy black moustache. Jaffery He was a strong man, thickset and healthy, with grizzled hair and an intensely black beard. Whosoever Shall Offend This family connection, whom he both hated and trusted, was a rather thickset, very neatly dressed man of twenty-three, who had been mature, serious, and responsible for eight years. Leonora Now a thickset man in a black coat comes rushing out. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig The unfortunate Eskimo of this region, judging by the examples seen by Hearne, were of low stature, with broad thickset bodies. Pioneers in Canada He was a lad of sixteen years, not tall, but very thickset and stout built, broad shouldered, deep chested, and strong limbed. The Thirsty Sword He was a thickset, stout man, about five feet four inches high, and, wrapped up in Flushing garments, looked very much like a bear in shape as well as in skin. Snarleyyow In some way the unfamiliar language, and the sight of the thickset, French sailor-men, so evidently all of one race, made the Rochambeau, moored in the shadow of the sky-scrapers, seem mysteriously alien. A Volunteer Poilu The man with the fair beard made some inaudible remark, and Graham looking over his shoulder saw approaching a short, fat, and thickset beardless man, with aquiline nose and heavy neck and chin. The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes The bottoms and the hollows between the hills were thickset with cane. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 "Get up on that waggon, Flack," he said to a thickset, wiry little man. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth "Now, I allers bed quite a parcel o' sympathy for Eph," said a short, thickset coasting captain, who sat tilted back in a three-legged chair, smoking lazily. Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 His breeches were of the homeliest thickset; and he also wore a pair of large leather gaiters—such as are very common among farmers and peasants in Kent and Sussex. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829 For a space the thickset man took not the slightest notice of Graham, but proceeded to interrogate the other—obviously his subordinate—-upon the treatment of their charge. The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes Poe is described at this time as short, thickset, bowlegged, with the rapid and jerky gait of an English boy. Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans A sunburnt, quick, lithe, little man, though rather thickset. Little Dorrit For a space the thickset man took not the slightest notice of Graham, but proceeded to interrogate the other—obviously his subordinate—upon the treatment of their charge. When the Sleeper Wakes Then a man began—thickset, earnest, with a strong Scotch accent. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers The calm face of Petunikoff, his grey eyes and clear complexion, every line of his thickset body betokened self-confidence and a well-balanced mind. Creatures That Once Were Men He was a broad, thickset fellow, of the adorable bandy-legged stocky type that I had seen go through the Railway Triangle at Arras as though it were blotting-paper. Mr. Standfast In general they are thickset, with large feet and hands, and with sun-browned faces, often curiously freckled like the petals of Fritillaria atropurpurea. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon The man with the fair beard made some inaudible remark, and Graham looking over his shoulder saw approaching a very short, fat, and thickset beardless man, with aquiline nose and heavy neck and chin. When the Sleeper Wakes He was a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. Les Misérables One was a thickset man, with large black whiskers and corresponding eyebrows. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 A thickset, stalwart figure, with brisk eyes, and high, strong, irregularly-Roman nose. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 San Juan is one of a thickset cluster of islands that fills the waters between Vancouver and the mainland, a little to the north of Victoria. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon We speak of the Red One, or the Little One, or the One with the Feather, and Idaho has named a short thickset fellow on our right 'Little Willie.' A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West He was bearded, thickset, and of medium height. The Man from the Clouds His nephew smiled tolerantly, and shifted his thickset figure to a more comfortable position. I Spy Garland was older, fully fifty, burly, thickset, strong as an ox. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Here in the thickset beauty of yon little island, was our Charter granted. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Low down, it seemed as if crushed, thickset columns supported the semicircular arches of the side-aisles. The Dream Elvin Drew jumped down, and helped out his companion, a short, rather thickset girl, with smooth, dark hair, honest eyes, and a sensitive mouth. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life He is a short, thickset man, with a resolute, self-possessed air, and is about fifty years old. The Secrets of the Great City He was a short, bull-necked, thickset, broad-shouldered man, with coarse black hair and heavy, matted beard. The Living Link And I also, Uliades of Samos," said a thickset and burly Greek who had joined the group unobserved, "I demand justice. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance He had chosen the lower path running parallel with Kensington Gore, which leads, between flowerborders and thickset belts of shrubbery, from the Broad Walk to the railings enclosing the open space around the Albert Memorial. The Far Horizon He was of a graceful and delicate build and fast, quite unlike the heavier, thickset, thick-coated native dogs; his hair was short, soft, and silky. Selected Polish Tales "Monroe," said one of the older members to me, "was a stout, thickset man, plain, and with but little to say; Jackson, tall and thin, with a hickory visage." The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation Nearly every warrior in camp recognized the short, thickset figure and the broad, pleasant face when they presented themselves. The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. Such a sound was almost uncouth in such a locality; and there, overhanging a jutting angle of red rock, was the predicted bush with keen prickles thickset on limber branches. Tropic Days They are strong, thickset, with abundance of hair; are short in the leg, better climbers, and more accustomed to cold than others of the species. Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute He was putty thickset, round the shoulders, but he slimmed down towards his legs, and he stood about six feet high. The Leatherwood God Vain one, refrain That everlasting pipe, fit for a cage Behind some cotter's lattice, where thy gray And thickset form may shun the cultured eye. Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. He set one foot against our Major's wall—an action scarcely honest while it was so green—and, coming from a hale and very thickset man, the contemptuous push sent a fathom of it outward. Erema — My Father's Sin The third member of the trio was a shortish, thickset man of extraordinary vigour. A Girl Among the Anarchists He was as big as a Highland bull, and his body was thickset. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Down the platform was the new freight agent, a thickset, rubber-shod individual with a projecting lower jaw and a lowering countenance. The City of Fire His body should be thickset, rather low in stature, but broad, powerful, and compact. Dogs and All about Them Now the Gundries had long been a thickset race, and had furnished some champion wrestlers; and Solomon kept to the family stamp in the matter of obstinacy. Erema — My Father's Sin He was tall, over six feet, with burly shoulders, a thickset body, and legs rather short for his height. The Profiteers And one viewing the business might have compared it, likening small things to great, to walls or many thickset islands being besieged by sea. Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus Sergeant Hooper they call him; a short thickset man with a black mustache. The Secret of the Tower Betty, returning to the office one afternoon, found Smith in the doorway, just parting from a thickset young man. The Prince and Betty He was a short, thickset man with white side whiskers, and looked like an infuriated Santa Claus, for he was covered with snow. The Belted Seas The other, who looked shorter and stouter than he really was beside his giraffe-like companion, was a thickset, fleshy man in the early thirties with a blond, clean-shaven, double-chinned face. The Little Warrior Jack looked down, and perceived a stout, thickset personage in grey coat and red waistcoat, standing underneath him. Mr. Midshipman Easy He was thickset, and burned to the color of a ripe olive; his long, drooping mustaches, tobacco-stained at the centre, were bleached at the extremities to a hempen hue. Going Some There was a rather gloomy expression on the thickset young man's face. The Prince and Betty Ralph, who was a thickset clownish figure, arrived at his full strength, and conscious of the most complete personal superiority, laughed contemptuously at the threats of the slight-made stripling. The Abbot She was a sentimental, active-minded woman, of small judgment; pleasing rather than beautiful, short of stature, thickset, but with a fine head and arms. The Eve of the French Revolution He looked as well as usual, however, and his thin grey clothes became his spare though thickset figure. Senator North "I expect it's easier said than done," returned the thickset villain. Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express He was a fat, thickset man, with a good-humoured face, a flattened nose, and a great aptitude for stable occupations. Castle Richmond The place was rather misty now in the moonlight from the vapours of a cold little brook which ran foaming and clattering through it between banks thickset with fern. In Secret He was a rough, breezy, thickset old gentleman, betrothed from his birth to apoplexy, enjoying life in his own secluded manner, and insisting on having everybody about him happy. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel "Ma'amselle," he said presently, when the turquoise had faded to purple and the purple to velvet black, with the stars like a dowager's diamonds thickset upon it, "Ma'amselle, what think you is behind the stars?" The Maid of the Whispering Hills This was fully two hours after the thickset man first stepped upon the train. Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express Colonel Winchester rode straight toward a short, thickset figure on a stout bay horse near the head of one of the columns. The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign "You have an orange grove, back yonder, haven't you?" he asked, abruptly, nodding toward a landward stretch of ground shut off from the lawn by a thickset hedge of oleander. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Both bodies produce learned, thickset, analyses, reports, criticism, opinions and recommendations. After the Rain : how the West lost the East "Bruiser" was plainly written in his personal appearance, from his hard-featured, low-browed, battered, hang-dog face, to his thickset frame, and the powerful muscular development of the upper part of his person. Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green The short thickset man I had noticed before touched his hat and said that he was. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn The boy glanced back at the thickset, powerful figure, standing by one of the fires and looking gravely into the coals. The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign She was firm and thickset, with full limbs and broad, strong, capable hands. The Jewel of Seven Stars "It might be done," said a middle-aged, thickset man, in a thoughtful tone. Sybil, or the Two Nations Thus encouraged, Amalie, a buxom, thickset person, with a number of flaxen plaits, came forward and began to talk. Maurice Guest The first has an almost cylindrical figure; the second, squat, short and thickset, is conical in front and elliptical, or rather shaped like the ace of hearts, behind. More Hunting Wasps It would need more than that and, above all, a slender figure and a nimble carriage; and the Volucella is thickset and corpulent and sedate in her movements. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography One of his supporters is a blackbearded, thickset, slow, middle-aged man with an air of damaged respectability, named—as it afterwards appears—Johnson. Captain Brassbound's Conversion Maclast blew out the light, and then ran up into the loft, followed by the thickset man, who fell down the stairs: Wilkins got up the chimney. Sybil, or the Two Nations Instead, two persons entered, one of whom was Heinrich Krafft, the other a short, thickset girl, in a man's felt hat and a closely buttoned ulster. Maurice Guest Following him came briskly a short, thickset man with a reddish-gray beard and grayish-red hair. Cy Whittaker's Place He rose, thickset and short, and dressed in shabby blue, And even as he began it seemed as though I knew The thing he was going to say, though I never heard it before. The Pilgrims of Hope Her delay provoked a remark from Captain Jacobs, a thickset man of hybrid stains, resulting from the mixed effects of fire and water, peculiar to sailors where engines are the propelling power. Desperate Remedies Campbell is thickset and shaggy of eyebrow; his beard shows black on his face two hours after shaving. Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 He was a short, thickset man, with keen eyes, and a hard, prominent mouth, which was rather emphasised than concealed, by the fair, scanty tuft of hair that hung from his chin. Maurice Guest His arm was weary ere ever he reached it, but at length he found himself standing before a thickset old man, who was clad in leopard skins and seated upon a stool of polished wood. The Wizard Monsieur Faucheux's horses were serviceable animals, with thickset knees and legs that had some difficulty in moving. Ten Years Later The sides of the mountains are thickset with plantations, and the mould in the new-cleared land seemed to be of a brown-reddish colour. Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier Here are the churches of Louis XIII., heavy, squat, thickset, crowded together, loaded with a dome like a hump. Notre-Dame De Paris When I entered a woman was sleeping on the bed—a woman old, short, thickset, red, bloated, oily, tumefied, fat, dreadful, enormous. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo The door opened slowly, and out of the half obscurity of the passage a thickset figure lurched toward him into the full light of the room. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories The door was opened and a short, thickset man, with a leathery face and a bristling yellow- white chin beard, burst into the room. Shavings He is about three feet long with a tail six inches long, and is thickset and heavy. The Burgess Animal Book for Children The thickset chauffeur, who had seated himself by the table, pushed forward his glass with some eagerness. His Last Bow He came by the future stage road—at present a thickset jungle of scrub-oaks and ferns. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales As he did so, it opened upon the figure of a square, thickset man, who, in the impetuosity of Catron's onset, received him, literally, in his arms. Drift from Two Shores Out shone the white beam, and momentarily fell upon a black hole in the thickset hedge. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper The men of this race are proud and brave, one tribe tall, with straight hair, like the Maltese, or the Jews of Bagdad; the other smaller, thickset like mulattoes, but robust, haughty, and warlike. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant At that instant it was darkened by a thickset figure, and a hoarse voice, known to Francine, said in a whisper, "Make haste, general, those rascally Blues are stirring." The Chouans The man behind him was a thickset, squat individual, with puffed, discoloured eyes and a nose that reminded Kitty of an alligator pear. The Drums of Jeopardy A thickset, powerful figure paced to and fro on the quarter-deck, occasionally bellowing an order in a tremendous voice like the roar of a bull. The Vision Splendid I did so, and was confronted by a short, thickset man, who recognized me with a smile, but whom I failed to recognize. Dead Men Tell No Tales The calm face of Petunikoff, his gray eyes and clear complexion, every line of his thickset body betokened self-confidence and a well-balanced mind. Creatures That Once Were Men The man was short and thickset but emaciated. A Voyage to Arcturus A thickset man 'with black hair and blue beard,' in a loose kind of frock, stept up to him; it was, as Fevrier and the bystanders bethought them, one Paris of the old King's-Guard. The French Revolution Monsieur Faucheux's horses were serviceable animals, with thickset knees, and legs that had some difficulty in moving. Ten Years Later The other was a short, thickset, heavy-jowled man, with a great shock of sandy hair, and small black eyes that looked furtively out from overhanging, bushy eyebrows. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Accordingly, as Rudolf turned the corner and Helena closed the window, a short, thickset figure started cautiously out of the projecting shadow, and followed in Rudolf's wake through the storm. Rupert of Hentzau The thickset figure of "Indian" Butler moved, and his swart face flushed as much as it could. The Scouts of the Valley All our splendid projects were thickset with the first personal pronoun. The New Machiavelli A small, dark, thickset creature, with dog's eyes, of a disposition incomparably mild and harmless, he knocked about seas and cities, the uncomplaining whiptop of one vice. The Wrecker Mr. Rassendyll rang the bell twice, and a short, thickset man of middle age appeared; he wore a suit of tweed, and had the air of smartness and respectability which marks English servants. Rupert of Hentzau |
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