And when I told him that the next afternoon I must leave him; he looked downhearted enough.
Here, at last, I left him to get his chest from the ship; while I turned up town to see my old friend Mr. Jones, and learn what had happened during my absence.
How differently my father must have appeared; perhaps in a blue coat, buff vest, and Hessian boots.
There were many classes for poultry, so Winnie decided to send some of her best cockerels, a selection of Buff Orpington chickens, and a pair of big white Aylesbury ducks.
The last time I took Stumps the Buff Orpington with the black feather in its tail flew over the hedge into the turnip field.
The fowls--a game rooster, a buff hen and a speckled pullet--hung in wicker baskets from wooden pegs at the back.
They were also printed in the same colors on entire envelopes of white and buff laid paper with the POD over US watermark of the regular United States stationery.
On pieces of white wove or vertically laid buff paper.
The card is not of particularly heavy stock, has a somewhat rough surface, and is of a light buff tint that varies some in tone.
It generally consists of a piece of buff leather, impregnated with a little crocus.
He wore thebuff and black, whereas the other had worn the blue and white.
Sir Felix, nobly expansive in a buff waistcoat, cleared his throat and spoke of the Empire in a way calculated to bring tears to the eyes.
Her French-heeled slippers of the same material as her gown and the silk embroidered hosiery of palest buff completed her “foolish rig” as she slangily dubbed it.
Unlike the severe style of sports clothes she affected it had the feminine lure of soft folds and exquisite creamy buff Persian embroidery.
The irregular plainness of her features was more pronounced than usual by reason of the stunning afternoon frock she wore of expensive creamy buff material.
They are covered thinly with buff grass, the withered stalks of flowers, Spanish bayonet, and a small beehive-shaped cactus.
On nearly every rim a small furry reddish-buff beast sat on his hind legs, looking, so far as head went, much like a young seal.
This stamp appears to have been originally stamped upon the buff envelopes common at the time, and to have been cut out and fastened to the letter.
They were taken from buff envelopes, and are undoubtedly discolored by the action of the paper or gum.
Specimens may be also found of a buff color as if steeped in coffee, another changeling produced by the action of strong gum.
The tower is square, and looks ancient; but the whole is overlaid with plaster of a buff or pale-yellow hue.
Then it started on again and a train man appeared at the far end of the car holding a buff envelope in his hand.
Satherwaite, throwing the offending sheet of buff paper into the flames.
There were no long loose flowing buff plume; for the bird was short and compact, its principal decoration being six oval feathers at the end of as many thin wire-like pens, three growing crest-like out of each side of its head.
It's like playing at Blind Man's Buff shut up in a water tank.
He fluttered under his buff waistcoat when he saw her coming in at the gate.
A young man in a grey cutaway, buff cords, and jack-boots, on a low chestnut mare, came slipping round the covert.
His cab stopped in front of a small house of that peculiar buff colour which implies a long immunity from paint.
He wore a steel cap, a gorget, and a buff coat; and received a hearty welcome from the Jerseyman, by whom he was presented to Prynne.
Concealing his natural anxieties, he rode about from post to post in morion and buff coat, wearing a resolute countenance, and doing all that one man could do to keep up the hearts of his people and prepare a stout defence.
The tops of his buff boots and gauntlets were fringed with costly Brussels point.
Let us play the game of blindman's buff you have so often promised.
Many were the games he played with Betsy and her brothers and sister, not only blindman's buff but puss in the corner and other quieter games.
Not a whisper of my name," replied Pott; "this is a buff neighbourhood.
We have an instance of the first of these four cases in one of the egrets of India (Buphus coromandus), in which the young and the adults of both sexes are white during the winter, the adults becoming golden-buff during the summer.
His tall, erect figure was at present wrapped in a loose chamber gown, secured around him by his buff belt, in which was suspended his richly hilted poniard.
He was endued with a buff jerkin, wore a broad belt and cutlass by his side, and carried a halberd in his hand.
I have heard of a legion consisting entirely of saints; and methinks it would take them all to pray and intercede for the rest of the army, and for all who wear plumes and corselets, buff coats and broadswords.
You can look through thousands of samples of wall papers, and you will finally have to admit that there is nothing better for every day living than a deep cream, a misty gray, a tan or a buff paper.
Another guest room was done in gentian blue and white, with a little buff and rose-color in small things.
It is an animal of rather an ungainly appearance; but its beautiful buff colour and mild disposition make up for its ungraceful shape; and it is scarcely ever out of good condition.
They are all four what are termed spotted cats; that is, having black markings on a buff or yellowish ground.
It is black, but with a buff snout, and buff rings round the eyes, which give it that appearance whence it derives its trivial name.
