The lanky individual sighed and shrugged his shoulders.
Near the gate, with his back to the house, the prince was standing with his legs apart, talking to the lanky Grontovsky.
Yu ought'r seed th' pie Johnny had down in Eagle Flat," murmured Lanky Smith reminiscently.
Intermittent puffs of smoke arising from a point between Skinny and Buck showed where Lanky Smith was improving each shining hour.
Behind the store, the most precarious position among the besiegers, Red Connors and Lanky Smith were ensconced and commanded a view of the entire length of the barroom.
Red and Lanky were emitting clouds of smoke from behind the store, immediately across the street from the barroom.
The increase in the light caused by these openings allowed Red and Lanky to secure better aim and soon the fire of the defenders died out.
As it touched the door, Lanky Smith, Hopalong and Red stepped out of the shelter of the woods and took up their positions behind the cabin, Lanky behind the northeast corner where he would be permitted to swing his right arm.
Lanky also ran in and Pete added five more yards to his advance.
His nearest rival was one minute over him and Lanky retained the championship.
Lanky sighed, threw the rope over one shoulder and departed after his friends.
Lanky was also very close in and was intently watching one particular rock.
Lanky Smith arose and, coiling his rope carefully, disappeared into the crowd.
Billy protected the horses, Hopalong and Skinny swept the knoll with a plunging fire, and Lanky and Buck lay in the course the besieged would most likely take if they tried a dash.
They sat in silence for a while; for the fat little Herr Pfarrer was dreaming of the past; and long, lanky Ulrich Nebendahl, the wheelwright, of the future.
These encased the feet articulated to the lanky legs of the tall young man, who had been enjoying a siesta of some ten or twelve hours' duration.
Presently he came back in company with a shambling youth of great length of limb and somewhat lanky frame.
They have dark, lanky hair, and are never in good condition.
Disappearing into the house, he returned almost immediately, followed by a lanky pale-faced youth wearing a tattered black soutane.
He was a tall, lanky sergeant, with a sinister face.
Taking this for permission, the lanky youth in the black soutane, who had remained at my bridle throughout the discussion, now listening and now staring, nodded and resumed his way; and I followed.
What haslanky Randall Burnley with his little six-roomed house to set against that?
Before him he saw Vlassitch's fence with a row of yellow acacias, which were tall and lanky too; where the fence was broken he could see the neglected orchard.
When it was ten or fifteen minutes to two the deacon would come in; he was a lanky young man of twenty-two, with long hair, with no beard and a hardly perceptible moustache.
They had the same melancholy and unhappy air as their owner Vlassitch, and looked as tall and lanky as he.
Almost simultaneously there appeared in the lower hall a lanky youth of eighteen.
Over in his corner by the window Poopendyke was at work, his lanky figure hunched over the key-board, his head enveloped in clouds from a busy pipe, for all the world like a tugboat smothering in its own low-lying smoke.
The lanky person settled himself comfortably and began on a confidential communication.
Her pale lanky hair could never be coaxed into permanent curl, and this morning the heat had brought it down to its natural condition of lankiness earlier than usual.
Near her stood a lanky girl who adored actors and tenors, and lived in the hope of meeting some of those gentlemen of the footlights, who plough their way so calmly through the hearts of maidens fresh from school.
Harriet was such a contrast to Jane, and looked more lanky and more pale than ever on this occasion.
It was by no means in Harriet's nature to accept any such position, and her lanky little figure and pale face seemed to bristle all over with suppressed passion when she was addressed in this way.
I am sure I don't know," said Harriet, who looked taller and more lanky than ever.
Dot saw the canalboat girl in her faded dress, and the lanky boatman, and she had to express her curiosity.
This Lorimer Spell, the fellow I saved, was a tall, lanky Texan who joined our command after we arrived in France.
The next player up was a tall, lankychap named Wilks.
Miss Villars arrived in the afternoon, bringing with her two shy, lanky girls of fourteen and fifteen.
There was a clatter of pails on the porch, and a tall, lanky boy peered wonderingly in through the screen door.
The worst of being long and lanky in a place like this is that you're always as stiff as a poker.
Seen to better advantage, he was sufficiently good-looking, with an elegant if somewhatlanky frame, a cheerful countenance, and a great brown moustache which gave him the air military.
However, Sally politely declined, as she really preferred very much to continue her walk with her lanky companion, to say nothing of Bedelia.
Once Sally wakened and, peeping out between the curtains—for the window was close to her bedside—beheld the long and lanky form of the Sign Post standing patiently at his place.
Pimodan came the Englishman in an instant recognised the cousin--the lanky fellow with the spectacles, who had injured his eyes by reading.
