Plump on his nose, by lucky hap, An acorn fell: he waked, and in The matted beard that graced his chin, He found the cause of such a bruise As made him different language use.
Beneath his matted brow there lay An eye that squinted every way; A crooked nose and monstrous lips he bore, And goat-skin round his trunk he wore, With bulrush belt.
The sides were too steep and matted for horses to travel, and he who stood in the ravine had his back and flanks defended.
Ringan was whistling softly through his teeth, while I scanned the half moon of rock and matted vines which made our shelter.
I found every movement painful in that rough and matted place.
I gave one look, and then turned to my own business, for as the dead man fell another leaped from the matted cliffs.
The woods were one medley of fallen trees, rotting into touchwood, hidden boulders, and matted briers.
They were picked minutely clean, except for a portion of the skull, where the long, strong, densely matted hair seemed to have served as an effective armor.
Some inkling of his purposes he confided to the girl, who stood looking up at him with eyes of dog-like devotion from under the matted splendor of her hair.
Perhaps half a mile up the shore a spit of land ran out against the current, and behind its shelter an eddy had collected a mass of uprooted trees and other flood refuse, all matted with green from the growth of wind-borne seeds.
Presently he seized the two nearest by their matted manes, and flung them headlong in.
Out from a little side-track on the right came lumbering a gigantic rhinoceros, his creased and folded hide clothed in matted brown wool and caked with clay.
He had been so repulsive before, with his hair all matted and his face discolored by bruises; now his hair was clipped short and was very soft and black and shiny.
He had a black beard and his face was all streaked with mud and dirt, and there was mud even in his matted hair.
Then he turned to the side table to take a drink of schnapps--on the edge of it was Nireeungo's head with its two long plaits of jet-black hair hanging down, and dripping an ensanguined stream upon the matted floor.
The pitiless sun, the salt tides drunk up to their spongy bulbs, and their glory passed--they would be matted refuse on the shores and a man could trample them.
The feathery roots matted across his chest, the mass of them felt slimy like the hide of a drowned brute.
But spoiled silage and silage matted with mold is dangerous and should not be fed.
Liebig's extract of beef, and drops of perspiration continued to trickle from theirmatted hair.
Drops of perspiration came one by one from their matted hair, and their hands dampened the paper upon which they wrote.
Here I sank panting and trembling upon the matted grasses beneath the giant trees, for I felt that I had escaped from the grinning fangs of death out of the depths of my own grave.
As I touched the ground I snatched a broken limb from the tangled mass that matted the jungle-like floor of the forest and, leaping unnoticed behind the shaggy back, dealt the brute a terrific blow.
He bent his head and stood looking thoughtfully at the mattedstraw under foot.
For a moment Christopher stared silently down at the matted straw.
First a long wain covered in by a tilt so high I trove that meseemed many a town gate might be over low to let it pass; and it was drawn by four right small little horses, with dark matted coats and bright, wilful eyes.
It grows on little hillocks of two or three feet in diameter, and as many or more in height, in large tufts, which seemed to be composed of the roots of the plant matted together.
There hung at this end of the hut a matted bag or basket, in which was a piece of roasted yam, and some sort of leaves, all quite fresh.
These grow in spreading irregular bushes armed with strong spines, and where matted with other shrubs form a mass of vegetation through which it is impossible to penetrate.
What the colonists term `brush' lands are those covered with tall trees growing so near each other and being so closely matted together by underwood, parasites, and creepers, as to be wholly impassable.
Central Australia, and made of emu feathers matted together.
It is not unlike the matted hair of a bull, and is reddish in colour, hence perhaps this nickname, which is common in the Tasmanian bush.
In Tom's chamber the soiled uniform was removed, the mattedhair laid back, the parched lips moistened, the unconscious invalid clothed in linen white and clean.
Abraham stooped and parted the matted beard from the fevered lips, and laid back the tangled hair from the brow.
Through this we rode for more than 15 miles, to the great labour of our animals, as the soil was loose, and we had constantly to turn suddenly to avoid the matted and fallen timber.
The surface of the country is undulating, covered in many places by scrub, and the trees being very short-lived, the whole is matted with dead timber, and difficult of access.
We lost the flats, on a general coating of sand thickly matted with spinifex, through which it was equally painful to ourselves and poor Punch to tread.
At this moment, the matted hair was thrown back from his eyes, and the dust having somewhat settled away, he sighted me, where I stood reloading my gun.
But for the thick matted hair it would have done so, but this saved him, and he continued to sprawl and struggle at the end of the rope.
The broad leaves of a plantain, or, a palm with its matted vines, afford them shelter during the day, whilst a kennel on the ground, keeps off the rains or night dews.
Her streaming golden hair, matted with mold and dead leaves, hung wet and cold over her shoulders.
True, the matted locks of black hair were too thick for those of age, but they were thickly streaked with silver threads.
Her head fell back helplessly, and the wet and matted locks of gold trailed over the velvet carpet, drenching it with rain-drops.
He was still in hiding when Jasper Swope came to and sat up, his hair drenched with water and matted with dirt.
The roots were all twisted and matted together, quite filling up the cavities in the case around the nuts; yet the nut-case was hard and showed no signs of decay, so that it is difficult to say how the young plants free themselves.
Or you may encounter yet more primitive creatures, forest boys, clad in leather, with wild eyes and matted locks, that take an elvish delight in misdirecting you.
But the exotic feature of the grove is its wealth of creeping vines that clamber up the trunks, swinging from one tree-top to another, and allowing the merest threads of sunlight to filter through their matted canopy.
The matted masses of chapparal, sprinkled in spots with small patches of prairie, formed an almost impassable barrier on both sides of the road along which we were forced to advance.
Stout buckskin leggings, hunting shirt, and cap, protect the ranger's body from the sharp spines of aloes, or the briars and branches of the matted forest.
These thorny groves are to be found in all sections of the south, varying in size from a few yards to a mile in thickness, so closely interlaced and matted with briers and bushes as to prevent the passage of animals larger than a hare.
She even seemed not to notice Little Brother's matted coat.
Little Brother rolled into a lot of sand-burrs and got his fur so matted that he looked worse than ever.
All the males had the barbote in the lip, and had exceptionally thick hair, matted with grease and mud.
Strings of feathers or wool are twisted around ankles and wrists, while the thickly matted hair is adorned with plumes, standing upright.
Frequently the grave is so shallow that the matted hair may be seen coming out at the top.
The Craigs' house was built on the Japanese plan with matted floors, and screened partitions.
Each one of the party removed her shoes and slipped on a pair of straw slippers before stepping upon the soft, cool matted floor.
This was served to her upon a little lacquered table about a foot high while she ate seated on a flat cushion laid upon the matted floor.
The circle of little girls sitting on the matted floor looked up also, their serious faces broadening into smiles as they beheld Jack.
This ceremony over, she was taken to another matted room where, as she told her sisters afterward, she hung up her clothes on the floor and listened to what they were saying in the next room.
