I shudder to think of the messy nights I must inevitably have suffered had all those lurking thunder-storms that I weathered so snugly caught me in blankets.
Here, either snags or slightly submerged boulders made a messy stretch of water that I saw at a glance it would not do to get a boat into.
It was a distinctly messy piece of work, though, and I was glad that Ike or Captain Armstrong was not there to see their teachings put into practice.
Just as I began to spurt past her down through the jumping white caps she did a sort of a side-slip and crowded me out of the channel and into a rather messy souse-hole.
It is true that Mary's painting tackle greatly distressed her hostess, partaking as it did of the nature of things "messy and slummicky," which her soul abhorred.
That was the path that carried me over my particular messymorass (that, and my acquisitive spirit that objected to giving up part of my goods and chattels!
Fried sheep eaten with the fingers is rather messy at times.
Messy old party, the Colonel, and I understand he's tryin' to induce 'em to make trouble.
All through the rest of that messysession I'd glance now and then at K.
Not that she's messy about it, or intends to be mean.
They pondered this and another remarked, "Peat's terrible messy stuff and bad to dry at back end o' year.
What a very heaven the messy towers and ramparts of vast Mars Saba looked to us when we caught a first glimpse of them!
Before them are empty tin biscuit-boxes full of sand, in which are stuck messy little tapers.
Sherm stalked off disgustedly and was soon back with a gloriously messy batch of clay which he dashed painstakingly into the crack and into sundry other cracks that his keen eyes discovered.
The moment the last morsel had vanished the boys cleared out for the ball field and the little girls looked longingly after them, as they surveyed the messy dishes.
A case in point is a messy affair we cleared up recently.
Inside, the greenish reflected light was thickened by wisps of steam rising from the table, now messy with spilled wine and gravy and the debris of the dinner.
On both sides were rows of sheds, workshops with beams and brickwork exposed so that they seemed unfinished, a messy collection of masonry.
Curly hair's messy looking," he observed after a considerable pause during which, evidently, his thoughts had remained centred on this pleasing theme.
Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated.
And yet, as contentious and frustrating and messy as our democracy can sometimes be, I know there isn't a person here who would trade places with any other nation on Earth.
And if he's at all messy about it, I give you leave to roll him downstairs.
Young hick that got messy in the tango joint," says Jim.
She wasn't going to have a whole mob coming round every day and being Bohemians all over the place, it being not only messy but repugnant alike to sound morality and Christian enlightenment.
We do know where our things are, and the cupboards and drawers are really not messyat all.
Evidently the attractions of her messy kitchen were more to her taste than the wholesome air of outdoors.
Food, high in calories and small in bulk, was a necessity on their excursions and nourishing pemmican high in protein quickly replaced the cloying and messy candybar.
Well it was kind of messy down there," Hamish said.
Forgotten now the fact that, save for the shrouding of her messy hair, she stood naked.
At sight of it, at vision of that messy crown of hair and of those gray, penetrant, questioning eyes, the man's spent breath quickened.
I guess it was ten o'clock before we were through the messy breakfast, and then most of the gang went off fishing and fooling around.
In the days when our fathers were boys, salves and arnica and all kinds of messy stuff were used; but the world has found that all Nature asks is a chance to go ahead, herself, without interference.
This fibre stuff holds enough water to keep them damp all the time, and it isn't messy in the house like dirt.
It's rather messy looking as it is," commented Ethel Brown.
The entire exhibit is spoiled when it looks messy and huddled up.
Uncle Rufus says she got in thatmessy condition before lunch, chasing the hens out of their seven senses.
Lifting out a huge shovelful of dirt, there were scattered all about the path a great number of swollen and messy brown things that, for a moment, the girls did not identify.
When I opened the box and saw all that nice messy putty stuff, I sat down on the spot and created a statue of Singapore.
He has instituted a physiology class, and has separated the children into small groups, so that they may come to his house, where he has a manikin that comes apart and shows all its messy insides.
This is an awfully messy letter, but I'm dashing it off in three minutes in order to catch you before you definitely engage that pleasant, inefficient middle-aged person without a chin.
He would leave his clothes about for her to pick up, and his towels in a messy heap on the bathroom floor, and he never scrubbed out the tub.
