It was hard work to talk for two, and keep the ball of courtship rolling after the approved fashion of Kentish Town, when the slouching young Boer would only grunt in reply, or twinkle at her out of his piggish eyes.
With a proportionally enormous head, in form somewhat between that of the elephant and of the rhinoceros, minute sunken piggish eyes, and a short proboscis like that of the tapir, he carried two pairs of dissimilar horns.
Peter Dieman again sat in his little black office in The Die, smoking his scandalous pipe, rubbing his red hands, and squinting his piggish eyes; and giving vent occasionally to devlish outbursts of perfect satisfaction.
As they drew near and saluted smartly, the little piggish eyes of Sergeant Legros took in every detail of their uniform.
It can be condensed into two short words--piggish greed; piggish because it knows neither right nor justice, greed because it is greed.
To be piggish as you and I have been all our lives does not seem to be just the thing for immortals to be doing.
Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.
And in this piggish scramble the strong obtain more and the weak less than is needed while enough is wasted to amply supply the whole.
To feast upon some cherry stones The young un's almost wild, And rolls amongst the dust and bones, What a piggish child!
And the ladies, striking their glasses, repeated in chorus in the midst of a formidable gaiety: "What a piggish child!
A good half hour or more he'll stay, And that makes me so riled, He swigs it half upon his way: What a piggish child!
The whole neighborhood was singing "What a piggish child!
His piggish eyes were turned sideways, as though he thought the performance worth looking at; but, beyond that, he did not disturb himself.
