He wore a very short-tailed coat, and had his hair brushed up in a high roach from his forehead, and these two facts conspired to give him a brisk and wide awake appearance as he stepped into the aisle holding a singing book in his hand.
The smart young man's eyebrows went up to meet his roach while he stood in the aisle astonished to see a lady in trailing black clothes pounce upon a child strange to the neighborhood, and exclaim over, and cover it with kisses.
Boston good-natured and was glad to see i was so mutch better and we had the roach and pickeril for supper and they was fine.
THE SUN AND THE BROOK The sun first sees the brook in the meadow where some roach swim under a bulging root of ash.
The hollow is illumined by the light which sinks through the stream outside the root; and beneath, in the green depth, five or six roach face the current.
And the perch and the roach and the ponderous bream, and the pike that is long of snout, they remained by the grassy waters.
Mr. Roach Smith supposes that the collyrium Anicetum of this stamp derives its name from being a preparation containing aniseed.
In Roach Smith's Catalogue of London Antiquities, No.
Roach Smith held that the principal gates were then Ludgate, Aldgate, and Bishopsgate.
Roach Smith thought that this earlier city was confined to the east side of the Walbrook, the approach from London Bridge forming its centre.
Roach Smith describes the foundations of a part of the river wall which was found extending from Lambeth Hill to Queenhythe, and again by Queen Street, along the north side of the street.
Roach Smith, indeed, even considered that it might have been the bridge by which Claudius is said to have crossed the river, and points out that the Itinerary shows that bridges were not uncommon in Britain.
An enamelled plate on which two beasts appear drinking from a vase, as so often found in early Christian art; probably, as suggested by Roach Smith, of the fifth or sixth century (Fig.
The last three have been figured by Roach Smith, and are also in the British Museum.
Roach Smith also testifies that no wall has been found crossing Gracechurch Street, "a fact that would support the opinion of its occupying the route of one of the Roman roads.
Mr. Roach Smith thought that certain remnants of thick walls found near Cannon Street in the south and Cornhill in the north were probably parts of earlier city walls.
A disc forming the head of a pin, on it an imperial head and a cross; probably Constantine's vision, as suggested by Roach Smith (Fig.
I have Roach Smith's original sketch of it, and a letter asking Fairholt to go and draw it more carefully.
It was the convict Roach who had pushed the door open and now stood with his swollen body and bestial face darkening the glory of the sunset without.
Roach recoiled, then sunk upon his knees with an abject whine for mercy.
With a yell Roach sprang to the door only to be confronted by the muzzle of Landless' pistol.
The swollen figure and dreadful face of Roach appeared at his side.
No: Barb had not seen him; but she had heard the overseer tell Luiz Sebastian to take two men and go to the strip of Orenoko between the inlet and the third tobacco house, and Luiz Sebastian, had been calling for Roach and Trail.
Roach made an irresolute motion or the hand that held the lists.
Then amidst a torrent of curses Roachmade for the door.
Roach changed the basilisk gaze with which he had regarded him to a vacant stare.
Landless caught him, saw that he was but stunned, and letting him drop to the floor at his feet, wrenched the sword from his hand, and stood over him, facing Roach with a stern smile.
The roach swam aside a yard or so from it, but showed no more fear than that it should not touch them.
Though they made such a splashing when Bevis looked over the railings a moment, he saw some little roach moving to and fro under the bough.
Mark kept his harpoon still till a larger roachcame slowly by within eighteen inches of the point, when he jerked it at the fish.
The length of the Roachis commonly between nine and ten inches, but sometimes much greater.
Later in the year the roach and dace were seen off Westminster, and several were caught below London Bridge, and in 1900 roach were seen and caught at Woolwich, but were soon poisoned and died.
Besides the estuary fish which naturally come up river, dace and roach began to come down into the tideway, and during the whole summer the lively little bleak swarmed round Chiswick Eyot.
A few roach were taken, and an eel; but the most interesting part of the catch was the smelts.
Kirkwall; as well as kind services rendered me in various ways by Charles Roach Smith, Esq.
The Roach and Dace bite all the day long at the Top of the Water at flies natural, and Artificial, also at Grass-hoppers, and all sorts of Worms, if the Water be shady.
I get tired of always coming out to catch little roach and dace and eels.
No, sir; but old Dimsted in the House used to tell us boys all about it, and how he used to catch jack and eels, and roach and perch, in the river.
Peter winked one eye as he scraped away some of the dry straw, and then turned over a quantity of the moist, rotten soil, displaying plenty of the glistening red worms suitable for the capture of roach and perch.
It was no credit to Dexter that he got hold of that fish, for the unfortunate roach had hooked itself.
There he found the rod floating close to the edge, and, securing it, he soon after drew in the loose branch he had cut off the tree, and disentangled his line, with the little roach still on the hook.
Still," broke out Mrs. Roach again, "why was it at Paris?
Scatchard Vialls threatened to lead them too far, and Mrs. Roach interposed with firmness.
To suppose that Wakem had the same sort of inveterate hatred toward Tulliver that Tulliver had toward him would be like supposing that a pike and a roach can look at each other from a similar point of view.
On one occasion Midshipman Isaacs came up to the captain and reported that a quarter-gunner named Roachhad deserted his post.
Roach only take a fly as a rule in very hot weather when they are near the surface, or early in the season when they are on the shallows; the others will take it freely all through the summer.
There are instances of individuals heavier than this, one or two roach and many rudd of over 3 lb being on record, while dace have been caught up to 1 lb 6 oz.
Roman villa at Hartlip, in Kent, and are taken from ROACH SMITH'S 'Collectanea.
Until some equally unpolitical and unofficial body refutes it, the treatment Mr. Roach has received will be set down to other motives than the best.
It is necessary to guard against birds which show any tendency toward crooked or roach back, hump back, crooked tails, or twisted wings.
Once a great segment of a wood-roach was too much for the gallant line clinging to the sides of the pit, and the whole load broke loose and rolled to the bottom.
An individual roach being torn to pieces moves one but slightly.
Here and there the huge soldiers walked slowly along the outskirts, directing stragglers, looking for danger, snapping at any roach or strange ant which rushed frantically by, and holding it until it was carried off by nearby workers.
The former constituents of the line had clung to the roach segment through all its wild descent, and until it came to rest at the bottom.
Just like shoals ofroach in the Lea or the New River.
Putting some of the roachinto a bait-can, they rowed to the pool where the big pike lay, and first of all tried him with a live bait.
Frank was fishing for roach in the clear slow stream, and Jimmy was perusing the newspaper in which the provisions had been wrapped.
