They stopped, and staring through the scraggly trees, made out the figures of half a dozen men busily at work upon the erection of a low, rambling building.
Then a figure came out of the woods just ahead of him, cut across the road and detoured into the scraggly hills on the other side, without noticing the approaching Houston in the shadows.
Then, roaring and chortling with the beginning of battle, the machine swept away toward the slight turn that indicated the scraggly end of the little town of Dominion, and the beginning of the first grade.
At first Bilbil protested that he did not want to be restored to his natural shape, saying that he had been forever disgraced in the eyes of his people and of the entire world by being obliged to exist as a scrawny, scraggly goat.
She could see nothing of the fellow in the darkness, but had formed an impression that he was of medium size, his face covered with a scraggly beard.
The large man, a rather heavy-footed fellow, withscraggly grey moustache, turned to his companion.
All of which greatly delighted Grandpa, and he cackled till his scraggly beard was damp with happy tears.
They followed him into a scraggly orchard, and he broke a crotched limb from a tree.
The scraggly ridge dimly outlined by the fire on shore could hardly be other than Cod Lead, where Colonel Gideon Ward and Eleazar Bodge were languishing.
The Cap'n, glancing behind, noted that a certain scraggly island had once more slid into view from behind a wooded head.
Hosses," answered Watts with an important jerk at his scraggly beard.
Not a sound greeted my ears except the thud of rain upon sod roofs, the drip of water through stunted, scraggly trees.
A buck deer left off polishing his new horns on a scraggly timberline tree to look at me.
The common pear, introduced from Europe; a frequent escape from cultivation throughout New England and elsewhere; becomes scraggly and shrubby in a wild state.
And sure enough, around a double curve in the road we came upon a single clump of the scraggly pitch pines.
What resemblance is there between that scraggly girl with her starved face and your poor, dead wife.
His thinness and his small stature were made up for by the length of his blond mustache that curled around his pink little nose as if it were trying to reach the straight, scraggly bangs on his forehead.
Small wonder was it that he cried out in anguish, for the side of the hill down which the old mule was loping was as steep as the side of a house, and plentifully bestrewn with rocks, inter-grown with rough scraggly brush.
Foot-hills covered with scanty growth, and here and there a clump of scraggly cottonwoods intersected by deep gullies, and dry watercourses, were the chief features of the scenery.
Anthony found himself associating his own existence with that of the apartment's night elevator man, a pale, scraggly bearded person of about sixty, with an air of being somewhat above his station.
His platoon sergeant, Pop Donnelly, was a scraggly "old soldier," worn thin with drink.
The trunk of the hickory is unique in appearance as the bark separates from the tree in long platelike strips which hang on at one end and give the scraggly appearance from which the tree derives its name.
Because rough winds had swept over this while it was growing, its branches were scraggly and twisted.
Think of my little scraggly geraniums and oleanders and cactuses I've carried round in my hands all winter and been proud on.
She would be so happy for Uncle Darcy's sake and so interested in knowing that her own little daughter had had an important part in finding the good news that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.
On a high sand dune, covered with thin patches of beach and poverty grass, and a sparse growth of scraggly pines, it was a desolate spot at any time, and now doubly so in the gathering twilight.
For an hour he followed it through the scraggly timber and across patches of open tundra and narrow beaver meadows.
Mile after mile he swung across the barrens that lay trackless, and white, and dead, skirting towering rock ledges and patches of scraggly timber.
She went a few rods, found herself in a thick tangle of brush through which she could not force her way, started to back out, and caught her hair on a scraggly scrub which seemed to have as many prongs as there are briers on a rosebush.
Good Indian let go her arm, and began helpfully striving with the scraggly scrub and its prongs.
Something had taken off the tops of half a dozen tall, scraggly pines.
The meadow was bordered by pines that stuck their spires into the sky and Ralph thought for a time that it would be impossible to avoid their scraggly tops and get into the meadow.
Patches of scraggly sagebrush grew here and there, and out near the cliffs on the sloping lava sides was a field of golden California poppies.
And the warden would have handed it to him, despite his past experience with the beast; but suddenly the coyote headed straight off for a low manzanita bush that stood up amid the scraggly sagebrush back from the shore.
Stunted vegetation grew around, withscraggly wild grass and a few snow-line flowers, for this was on the snow-line, several melting banks glistening in the morning sun about me.
Grim shadows began to surround Peter, and his ears shot up, and a scragglybrush stood out along his spine.
It seemed for a time that Peter was dead; and in those moments Jolly Roger put his arms about him and buried his despairing face in Peter's scraggly neck, calling in a wild fit of anguish for him to come back, to live, to open his eyes again.
His lean and scraggly face was alight with a sinister exultation as he paused for a moment close to the rock behind which Peter was hidden, and Peter's fangs lay bare and his body trembled while the man stood there.
