How long do you think it'll be before he gets tired of a scrubby room in a scrubby hotel?
Presently the man with the scrubby beard broke the quiet.
Stephen was the last except the Professor and the man with the scrubby beard.
Yet in this last lurked opportunities for argument; and argue they did, sometimes long into the night, the little man known as the Professor and the rangy individual with the scrubby beard showing the greatest vehemence.
Beyond the woods where these birds live, we come out on scrubby fields, often full of thistles, and spotted with furze-bushes.
At one in the afternoon we are got to Leissow and Bischofsee; scrubby hamlets (as the rest all are), not above two miles from Kunersdorf.
Soltikof, drawn up amid scrubby woods and sluggish intricate brooks, is about a mile to east of him.
She carried a child's parasol, which she was careful not to tear against the scrubby branches and bramble bushes as she sought for wild poppies along the edge of the fence.
Confused sounds followed the detonation, but it became evident to Frank, now quivering with excitement, that three separate persons were smashing through scrubby undergrowth as fast as they could manage.
On one hand there were rocks and scrubby pines, with larger trees behind, but he wondered what the result would be if a reef or a jutting point lay in front of them.
He left the beach with the boys, but they dropped behind him and let him take the lead when they reached the scrubby firs which were scattered more or less thickly about the rocky ground.
I can go no farther," he exclaims, dropping down in a huddled heap at the foot of a scrubby pine-tree like a bag of old clothes.
It was steep--verging on the precipitous in places--and Jane frankly expressed her satisfaction when we accomplished the worst part and entered a dense jungle ofscrubby bushes, all of which seemed to grow spines of sorts.
It is hoped that the scrubby western end of Kangaroo Island, where foxes are unknown, will prove a suitable sanctuary for them.
It retires in large companies to low scrubby islands to breed.
Though common in places, he is seldom noticed, but if you sit down in a quiet scrubby corner, his inquisitiveness will often impel him to run almost over your feet.
Scrubby little runts that had been raised out in the hills and was all bone and muscle, and any one of 'em able to do a mile in four minutes flat, I guess.
Pretty soon another load of steers is ready--my sakes, what scrubby runts we sent off the range in them days compared to now!
The scrubby brush was almost like a grove of small trees, for it reached as high as the heads of the two girls, neither of whom was very tall.
But finally they reached a broad hillside closely covered with scrubby brush, through which the wagon could not pass.
The property across the road from Old Crompton's hut belonged to Alton Forsythe, Laketon's wealthiest resident--hundreds of acres of scrubby woodland that he considered well nigh worthless.
In front of them extended a long pool of water, with a scrubby growth around the edges.
Above the Village, after coming from the Mountains, the banks of it are boggy; especially the western bank, which spreads out into a scrubby waste of moor, for some good space.
We can see them among the scrubby trees between Lombard's Kop and Umbulwaana (or Bulwaan as it is more generally called), and hurrying off behind that hill along the road that leads southwards.
From that point the Helpmakaar road leads straight round a scrubby nek where the Boers have thrown up a formidable series of earthworks.
Here the Devons are posted at the heel of the shoe, which juts into a scrubbyflat pointing towards the neck between Lombard's Kop and Bulwaan.
The thirty-eight miles from Nhangue to Pungo extend through and mainly across a series of ridges and hollows sparsely covered with scrubby timber.
The favorite nesting haunts are isolated patches or clumps of scrubby cedars, with scant foliage, on the summits of the scarped canon slopes, and in the thick cedar "brakes.
Here in Central America, through 8 or 9 months out of the 12, this well-known bird occupies the same place in dooryard, garden, hedgerow and scrubby pasture as during its briefer sojourn in the more northerly regions where it nests.
The atheist, in these days, is the champion and the leader of a scrubby lot of social and religious ideas.
And the gleaming ring on the scrubby small finger!
A little distance from the tilt he turned down to the lake shore, lined here by scrubby willow brush, in the hope of finding willow ptarmigans, white grouse of the North, feeding upon the tender ends of the willows.
