His shifty eyes surveyed the other's figure--the corduroys, the high laced boots, the soft blue flannel shirt.
A thin beard covered his chin, and his shifty look, as he turned it first on Harry and then nervously over his shoulder, had in it a hunted dread, a dogging terror, constant and indefinable.
I sat down beside it to finish my time of waiting, not quite sure whether to be crestfallen over having made an unnecessary sensation, or to be distrustful of the butler, with his shifty face.
He was glib enough now, but his shifty eyes were moving about, as though looking with a certain apprehension for someone to arrive.
When King John in England violated the rights of his people, Innocent put the country under an Interdict, released John's subjects from their allegiance and promptly brought the shifty Plantagenet to terms.
The white man's burden has been to carry the Indian, instilling into him all the vices, until no longer he could cling to his shifty master and was shaken off to destruction.
Agnes stepped forward and looked fairly into his shifty eyes.
Garvington scowled and ambled out of the room, closely followed by his cousin, who did not think it wise to lose sight of so shifty a person.
His shifty cousin was now dead and there was no longer any danger that the honor of the family, for which so much had been sacrificed, both by himself and Agnes, would be smirched.
He has such a shifty look, and might have done some great wrong, he has that half-frightened glance as though he feared detection.
She had innumerable tricks of indication in these shifty pretty ways of hers, and was full of varying speech to the cunning reader of her.
But the woman had been fond of the Black Rogue, thief though he was, and she shrank from the Shifty Lad in horror, and set the people after him, and he had to fly to another part of the country where none knew of his doings.
Perhaps if the Shifty Lad's mother knew anything of all this, she may have thought that by this time her son might be tired of stealing, and ready to try some honest trade.
After this the Black Rogue and the Shifty Lad grew bolder and bolder, and stole great quantities of cattle and sold them and grew quite rich.
The Shifty Lad felt nothing, but as he approached the king's daughter to ask her to be his partner he caught sight of the black dot in a silver mirror.
She stood in the centre of the ring for a moment, looking at one man after another, and then held out the apple to the Shifty Lad, who was twisting a shaving of wood round his finger, and had the mouthpiece of a bagpipe hanging from his neck.
In this way the Shifty Lad won the king's daughter, and they were married the next day.
You can't imagine what a funny feeling hanging gives you,' murmured the Shifty Lad, who looked rather purple in the face and spoke in an odd voice.
There was a great throng, and while they were pressing through the doorway the Wise Man, who had a bottle of black ointment hidden in his robes, placed a tiny dot on the cheek of the Shifty Lad near his ear.
The Black Rogue drew up the rope, but in half a minute the Shifty Lad's legs began to shake, and he quickly let it down again.
Then the Shifty Lad entered the room and picked up a big handful of nuts, and returned to the loft, where the Black Rogue was still sleeping.
Every evening after dark the Shifty Lad went to the home of the Black Gallows Bird, and many were the new tricks he learned.
But Tom was looking deep into theshifty blue eyes of his antagonist when he fired, and he saw that he had not wholly missed.
The promoter's shifty blue eyes were always at the point of lighting up with enthusiasm; the son's, of precisely the same hue, were cold and calmly calculating.
One might have read therein some shifty and devious plan of Waldron's to dominate even Flint himself, to rule the master or to wreck him, and to seize in his own hands the reins of universal power.
He had a sinister look and shifty eyes, and replied in curt ungenial tones to the few words addressed to him.
The man had faced round towards the door, and the dim light of the candle disclosed the narrow features, low receding forehead, thin lips, and shifty eyes of Pablo Quintanar.
Instinctively he threw a furtive, backward glance at the prisoner, then he raised his shifty eyes to his colleague.
He paused, looking intently on his colleague, whose shifty eyes encountered his own.
We do not, however, find anything nowadays so ancient in the "Angel," for every vestige of the building in which that shifty and evasive monarch lodged has disappeared.
I don't say I can lick him, for they tell me he's a right shifty guy and has some punch, but I can keep him interested until he's ready to call it a day.
The Maroon played a shifty game, changing her plays often, seldom attacking the same place twice no matter what gains might result.
Of what use are our most solemn enactments, I may even ask of what use is the Legislature itself, chosen by the will of the people, if they are to ruthlessly be set aside by criminals and their shifty protectors?
But if he's shifty and is able to fool the enemy by putting on a little extra steam at just the right moment or by slowing down in such a way that the tackler doesn't know what to expect, he has a tremendous advantage.
Her fearless level eyes met squarely his shifty ones and read there something she could dread without understanding, something that was an undefined sacrilege of her sweet purity.
There could be no mistaking those leering, cruel eyes nor the ratlike, shifty look of the face, not to mention the long scar across it.
He studied again the thin face, the haggardness that comes of opium, the nervous fingers, the vacant shifty gaze of those on the sharp edge of sanity.
A few gray outriders reconnoitred over the horizon line and sent scurrying to their hovels those who looked up at them fromshifty eyes.
Skidder's small, shifty eyes were blinking furiously and his essentially suspicious mind was also operating at full speed.
He was genuinely pleased; for the shifty little cockney was fond of his big dark wife, and proud of her too, as small men often are of wives that o’ertop them.
No, sir,” Watkins spoke meekly now, but something far from meekness lurked in his shifty eyes.
He shuffled one foot as he said it, and a dull red light came in his shifty eyes.
It was the hunting-ground of all the cosmopolitan riff-raff, all the shifty hordes of exotics who had gradually foregathered and silently slipped into France after the war of 1870.
