I'll make it a durned sight seriouser for you if you don't keep them splay feet o'your'n offen my heels when we're marching.
Though his gait was shambling and his huge splay feet rose and fell in the most awkward way, he went over the ground with a swiftness that made it rather doubtful whether Jake was gaining on him at all.
If I had been obliged to look at him with him splay foot on Mr. Wickfield's head, I think I could scarcely have hated him more.
Seeing that what he said had no effect on me or any of us, he sat on the edge of his table with his hands in his pockets, and one of his splay feet twisted round the other leg, waiting doggedly for what might follow.
If I had been obliged to look at him with his splay foot on Mr. Wickfield's head, I think I could scarcely have hated him more.
But if they caught a bagre fish, he would turn his head the other way and then run away home just as fast as his splay feet would take him.
His great splaybeard flowed sidewise in the evening wind.
He had the splay shovel beard described to us in Zanzibar--big dark man, sitting in the doorway of a tent all hung with guns, skins and antlers.
He overreaches at every step, and rattles his great splay hoofs against one another like some one playing castanets.
They are boldly splayed off, and in the middle of the splay is set a shaft, which finishes with a sculptured capital.
The abacus from which this springs is carried across as a stringcourse, and in the space enclosed between it and the arch is a round-headed window, with a broad external splay and plain label moulding.
The second or intermediate stage is arcaded, and has its angles planned with a shaft set in a broad splay precisely in the mode we see so commonly adopted in the Segovian towers.
On the exterior all these windows are remarkable for a very wide splay from the face of the wall to the glass--a feature of early work in England, and usually preceding the common use of glass.
Almost the only peculiarity in the detail here is the wide, external splay of the windows between the glass and the jamb-shafts in the centre of the monials.
Beautiful Dog rolled his eyes at his god, swung his tail, waggled his ears, made uncouth movements with his splay feet, and grinned from ear to ear.
Harry Luttrell joined Millie Splay upon the stairs and stopped her before she entered the breakfast-room.
I am not trying to frighten you," Millie Splay returned.
The door from the hall was opened upon that cry of gratitude and Millie Splay looked in.
Millie Splay had more reason to repeat the words before the week was out.
Stella's not well," Millie Splay took up the tale.
Millicent Splay rang for tea, just as Joan Whitworth came into the hall.
Millie Splay brought her back to her self-control with a sharp cry of rebuke.
The second letter had been sent from Rackham Park, and in it Millie Splay wrote: "We have not heard from you for years.
Millie Splay in her desire to spare her darling the sudden shock of learning what calamity had befallen the house that night had bidden Joan's maid keep silence.
Dennis Brown returned "Form at a Glance" to his pocket; and Millie Splaydrew Harry Luttrell away from the group.
She hasn't come down yet," she said, and Millie Splay seized upon the words.
There was only one at Rackham Park who did, and to him Millie Splay turned instinctively.
Millie Splay rose from her chair swiftly and rang the bell; and when Harper answered it, she said: "Will you ask Jenny to come here?
But Millie Splay was busy with telegrams to Robert Croyle and Stella's own friends, and all the sad little duties which wait on death; and Joan ran down into the midst of the debate without a warning.
By a good chance he found Joan with Millie Splay and Sir Chichester alone.
It's not as bad as all that, dear," Lady Splay hastened to reassure her.
They are surrounded by a broad hollow splay framed by thin shafts resting on corbels and bearing a head, a flat ogee in shape, but broken by two hanging points; one of the most common shapes for a Manoelino window.
Like the jambs, the arch has a splay which is divided into small panels.
All the arches are round with a big splay on each side carved with four-leaved flowers.
You could see no more of their figures than if they had been stuffed in bolsters; and even their feet were brought to a general splay uniformity by the double yellow slippers which the wives of true believers wear.
The tall horse galloped down the hill, but the Colonel stood up, and, with elbows akimbo and hands under his chin, yanked the animal to a standstill, his splay feet skating through the highway dust.
Foe's splay claws grabbed him around the neck and clutched him like a vise, shutting off his last, startled squawk.
The long bay with a deep splay is from the 13th century.
A walled-up Romanesque bay with a deep splay is on the right, with an arch formed by a row of small granite quoins.
At Salo there is a Gothic church with windows which have a wide external splay and an enriched brick moulding or label all round them.
The windows all have a deep splay outside, very simple stone traceries, and glass fitted to wooden frames placed inside against the stonework.
Up till this time the loopholes of castles had been purely for light and not for shooting; anyone may see that it is impossible to take aim through an immensely thick wall unless there is a downward splay to increase the field of vision.
But no near aim could be taken without a downward splay to the window, and the bows of the 11th and 12th centuries were incapable of a long aim.
Internal cornices and string-courses are in marble, and are all of the same type, a splay and fillet.
There is a triumphal arch and one blocked window in the apse, with mosaic on the splay of the jamb.
The opposite side has a square tower at the angle to the right, and to the left the house of the governor just beyond the entrance-gate; the walls splay out widely to the bottom of the ditch.
One of the gentlemen stood within the splay of a window looking forth; and if he were a merchant or a scholar 't were no easy matter to tell.
They found the little Prince in a round chamber in one of the turrets, where he sat on a cushion within the splay of a narrow window, reading a book.
But the jambs of this window incline or splay internally, so as to form on the internal plane of the gable an opening 2 feet 3 inches in breadth.
The thin single flat sandstones composing the jambs are each large enough to extend backwards the whole length of the interior splay of the window, and, from the marks upon them, have evidently been hammer-dressed.
