The way is over the ferry and along the road to the first signboard, when one strikes northward towards Ford, and comes suddenly upon thissquat and solid fane.
This gross, squat man had become something terrible to him.
He indicated the squat figure of Bat Harker leaning against some bales piled on the quay.
Now he looked down at the square-headed creature with his gross, squat body.
He was standing beside the tall figure of the missionary now, squat and sturdy, looking on with half-angry, wholly anxious eyes.
She missed the squat figure in the chair she usually occupied.
It was a different Elas Peterman who confronted the squat figure of Nathaniel Hellbeam.
Some expose themselves to the Indian sun at midday in May, others will squat for hours in feverish swamps.
The sun was powerful, so I elected tosquat in the shade close by the trunk of the smallest of the trees.
The regional skill in sculpture appears in the capitals of the main piers, where the story is related with animation, even if the figures are too squat and the heads too large.
The large statues, eminently architectural, at the famous door of St. Trophime, are as sturdy andsquat as the images on early Christian tombs.
To the left the large doorways are mere shops, with a kind of narrow verandah on which the purchasers squat when buying goods.
Inside the partly demolished wall of one house we were forced to squat on a staging, peeping at the enemy, who was not more than twenty yards off, lying perdu just behind a confused mass of low-lying barricades.
The Chinese city is oblong; the Tartar city is squat and square and overlaps and dominates the northern walls of the older city.
A wild stretch of sickly yellow fungus was interspersed here and there with a squat toadstool, or a splash of vivid color where one of the many rusts had found a foothold.
He caught a flash of pink skin vanishing behind a squat toadstool, and he ran forward calling her name.
He crouched beneath a squat toadstool and waited for the dawn.
Did it perhaps squat there along with another night-moth?
Or I shall let thee squatwhere thou squattest, Haltfoot,--and I carried thee HIGH!
They are ever conspicuously ground birds, walkers, and when disturbed at their dinner, prefer to squat on the earth rather than expose themselves by flight.
Why could he not with such display most impress McGlenn, the Scotch factor, with the importance of his hunting ground, and where could better display be made than upon the broad back of his squat squaw Bigbeam?
The palace of the ruler of the Scaly Ones was a squat gray building in the center of the city.
They weresquat and heavy men, those torturers, evidently of the most brutal and debased type that Lansa had been able to find.
The casements of one of the square, squat windows were thrown widely open.
Perhaps after all, these little squat Pueblo Indians knew what they were doing when they built so high above the dust storms.
First, as to his house: from the outside you see the typical squat adobe oblong so suited to a climate where hot winds are the enemies to comfort.
Twenty years ago, you could squat on Imperial Valley Land.
Closing the vista rose a squat doorway, ivy-hung; and tumbled upon the grass beside it, attacking now a great book and now a russet pippin, lay a lad in a blue jerkin.
He looked down into the moat well stocked with crocodiles, great fish his mercenaries, paid with flesh, and he looked at the tunal which ringed the moat as the moat ringed the squat white fortress.
He turned to the squat figure beside him for corroboration, but Sunny took up the matter from across the semicircle.
Toby Jenks was as short and squat as his friends were long and thin.
Docchi shook off the squat contrivance which, after it touched his flesh, whirred puzzledly to itself.
Another extensible emerged from the squat body; the tip flashed a light toward the outside.
With ingenuity that was unexpected in robots they had mounted it on four of their smaller brethren, the squat repair robots.
On being told to come in they leave their footgear on the doorstep, enter my little study, prostrate themselves; and we all squat down together on the floor, which is in all Japanese houses like a soft mattress.
She evidently intended to squat between this fair girl and myself.
She loves to brood over her wrongs or anything else she can find to squat on.
Strangers calling for their squator unsquat dough, will have to be identified.
He stood up and turned towards the squatgrey immensity of the house.
To do this, they squat on their hams, and rapidly gnaw through the stems of trees from six to twelve or fourteen inches in diameter, with their powerful incisors.
He came up with long strides of his skeleton legs, swinging a staff as tall as himself, and, entering the common room of the station, would squat on his heels to the left of the door.
Those warriors would squat in long rows, four or more deep, before the verandah, while their chiefs bargained for hours with Makola over an elephant tusk.
Towards noon all who can, return to the village, those who cannot, after having eaten in the forest, squat themselves on the ground to rest.
The courtyards were alive with the squat figures of capped maidens, wreathing and twisting greens and garlands.
