Suddenly he realized that the door of the squattylittle coquina rock building had been closed, for no longer did the light spread a banner out into the black night.
With the glorious flush of victory thrilling his whole frame Perk stood by to fend off as they drew close to the squatty stern.
The buildings lost their squatty appearance, the moving throngs of human beings ceased resembling crawling flies, and finally the four boys issued from the cage satisfied that they had experienced a sensation worth while.
On his right is that squatty mass of freestone and smoke, Englishmen exultingly call the Royal Academy, but which Frenchmen affect contempt for, and uninitiated Americans mistake for a tomb.
The boathouse had once been some sort of low, squatty building, which, being made over, answered the new purpose very well.
But there was no loft to the squatty cabin, and hence no place where anybody of size might lie in concealment.
His usually red face looked pale, as he managed to reach the squatty bow of the little boat.
An expert with the oars or a paddle might manage the affair fairly well; but as Nick was as clumsy as he was fat, it seemed as though he would never get the hang of the squatty tender.
A Zulu, six feet tall, stood on the porch of the squatty postoffice building, looking like an off-colored Santa Claus.
Thousands of half-starved coolies, nearly naked, with a squattybasket made of bamboo strips in their hands or on their heads, may be seen in any section of India.
Also The Heads of Sydney harbor are squatty compared to the high, bold stone pillars between which vessels sail through a narrow but deep channel into Rio de Janeiro's haven.
Against the skyline Lorraine saw the rider's form bulk squatty and ungraceful, reminding her of an actor whom she knew and did not like.
Jack had kept his word and a man could be seen standing or moving about near the squatty building.
There were occasional squatty villages and Buddhist monasteries perched high upon the mountainsides.
There was just one spot the boys' roving eyes did not cover; that was the portion of the platform obscured by the squatty station.
Stop and think, did you ever see any other than a short, squatty woman among the Italian laborers?
While I was trying to please that man, a squatty youth scraped across the road in his elder brother's breeches to say that his mother would like to have me spend the night at her house.
From one of the screened windows, Biff saw the squatty figures of Igo and Ubi emerge from Nara's monteria.
The rest looked up in time to see the tiny, squatty figures of six men drop suddenly behind a row of rocks that resembled the top edge of a castle tower.
The small windows of the square, squatty building were equipped with screens, but most of them were in poor condition.
From the furtive glances that the squatty Indians gave toward the Brewster party, along with the way they were awaiting Nara's bidding, Biff decided that Kamuka had guessed right.
Soon, squatty Indians appeared from the Devil's Gateway until a dozen of them had lined silently in front of Joe Nara.
Two figures bobbed into sight, and Biff recognized the squatty forms of Igo and Ubi.
She called hysterically on the little squatty god in the corner, but the god stolidly refused to listen,--indeed he always had refused.
On the other sides of the inclosure were a squatty structure that might have been a laundry and a slightly taller building that, judging from the barrels and boxes piled against the wall, was probably a grocery.
Perhaps it was nothing but instinct that caused him to slow down his pace as he passed a squatty and rather dilapidated building in the middle of the block.
Squatty or not, Louis, it is an exquisite bit--modern Tanagra, really.
Pressing my forehead against the glass I glimpsed down the sheer drop of the walls to the roof of a church--a flat, black oblong with a squatty dome at one end--squeezed as close as it could get against the lower stories.
There was a swell station, white with a corrugated red roof, and several houses up, some stucco like the station and others low and squatty in the bungalow style.
The face, with its squatty features and long black hair fluttering in the breeze, had crystallized all the vague misgivings she had felt since she entered the house.
That squatty place's the gymnasium; and them two littler houses of brick's the laboratories.
Deerfoot was looking fixedly at one of the houses near the middle of the settlement, when a squatty figure, with a conical hat, a heavy cane, and smoking a pipe, came out and walked slowly toward a cabin only a short distance off.
He was shorter and more squatty than the others, and his whole aim in life appeared to be a desire to please Ogallah, their chief.
When he found his rifle gone and a squatty Indian at his elbow, he was panic-stricken.
