I have always had such a notion of you in my head," said Peter, squinting at Mike.
If I let you," said Peter, squinting his eyes, with a funny little twinkle mixed in their movements.
Peter Dieman again sat in his little black office in The Die, smoking his scandalous pipe, rubbing his red hands, and squinting his piggish eyes; and giving vent occasionally to devlish outbursts of perfect satisfaction.
Squinting is caused by one of the straight muscles of the eye (Fig.
Most cases of squinting are caused by longsightedness, the muscles being strained in the effort to obtain distinct vision.
Patricia took the bit of canvas board, and held it at arm's length, squinting at it with eyes that gradually brightened.
The sharply-cut face had a disagreeable expression, the squinting eyes and rolling look were likewise repulsive, and if his back was not as much bent as usual, it was due to the art of Bernard, the tailor of the dandies.
He had deep squinting eyes, a large mouth, a broad nose, and long, bony fingers.
Still, squinting as she did, she took a tolerably correct aim at the shoulders of her spouse.
Prass turned his quid and spat over the rail; the doctor glanced forward, squinting with eyes of calculation.
You're getting careless, Minnie," he said, squinting at it.
There is no way for you to get into, nor for me to get out of, this place of buttered willow wands, until I have deluded and circumvented this pestiferous, squintingyoung mortal.
You squinting rascal, do not think to swindle me out of eternal bliss by any such foolish talk!
Hah, Manuel, from behind the squinting mask a sick and satiated and disappointed being spoke there, howsoever resolutely you keep up appearances.
For anyone can see that you and this squinting long-legged lad are fathoms deep in love with each other.
So in the Christmas holidays they bring a tall burly squinting gray-haired warrior to King Ferdinand, in a lemon grove behind the royal palace.
Meanwhile the snub-nosed lord of the nine sleeps and the squinting Count of Poictesme sat down upon the river bank to talk about more serious matters than croup and teething.
Oh, but very certainly this big squinting boy is the most unloquacious and the most stubborn brute that ever lived!
Oh, you tall squinting villain knight of the silver stallion, I wonder from whose court you can be coming, where they teach no better behavior than woman-killing, and I wonder what foul new knavery you can be planning here.
Some (reasoning thus) assert that squinting Manuel was aware of this axiom, and that he respected it in all his dealings with Freydis and Alianora.
Was it for this hunched, draggled, mud-faced wench that you left us, you squinting old villain?
I told you they was all thumbs," he grimaced, holding up his hand and squinting at it with the fraction of sight remaining to him.
Why, because God could never do with ugly little squinting things up there.
But when was it you fancied you felt and heard our squinting friend?
By squinting down the length of the dowel you can observe the crooked portions.
Squinting down its axis he lined up the uneven contours one after the other and laid the shaft aside until a series of five was completed.
He lay squinting off at the beech trees, without moving.
Presently he sputtered, squintingdown at the glittering water, "Colonel Maxey, anyhow!
John Mewes was squinting toward the west now, past the bowsprit.
Timothy Farrell, one of Briggs' many indentured servants, bowed sullenly as he came forward, then doffed his straw hat, squinting against the sun.
Dalby Bedford was standing by the window, holding open the shutters and squinting through the rain-swept dusk as he studied the mast lights of the warships encircling the harbor.
Edward Bayes, a black-hatted Council member with ruddy jowls, was squinting against the sun.
It was Benjamin Briggs, squinting through the downpour.
He had a malicious glint in his squintingeyes and was evidently of some importance.
The sight of the coarse speeched, malevolent-looking man with his squinting eye and unhealthy complexion, brought back the scene of the night before which she would willingly have forgotten, and down went her spirits to zero.
I've heard reports about Sunset Valley," Hallowell had said, squinting his eyes at Harlan.
In his narrowed, squinting eyes as he watched the desert was a gleam of comprehension, of knowledge intimate and sympathetic.
His gaze also went into the west; and he blinked against the white glare of sun and distance, squinting his eyes and scanning the featureless waste with appraising glances.
As for Captain Blackbeard, his rage and indignation may be imagined; a wife robbed from him, his honor put in question by an odious, lanky, squinting lawyer!
And, if that squinting scoundrel of a lawyer does drown himself, I sha'n't sleep any the worse.
When she brought his pad and he began writing, her head was bent, lips tight, eyessquinting with intensity, as she watched the tracing of each word.
I think it would be excellent," she admitted, after a pause of further thoughtful observation, squinting her eyes ever so little, then opening them wide as she passed final judgment.
It came, and there was page after page of odd and ugly faces, strange noses, stranger eyes, squinting out of the book in hideous array.
You won't get any handsomer, by squinting like poor Joe; nor speak any pleasanter for lisping like me; nor walk any better for apeing hobbling.
Just look here; here is an admirable likeness of squinting Joe, as you have named him.
All the humor had left his face and there was a grimness about the tight lips and a menace in the squinting eyes that sent a chill rippling down the drummer's spine.
The stranger glanced at him, but saw nothing more than the level gaze that searched his squinting eyes for the soul back of them.
