He shook his head and muttered through that straggly moustache: "You're a niece, aren't you?
Houston turned to the introduction, while Agnes Jierdon held forth a rather limp hand and while Ba'tiste, knit cap suddenly pulled from straggly gray hair, bent low in acknowledgment.
Then, pulling his funny little knit cap far down over his straggly hair, he came forth, to stand in meditation upon the largest portion of the shattered tree.
And straightway he began following the tracks through the straggly undergrowth until he reached the road.
A minute or so later Phil, followed closely by Jones, reached a more open space, though overgrown with straggly weeds and grass.
And the wild man sat back on the bench and closed his eyes, and stroked his straggly beard.
They headed for the upper end of the island, where there was a small grove of straggly cedar trees.
The armed guards, grinning at one another, jostling and joking, penetrated deeper and deeper into the straggly irregularity of the settlement.
The first town hall in Jackson was a blockhouse, and more than once the straggly strings of huts at the split of the river, which constituted the settlement, had seen marauding Indians repelled from its main street.
Six years after her disappearance, while hunting in the forest, he came upon a wild boy with straggly hair and fierce eyes.
Instantly the deer disappeared, and in her place was a hideous old witch, with straggly gray hair and long crooked teeth.
Montauville is a straggly little village of one- and two-story stone and plaster houses built on the two sides of the road.
Beside him munching on a few straggly weeds, a cantankerous mule took little notice of his surroundings.
Birmingham, and looked up at me showing a mouth of straggly teeth in a warm smile.
A few bushes and trees, a straggly flower-bed or two.
His face above his straggly whiskers was red with temper and with liquor.
Jean had driven over there one day to get Princess a new set of shoes, and Mrs. Tucker had come out from the kitchen door, a thin, flat-chested woman with straggly hair and vacant eyes.
There were juniper trees and hemlocks, fat tubby little spruces and slender straggly cedars.
There was a screen of straggly brush, with emptiness beyond.
The main column of soldiers far below poured up to the village and went down the straggly street in a tide of dark figures.
Thus it was always an eight-hour drive behind mountain horses from the alfalfa meadows (where I kept many Jersey cows) to the straggly village beside the big dry creek, where I caught the little narrow-gauge train.
A moment later a ghastly figure was tottering across the floor, lifting from a box a beautifully waved white wig, and dropping it carefully over the head of the aggrieved old lady of the straggly locks.
He joined the Turk and the wire-stringers at a prairie hamlet--straggly rows of unpainted frame shanties, the stores with tin-corniced false fronts that pretended to be two stories high.
Instantly a straggly man with a celluloid collar left the group by the door, whisked over to the Greek professor, and fawned upon him.
Under it were one little monthly rose, which still had blossoms, and some straggly small chrysanthemums.
There was some feeling of loneliness in the hearts of those left behind as they turned back toward the camp under the straggly willows.
Above these stragglywisps was perched jauntily a big sombrero of regulation plainsman type.
