Chestnuts with their long whips, and oaks with their stubby boughs, scattered on steep hillsides where rocks crop out.
Vaguely, he was aware that the stubby growths of his tongue had now sprouted into appendages such as his own.
A look at his forepaws before his face showed him three similar phalanges, though only two-thirds the length of the hind ones, and having in addition a sort of stubby rudimentary thumb.
Sure enough, just behind the "head" of the thing were two stubby growths, not yet mature.
King Dox [Illustration] It was amusing to note the expression on the face of King Dox as he looked the boy over, from his sailor hat to his stubby shoes; and it was equally diverting to watch Button-Bright stare at the King in return.
Just in front of her trotted the living Blue Bear Rug owned by old Dyna, which wobbled clumsily on its four feet because there was nothing but the skin to support them, with a stuffed head at one end and a stubby tail at the other.
When excitement was at its height, the paper and pencil were torn out of my hand, stubby beards were pitilessly pulled, and daggers half started from their sheaths.
As it fell inside the fence, Billy kicked up his heels, whisked his stubby tail, and started down the road at a fast trot.
His stubby fingers rested caressingly on the little silver plate between the handle-bars, on which was engraved the motto that had come to mean so much: "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.
Every stitch would be dear to her, because of the little stubby fingers that worked so patiently to set them, despite the needle pricks and knotted thread.
Sometimes they have even a stubbymustache and a bad look.
The door of the car opened and there stalked up to them the big conductor, owner of the stubby red moustache, with a look in his eyes which indicated that he had swift remarks to make.
His strength and his wisdom lie in the little stubby feet.
Consequently blue foxes show more signs of age than white--stubby ears frozen low, battle-worn teeth, dulled claws.
He was a tall, thin man with a shock of curly dark hair that he smoothed unconsciously with surprisingly stubbyfingers while he thought.
A stubby fighter plane swam up out of the mist and fell into position alongside.
The stubby tramp had an adequate if rather clumsy atomic bomb in each of its two holds.
Shaggy, stubby animals plodded in the wake of the tanks and the infantry.
Fritz wagged his stubby tail more vigorously, but gave no other response.
The lad bore himself with simple-minded devotion, offering us on stubby finger tips the holy water and making due obeisance before each gilded shrine.
Stubby pushed two chairs up to the fire, waved Jack to one, and extended his own feet to the blaze.
If a storm broke Stubby was the most vulnerable, because in a sense he was involved with the cannery interests in general, and they would consider him an apostate and knife him without mercy,--if they could.
Halfway down the stairs Stubby halted and laid a hand on MacRae's arm.
He never was such a terribly big toad in the cannery puddle," Stubby recited, "and I guess he has made his last splash.
So MacRae, knowing that Stubbymust protect himself in a showdown, set about fortifying his own approaches.
There's going to be a free-for-all," Stubby chuckled.
Stubby was not quite so adept at repression as most of his class.
Of the dozen or more young men and women present, only himself and Stubby Abbott made any pretense at work.
You appear to like old Horace," Stubby said thoughtfully, "about as much as our fellows used to like Fritz when he dropped high explosives on supposedly bomb-proof shelters.
MacRae grinned to himself and went down to the grimy wharf where deep-sea halibut schooners rubbed against the dock, their stubby top-hamper swaying under the office windows as they rocked to the swell of passing harbor craft.
Keeps strictly mum on the war subject," Stubby said.
At four months of age, which was late in May, Neewa was eating many things that would have killed most cubs of his age, and there wasn't a yellow streak in him from the tip of his saucy little nose to the end of his stubby tail.
He had fastened himself like a rat-trap to Neewa's stubby tail, and there he hung on like grim death while Neewa ran.
He could hold tightly to any money he closed his stubby fingers upon; he did not know how to plant money and make it grow, but only how to hoard.
The proprietor frowned down at hisstubby fingers whose black and cracked nails were drumming on the table.
He reached out one of his hands--puffy as if it had been poisoned, very white, with stubby fingers.
Large chunks of apple wood and stubby bits the wind had tossed down from the creaking fir-trees, made crackling glowing fires in the big open grates.
He didn't seem to mind the wind That o'er the snowdrifts blew, That made his cheeks so bright and red, His stubby nose so blue!
There the stiffest things that sleep, the stubby oak, and the saplin'd beech, dropped their brown defiance to her, and prepared for a soft reply.
The little stubby trees that stand here and there, like bushes with a wooden leg to them, were drizzled with a mess of wet, and hung their points with dropping.
She grasped thestubby broom by the handle and moved determinedly toward the front hall.
Far behind, the Yank gun-crews edged nervously up to their mighty charges, and fingered anxiously the stubby gas shells which soon would be flung through the dripping night.
It was a small affair with stubby wings above which were two helicopter blades revolving at high speed.
He saw the steamer taking on passengers between the two rotund chestnut-trees that adorned the end of the stubbylittle stone pier.
She wiped the worn gilt of one stubby foot and then of the other.
The twenty-two stubby snouts that were thrust through the opening of the rail-fence were quivering with eagerness and impatience.
Her ears stood up stiffly, her snout was as stubby as though it had been broken off, her eyes were very small, and her tail had the right curl.
Bug Buler had kicked off the bed covering and lay fast asleep on his little cot with his stubby arms bare, and his little fat hands, dimpled in each knuckle, thrown wide apart.
The tail was square and stubby and perfectly straight, and the four legs were made in the same way, each being four-sided.
The animal was covered with a thick, smooth skin and had no hair at all except at the extreme end of its tail, where there grew exactly three stiff, stubby hairs.
Mr. Jones rubbed his forehead, and passed his hand through his stubby hair.
Jack, with a laugh, looked at the stubby youngster, who was blushing deeply and holding one hand over his face, the fingers spread so far apart that he could see the others.
The youthful warrior, seated in the stem of the canoe, gave no evidence that he saw the stubby figure of the German lad who stepped close to the water and hailed him by name.
