Further back a couple of naked coolies, sturdy, thicksetand supple, are sluicing themselves with boiling water.
Fanning was extremely bald, a short, thickset man, with a snub nose and a very black moustache.
Mr. Rassendyll rang the bell twice, and a short, thickset man of middle age appeared; he wore a suit of tweed, and had the air of smartness and respectability which marks English servants.
Accordingly, as Rudolf turned the corner and Helena closed the window, a short, thickset figure started cautiously out of the projecting shadow, and followed in Rudolf's wake through the storm.
Behind him came a stout thickset man of heavy build, and gorgeously dressed.
This short, thickset Auvergnat was a master of finance, and in a few years had raised the house to an unexpected degree of prosperity.
She took us aside, as soon as we were released from the formal welcome of Mr. Jornicroft, a thicksetman with a very bald head and heavy black moustache.
In the hall, aided by Franklin, Mr. Ras Fendihook divested himself of his outer wrappings and revealed a thickset man of medium height, rather flashily attired.
He was a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life.
And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees in the mire.
When Captain Markham, Dick and Warner galloped into camp, ahead of the others, a thickset strong figure walked forward to meet them.
Colonel Winchester rode straight toward a short, thickset figure on a stout bay horse near the head of one of the columns.
Dick saw before him a shortish, thickset man, grim of feature, who did not ask him a word until he had finished the dispatch.
Dick, at intervals, saw the short, thickset figure of the commander passing among the men, and giving them orders or encouragement.
A valet de chambre, thickset and awkward, preceded an elegant gentleman whose dress harmonized with the sumptuous equipage.
There goes the throttler," said the thickset fellow, who still wheezed from the pressure of Rene's fingers.
It began by insisting on muscular vigour, as displayed in great breadth of shoulder and thickset proportions generally.
Thus we find in a tomb which, according to Lepsius, dates from the fourth dynasty, certain thickset sculptured forms, which contrast strongly with figures taken from mastabas in the same neighbourhood, at Gizeh.
Neither in these historical bas-reliefs, nor in those of the tombs, do we ever encounter the short thickset figures which are so common in the Ancient Empire.
Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
A crook in the stream, and the thickset underwood, screened us for the moment from the basilisk eyes; and in a twinkling we had rolled one after another into the mimic torrent and were quickly swept down to its mouth.
But farther on we came into the lower land of a creek bottom, and here a thickset undergrowth robbed us of any view and made the march a toilsome struggle with the bushes.
The short thickset man I had noticed before touched his hat and said that he was.
But the sight of boxes and of docketed files of papers always produces a great effect on clients of the type of the little thickset man.
There was a man with a huge belly and a jovial face, noisily kissing a woman of the town, thickset and brawny.
The tailor was assisting Graham into a dark purple combination garment, stockings, vest, and pants in one, as the thickset man came back from the corner to meet the man with the flaxen beard returning from the balcony.
This is the tailor," said the thickset man with an introductory gesture.
The man with the fair beard made some inaudible remark, and Graham looking over his shoulder saw approaching a very short, fat, and thickset beardless man, with aquiline nose and heavy neck and chin.
He glanced from under his brows at the thickset man.
They--" said the thickset man and stopped, and the flaxen-bearded man met his eye and went away.
The tumult of shouting grew louder, and the thickset man turned and listened also.
The thickset man came and stood by the shoulder of Graham.
He glanced at the thickset man, and then obeyed his impulse.
As he did so a furious bell summoned the thickset man to the corner.
You will very speedily have clothes," said the thickset man.
I can't come," said the thickset man; "I have him to see to.
The thickset man had been pacing the room fretfully, and now turned and went through the archway towards the balcony, from which the noise of a distant crowd still came in gusts and cadences.
For a space the thickset man took not the slightest notice of Graham, but proceeded to interrogate the other--obviously his subordinate--upon the treatment of their charge.
He was a short, thickset man, with a broad face almost entirely covered with a beard, a thick nose, and little, inflamed snapping eyes.
Two seats ahead sat a thickset man with very long, oily black hair.
He also took a seat where Bobby and Johnny could see him--a short thickset man with a swarthy complexion and very oily long black hair.
Thickset build; probably with some recent cuts on face and hands.
He stood still, towering over the slouching thickset form beside him, his pale intensity of look giving a rare dignity and beauty to the face which owed so little of its attractiveness to comeliness of feature.
Panting and breathless, the captain at last descried the thickset figure of Jem crouching on the path.
In person, he was a thickset man of middle height and elderly middle age, with cold steady eyes and grizzled hair.
And then the thickset form of Simon Rattar appeared dimly on the gravel, crossing to the lawn beyond.
