Gaston was touched by the yearning in the low voice, but the weazened face of the child repelled him, even while it attracted him.
The face was grotesque in its weazened fixity; the little legs were twisted, and the thin body lay crooked among its blankets.
Unfortunately his appearance belied his position, for he was almost totally bald and his face was as weazened and wrinkled as that of a monkey.
As I looked around the little office and at the weazened old barrister before me, something of the fascination of the law took hold of me.
Paul attempted to throw off the old woman, but she clung to him like a wild cat, showing marvelous strength and tenacity for one so little and weazened and old.
Then he looked at the weazenedand repulsive old pair.
Behind him came a weazened old warrior and a weazened old squaw, hideous to behold.
Paul stepped with him, but a gaunt and weazened figure rose up in their path.
Passing on aft, I saw steering at the wheel the weazened little old man I had noted earlier in the day.
And yet, in that very moment of instinctive startle and repulsion, the thought was in my mind that with one hand I could take the throat of the weazened wisp of a crippled thing and throttle the malformed life out of it.
So weazened and tiny was he, and so large was the brass-studded wheel, that they seemed of a height.
Peggy, at the pane, almost laughs as she regards the shrinking weazened visage.
They were terribly weazened and withered, and far from beautiful to look upon, but once having arrived at that condition they seemed able to live forever, and to take a healthy interest in life as they went along.
He invariably took food to the weazened old squaws and the decrepit old men, who presented him with another suit of beautifully decorated deerskin, and a coat of the softest and finest buffalo robe that he had ever seen.
When the Countess nodded, his weazened face darkened visibly.
Among the onlookers was a bright- eyed, weazened little man who attached himself to the chief and engaged him in conversation.
Royal's weazened face puckered until it resembled more than ever a withered apple.
So I expected," said he, laughing, and at once directed the weazened councillor to make out my paper of discharge.
Whenever the tutor came near him, he growled, and swept about him so forcibly with his tail that he nearly knocked the tutor down, managing deftly to hit him great thumps on his little weazened legs.
Awfully sorry to disturb you like this," he added, smiling down at the angry, weazened face which gradually grew bewildered.
And then he cackled out a small, dry, throaty laugh, his Adam's apple fluttering in his weazened throat under his sandy beard.
Death picked up Murtrie's poor little weazened trousers from the floor at the foot of the cot, where they lay sprawled untidily, and shook them till the quarter dropped out.
One morning when Laballiere sat eating his solitary breakfast, and being waited upon by the queenly Madame Giestin and a brace of her weazened boys, Giestin himself came into the room.
It do look like one Brahma, Aunt Mint," remarked the small and weazened Jacques, as he watched the woman picking the lusty fowl.
And just at this juncture there came up to the table a little old weazened man, in poverty-stricken clothes, and altogether of almost disgustingly repulsive appearance.
I advise you to drive every idea of the kind out of your head as quickly as you can, or you will probably find that you stand a good chance of having that weazened neck of yours drawn, on this autumn equinoctial night!
At the far corner my eyes sought out Helen in conversation with a keen-eyed, weazened little man, at sight of whom the boy took to his heels.
The owner of the voice was a little old fellow, whose dry, weazened face gave no hint of his years.
Mrs. Rand smiled, as her imagination conjured up the weazened and wrinkled face of the village storekeeper, with his gray hair standing up straight on his head like a natural pompadour.
Dick did so, and saw four men hunting among the trees, and the one who seemed to be their leader was the little weazened fellow, with the great, flap-brimmed hat.
He was quite sure that when his trail was found the little man would be the one to find it, and sure enough at the end of a half-hour the weazened figure led down to the ford.
He's the weazened little fellow with so much hat-brim, and he's about twenty different kinds of a demon.
But they did not catch the leader, nor did they know what had become of him, until Dick caught sight of a little, weazened figure under an enormous wide-brimmed hat running with three or four others along the mountain-side.
One, a small, weazened fellow, gave him an envious look.
He's come back here and--" Trustee Wallace now stood up and cracked his bony knuckles on the table, his weazened face puckered with angry ridges.
It was brief work and grim work that followed, and soon the weazened form, bent and stiffened into something hardly human, lay in the soft pink light on the cañon's floor.
But Wylackie looked at the weazened snow-packer with his snake-like eyes and snapped out a warning.
This was a little old man, weazened and bent, his unkempt head thrust forward from hunched shoulders.
Then, lastly, the cold eyes of the king came down to rest upon the weazened figure of the snow-packer busily engaged in rolling up his sacks for departure.
Should the grimaces of a weazened old squaw frighten her into a fit, or should she pick up the bony thing and throw her over the top of the tepee?
With every step she took the squaw followed, her weazened face and cruel, baneful eyes held close to hers.
The latter was taking off her hat but she caught a hidden appeal in the pinched, weazened face that she had never before noticed.
A tinyweazened face and two beady blinking eyes were all she saw.
The weazened reader rose in a nervous flutter, underwent his introduction to Rudolph with as much bashful agony as a school-girl, mumbled a few words in German, and instantly took refuge in his tattered Graphic.
Here, too, Klaas pulled away the dry acacia thorns from the entrance and was at once confronted by a tiny bow and arrow and behind that by a fierce little weazened face.
But on the contrary, Klaas's little weazened monkey face wore an expression perfectly serious and apparently truthful.
Then, apparently satisfied with his scrutiny, he addressed a few words to the weazened Arab, and, turning to his people, jabbered away volubly for two or three minutes.
He was accompanied by a small, weazened Arab who at once demanded if the newcomers could "spik Inglis?
