He was sixty years old and his crisp curly hair was silver-white, but his shrewd face was unlined and his hard little blue eyes were young with the un ...
Most small people who take themselves seriously are a little ridiculous; but the bantam cock is respected in the barnyard, and so it was with Gerald.
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His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swag ...
Gerald was a small man, little more than five feet tall, but so heavy of barrel and thick of neck that his appearance, when seated, led strangers to t ...
Accompanying him also were the smells of chewing tobacco, well-oiled leather and horses��a combination of odors that she always associated with her ...
There was indignation in his hoarse bass voice but also a wheedling note, and Scarlett teasingly clicked her tongue against her teeth as she reached o ...