The Quadlings themselves, who were short and fat and looked
chubby and good-natured, were dressed all in red, which showed bright against the green grass and the yellowing grain.
Benjamin Allen; and while the boy in the gray livery, marvelling at the unwonted prolongation of the dinner, cast an anxious look, from time to time, towards the glass door, distracted by inward misgivings regarding the amount of minced veal which would be ultimately reserved for his individual cravings; there rolled soberly on through the streets of Bristol, a private fly, painted of a sad green colour, drawn by a
chubby sort of brown horse, and driven by a surly-looking man with his legs dressed like the legs of a groom, and his body attired in the coat of a coachman.
His face was round and
chubby and his eyes were big, blue and earnest.
His beaming,
chubby face was a picture of benevolence and kind-heartedness.
They accepted without murmuring what she chose to give them, each holding out two
chubby hands scoop-like, in the vain hope that they might be filled; and then away they went.
She was a
chubby little person of thirty-five, the daughter of a fisherman, and had come to the vicarage at eighteen; it was her first place and she had no intention of leaving it; but she held a possible marriage as a rod over the timid heads of her master and mistress.
"Oh, will you, Ozma?" cried Dorothy, clasping her
chubby little hands eagerly.
Pokey and her mother joined the party, and one bright September morning six very happy-looking people were aboard the express train for Portland two smiling mammas, laden with luncheon baskets and wraps; a pretty young girl with a bag of books on her arm; a tall thin lad with his hat over his eyes; and two small children, who sat with their short legs straight out before them, and their
chubby faces beaming with the first speechless delight of "truly travelling."
In the trap sat the
chubby, tightly belted clerk who served Ryabinin as coachman.
At times, as she held the
chubby little fellow to her breast or caught and kissed a waving pink foot, she would feel a sense of physical weakness come over her--it seemed as if her breath would leave her.
His
chubby, smooth, innocent appearance was a reason for his being always treated with condescension when he was not put down.
A rosy,
chubby, sunshiny little soul was Daisy, who found her way to everybody's heart, and nestled there.