Perhaps a dozen times George Willard and the strange,
shapeless man who lived at his father's hotel had been on the point of talking.
Traces of tears (as I fancied) were visible on her fat,
shapeless cheeks.
Kitty's rosy wet face was turned towards him, and she smiled timidly under her
shapeless sopped hat.
On it were suspended two
shapeless trunks, which indeed were no more than bleeding skeletons.
For many years, though a vague report would now and then find its way across the sea -- like a
shapeless piece of driftwood tossed ashore with the initials of a name upon it -- yet no tidings of them unquestionably authentic were received.
Another, from an opposite quarter, appeared to run straight through the grounds, and to separate one side of the
shapeless mass of buildings, which was in moderate repair, from another, which was little better than a ruin.
Or in some narrow pathway, glancing with a transitory daring into the eyes of some lithe, white-swathed female figure, I would suddenly see (with a spasmodic revulsion) that she had slit-like pupils, or glancing down note the curving nail with which she held her
shapeless wrap about her.
Before one squall has flown over to sink in the eastern board, the edge of another peeps up already above the western horizon, racing up swift,
shapeless, like a black bag full of frozen water ready to burst over your devoted head.
I felt that she was possessed by some
shapeless dread which robbed her of all self-control.
Philip remembered the handwriting which scrawled over the page with
shapeless, haphazard letters.
Perhaps his imperturbable character was never more strikingly developed, for he preserved his usual equable smile notwithstanding that his body was dangling in a most uncomfortable position, all loose and limp and
shapeless, while his long peaked cap, unequally balanced against his exceedingly slight legs, threatened every instant to bring him toppling down.
The swelling lines of her figure had been hidden under the
shapeless rags she wore in the fields.