Next to Weyrother sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left his
typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait.
Yet now, when the Grandmother had just performed an astonishing feat at roulette; now, when the old lady's personality had been so clearly and
typically revealed as that of a rugged, arrogant woman who was "tombee en enfance"; now, when everything appeared to be lost,--why, now the Grandmother was as merry as a child which plays with thistle-down.
The shape of his head was perfectly Western, perfectly and
typically Romanesque.
Their minds will run on something else--say;
typically, for the sake of illustration, their sweetheart or their new bonnet.
No separateness or secession on the one side, nor bureaucracy on the other--that is the
typically American idea that underlies the ideal telephone system.
He worked unconsciously, thinking,
typically, not of Rose's reaction to this new life, but of what it held in store for himself.
It is hard when a person you have classed as
typically British speaks out of his character.
Glegg had an unusual amount of mental activity, which, when disengaged from the wool business, naturally made itself a pathway in other directions.) And his second subject of meditation was the "contrairiness" of the female mind, as
typically exhibited in Mrs.
de Bellegarde then presented his prospective brother-in-law to some twenty other persons of both sexes, selected apparently for their
typically august character.
It was a
typically legal face, with angular jaws and heavy, grizzled eyebrows; and it belonged to an eminently legal character, though he was now attached in a semimilitary capacity to the police of that wild district.
It was a room without definite character, being neither
typically and openly hideous, nor strenuously artistic, nor really comfortable.
Typically Grubb chewed something, but Bert could chew only imaginatively.