They were so
ill-fitting as to be quite grotesque; even as he appeared in black outline against the moonrise, the coat-collar in which his head was buried made him look like a hunchback, and the long loose sleeves looked as if he had no hands.
There were only three--the jib, foresail, and mainsail; and, patched, shortened, and distorted, they were a ridiculously
ill-fitting suit for so trim a craft as the Ghost.
Behind his counter he was a superior being, calmly conscious of special knowledge and worth; outside he was a weak-kneed, purblind, motorman-cursed rambler, with
ill-fitting clothes stained with chemicals and smelling of socotrine aloes and valerianate of ammonia.
He returned such glances as fell upon him with fierce insolence; he was indeed somewhat of a strange figure in his
ill-fitting and inappropriate clothes amongst a gathering of smart people.
Beside him stood his giant recruit, still clad in the home-spun and
ill-fitting garments of the fuller of Lymington, with arms and legs shooting out of his scanty garb.
The
ill-fitting clothes, battered hands, and sunburned face remained; but these seemed the prison-bars through which she saw a great soul looking forth, inarticulate and dumb because of those feeble lips that would not give it speech.
What a contrast, in a woman's eyes, to the shy, pale, melancholy man, in the
ill-fitting black clothes, with the wandering, uneasy glances, who stood beneath him, and felt, and showed that he felt, his inferior position keenly!
His slightly stooped shoulders were draped in an
ill-fitting, though immaculate, frock coat, and a shiny silk hat added to the incongruity of his garb in an African jungle.
The great Personage might have been the statue of one of his own princely ancestors stripped of a crusader's war harness, and put into an
ill-fitting frock coat.
The passersby glanced in wonder at the sullen heavy youth who, in coarse,
ill-fitting clothes, was in the company of such a graceful, refined-looking girl.
He had the strangest companions imaginable; men with long beards, and dressed in linen blouses, and other such new-fangled and
ill-fitting garments; reformers, temperance lecturers, and all manner of cross-looking philanthropists; community-men, and come-outers, as Hepzibah believed, who acknowledged no law, and ate no solid food, but lived on the scent of other people's cookery, and turned up their noses at the fare.
One cold winter morning, as he dressed in the dark, his candle flickering in the draught of the
ill-fitting window, he had heard her speak from the bed behind him.
