Next we come to the Hump, which is the part of the
Broad Walk where all the big races are run, and even though you had no intention of running you do run when you come to the Hump, it is such a fascinating, slide-down kind of place.
The lights from the lanterns dimly showed the way, but it was a gloomy journey, and they were pleased when a
broad streak of light ahead assured them they were coming to a second landing.
"Well, it was rather funny to say it," she admitted frankly, "because his nose does turn up and he has a big mouth and his clothes have patches all over them and he talks
broad Yorkshire, but--but if an angel did come to Yorkshire and live on the moor--if there was a Yorkshire angel--I believe he'd understand the green things and know how to make them grow and he would know how to talk to the wild creatures as Dickon does and they'd know he was friends for sure."
Ojo gave a jump, for he saw several
broad leaves leaning toward him; but the Shaggy Man began to whistle again, and at the sound the leaves all straightened up on their stems and kept still.
"Oh, well; of course, if you and father have arranged it all, there's no more to be said," she whispered, with her cheek against his
broad breast.
Suddenly the
broad muscles and lines of the count's face began to twitch.
She held out her hands to him, and the
broad sleeves of her dressing-gown fell away from her white rounded arms.
The
broad gold chain upon the neck was identical with the one represented on the image, and glistened with the motion imparted by the rise and fall of the bosom which it decorated.
As in general shape the noble Sperm Whale's head may be compared to a Roman war-chariot (especially in front, where it is so broadly rounded); so, at a
broad view, the Right Whale's head bears a rather inelegant resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe.
A tall,
broad man stepped forward and took me, and James darted back into the stable.
The first objection is, that a Flatlander, seeing a Line, sees something that must be THICK to the eye as well as LONG to the eye (otherwise it would not be visible, if it had not some thickness); and consequently he ought (it is argued) to acknowledge that his countrymen are not only long and
broad, but also (though doubtless in a very slight degree) THICK or HIGH.
Thereupon she led the girl by the hand up to a
broad gateway.
The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a
broad brim.
Da Souza and Trent took their places side by side on the
broad, flat-bottomed boat, and soon they were off shorewards and the familiar song of the Kru boys as they bent over their oars greeted their ears.
It was bounded by a low wooden fence, which screened it off from a
broad, modern, new metaled road.