| Charles Kingsley - Great Britain - 1855 - 382 pages
...see the bullet head of crisp brown hair and the wrinkled forehead , as well as the high cheek-bones , the short square face , the broad temples , the thick...respectfully upon him; — for his name is Francis Drake. contrasting oddly with the huge gold chain about his neck, waddles up, as if he had been born, and... | |
| American essays - 1893 - 958 pages
...back, looking up with keen gray eyes into the face of each speaker. His cap is in his hands, so that you can see the bullet head of crisp, brown hair and...respectfully upon him, for his name is Francis Drake." And there on Plymouth Hoe was he playing at bowls when a sailor hurriedly put in shore, to say that... | |
| Cornwall (England : County) - 1862 - 500 pages
...see the bullet-head of crisp brown hair and the wrinkled forehead, as well as the high cheek-bones, the short square face, the broad temples, the thick...respectfully upon him, for his name is Francis Drake. up as if lie had been born and had lived ever since in a gale of wind at sea. The upper half of his... | |
| Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - Battles - 1878 - 220 pages
...as the high cheek-bones, the short square face, the broad temples, the thick lips, which are yet as firm as granite. A coarse, plebeian stamp of man; yet the whole figure and attitude are those of boundless determination, selfpossession, energy ; and when at last he speaks a few blunt words,... | |
| F. L. Clarke - Explorers - 1883 - 120 pages
...apart, and hands behind his back, looking up, with keen grey eyes, into the face of each speaker ? A coarse plebeian stamp of man, yet the whole figure...few blunt words, all eyes are turned respectfully on him : — for his name is Francis Drake. "A burly, grizzled elder, in greasy sea-stained garments,... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Great Britain - 1888 - 616 pages
...the broad temples, the thick lips, which are yet firm as granite. A coarse plebeian stamp of mail : yet the whole figure and attitude are that of boundless...are turned respectfully upon him; — for his name ia Francis Drake. A burly, grizzled elder, in greasy sea-stained garments, contrasting oddly with the... | |
| Marshall John and co - 1884 - 266 pages
...are yet firm as granite. A coarse, plebeian stamp of man ; yet the whole figure and attitude indicate boundless determination, self-possession, energy ;...turned respectfully upon him, for his name is Francis Drake.3 " A burly, grizzled elder, in greasy, sea- stained garments, contrasting oddly with the huge... | |
| History - 1887 - 280 pages
...as firm as granite. A coarse, plebeian stump of a man; yet the whole figure and attitude are those of boundless determination, self-possession, energy;...few blunt words, all eyes are turned respectfully on him, for his name is Francis Drake. 25. " A burly, grizzled elder, in greasy, sea-stained garments,... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 416 pages
...as the high cheek-bones, the short, square face, the broad temples, the thick lips which are yet as firm as granite. A coarse, plebeian stamp of man;...respectfully upon him, — for his name is Francis Drake. EPIGRAM ON FRANCIS DRAKE. BEN JONSON. THE stars above will make thee known If man were silent here;... | |
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