"Fiddle-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books
... "hippodroming" here: stripped to the skin, the muscles on their brown bodies standing out in irregular knots, they fling one another about in the liveliest manner. The master of ceremonies, stiff and important, in a faultless gray garment bearing a samurai crest, stands by and wields the fiddle-shaped lacquered insignia of his high office, and utter his orders and decisions in ... — Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens |