"Square-built" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... them: Their backs are bowed, and their sides are covered with lichens; Soft in their colour as gray pearls, they are full of a patient courage. Facing the briny wind on a lonely shore they stand undaunted, While the thin blue pennant of smoke from the square-built chimney Tells of a haven for man, with room for a hearth ...
— The Poems of Henry Van Dyke • Henry Van Dyke
... braced, the grim and grand old bandit that he was. Three times they tried and suffered. Their boldest were lying about him. The first to go down was the Bulldog. Learning wisdom now, the Dogs held back, less sure; but his square-built chest showed never a sign of weakness yet, and after waiting impatiently he advanced a few steps, and thus, alas! gave to the gunners their long-expected chance. Three rifles rang, and in the snow Garou went down at last, his life of ...
— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton
... still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion: a cloth jerkin strapped round the waist, several pair of breeches, the outer one of ample volume, decorated with rows of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees. He bore on his ...
— Legends That Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie
... was a very promising young man, of some thirty summers. He had been an "orphan" for a dozen years; and the wonder was that he should so long have lived alone in the big, square-built house his father left him. At all events, Miranda Kinzer was just the ...
— Dab Kinzer - A Story of a Growing Boy • William O. Stoddard
... she could instantly pick the writer, even though all three were strangers, and although, from the pictures she had seen of him, she had always fancied that Stephen Bocqueraz was a large, athletic type of man, instead of the erect and square-built gentleman who walked between the other two taller men. He was below the average height, certainly, dark, clean-shaven, bright-eyed, with a thin-lipped, wide, and most expressive mouth, and sleek hair so black as to make his evening dress seem another color. He was dressed with exquisite ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
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