"Sunburn" Quotes from Famous Books
... essential for looking underwater. Bathing suit or old clothes, of course. High shoes (or sneakers)—never go barefooted! Heavy cloth GLOVES. Watch out for sunburn! ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Let's collect rocks & shells • Shell Oil Company
... company of pets, gazing upon the dam he had built with his own busy hands, inspecting approvingly his prowess in the swimming-hole and with his fish-rods, even noting, in his conscientious appraisal of his heir's assets, the self-assertive quality of the freckles on his nose and the sunburn on the whole of his visage, this perfunctory American parent easily decided that nothing need be changed for another year or two. It was impossible even for a scrupulous conscience to make a youthful martyr of Raymond Mortimer. Not the most rabid New England ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... love it. I like to walk in the park a little maybe, Sundays, but I hate tramping like we did this afternoon, and you might as well know it. I wouldn't chop down a tree, not if I was freezing to death, and I'd hate to have to sleep in a tent, so there! I hate sunburn, and freckles, and ants in the pie, and blisters on my feet, and getting wet, and flat-heeled shoes, and I never saddled a horse. I'd be afraid to. And what's more, I don't ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Gigolo • Edna Ferber
... pleasant morning, and saw that the ocean had dashed its spray over me and made me a fisherman! There were the tarpauling, the baize shirt, the oil-cloth trousers and seven-league boots, and there my own features, but so reddened with sunburn and sea-breezes, that methought I had another face, and on other shoulders too. The sea-gulls and the loons, and I, had now all one trade; we skimmed the crested waves and sought our prey beneath them, the man with as keen enjoyment as the birds. Always, when the east grew purple, I launched my ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... Greeks seem to have been black; and he worked in Alexandria, where the University was a human Zoo like that of London or Berlin. Their simple farmer's theory of natural selection attributed 'scorched-faced' Aethiopians to sunburn, and other racial types to large factors of region and regime. The classical treatise is that of Hippocrates 'On Air, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Unity of Civilization • Various
... aware that there is any preventive of sunburn for skins that are tender. A hat is better to wear than a cap, but you will burn under either. Oil or salve on the exposed parts, applied before marching, will prevent some of the fire; and in a few days, if you keep in the open air all the time, it will cease ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — How to Camp Out • John M. Gould
... trout taken in the lake, which so excited the fishermen that presently there was a raft builded, and the major and Mr. T., with bare feet, were loading their frail craft with huge trout, and, alas! securing for themselves a painful attack of sunburn. I found all these large trout to have fatty degeneration of the heart and liver, but no worms. They took ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... girls you have in this part of the world, Miss Heredith," remarked the young officer who had laughed, as though anxious to turn the conversation. "I saw several while I was out shooting to-day, and very charming they looked. I had no idea that sunburn was so becoming to a girl's complexion. I saw one girl who had been riding a horse through the woods, and she looked like what's-her-name—Diana. She had bits of green stuff sticking all over her, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees
... concentrations would have a number of consequences outside the areas in which the detonations occurred. The Academy study notes, for example, that the resultant increase in ultraviolet would cause "prompt incapacitating cases of sunburn in the temperate zones and snow blindness in northern countries . ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives • United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
... seen by the "respectable" members of the community, would in itself have branded her as "fast," In those days cosmetics of any sort were by most considered inventions of the devil. It took extraordinary firmness of character even to protect one's self against sunburn by anything more artificial than the shadow of a hat or a parasol. Then she assumed a fascinating little round hat that fitted well down over her small head. This, innocent of pins, was held on by an elastic at the back. A ribbon, hanging down ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... were very fine, with very dark pupils, and marked eyebrows; and her nose and chin, with their soft, blunted lines, seemed to promise laughter and easy ways. She was very lightly and roundly made; and everything about her, her step, her sunburn, her freckles, her evident muscular strength, spoke of open-air life and physical exercise. Yet, for all this general aspect of a comely country-woman, there was much that was sharply sensitive and individual in the face. Even a stranger might well feel that ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... and orphans' tears, a flimsy bubble of fame to be blown adown the narrow beach of Time into Eternity's shoreless sea. I would rather be the beggar lord of a lodge in the wilderness, dress in a suit of sunburn and live on hominy and hope, yet see the love-light blaze unbought in truthful eyes, than to be the marauding emperor of the mighty world, and know not who fawned upon the master and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... fortunes of the Russian Empire, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, were at the mercy of a spring-tide, a gust of wind, or the tipping of a shallop. There is even a recipe for removing tan and sunburn, which the beautiful Grand Duchess used at the instance of the beautiful Empress; and, as both the imperial belles testify to its great efficacy, it would be cruel not to give all possible publicity to the fact that it was composed of white of egg, lemon juice, and French ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... fared very delicately. Their one article of diet was peaches and cream. It was thought to improve their complexions. Once in a while, they went out to drive by moonlight; they were afraid of sunburn by day, and they wore white gauze veils, even in the moonlight, and they all had embroidered ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Pot of Gold - And Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins
... what he thought at the moment was the sweetest, saddest little face he had ever seen. It was dark with sunburn, in contrast with the prim white drill dress the girl wore, and her cheeks were tinged with a healthy color which might have been a reflection of the rosy tint of the ribbon about her neck. But it was the quiet, dark brown eyes, half wistful and wholly sad, and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... looking, Ursula thought, very beautiful, because of a flush of sunburn on his hands and face. He was telling her how he had learned to shoe horses and select cattle ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... with the persistency of a fly to fly paper, righted him, swung herself from the saddle and stood before Seth, a tall, slim girl of twelve, a girl of complexion brown as berries, of dark eyes heavily fringed with thick lashes and dusky hair tinged redly with sunburn. Her hair, one of her beauties, blew about her ears in tangled curls that were unconfined ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Way of the Wind • Zoe Anderson Norris
... of Grzesikiewicz's coming, but Orlowski was already enjoying his after-dinner nap, seated in a big arm-chair with his feet propped against the window-sill. The sun was shining straight into his face which was almost entirely bronzed from sunburn. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont
... last letter to be complimentary to themselves. I leave this to the commentators to illustrate. If you don't answer this, I sha'n't say what you deserve, but I think I deserve a reply. Do you conceive there is no Post-Bag but the Twopenny? [3] Sunburn me, if you ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
... He paled below his sunburn. Now he believed the truth of the horrid suspicion which had been fastening on his mind. "But—but," he stammered, "the chap isn't a ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... the society of the white man. What he craved was the society of the white man, to which, from one side of his house, he was so justly entitled. He was not a very noticeable half-breed either, for his features were regular, and he was not darker than is compatible with a good sunburn. But just the same, it was unmistakable, this touch of the tar brush, to the discriminating European eye. He seemed inordinately slow witted—it took him a long time to realise his situation. He argued it out with himself constantly, and could arrive at no logical explanation. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Civilization - Tales of the Orient • Ellen Newbold La Motte
... I trusted that, after all, I had not been put away here for long. Maybe a few days of fever and delirium would waste the hands and bleach out the brown stain of sunburn. At the moment, though I was young, and had been strong, I would have no chance against even an old man; but if I ate, and could crawl up to take a little exercise, a day or two ought to make ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... nankeen beautifully embroidered; they came up to my shoulders, and were sewn on every day to keep me from spoiling my hands. My hair was braided in front and my everyday gingham sunbonnet sewn to my hair. This was done in the vain hope of keeping off sunburn, for I was dark, like my mother, and my complexion was the despair of her life. Beauty of the fair blonde type was in vogue then, so that I was quite out of fashion. It was thought that if one was dark one had ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
... features shone out from their framework of golden hair with marvellous beauty, in spite of the sorrow and fatigue which had left their impress upon her face. Her eyes, shaded by long dark lashes and dewy with tears, were remarkably beautiful and expressive. The sunburn that disfigured her charming face, her exquisitely formed hands and her tiny feet, which were scarcely larger than those of a child, extended no further. Upon those portions of her body that were protected by her clothing, her skin was white and delicate, and scarcely colored ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Which? - or, Between Two Women • Ernest Daudet
... and softly burst into the caressing laughter of a child. All his face, tanned from wind and sunburn, brightened up with inward joy, was radiant with tranquil joy; he touched Foma's knee with his hand and said ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky
... whose eyes missed nothing, remarked that under his sunburn, Denzil had grown suddenly very pale. Amaryllis was enchanted to see her friend, the Russian. John had gone to the telephone, it appeared—and yes, they were dining alone—and, of course, she was sure John would love to amalgamate parties, it was so nice of Verisschenzko to think ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
... no less strong and lissome, and exceedingly smart. The sunburn is gone; indeed there's many a maiden would envy his complexion; and his long stout neck, with the broadening bands of muscle, would delight a sculptor. The alert expression, that used to be more or ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds
... had been delivered, Lawyer Ed rushed down Main Street and spied Afternoon Tea Willie driving the Baldwin girls down town to buy some almond cream to take to the picnic, in case of sunburn. And in his usual high-handed way, he had hailed them, sent the girls home on foot, and the young man spinning out to the McRae farm with stern commands not to dare return without ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith
... Sportsman is often an officer of the auxiliary forces. He knows by heart every button of the British Army, talks much upon questions of discipline, and has a more sharply defined and more permanent mark of sunburn across his forehead than any regular officer. He is also a great stickler for etiquette, and prefers to be addressed as Major or Colonel, as the case may be. He bears his rank upon his visiting-cards, and frequents a military Club. In the society of other Spurious Sportsmen he is at his best ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 16, 1890 • Various
... care of Daisy. We will meet and lunch at the first bridge." Then, examining his line and finding the cricket still there, he turned up his coat collar to keep off sunburn, opened his book, and knocked the ashes from ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
... conveyed to the onlooker, and especially the male of that species (we cannot in conscience call them observers), the impression that she was a yachtswoman born and bred. Her delicate complexion was enhanced by the faintest suspicion of sunburn and a few exceedingly becoming freckles. There was a freedom in her movements which had not been observable in London drawing-rooms. This was Diana-like and in perfect keeping with the dainty sailor outfit; moreover, nine men out of ten would fail to attribute the difference to sundry ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... his attitude, expressed the simplicity of motive which had formerly pleased Therese. His face, naturally harsh, darkened by sunburn, somewhat hollowed, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France
... His age was doubtful, as the lines in his ruddy skin might have been cut by dissipation as much as age. The most prominent feature of his unlovely countenance was a nose, fiery red from prolonged exposure to sunburn, or rum-bum. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard
... from morning till evening paunchy men with shaven heads lie naked or almost naked in the sun, acquiring first a shrivelling of the cuticle which amounts to flaying, and then the tanning which is so triumphantly borne back to the Fatherland. The water concerns them but little: it is the sunburn on the sands that they value. With them are merry, plump German women, who wear slightly more clothes than the men, and like water better, and every time they enter it send up the horizon. The unaccompanied men comfort themselves with cameras, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — A Wanderer in Venice • E.V. Lucas
... reasonably cool at home, struggling desperately to get away for a day in the country, rising at 5 A. M., standing in line at the station, fanning themselves with blasphemy, and weary before they start. We observe them chased home by thunderstorms or colic, dazed and blistered with sunburn, or groaning with a surfeit ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Pipefuls • Christopher Morley
... were forgotten in the picturesque beauty of the spot. Around us lay the forest-kings, majestic still in their overthrow, whilst substantial stacks of cut-up and split timber witnessed to the skill and industry of the stalwart figures before us, who reddened through their sunburn with surprise and shyness at seeing a lady. They need not have been afraid of me, for I had long ago made friends with them, and during the preceeding winter had established a sort of night-school in my dining-room, for ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Station Amusements • Lady Barker
... conviction was written on his face, as he compared them feature by feature, minutely. No, Rosario had not deceived him. Where had his eyes been all those years not to have noticed the astonishing resemblance? And Pascualo's face grew paler and paler under its deep sunburn; his eyes were blood-shot as they had been the night before, and he pressed his lips tightly together to hold in the angry words that were tingling on his tongue and gathering in his throat. God, how ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... looking at his hostess, now the very incarnation of delicate mockery with her pretty laughing mouth, her boyish sunburn and freckles. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... the fort and discovered our twenty riflemen paraded there, and Boyd inspecting them and their packs. His face seemed very haggard under its dark coat of sunburn, but he returned my salute with a smile, and presently came over to where ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... seething, and its Jews were preparing themselves by purification and prayer for the great day, a courier, dark as a Moor with the sunburn of unresting travel, arrived in the town with a letter from the Holy City. It was long before he could obtain audience with Sabbatai, who, with his inmost disciples, was celebrating a final fast, and meantime ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... on her hands, gilding the smooth skin with the first tint of sunburn. Under the corners of her eyes above the rounded cheeks a pink stain lay like the first ripening flush on a wild strawberry. That, too, was the mark left by the caress of wind and sun. I had had no ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... the sweeter. You just wait! Some of these days I expect to read: 'Elopement in South Harniss High Life. Beautiful Society Maiden Weds Famous Former Football—er—er—I want another F—Oh, yes, Famous Former Football Favorite.' Isn't that beautiful? Dear me, how you blush! Or is it sunburn? At any rate, it's ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln
... which exposed her neck and shoulders in a totally unaccustomed manner, for it struck her as amazingly indecent until she scurried through her magazines again and saw that its construction, as compared with others, was most conservative. Even so she shrank at sight of herself below the line of sunburn, for she was ringed about like a blue-winged teal, the demarcation being more pronounced because of the natural whiteness of her skin. The year previous Doret had brought her from the coast a Spanish shawl, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Barrier • Rex Beach
... could come to the end of what they had to say to one another, except that Ethel could but be delighted to make her friend know the brother of her early youth; and show her the grave, earnest-looking man who had suffered so much, and whose hair was as white as the doctor's, his face showing the sunburn of the tropics; and the crow's-feet round his eyes, the sailor's habit of searching gaze. He did not speak much, but watched the merry young groups as if they were a sort of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge
... fields. Moses looking into the promised land had such visions and ideals as this old lad cherished. Jean was old in feeling, though not yet out of his teens. The training-masters of life had got him early, and found under his red sunburn and knobby joints, his black eyes and bushy eyebrows, the nature that passionately aspires. The town of Kaskaskia was his sweetheart. It tantalized him with advantage and growth while he had to turn the clods of the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Old Kaskaskia • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... the porch of the White-House the night before. His hair was parted in the middle, and thickly pomaded to restrain its natural inclination towards curling. His ears were large, and set on at right angles to his face. His nose was Roman, and its prominence had rendered it peculiarly sensitive to sunburn. His manners were too frank to be polished. As he joined them now, he succeeded in making it evident at once that Flint's further presence was entirely superfluous. This juvenile candor would have had no effect, had not Winifred supplemented ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Flint - His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes • Maud Wilder Goodwin
... Cairns watched the tall, young cook, lean, tanned, and with an ugly triangle of fresh sunburn under his left shoulder-blade, where his shirt had been torn with a thorn that day. He loosed the aparejos and mantas, containing the kitchen-kit; almost magically a fire was started. Water was heating a moment later and slabs of bacon began ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort
... pleasant morning and saw that the ocean had dashed its spray over me and made me a fisherman! There was the tarpaulin, the baize shirt, the oilcloth trousers and seven-league boots, and there my own features, but so reddened with sunburn and sea-breezes that methought I had another face, and on other shoulders too. The seagulls and the loons and I had now all one trade: we skimmed the crested waves and sought our prey beneath them, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... old partner I've taken you in on my share and he'll carry out his part of it. He's a good deal of a bonehead, but no talker. But you'll have to put on some miner's duds and spend to-day riding around the hills to get a little sunburn. You ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland
... and was silent. He was a beautiful youth, with a face almost feminine, to which anger and sunburn added charm. He wore a close-fitting coat with blue and white stripes, a kerchief of the same color behind his helmet, a gold chain around his neck, and a costly sword beneath his ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus
... W. Va., Thursday, May 10th.—Our friends saw us off at the gravelly beach just below the "works." There was a slight breeze ahead, but the atmosphere was agreeable, and Pilgrim bore a happy crew, now as brown as gypsies; the first painful effects of sunburn are over, and we are hardened in skin and muscle to any vicissitudes which are likely to be met upon our voyage. Rough weather, river mud, and all the other exigencies of a moving camp, are beginning to tell upon clothing; we are becoming ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Afloat on the Ohio - An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo • Reuben Gold Thwaites
... he was sitting before her in the parlour of the little house near the hotel and market-place. His large hands, black with hair and sunburn, stroked his knees as he stooped smilingly forward and asked ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Bridal March; One Day • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
... you know, Al. One of them was Jake Bettins and the other was Ed True. The three hit the pike at a regular two-forty clip for the Big Run road. Those birds don't go chasing around on a day like this just to get sunburn, do they?' ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
... the top of her black head to the tips of her brown shoes. He could have counted the freckles bridging her nose. The sunburn on her cheeks was very visible; there was something arresting in the depth of her eyes, the curve of her lips, the lithe slenderness of her young body; she gave the effect of something smoldering inside that would leap at ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... from the thirty-three students who volunteered for dangerous service during a summer vacation on the Vassar College farm. The twelve ventured out on a new enterprise that meant aching muscles, sunburn and blisters, but not one of the twelve "ever lost a day" in their eight hours at hard labor, beginning at four-thirty each morning for eight weeks during one of our hottest summers. They ploughed with horses, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Mobilizing Woman-Power • Harriot Stanton Blatch
... redness, pain, and some swelling of the skin, followed, in a few days, by peeling of the surface layer (epidermis) and recovery. Sunburn and burns caused by slight exposures to gases and vapors fall ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) • Various
... no grease and will not grow hair. It will remove tan and sunburn, give the user a fresh complexion, whiten the skin, will gradually remove freckles and when used with massage will remove wrinkles. One jar will convince you. If you do not think this possible ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... a broken voice that expressed love, humility, and reproach. His face was white under the black sunburn. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne
... one of the groups, as the shivering negroes passed, and she turned very pale even under the sunburn that browned her face. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... blushing more than ever. "It's just sunburn, that's all. Now do you want me to read the rest of the news, or don't you? Because I have to ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope
... intensity. Wind blowing upon her body would cool her skin. Her thick, straight black hair was at least as good protection against sunstroke as a heat-helmet. She might feel hot, but she would be perfectly safe. She wouldn't even sunburn. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... excessive sunlight of his environment, and that the white man is white because he and his ancestors did not need protection from the sun. Mountain climbers cover their faces and hands with a mixture of grease and lamp-black in order to prevent sunburn. When in India we wore actinic underwear, dark glasses, and solar topees to protect us from the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb
... the other end of that spectrum, which the human eye is unable to register and detect, but which our apparatus in the laboratory plainly register. The ray of light which registers on the photographic plate, and which causes sunburn on our skin, is too high a rate of vibration for our eyes to perceive. Likewise the X-Rays, and many other of the finer rays of light known to science are imperceptible to the unaided human vision—they are actually "dark rays" so far ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita
... lunch? It's a long way to town." Helen May flushed behind her sunburn, but she felt that the law of the desert demanded ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... Howland," he cried, holding to Bob with one hand and seizing the ex-pirate's arm with the other. "Don't you try to leave yet. Gad, man, this is the happiest hour I've had in years. I owe you so much that it can't be put in figures. And this tall lad is Jeremy that you've told me of. Look at the sunburn on the pair of 'em—pretty desperate characters ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader
... "A touch of sunburn would be quite becoming. It is such an excellent foundation to build a complexion upon. Jeanne is quite enchanted with the place. She's had adventures already, and been rescued from drowning by a marvellous person, who wore his trousers tucked into his boots and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... vanity, is she?" inquired the stranger lightly, and fell back the next instant before the vigorous form of the miller, who swung round upon him with the smothered retort, "That's a lie!" The boyish face of the young countryman had paled under his sunburn and he spoke with the suppressed passion of a man who is not easily angered and who responds to the ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
... a little abashed. 'This didn't happen at Lebanon,' he said, 'but a bit farther north, on the Reservation; and at that particular moment of time, so far as blanket, hair-band, moccasins, and sunburn went, there wasn't much odds 'twix' me and a young Seneca buck. You may laugh'—he smoothed down his long-skirted brown coat—'but I told you I took to their ways all over. I said nothing, though I ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling
... box of sunburn cream for that," sang out Louise. "What is your brand? Or would you ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest - The Wig Wag Rescue • Lillian Garis
... get a hold on the complex problems of this day and especially the next, who doesn't go at them with at least some sunburn on his neck and a few horny spots on his hands. Put Pete at it, you and Sam. Your description of Sam's habitation and vocation in letter to Mabel made me feel twenty-five again. I never had the real thing; but Peter shall. Ease him along. If he kicks over the traces let me know. When ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess
... much and rapidly, stuttered; and, conscious of his defects, he tried to adorn his speech with gesticulations of the hands and head and thin shoulders, and at every movement his hempen shirt crumpled into folds, slipped upwards and displayed his back, black with age and sunburn. He kept pulling it down, but it slipped up again at once. At last, as though driven out of all patience by the rebellious shirt, the old man leaped up ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Witch and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... evidently the Japanese steward of the ship. The other was a tall, clean-cut young fellow, whose general appearance and lack of sunburn showed quite plainly that he was not a seafaring man by profession. The steward caught sight of Captain Elisha, and, walking over, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln |