He was coatless, and wore a dirty apron; a battered hat was at the back of his head, and his great hands which lay on the desk in front of him, were soiled.
He wore an office coat, short at the wrists and torn at the elbows, and a battered felt hat was thrust far back over his head so that the brim rested on his dirty collar.
All the folks who kept the boarding house could tell was that about a year before they had found him lying on their doorstep one morning in an awful condition—his head battered to a jelly almost.
They were looking at the Four Winds Harbor of sixty years agone, with a battered old ship sailing through the sunrise splendor.
CHAPTER 1 IN THE GARRET OF GREEN GABLES "Thanks be, I'm done with geometry, learning or teaching it," said Anne Shirley, a trifle vindictively, as she thumped a somewhat battered volume of Euclid into a big chest of books, banged the lid in triumph, and sat down upon it, looking at Diana Wright across the Green Gables garret, with gray eyes that were like a morning sky.
The battered school-book of Tom's which she held on her knees could give her no fortitude under the pressure of that dread; and again and again her eyes had filled with tears, as they wandered vaguely, seeing neither the chestnut-trees, nor the distant horizon, but only future scenes of home-sorrow.
I thought he looked rather battered and depressed.
Coutras made an effort of will and bent over that battered horror.
I believed him capable of uprooting from his heart, though it might be with agony, so that he was left battered and ensanguined, anything that came between himself and that uncomprehended craving that urged him constantly to he knew not what.
There, parked by the side of old, battered ragged Lady Jane, was another car.
" Valancy poured tea out of Barney's little battered old pewter teapot of incredible age.
Nothing more battered and disreputable could be imagined.
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It is where we shed our superficial selve repair our battered bodie boost our wilting10 spirit fix our tarnished11 psyche mend our bruised emotions and change our evil ways.
Whether it is batting for the girl child or freeing a battered housewife from the shackles of a loveless marriage, the material at hand has been touched on earlier.
The book was a standard-issue 1950s schoolbook, battered, unloved, grimly hefty-but near the front it had an illustration that just captivated me: 2050--,,,--,: a cutaway diagram showing the Earth's interior as it would look if you cut into the planet with a large knife ,,,, and carefully withdrew a wedge representing about a quarter of its bulk.
Amber Heard is giving away every penny from the $7 million divorce settlement she got from Johnny Depp to charities that help battered women and sick children.
Amber Heard is giving away every penny from the $7 million divorce settlement she got from Johnny Depp to charities that help battered women and sick children.
But he soon found himself being battered by frantic women.
'" From Queenstown, a flight took me to poor, battered and broken Christchurch.
