The nondescript replied in encouraging terms, and brought him to a coffee-shop in the street within a stone's throw.
The nondescript knew two Miss Dorrits; one who was born inside-- That was the one!
This changed the client's half-formed design of remaining at the coffee-shop until the nondescript should bring him word that Dorrit had issued forth into the street.
Thus spake Zarathustra and was about to go; but the nondescript grasped at a corner of his garment and began anew to gurgle and seek for words.
"Thou nondescript," said he, "thou warnedst me against thy path.
Such a senseless lie, too, yet it shattered her nerves and made her connect these Emersons, friends of Cecil's, with a pair of
nondescript tourists.
In those early days she had been much loved by others of her own sex and age, and had used to be seen about the village as one of three--all nearly of the same year--walking home from school side by side; Tess the middle one--in a pink print pinafore, of a finely reticulated pattern, worn over a stuff frock that had lost its original colour for a
nondescript tertiary--marching on upon long stalky legs, in tight stockings which had little ladder-like holes at the knees, torn by kneeling in the roads and banks in search of vegetable and mineral treasures; her then earth-coloured hair handing like pot-hooks; the arms of the two outside girls resting round the waist of Tess; her arms on the shoulders of the two supporters.
She had eaten the meal that had been brought her by Mohammed Beyd's Negro slave--a meal of cassava cakes and a
nondescript stew in which a new-killed monkey, a couple of squirrels and the remains of a zebra, slain the previous day, were impartially and unsavorily combined; but the one-time Baltimore belle had long since submerged in the stern battle for existence, an estheticism which formerly revolted at much slighter provocation.
The other man, in
nondescript garments that were both of the sea and shore, and that must have been uncomfortably hot, slouched and shambled like an overgrown ape.
In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking
nondescripts from foreign parts.
But these are
nondescripts and may be found equally among Hellenes and among barbarians.
The images are entirely consistent with Beshty's characteristically wry mode of address--attired in the
nondescript jeans-and-sweatshirt costume of the weekend warrior, he is a consumer Everyman, swooning to the power of the product, a willing prey being swallowed whole by the seductive charisma of the wondrous things that surround him.
In the middle was a rather
nondescript house, very run down.
The armed robbers were described as white, one was slim around 5ft 10in with dark brown eyes and the other 6ft 3in, with a big frame similar to a rugby player and a
nondescript English accent.
From a
nondescript Texas energy firm, it became a vast money- spinner worth pounds 39billion at its peak.
