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"Treaty, nothing!" snaps Sherman; he was the same ugly, blackavised bargee who you remember observed that war is hell, and then proved it; I was interested to see that ten years hadn't mellowed him.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

"Treaty, nothing!" snaps Sherman; he was the same ugly, blackavised bargee who you remember observed that war is hell, and then proved it; I was interested to see that ten years hadn't mellowed him.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

"Treaty, nothing!" snaps Sherman; he was the same ugly, blackavised bargee who you remember observed that war is hell, and then proved it; I was interested to see that ten years hadn't mellowed him.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

At last there was but one horseman in chase of the six men who were fleeing without a look behind them -- a frenzied blackavised trooper on

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

He went by here yesterday, on the Mallaig boat, and there was a wee blackavised man with him that got out at the Kyle.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

He was a blackavised, burly fellow, with heavy side-locks, a pimpled face, and about the nose a touch of blue that, methought, did not come of the frosty air.

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The blackavised, tender-hearted, fiery professor, for whom she felt the reverent, eager friendship that intellectual girls often give to a man much older than they; the doctor's family; even

Emily Brontë 1900

I know not what manner of man thou art in the flesh, sir, but figure thee bearded and blackavised, and of a lean tortuous habit of body, that moves ever with a swish.

The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898

There is another valley where the men are big-boned and blackavised, with square shaven chins and spare bodies, rather like our English legal type; and they go to church in scarlet breeches, long black velvet coats, and black three-cornered hats.

Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

Weel! in to the water we behoved a 'to splash, heels ower head, sit or fa' -- ae horse driving on anither, as is the way of brute beasts, and riders that hae as little sense; the very bushes on the ither side were ableeze wi 'the flashes of the Whig guns; and my horse had just taen the grund, when a blackavised westland carle -- I wad mind the face o' him a hundred years yet -- an ee like a wild falcon's, and a beard as broad as my shovel -- clapped the end o 'his lang black gun within a quarter's length of my lug!

The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801