martial-looking

Together they walked down the marble hall and up the broad staircase, on through rows of stately ladies and martial-looking men, the crowd opening and bowing as they passed.

Scenes in Switzerland American Tract Society

"Humph!" with a glance that made me keenly alive to the lameness of that story told by the martial-looking captain.

A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903

They are the most martial-looking assembly of humans I ever set eyes on.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

Mira and her newest friend, Mrs. Plodder, with the tall, martial-looking civilian riding in close attendance on the Cranston's equipage, basking in the life-giving sunshine and in the thrill and hope and sweet unrest of an ever-growing love, devoted and insistent in spite of vague and jealous dread, for there was not the feeblest flicker of encouragement in Miss Loomis's calm and oft-averted eyes.

Under Fire Charles King 1888

Underneath them were lines of foot-guards, very martial-looking, fellows.

Queen Victoria Her Girlhood And Womanhood Greenwood, Grace 1883

Now, all at once, the General felt the tremendous fatigues of the day; there was a wild, swimming, whirling sensation in his head that forced him to let his eyelids sink down; yet, just there, in the midst of his painful bewilderment, he realized with ecstatic complacency that the most martial-looking man in

Old Creole Days 1879

He is tall and martial-looking, with a fine head, and hair on the auburn tint, a little curling and thin at the edge of the high forehead.

Floyd Grandon's Honor Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

"Yes," said Roy, in a husky voice; and a minute later he stood with the two martial-looking figures behind, and the drawbridge slowly descended in front.

The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War George Manville Fenn 1870

'He was always a martial-looking man, and laid out, he was quite imposing.

Evan Harrington — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

'He was always a martial-looking man, and laid out, he was quite imposing.

Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868