Grant was lazily leaning back in his seat, with one hand outstretched, abstractedly swinging Wang Kum's pigtail to and fro, when Ned suddenly started up, with a naughty sparkle in his dark eyes.
From the end of every pigtail dangled one of the light folding chairs which filled the room.
The reference to a pigtail is principally interesting because of what was found on Cadby's body.
It was as Smith hissed the words despairingly that I looked up--and saw the Chinaman snatch at his coiled pigtail and pull it off!
Smith," I said, "did you bring the pigtail with you that was found on Cadby?
Tom, too, sat very silent for a long time, chewing a piece of pigtail tobacco, evidently feeling perfectly comfortable about the smuggler's knowledge of the coast.
But it was nothing of the sort, being only his pigtailcarefully bound with ribbon, and the thickest and longest pigtail in the "Ryal Navee.
To finish the whole, on each side under the brim lay two long rows of powdered curls, which flew off in an airy pigtail behind.
It is, in a manner, an historical character; and from the very nursery we accustom ourselves to picture him with a long pigtail and a nightcap, skinning cats and fricasseeing frogs.
So my son Bob and me called a court-martial in the old tower, so soon as we come round; and we had a red herring, because we was thirsty, and we chawed a bit of pigtail to keep it down.
The mention of pigtail shows that the House contained pipe- as well as cigar-smokers.
He would cut off thepigtail of one of the choir boys.
When the band was to play for the Prince's family and its guests, Haydn and the players were required to wear white stockings and white collars, and a pigtail or tie-wig.
Aint so partick'ler about the shirts as present can be washed, but be sure to go to 7 diles sign of Black boy and git the pigtail as I haint had a cud to chor since thursday.
Sight o' pigtailat Gravesend but unfortinately unfit for a dog to chor.
His pace quickened; within three yards of the bar he seemed to crouch almost to the ground; then up he flew, his pigtail flying out behind him, the eyes and mouths of the small boys opening wider with amazement.
The two boys had each other by the pigtail with one hand, and with the other were drawing streaks on each other's face.
Chin Tai, if you can't keep the peace, I'll cut off your pigtail and send you home to your grandmother.
One slightly built Chinaman, his pigtail streaming behind him, flung himself down from the bridge towards the spot where Burroughs, half stunned by a blow from a burly ruffian, had been beaten to the deck.
But by far the best of all, a real crown of glory, was a pigtail of red, red hair that hung down my back and showed conspicuously on the white apron.
It is not surprising that my face turned white; the only wonder is that the pigtail did not turn white, too!
Ermengarde shook her head so that the pigtail wabbled.
Her flaxen hair was braided in a tight pigtail, tied with a ribbon, and she had pulled this pigtail round her neck, and was biting the end of the ribbon, resting her elbows on the desk, as she stared wonderingly at the new pupil.
She stared so hard and bit the ribbon on her pigtail so fast that she attracted the attention of Miss Minchin, who, feeling extremely cross at the moment, immediately pounced upon her.
In the culinary department of a newspaper we find a recipe for making "bird's nest pudding," which would surely make the pigtail of a JOHN Chinaman stick straight up on end.
The miserable pigtail Mongolian went to hewing away at the saplings all round the stems, like a worm o' the dust gnawing a radish.
But before putting him down I had the extremely bad taste to cut off his pigtail and spike it to that beam above his grave, where you may see it at this moment, or, preferably, when warmth has given you leisure for observation.
He drew his sword and glared angrily through the darkness, and Tappy, having backed as far as possible, fell heels over pigtail into the silver fountain.
The Scarecrow turned so suddenly that the silver pigtail pinned to the back of his hat wound itself tightly around his neck.
The pigtail on the back of his hat was terribly distracting, and he was always tripping over his kimono, to which he could not seem to accustom himself.
For Happy's pigtail was still on end, and he was shaking so that his silver shoes clattered on the rocks.
Fong's pigtail jerked like an expiring rattlesnake, as he rushed here and there, putting the final touches to a meal which was to be the culinary achievement of his life.
The boys clapped Fong on the back till his pigtail squirmed like an eel, and his grin threatened to split the lower part of his face.
His turban was dark-blue, and the pigtail was coiled up under it, and did not hang down from under the skull cap as with the Chinese.
The traveller who cares to travel in this way, to put his pride in his pocket and a pigtail down his back, need pay only one-fourth of what it would cost him to travel as a European in European dress.
Each head was in a cage of its own, and was suspended by the pigtail to the rim, so that it might not lie upside down but could by-and-by rattle in its box as dead men's bones should do.
I travelled as a Chinese, dressed in warm Chinese winter clothing, with a pigtail attached to the inside of my hat.
Men laughed, and said that he would have cut off his own pigtail of plaited hair, if he could have sold it for the price of a dinner!
Fing Fang solemnly shook thepigtail which hung down his back.
The rich trader shook his head, and the pigtail behind it--such a passage would have to be paid for.
He may be yearnin' for breakfast," Jane remarked, completing her toilet by tying her little pigtail braid with something that had once been a bit of black ribbon, but was now a string.
A little felt hat hung limp over her ears; her pigtail braid had lost its string and was unraveling at the end, and her torn, sodden shoes were ready to drop from her feet.
Haydn did remarkably well in the petty pigtail courts of Austria.
We may be sure that the "discords" of a Beethoven suddenly blared forth would have scared Count Morzin and all his pigtail court.
John" in the different stages of being lathered, shaved, and of having his pigtail plaited with white, blue, or red cords that fringe and lengthen its wispy end.
It was called plugging, and consisted (horresco referens) in poking a piece of pigtailtobacco right into the nostril.
On the host leaving the room, where he had come to take orders for supper, Lord Dunmore turned to his valet and said, "Johnstone, do I look as like a fool in my pigtail as Billy Cream does?
The very presence in the house of this new inmate, a woman wielding authority, whom he remembered only a little time ago as a girl with a pigtail down her back, made him awkward.
In each case she seemed equally childish, particularly on days when she had been too busy to do her hair and wore it in a honey-coloured pigtail at the back.
His long pigtail was always concealed under his flapping straw hat.
Once Jim, who was Norah's big brother, had found him asleep in his hut with the pigtail drooping over the edge of the bunk.
Bag-wigs, found early in the century, covered the looped up pigtail in a black silk bag.
The wig and even the pigtail tied with black shalloon were abandoned by all but a few old folk.
With powdered hair and the pigtailpassed away the 18th century cloth breeches.
