and their jaw bones were in strong relief owing to their thinness. Some had preserved the upright moustache in the style of the Emperor; the most of them were shaved or had a stubby tuft like a brush.

The gypsy placed her hands upon the table,—a pair of stubby, wrinkled hands incrusted with dirt.

“An’ ye call this pitiful place wealth?” Bruenor chuckled, snapping his stubby fingers.

A small bus with an extension tube like a stubby elephant trunk was now nuzzling affectionately up against the spacecraft.

Fouche rolled an unlit cigar between his stubby fingers and regarded Gabrielle through hooded eyes.

He laid two fine white hands, plump and stubby, over the lower buttons of his protuberant waistcoat.

It was some sort of VTOL craft - vertical take-off and landing, pronounced vee-tol - with stubby wings and a bubble cockpit.

The submersible was a stubby sphere, broken by pipes and rivets, random extrusions in reinforced iron.

The dwarf poked out a small knothole in the box’s bottom and hooked a stubby finger through the opening.

Our pencils were stubby but hers were sharp and pointy.