Nick Munnelly was standing in an alley in the cold at the rear of the Bay Pearl hotel, smoking and picking at the threads, the linty specks, snarled in the hairs of his forearm. |
Winthrop led me to my cot, bid me lie down upon the rumpled sheet, I did so and he covered me with a linty blanket. |
The surfaces are lumpy and clotted, linty with escaping threads, amusingly slapdash. |
No need to go with muddy boots, though, or linty, or have your bow upside down. |
Lamblike in appearance, the Bedlington terrier has an arched back, a topknot, and a thick, curly coat, linty in texture and blue-gray, deep reddish brown, or pale sandy, often with tan markings. |
It's not a bad cold, but it's a cold, and this means my brain is covered with a crunchy layer of linty styrofoam packing peanuts. |