| Description | Character | Page of quote |
| '...he was tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red...His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness.' | |
| '...he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went...' | |
| '...a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.' | |
| 'But _____, for all his ludicrous body, had brains.' | |
| '...bullet-headed and with hair like tow...chunky and vital...provided with not quite enough skin...' | |
| '...next in size among the choir boys to Jack, but broad and grinning all the time.' | |
| '...he was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up form under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse.' | |
| 'He was a boy of perhaps six years, sturdy and fair, his clothes torn, his face covered with a sticky mess of fruit.' | |
| '_____ was mouse-colored and had not been very attractive even to his mother.' | |