[Mr.Atos]

..."tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served as shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together." Ichabod's voice--"the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or of command; or peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge." Ichabod was quick to deal out punishment to his school charges, always accompanied by a lecture.

Kerry indeed. Just brilliant, Hugh!

[Barset]

John Kerry is Obediah Slope in Anthony Trollope's "Barchester Towers" Unctuous, false, wordy...a pursuer of rich women, a self-promoting liar who is scorned and dismissed by real men and women for whom worldly power is too serious a consideration to let the Slopes of the world near it. b