The sight of his sleek, striped sides, the grace of his movements, gave her pleasure—as did the beautiful,351 even, glossy furrows of the ploughed fields beyond the lane, and the first faint white star in the crystal-green sky.
It means sleek and glossy and soft and fluffy all in one and something else besides that I cant express.
Three varieties of Lofty John's apples were their especial favourites—the "scabby apples," that looked as if they had leprosy but were of unsurpassed deliciousness under their queerly blotched skins; the "little red apples," scarcely bigger than a crab, deep crimson all over and glossy as satin, that had such a sweet, nutty138 flavour; and the big green "sweet apples" that children usually thought the best of all.
And then you were in a clean, earthy-smelling, damp, cool place with an earthen floor and windows screened by the delicate emerald of young hop-vines, and broad wooden shelves all around, whereon stood wide, shallow pans of glossy brown ware, full of milk coated over with cream so rich that it was positively yellow.
28 He had a little, rosy, elfish face with a forked grey beard; his hair curled over his head in a most un-Murray-like mop of glossy brown; and his large, brown eyes were as kind and frank as a child's.
She put the faded blue hood on over her long, heavy braid of glossy, jet-black hair, and smiled chummily at her reflection in the little greenish glass.
There was one passenger in the coach,—a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress.
" He took out the chain—a trifle indeed as to value, but glossy with silk and sparkling with beads.
Nobody, however, can accuse him of having red hair now—it is genuine chestnut—a dark, glossy chestnut; and when I put my large cashmere about him, there was as fine a young bey, dey, or pacha improvised as you would wish to see.
If I could but once make their (usually large) ears burn under their thick glossy hair, all was comparatively well.
Chancing to pass through the hall, I found Paulina sitting alone on the lowest step of the staircase, her eyes fixed on the glossy panels of the dining-room door, where the reflection of the hall-lamp was shining; her little brow knit in anxious meditation.
She passed and repassed her long brown hand gently over her pet's glossy fur.
I will stroke it—so—that bonny, glossy head of yours.
She felt very down-hearted; her hair was of that order which, glossy and smooth normally, is dry and harsh and lustreless for several days after being shampooed.
Anne looked at him remorsefully; then she slipped down on the rug beside him and laid her glossy red head on his arm.
Or was he a glossy young buck of a crow on courting thoughts intent?
But she was pleasant to look at—big, clear, hazel eyes and heaps of glossy brown hair, and an English skin.
He was not far; I found him smoothing the glossy coat of the new pony in the stable, and feeding the other beasts, according to custom.
The one which had been seized in the hall of Granite House was a great fellow, six feet high, with an admirably poportioned frame, a broad chest, head of a moderate size, the facial angle reaching sixty-five degrees, round skull, projecting nose, skin covered with soft glossy hair, in short, a fine specimen of the anthropoids.
When the groom had brought out the pretty creature, which arched its brown, glossy neck and tossed its fine head in the sun, the Earl had sat at the open window of the library and had looked on while Fauntleroy took his first riding lesson.
