The frock was quite dry, and in truth it had been helped a little by aunt Sarah's ministrations; but the colors had run in the rubbing, the pattern was blurred, and there were muddy streaks here and there.
" The last red streaks had faded away in the west and night had settled upon the moor.
But then, what splendid fires blazed continually on the hearths of Granite House, the smoke marking the granite wall with long, zebra-like streaks!
When the first streaks of dawn appeared in the western horizon, the wind, which had slightly fallen, shifted two points, and enabled Pencroft to enter the narrow gulf with greater ease.
The night passed quietly, for the breeze died away with the last light of day, and only rose again with the first streaks of dawn.
The yellow color of its hair was relieved by streaks and regular oblong spots of black, which contrasted with the white of its chest.
Below the chasm, large thick streaks of lava wound over the sides of the mountain, and thus marked the course of the eruptive matter to the lower valleys which furrowed the northern part of the island.
Such things bring lines in well-rounded faces, and broaden the streaks of white among the hairs that once looked as if they had been dipped in pure sunshine.
It is true that this last might be called his central ambition; but there are some kinds of authorship in which by far the largest result is the uneasy susceptibility accumulated in the consciousness of the author—one knows of the river by a few streaks amid a long-gathered deposit of uncomfortable mud.
" Green it might be called, if it were any earthly color—a queer, dull, bronzy green, with streaks here and there of the original red to heighten the ghastly effect.
Marilla was a tall, thin woman, with angles and without curves; her dark hair showed some gray streaks and was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it.
The only other players with streaks of 16 straight 30-point games since Chamberlain were Kobe Bryant in 2003 and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1972.
Ibreathe deeply and watch the sun's rays streaks through breaking clouds.
The pear-shaped eggs of a common murre (Uria aalge) can sport a blue hue, be speckled or feature brown streaks.
For struggling teams like the Memphis Grizzlies and LA Clippers, losing streaks and injuries have seriously dampenedhopes at a playoff run.
His silver-rimmed glasses accented a few gray streaks in his dark hair.
Booker ripped San Antonio for 39 points -- his second 39-point night in three days -- to become the first Suns player to post two separate 35-point streaks (Nov.
To get rid of those pesky eyesores try rubbing a dry tennis ball on the black streaks.
She had just run up to the top of one glorious blue wave, and the nearer slope of that wave came down towards you, with streaks and bubbles on it.
The sky was awash with streaks of red and purple as the sun set on Peshawar.
