An equally spotless skirt, fresh from the laundry, gathered up in one strong pendant hand, gleamed like light against its background of greasy woodwork and greasy wool.
The stalwart father in the background glowered upon the son disgracing him.
Indeed, just as in dreams and in hypnosis, in the mental operations of a group the function for testing the reality of things falls into the background in comparison with the strength of wishes with their affective cathexis.
The great and stately door of the church was a fitting background for the frail figure holding the Host of God which gleamed in the lucid rays of the sun that struck straight from heaven on it, like a mystical jewel fed with inner light.
The ladies, each with her own warm life of human interest as a background for her thoughts, pitied her and shuddered at her, and in their hearts they counted the days until they should be relieved of their posts at Schloss Ahlden.
In the midst of her gorgeous triumph Madame was a little grieved, a little stung by the obvious coldness of Monsieur; his jealousy had been the background of her life for the eight years since she had married him.
She was dressed in black, in a costume which did not too much conceal the charm of her figure, and the nut-brown lustre of her face and hair played against the sober background of her dress with an effect that was almost dazzling.
The tall green palms behind them made a pleasant background to Anna's white dress.
Joe Mauser said, "I am afraid my background is hazy, Colonel Kossuth.
Joe Mauser had been in the backgroundas befitted his junior rank.
You are poorly founded in the background of the Sov-world, major.
I have sketched the historical background in order that the Bolsheviki may be seen in proper perspective and fairly judged in connection with the whole revolutionary movement in Russia.
The earliest Mark of all is probably that of Wilhelm Moritz Endter’s daughter, which represents a rocky landscape, with a town in thebackground lighted by the sun.
The back of the buildings surrounding the court form the background of the scene.
Arcade on the first story of a Romanesque palace, separated in the background by a row of columns from the court below, to which steps lead down from the middle to right and left.
In the centre of the background is a landing with stairs going up and down.
The background slopes upward at right and left to wooded hills.
His figure cut the misty background and he carried himself as if he were not disturbed.
In the background were polished hardwood panels and carved pillars.
Something about her indicated that her proper background was an old-fashioned English country house; Jimmy felt his was a Lancashire cotton mill.
Sometimes her eyes and hair shone and her face stood out against a background of shadow.
The ridge, outlined against a vague background of majestic peaks, looked as remote as another world.
Some distance above the spot, the top of another pitch cut a background of broken rocks, streaked by veins of snow.
The peaks in the background vanished, the ridge got indistinct, and the black pines on the lower snow-fields faded, as if a curtain were drawn across the picture.
My soul is nothing more than the background upon which the finger of God has engraved your image.
Several weeks now quietly elapsed in a gentle alternation of joy and sorrow, until the image of the beloved dead receded into the background more and more, and love took exclusive possession of Cornelia's whole existence.
How does it happen that you always choose so gloomy a background for the radiant picture of your life?
Arden and Sim were not long behind Terry, and the girls made a pretty picture in their gay dresses against the background of dark paneled walls in the dining room.
The panniers of her dark-green riding costume seemed to melt into the leafybackground of the painting.
Good-morning," he greeted them pleasantly and with a smile that displayed to advantage his white even teeth against the background of well tanned cheeks.
It was uncanny to see this strange, scarlet figure capering about in the little clearing, seen through a screen of fir trees and against a background of gleaming white snow.
As a background there were the girls in their smart riding habits and bright scarfs following Callahan, whose cigar was now reduced to a soggy brown mass.
The background to this panorama is furnished by the city of Constantinople, dimly discernable at a distance, refleeting at night its millions of blinking lights in the blue waters of the Marmora.
In thebackground we could see the little mosque where villagers were entering for their afternoon prayer.
She was contented to put herself altogether in the background till he should have pleased to leave the place.
That's just it," said Mrs. Gresham, still giving a twist here and a set there to some of the small sprigs which constituted the background of her bouquet.
Anything that is in the background that you have---- Mrs. PAINE.
But I think it is important to have more of a background of his education, experience, and I think it is wise to have it for all of the witnesses--not in great depth, but at least a background to show some biographical information.
Obviously considerable experience would have to be in one's background to do so.
Also her general background which I have already mentioned.
And I suppose that if he had had some background of a few jobs, skipping here and there, I might have investigated those jobs thoroughly.
May I ask did we get into the testimony enough of his background and biography?
I ask you to state if you can find yourself in the crowd in the background in that picture.
Two of them are civilian gunners in the Small Arms Division of our Development and Proof Services, and the third is presently in the Army, and he has considerable background as a rifleman, and also has a Master rating.
In the background the peaks of Igdlerfigsalik, and in front of them Iganek (after N.
The whole backgroundis covered by the inland ice; behind it on the right the Nunataks near the east coast.
The mountain Igdlerfigsalik in thebackground (after D.
Even after one has located with tolerable precision the tree from which emanated the sounds, a few minutes will generally elapse before the authors thereof are clearly outlined against the dark background of the bark.
In some specimens, under a glass of moderate power, the ground is a perfectly uniform buff, but in others which appear to the unaided vision of the same color, the lens reveals a whitish background very densely covered with minute dottings.
Eggs with the brown background have in addition to the black and dark-brown streaks and dashes which cover the other type, chiefly about the larger extremity, a number of confluent, cloudy blotches of deeper shades of the same color.
Owing to the difficulty encountered in figuring the eggs in situ, we have been compelled to show a single specimen, the natural size, and on a tinted background below and to the left of the picture.
The city stands on a flat plain, without backgroundof hills or other pleasing topographical feature, and its surroundings are, in consequence, low and monotonous.
But here this fine collection forms merely the background for the less lofty palms, bamboos and all the host of the quainter growths, to say nothing of the flowering shrubs and the land and water blossoms.
Against the historical background of the days when the children of Israel were delivered from the bondage of Egypt, the author has sketched a romance of compelling charm.
The never-to-be-forgotten events of 1857 form the background of this story.
Elena, the sad figure in the background of these bright pathetic scenes, thought Roma was hoping for a reconciliation with Rossi.
The works you must fix behind the background so that the starting lever comes conveniently for the penny in its fall.
Behind the right-hand figure cut a vertical slit in the background about 1/8 in.
Behind this screen the articles are suspended, on a background also black.
The background you can paint to any design you please, such as a street scene, or on the sands, and the floor to correspond.
This background you must make out of cardboard, and fix about 3 in.
Put in the sky and background of the pictures first.
The background of the picture is a false back inserted about 2 in.
In thebackground there is the crying game that is Balkanian music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined.
He brought out a small but stout property-mast, and arranged it against a canvas background of coast scenery.
In the background there stretched a wide savanna, and at the distance of about half a mile he saw, very near a little cluster of trees, a thin column of smoke.
A newly fashioned Jolly Roger, in which the background was very black and the skull and cross-bones ghastly white, flew from his masthead.
He himself would hover beneficently in the background over the undertaking.
