The most bizarre contrasts startled the observer--mean cabins, broken windows, no bread, and yet women clad in silk with plumes in their hair.
He was still studying the bracelet out of the corner of his eye, and he perceived that the intricate workmanship represented a king-cobra; its hood was lifted in bizarre relief.
In the dusk she saw the cobra-head lifted in bizarre relief.
They show a vein of the bizarre without the great fancy of Fueessli and are realistic to a degree that stopt at nothing.
But Tieck had no use for those of his imitators who caught only the extravagance of his figures and debased his Titanic creations into bizarre contortions by over-emfasis on mere muscle.
Its attraction is peculiar, and affects one like some strange perfume, or bizarre melody.
And the very latest is the bizarre AzScam case, in which state legislators were videotaped, eagerly taking cash from an informant of the Phoenix city police department, who was posing as a Vegas mobster.
After the Phrack show-trial, the Steve Jackson Games scandal was the most bizarre and aggravating incident of the Hacker Crackdown of 1990.
And after all, this yokel and his queer story were no more bizarre than was many a spy trick played by Germany upon her foes.
Bizarre cant phrases and slang used by the miners.
Bizarre cant phrases and slang used by the miners "Honest Indian?
Those, of course, would shock you; but, though you hate slang, I know that you could not help smiling at some of their bizarre cant phrases.
The coxswain pronounced a few words in his bizarre language, and no doubt he alerted his men to keep on their guard.
Even so, these men were frugal of speech and used among themselves only thatbizarre dialect whose origin I couldn't even guess.
I gaped at thebizarre individual who had just spoken these words.
I soon grew accustomed to this bizarre arrangement, likewise to the comparative darkness surrounding us.
One of the steel plates flew up, a man appeared, gave a bizarre yell, and instantly disappeared.
Living in a conducting medium such as water, this bizarre animal can electrocute other fish from several meters away, so great is the power of its electric organ, an organ whose two chief surfaces measure at least twenty-seven square feet.
But, if properly played, it is one of the most bizarre and amusing scherzos in the repertoire.
It must have seemed to them originality strained to the point of eccentricity and more bizarre than effective.
This remark was not taken up and he returned for a time to the nursing of his indignation, at the bottom of which, like a monster in a fog, crept a bizarre feeling of rancour.
The railroad's agent had never visited that place of whose ill repute he had heard such bizarre tales, but in all this high, wild country, he thought, there was no other spot of which it so well behooved his party to ride wide.
Fronded whitely by the sleet, the panes loomed out of the dark like an incandescent series of camera plates, bizarre and oriental.
He proudly exhibited the bizarre collection of scraps, initialed in token of debt and reinitialed in token of payment.
There is Dutch surrounded by queens of the Midway, Dutch with his arms debonairly thrown round the shoulders of snake charmers and other bizarre and vanished contemporaries.
Are their polished Bill Sykes' exteriors but bizarre domiciles for lofty souls?
A bizarre female person admitted me to the house there.
The walls were striped with equally bizarre coloring, half Moorish and half Indian.
He passed hurriedly into the formal little drawing-room, whose bizarre coloring was still darkened by the closed blinds and dropped awnings that had shut out the heat of day.
The uncertain and irregular movements of the common mouse are due to muscular weakness and to blindness, but the bizarre movements of the young dancer seem to demand some additional facts as an explanation.
Cleggett, staring in his turn, perceived that the tall man, ungainly as he was, affected a bizarre individualism in the matter of dress.
The realism which was his metier was that sort of realism into which are woven facts and incidents of the most bizarre and startling nature.
It was a bizarreand preposterous intimacy, in which Leavitt seemed to find a wholly acceptable substitute for human society, and there was something repellant about the man's eccentricity.
Their helmets waved with plumes and bizarre crests.
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of every-day life.
Amid the action and reaction of so dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be presented which may be striking and bizarre without being criminal.
As a rule,” said Holmes, “the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.
In their bizarre motives some of the marine mounts look like a cross between a submarine and a rockcod.
Mr. Calder has given us so very many excellent things, alone and in collaboration with others throughout the Exposition, that we must allow him this little bizarre note as an eccentricity of an otherwise well-balanced genius.
It is not only the soldier who has a bizarre love of peril.
Is it not that bizarre silence of the Algerian waste which leads many a Trappist to his fate, rather than the strange thought of God calling his soul to heavenly dreams and ecstatic renunciations?
For the first time he felt convinced that some very peculiar and bizarrechange was dawning over the youth he knew so well.
But the question, the voice of Julian, gave him pause, slid into his soul a new andbizarre desire, child of the strange intoxication of power which was beginning to grip him, and which the doctor had remarked.
The Palazzo Pretoria at Arezzo has one of the most bizarre façades extant, albeit its decorative and cypher panels add no great architectural beauty.
Illustration: Map Genoa] Genoa is a bizarre combination of the old and the new, of the mountain and the plain, of great docks and wharves, and of streets of stairs rising almost vertically.
They also lacked our abundance of beautiful costumes, our great number and variety of bizarre fancies, loveliness of colouring, wide knowledge of buildings, and distance and variety in landscapes.
In this work are Moors, Indians, costumes of strange shapes, and a most bizarre hut.
