The heat had a positive and brassy quality, there was no air stirring.
The uniformed band, coming out into its pagoda, burst into a brassy uproar, the sun sank, the tired crowd in its brilliant colours surged slowly to and fro.
The street was empty; a hurdy-gurdy unseen poured forth a brassy flood of sound.
She drank in the music of the Park concerts, she dreamed in the libraries, she eagerly caught the first brassy mutter of the thunder storms.
Which of them said which has never been determined, and does not matter, since they all had the same ideas and expressed them always with the same ponderous and brassy assurance.
Any roofed-over shed or shack, with doors or not, is what one generally has to put up with to-day, for housing his resplendent brassy and varnishy automobile.
The report is made to a small automaton of a boy, with a blase eye and a brassy voice.
Satisfied, he started toward the blase check boy with the brassy voice; as he went his hand felt casually in his change pocket, and he stopped short, gripped by horror.
My partner didn't want to play at first because of the weather, but I persuaded him to go round, and I beat him by two up and four to play solely by relying on the brassy and midiron.
Over that part of the woods which lay immediately under the intenser light, a brassy mist floated.
The trees on the ramparts, and the people moving to and fro between them, were cut or divided into equal segments of deep shade and brassy light.
Such homely sights and sounds appealed to him the more by contrast to the brassy skies and baked aridity for which he would so soon be bound to exchange them.
I should have had a six at most," he protested, "after that lovely long brassy shot.
After which Patricia played a brassy shot, and they all went to find Merle's ball among the oaks.
Try a brassy on that," he suggested, to drop the character of Sharon Whipple.
The New College canopies have none of the brassy yellow colour characteristic of Decorated work, but are absolutely silvery in effect.
With the exception of an occasional brassy yellow canopy, recalling German colour, the same system of connecting canopy and subject together by colour is adopted alike at S.
Crockets and finial are usually in strong, brassy yellow.
It occurs already in Early Decorated glass, where the upper part of a big geometric window is sometimes occupied by brassy pinnacle work, which asserts itself, perhaps, upon a ground of mosaic diaper, in the most unpleasant way.
In German work one great brassy canopy will frequently be found stretching right across the several lights of the window, over-arching a single subject.
A body of legionaries appeared suddenly in the ray of light--brassy shapes in burnished armor, picked for stature and bearing.
Then he stepped without ostentation in the centurion's way--a weak, small figure in fringes and phylactery, living up to his nature as he fronted brassy Rome.
In less than twenty minutes he has caught more than fifty perch, weighing from one to three pounds apiece; they are lying in a brassyheap in the boat.
The sun crept slowly down the brassy arch of the heavens, and the glare grew less blinding.
There were the rolling plains, the high, brassy sky, and the clear line of the horizon on all sides, with nothing that savored of human life between.
The days and days of walking over the rolling prairie, under a brassy sun, the hard food of the train, and the short hours of rest, had put too severe a trial upon his delicate frame.
Turning to the three lights in the north wall we find the usual brassy canopies against a quarry background, surrounded by a coloured border.
St. Martin-cum-Gregory boasts of ten windows of Decorated work, mostly small brassy canopies enclosing coloured figures, all placed upon a background of quarries.
Note the brassy tone of the early golden stain used in the architecture.
Their architectural portion is of a strong brassy yellow, that colour being provided by pot metal glass leaded in.
Although a great deal of restoration is noticeable in this window, the strongly brassy tone of the canopies in the three outer lancets on each side clearly indicate that they antedate the discovery of yellow stain.
The brassy tint is more noticeable in the canopies which run in two bands across its three lancets, and the canopies themselves are cruder in drawing than those just described, but are excellently illustrative of their period.
Little cooling breezes fluttered along the lake shore, banishing the last trace of that brassy heat.
The advanced edge of a black cloudbank rolling swiftly up from the east was already dimming the brassy glare of the sun.
While progress toots her brassy horn And makes her motor buzz, I thank the Lord I wasn't born No later than I wuz!
And then he strained his eyes over the brassy horizon; but no cloud, no veil of vapor was visible.
Having admired the sublimity of the scene, and seen the full moon rise, but speedily lose her light in a brassy halo, they entered the hut, which was now the headquarters, and they supped together there.
On the table at his elbow I had in reserve Faulty Play with the Brassy and a West Middlesex Directory.
His voice is a beautiful tenor, softer, more mellow, less strong andbrassy than Leslie's.
As we came in sight of the little grey tower of the church, we heard the sound of braying, brassy music.
Strange colors edged the low-hanging clouds, red and brown and a brassy yellow, while the fields and woods below were a deep, unnatural green.
The cloud was unusually brassywith little or no rain.
The brassy light behind the trees was becoming golden; slim bluish shadows already stretched from the base of every tree across frozen fields dusted with snow.
A female from Kalacoon hasbrassy and coppery tints on the apical part of abdomen, and must be referred to E.
Abdomen all bright green, with brassy tints; tongue extending backward far beyond tip of abdomen Euglossa brullei Lepeletier.
A moment later "Onward, Christian Soldiers," broke out in brassy rivalry to "Shall We Gather at the River.
The stream of brassy discord that descended from above was equalled only by the pounding of the two drums that rose from below.
And how the spectacle was set in the cloud of dark night, a phantom play acted on that fiery stage, beneath those hideous brassy lamps, very slowly swinging in a violent blast.
