Our national colors were to be seen everywhere, even the lighthouse on the point being draped from top to bottom in clouds of red, white and blue bunting.
In an incredibly short space of time the steamer was surrounded by boats of all shapes, sizes and colors, manned by Malays, Cingalese and Hindoos, clad in all the colors of the rainbow, and all talking and yelling at the same time.
Madge Tyler hastily made a bow of yellow and maroon and pinned it on one lapel of her jacket, to balance the colors of her own college.
Tom felt better after that little lecture to himself by himself, and when he glanced across toward the grandstands, and saw a slim girlish figure suddenly spring up, and wave his colors at him, he felt a surge of elation and delight.
He bowed and smiled at the pretty quartette, and then Tom and his chums, once more predicting that they were going to carry the colors of Randall to the fore, hurried away.
I claim that he was asked to leave Harkness college for that reason, and if he is to take part under the colors of Randall, then every Exter man will refuse to compete.
Many of the lads against whom Tom and his chums had played football or baseball were to uphold the colors of Boxer Hall and Fairview.
We're loyal to Fairview," and she waved a flag of her college colors in his face.
Randall's colors were seen on every side, for, as is always the case in college games, the winning hues always appear mysteriously at the end of the contest.
For a long time I could not make out what they could be, these large panes of glass with variegated colorspassing through them; but now I think I know.
It is found that insects preserve their colors better under yellow glass than in any other color.
The department of American water colors has been substantially created within ten years.
The impression that anybody was being wronged or cheated affected and tormented him as keenly as a discordant note or an inharmonious arrangement of colors might disturb persons of loftier artistic soul.
He had noticed neither the number of lanterns nor the colors of the banners.
The rustle of silk, the shimmer of satin, the bright colors and the embroideries, formed a splendid spectacle.
With a frontispiece in colors by Howard Chandler Christy.
ARMS AND THE WOMAN, By Harold MacGrath With inlay cover in colors by Harrison Fisher.
As Jerry went to open the door two men, with colors in their hats and buttonholes, ran up calling out, "Cab!
At the west end of the basin the fountains are in full play and their bright colors are but varied by the band of white light between.
The Magnificent Water and Landscape Effects and Charming Vistas Made Realistic by Authentic Reproduction in All of the Colors of Nature and Art.
Indeed, few men have lived at any time who could color a landscape as Ruskin colors it, or who have so delicate an eye for the shyest and most sequestered beauties, as has this poet-painter.
Presentation to the Authorities, by Privates, of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee.
All of us, as we grow older, have in our memory pictures of by-gone times that are somehow more than usually vivid, the colors of some not blurring by time as others do.
Could anything have been more magical than the colors of the sea--its luminous greens, its rich purples, its brilliant blues, lying in long swaths on the apparently motionless surface?
These are her pet colors at present--a soft cream-color and black, with bits of dark red.
When they came in sight of the broad bay they found that the world had changed its colors since the morning.
Rowena lifted her head, looked up and to the right and there she saw a cloud, tinted with such lovely colors that they held her gaze.
It was so wonderful to be high above all the things that had made her unhappy, and the colorson their cloud, always changing and each more beautiful than the last, made her heart beat fast.
The delicate fingers went astray; but Frank did not notice that the colors in the embroidery were getting into confusion.
No one can defend the crime of assassination; but the character of the new emperor has been painted in bright colors by the historian.
Pennons with the colorsof the Virgin were placed at uniform distances among these lights, and one floated from the stone cross on the chapel.
They flew up on the dwarf trees, or hid among the roses, which of all colorsand kinds grew in the garden.
I saw colors there that we could not produce because we have not the proper elements.
Is it possible to picture to your mind's eye a line of lofty mountains whose sides are dressed in living colors and trimmed with rare flowers?
The sky, instead of appearing blue, wears a greenish tinge, and the birds are robed in a variety of colors that would put to naught our arching rainbows.
Even from our own world we can discern through a good telescope the changing colors of the planet, due to the recurring seasons, each one of which is almost twice the length of ours.
It was the women who said this, and who saw the richness of his dress, the colors of his devisa, the close curl of his crisp hair, the grace of his movement.
On a platform beyond the southern entrance, formed by a natural elevation of the ground, were pitched five magnificent pavilions, adorned with pennons of russet and black, the chosen colors of the five knights challengers.
In raising volunteers in the Illinois, every person that set about the business had a set ofcolors given him, which they brought with them to the amount of ten or twelve pairs.
Now, what the bright colors of music may be, Will any one tell me?
I shall come In the morning from my bed, Here to find among you some With your brightest colors spread!
This printing with various colors is a process for which the stone is superior; and it is susceptible of such perfection that in future true paintings will be produced by its means.
As compared with chemical printing, this process in itself has no advantages, but can be united with it and thus used to print three colors from one plate.
The same defect is found in many sorts of colored papers if there is much alum in the coloring-matter, or if the tints are made from alkaline colors or those that contain soapy matter, or if it has been smoothed with soap.
Let the stone rest for a few hours, that the fatty colors may take hold well.
Care need be taken merely that the colors are well dried before the impression is made.
Then a wet impression of another color is laid carefully in place so that it will register exactly, and the process is repeated, till all the colors have been transferred to the canvas.
She told him everything, complained bitterly about my gullibility, and generally painted everything in such colors that Herr Bogner could not well help thinking that Herr Andre did not consider promises any too sincerely.
These colors dry quickly, and, besides, make the varnish too tough, so that they must be thinned down from time to time with a little linseed oil.
Then the stone should be permitted to dry, after which all the surplus colors can be scraped away with one manipulation, without danger that one will mix with the other in the design.
The most singular creepers, too, such as one only sees represented in gold and colors in the margins of illuminated old missals, or twined around the first letter in a chapter, were hanging in long festoons on all sides.
As I approached the troops they seemed to be in good order at the edge of the ditch, and some of the colors appeared to be on the works.
As the different regiments and batteries debouched from the woods the colors were unfurled.
We marched eleven miles, passing through Lancaster with colors flying, and the regiment stacked sixty-eight guns, when it halted at noon four miles beyond Lancaster.
French, of Company D, who had borne the national colors in all the battles of the campaign, received a mortal wound, and fell in the line.
As the regiment passed through Knoxville on its way to the cars, with drums beating and colors flying, it passed the head-quarters of General Burnside, and gave him a marching salute.
Regiments, that in April marched from Annapolis in all the pride and confidence which strength inspires, now mustered around their tattered colors meagre and skeleton battalions.
The colors were placed upon the works, and during the day were flying in the face of the enemy.
Even in the daytime the colors and shadows are beautiful; but at sunrise and at sunset the clouds are often changed to gorgeous banks of color.
Describe the colorsof the chickadee above; below; wings; tail; throat and head.
Although gaily dressed himself the old fellow objects to bright colors on others.
Choose hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, or daffodils, with snowdrops or crocuses of various colors around the edge.
Are there any brightcolors of branch and twig to relieve the bareness of the snow?
Lionel was still in bed, but propped up in a sitting posture; and to keep his arms and shoulders warm he had donned a gorgeous smoking-jacket, the fantastic colors of which were hardly in keeping with his character as invalid.
As the sun set, she was seen again lying-to for her companions--a dark speck on the rainbow colors of the glorious sky.
Standing behind the colorswas Lieutenant Thomas A.
Major Phinney contributing $70, and promising a stand of colors to the company when formed.
The decision was, that Grosvenor should carry thecolors during the battle.
The colorswere found to be badly shot, and the staff broken in two places.
They began to form at once in the rear of Meagher’s and French’s lines; and on a neighboring elevation was the glorious old Ninth Massachusetts, rallying around its colors for the last time that day.
When the army of General Burnside appeared bearing the old flag, and the colors of the cruel foe departed in haste and confusion, the loyal people were overwhelmed with joy.
Jenks of Company E) tightened his grasp on the colors and gave a look of inquiry to the Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, who was but a few feet distant.
