The conical becomes on him a cocked hat and in place of ragged fringe and buttons hanging by a single string, I see the buckles and bows, the sword and cane of a by-gone age!
Her face, too, was long and narrow and exhausted-looking; even her fair curled fringe looked burnt out and withered.
A fringe of harebells, of orange hawkweed and dwarf red sorrel bordered the road.
Once more, under a dome of cobalt, the river flowed black between its fringe of trees, and the prairie stretched white and still.
Circling it, and separating the scalp from the face and neck, ran a narrow fringe that was still brown, as if, changing in a night, it had lacked full time for completion.
The broad shaft of light that shone from the newly-risen moon lighted up the whole meadow and penetrated far into the dark fringe of pines that bordered the meadowland.
Tally held his rifle ready to shoot if necessary, to spare the dog's life, but when he came out of the fringe of pines that circled the small clearing where the dog barked, he stood amazed.
From out the dark fringe of forest there now crept a number of lean hungry timber-wolves, looking like long grey shadows of the trees.
In the distance, blurred by the sheets of rain, was a line of low hills, with a jagged fringe of bluish firs and a solitary windmill.
It'll take more than Mr. Kingley's say-so to put even bathing suits on folks that don't wear anything but a bit of fringe around their waists.
There was a scarcefringe of trees along the river but from there to the top and as far back as the eye could see, perhaps for two miles back on the bluff, there was not a bush or tree.
It was used to dye all delicate fabrics, like fringeor silk crepe.
An Indian pony, a pinto mare, left the turn of the trail near the fringe of trees, bordering the river, and came slowly forward.
Dick's gaze wandered thoughtfully away to the fringeof woodland opposite.
The big man flushed under the direct scrutiny, while his partner, Emery, suddenly became interested in the fringe of his mackinaw jacket.
With the other half he was going to explore, while the light lasted, the fringe of the Chase towards Brown Heath.
On dark days it broke thefringe of woodland and stood up, gloomy and forbidding, the portal of a Doubting Castle.
Away to the right she could see the three graceful spires of Lichfield, and southward, where an opal haze closed the prospect, she could imagine the fringe of the Black Country, made beautiful by distance.
As the hymn came to a final shout, Anne Hilton in a black bonnet and old-fashioned mantle with a bead fringe at the shoulders, with one black cotton glove half on and the other wholly off, entered the chapel and sat just within the door.
A thick fringe of shrubs, water-grasses, and wild flowers, girdled its edges, and gave a dark and mysterious expression to its face.
As you drew nigh and passed through the thick fringe of wood by which its approach was guarded, the space opened before you, and you found yourself in a sort of amphitheatre, of which the cottage was the centre.
Inside this fringe was a scalloped circular appendage that had a sucking motion, which must have propelled it through the water, and it made quite fair progress.
It was about as large as a good-sized cantaloup, and pale, clear yellow all over one end and down through the middle, and then commenced a dark red fringe which had a waving motion.
Tom was going on home to change his clothes; but when Ruth saw the fringe of icicles around the bottoms of his trouser legs, she would not hear to it.
All this was surmounted by a canopy of gold, and supported by twelve pillars, richly emblazoned with gems, while a fringe of pearls ornamented the edge of the canopy.
It is lofty and square, with double eaves, yellow tiles, surmounted by a specially large gilt ball, and encircled by a fringe carried to the roof and supported by massive wooden pillars.
At the back there was a fringe of color from many baskets of fruit, flowers, and plants in charge of dealers, clad in costumes of varied hues, with red shawls tied over their heads.
At first, during our trip, there had been only a low fringe of trees in the distant background; now mountains appeared as a striking variation, and thus we had alternating scenes which added to the spatial interest from this time on.
She looked down and away with one of those turns of the head, so precious when one who beholds them is young, and caught at the fringe of her shawl.
Through their whole vast length the magnificent trees which fringe them are irrigated by streams of pure water flowing from the several cañons in the vicinity.
Upon one side was a fringe of heavy timber, upon the other a precipice, at the base of which were massive rocks.
Towards the northeast the clearing narrowed and here we came upon a tiny rill trickling through a fringeof sedge.
Its fringe came into sight some ninety miles south-east of the Liau-ti-shan promontory.
These rocks were the lower fringe of a vast extent of broken country--a country of large boulders separated by narrow, tortuous fissures.
We had then but a little fringe of settlements extending a few miles back from the coast.
There were two bare red spots on top of his head, and between them a fringe of hair ran back from his forehead.
So, under the Evangelist's guidance, we may venture to gaze at least a little way into these depths, and with all reverence to try and see something at all events of the fringe and surface of the love 'which passeth knowledge.
