A consideration of some of the names of biscuits and collars will show a similar exploitation of both the euphony and the emotional fringes of words.
The aureola round the eclipsed sun, they argued, is simply a result of the diffraction, or apparent bending of the sunbeams that graze the surface of the lunar globe--an effect of the same kind as the coloured fringes of shadows.
Only ragged fringes of the great tempest-cloud here and there touched our globe.
The river wound as it should wind; Their place the mountains took; The white torn fringes of their clouds Wore no unwonted look.
Wyejah's scarlet attire, its fringes tasseled with the spurs of the wild turkey, rendered his lithe figure strongly marked against these illusory ethereal tints as he sped abreast with Otasite along the level sandy stretch of the chungke-yard.
And when he ceased speaking there blew as it were a whirlwind out of Valhalla, and the high Gods passed away, as it were in skeins and fringes of hanging mist.
And Odin's face gleamed white with rage through thefringes of the mist, and he said between his teeth, 'Who art thou?
Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through itsfringes to the sky, Blue--blue--as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall.
A file of negroes was approaching the tents, each leading a horse whose saddle and bridle were decorated with fringes of various hues.
The fringes of the rushing tide May on the lake's calm bosom sleep -- Its hidden spirit doth abide Apart, still bearing toward the deep.
They zigzag over the fronds of seaweeds or hang in fringes upon them, as well as upon rocks, stones, and shells.
Whales which have baleen, or fringes of whalebone, in the mouth subsist on these small organisms, which are called "brit" by the whalemen.
Bank enclosures have eaten deep into the once wild fringes of the moor; but the solitude and the silence still remain.
A specimen with black fore wings and white fringes has been bred from a caterpillar found in Essex (Entomologist, xxxviii.
The male is fairly constant in colour, but the female sometimes has a distinct yellow stripe on the front margin of the fore wings extending to the fringes (var.
Fringes whitish, marked with brown at the ends of the veins (Plate 63).
The fringes are pale buff, chequered with brown in both sexes.
The hind wings vary from whitish with darker nervures, to smoky grey; but the fringes always remain whitish.
Fore wings, ochreous grey, tinged with yellow on the basal half of the front margins; hind wings paler, becoming greyer on the outer area; fringes of all the wings yellow.
The hind wings of the male are whitish, tinged with yellowish green; fringes white, more or less tinted with reddish; in the female the hind wings are entirely silky white.
The hind wings are white, and frequently the fringes are pale pinky brown.
The hind wings are black on the {50} basal half and pinkish on the outer half; fringes white.
Hind wings blackish on upper margin, pinkish on outer margin, and ochreous tinged with olive between; fringes chequered whitish, sometimes tinged with pink.
A heavy bluish-grey layer of clouds sank down slowly on the mountain flanks, and from its under side rain fringes hung down, greyish-purple on a compact dark background.
The clouds are blue-black over the mountains to the south, and from them hang down elegantly curved fringes and draperies heavy with rain.
Hanging cloud fringes show that rain is pouring down in torrents on most sides, but we escape it.
If you imagined we should see them with feathers sticking out round their heads and fringes of scalps on their leggings you will be terribly disappointed.
Set up everywhere are coloured umbrellas withfringes of coloured beads, as large as those used for tents on lawns sometimes.
Their little heads, with straight all-round fringes of black hair sticking out like brushes, are deliciously comic.
Frosty vestibule of fashionable church, rolling thunders of the organ, fringes of icicles silvered by moonlight, poor old Salvation Army Santa Claus shivering outside and tinkling his pathetic little bell.
But when the leaves have shredded away and the solid barriers of green stand revealed as only thin fringes of easily penetrable woodland, the eye moves with surprise over these wide reaches of colour and freedom.
We slipped into the water, according to plan, hauled ourselves round behind the rock, and drew the long thick fringes of sea-weed over our heads.
Fringes of shrubberies, open glades in woods or copses, and indeed almost any wild place, may be adorned by them; and they may also be advantageously grouped or isolated on the grass in the rougher parts of the pleasure–ground.
Here the pushing of the delicate Grass blades through the blue mass and the indefinite way in which the fringes of the tufts mingle with the surrounding vegetation are very beautiful.
This climbing vegetation may be trained and tortured into forms in gardens, but never will its beauty be seen until we entrust it to the garlanding of shrub, and copse, or hedgerow, fringes of dwarf plantation, or groups of shrubs and trees.
Crown Imperial would do on the fringes of shrubberies.
Bifolia and sibirica would be better on sunny banks or sheltered fringes of shrubberies with a good aspect.
Can the sunlight filtering down between those green fringes make those shapes upon the grass and on the trunks of the trees?
I never did see such a town, and me just hittin' the fringes of it yet," Clay moaned aloud in comic despair, unaware that even New York has no noisier street than Sixth Avenue.
She had been in the fringes too long not to appreciate a chance to get into the social Holy of Holies.
The afternoon sky was naught but windy gloom; white clouds rolled over us in billowy folds, and tattered scarves of mist trailed lower still and seemed almost to snare their fringes on the topmost branches of the forest.
Thou shalt make theefringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
