It was like stepping from the garish light of to-day into the pages of an old romance.
It looked away from the garish daylight of the new land of its birth into the delicious twilight of the lands across the sea, with their ruins and their legends and their old romance.
The lamps in front of the dance halls, where fallen women revelled, sent their garish beams out into the night like tentacles.
The alcoves along the side aisles were filled with altars barbarously gilded and decorated with cheap garish vases.
But the lids of his small, slit-like eyes were swollen and inflamed, and before he stepped into the garish illumination of the shop window, he planted dark-blue goggles on his nose.
The garish studio light pricked her flesh painfully as with a thousand needles.
The hard park roads stretched before them in the light of the electric lamps like long galleries with garish walls between which one was forced to run the gauntlet.
There were no garish lights and shrieking violins to greet him as he passed once more up the long, familiar walk.
The sun was shining on the apple-blossom in the orchard opposite, and she looked for the charm of yesterday, but finding only the garish commonplace of fruit-trees in flower with the sun on them, she drew down the blind.
There was something crude and garish about the light in it, too, which gave an unaccustomed look to every familiar detail.
They were decorated affairs with huge heads of complicated workmanship set with garish stones.
The fishing village, at the extreme end of Alicante, is beautiful with its small primitive cubic houses painted in garish patterns.
The fastness was yet imperfect; he disliked the variegated hues of the buildings--they reminded him of the garish brilliance in the lower town.
But then the picture is so very highly coloured, and personally I don't care much for garish colouring.
The dancing, garish firelight made the sense of desolation acute.
There was only one jarring note--the garish brown colour of the woodwork, laid on, the guide told me, five years ago.
He chose the chintzes for the drawing-room, and the curtains, and very good useful materials they were, not ugly, but of a garish cheerfulness.
It had likewise a Tudor door, but the rest of the chamber was commonplace with oddly bulging walls, covered with a garish flowery wallpaper.
A few days later Mrs. Robinson was convalescent, sitting up in bed in a garish cap festooned with cherry-coloured ribbons, and a silk wadded jacket to match.
It is possible that he was one of the few who scarcely showed on deck, till we were in sight of land; but rather, I believe, like other visions and voices of the night, he changed past recognition under the garishlight of day.
The pictures, if toned down, are dull; if up to nature, are garish to repulsiveness.
It is that at night I can walk abroad, Which I may not do in the garish day, Without being met in the streets, and bored By some cursed dun, that I cannot pay.
The walls of the huge room, like the exterior, were painted a garish blue, the floor bare but scrubbed clean, and the chairs and tables had been obviously selected with a view to utility and strength rather than ornamentation.
A thin, sallow little woman with soft, black eyes awaited her at an opened door and ushered her into the stuffy garish front parlor where she eyed her visitor in palpable nervousness.
The Elysian Fields demanded outward signs of respectability in the habiliments of its customers, and the garish display of the women was there to enforce it.
The memory of these things carried him on to his journey's end where he encountered again the tawdry pretentiousness of Leaping Horse, seeking to hide its moral poverty under raiment of garish hue.
The garish brilliancy of the scene was in fierce contrast with the night which strove to hide the meanness prevailing beyond Pap Shaunbaum's painted portals.
Or was it that you were content to let him make a mock of you so long as he housed and fed you and clothed you in your garish livery of shame?
And since it must excite comment and perhaps arouse suspicion were I to appear in any but my jester's garish livery, I once more assumed my foliated cape, my cap and bells.
No word passed between us until that man returned with those garish garments.
She could duplicate these for me as she knew just where to send in Spain for the flowered cottons in garish colours, and the shot silk scarfs that Zuloaga had imported for Breval.
Its immediate surroundings are modern and garish to a degree that by no means assists in the fiction that Chester is the unadulterated old-country town one would like to think it.
And the score of "Petruchka" is alive marvelously with the rank, garish life of a cheap fair.
No wonder, for, in the simplicity of a pure white dress, and with her fair curls streaming down her cheeks, unadorned save by one little blush rose, she looked like an ethereal spirit dropped into the midst of the garish party.
The garish light of day, as it streamed over the dungeon floor, revealed the fact that the shattered frame of the Italian slave had found rest at last.
These hung amid the foliage of the creepers that twined round the curved marble pillars, and their red garish light contrasted powerfully with the clear purity of the star-lit sky, which formed the natural roof of the skiffa.
