Sousi says that when first he saw this region, 30 years ago, it was all open prairie, with timber only in hollowsand about water.
Second, he had the most wonderful nose for firewood; no keen-eyed raven or starving wolf could go more surely to a marrow-bone in cache, than could Weeso to the little sticks in far away hollows or granite clefts.
And Kenyon himself, with the sun clasping his long brown hair, and filling the hollows of his pinched face, was a more distinct and a much more pitiful figure this morning.
Now and then there was a grove of stunted pitch-pines on the hill-sides, and upon descending I found the hollows occupied by swamps more or less extensive, where the growth was denser and the stagnant water dotted with white blossoming lilies.
Wherever a dip occurs through which a little patch of blue sea peeps out, a house is posted, and I saw a few carefully-tended garden spots among hollows of the rock in which a handful of mould had accumulated.
It is of great depth and of considerable projection, the hollows of the mouldings being filled with square flowers below and intricate carving above.
The side-doors are exactly similar, except that they have fewer shafts, four instead of six, and that in the hollows between the mouldings the carving is early renaissance in character and is also flatter than in the central door.
The central door has six moulded shafts on either side, all with elaborately carved capitals and with deeply undercut foliage in the hollows between, this foliage being carried round the whole arch between the mouldings.
It looked like a table, sure enough, but there were rough places and hollows in it.
Although the time of bare boughs had now set in, there were sheltered hollows amid the Hintock plantations and copses in which a more tardy leave-taking than on windy summits was the rule with the foliage.
She went on as silently as she could, avoiding the hollows wherein leaves had accumulated, and stepping upon soundless moss and grass-tufts.
There was no mud to speak of about the Hintocks just now--only in the clammy hollows of the vale beyond Owlscombe, the stiff soil of which retained moisture for weeks after the uplands were dry.
Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool.
It was a sunny afternoon at the beginning of summer, and the moist hollows of the heath had passed from their brown to their green stage.
With his pocket-knife he was removing the lumps of green moss out of the hollows of the eyes of the carven skull.
It seemed almost a fresh growth out of the garden of the shore, with uncouth hollows around its fungous root, and a forsaken air about its brows as it stood in the dry sand and looked seaward.
Every here and there too they came upon signs that the hollows had been crossed by piled up stones looking like rough walls, which half cut off the entrances.
The skins of wine were bursted; but the contents had been apparently appreciated, for none remained in the hollows of the rocks.
In a few miles cultivation became more rare; sandhills took the place of the level fields, and only here and there in the hollows were patches of cultivated ground.
It collects as pads in the hollows of the bones, around the joints, and between the muscles, causing them to glide more easily upon each other.
Nerves, however, are found in the hollows in which the hair is rooted, and so one feels pain when it is pulled.
There are hollows in his lean cheeks, and deep crow's-feet at the corners of the kindly hazel eyes, and the brown moustache is ominously straight and curveless.
So many sleepless nights she had known of late upon that pillow that there were faint bluish-shaded hollows under the beautiful eyes, and wistful lines about the mouth.
In the damper hollows iris bloomed, and the gold and scarlet sword-flowers stood in martial ranks, and gaily-plumaged finches were sidling on overhanging boughs, or dipping and drinking in the shallows.
The inhabitants remark, and I think with truth, that the summits of the hills and the upper slopes are as a rule more wet and boggy than the hollows below.
But now, he saw uneasily that there were hollows round her eyes, as if she slept little, and that there were hollows as well as dimples in her cheeks.
At some cottage or moorland farm you leave the horses and creep forward on foot, working along the hollows and studying every outline.
We walked over, and found the usual little hollows and inconspicuous stones arranged.
To-day there are but relatively small coal-bearing areas, which have been preserved in the hollows of the synclines.
Fine mud or sand silted into such hollows completely filling them up, and then, whether the rest of the plant were preserved or not, the shape of the inside of the stem remains as a solid stone.
In other instances the cast may simply represent the internal hollows of the plant.
The hollows beneath them were lost in a woolly vapor, low-flying scud raked the bare ridges above, and even as they passed a black rift in the hillside the first heavy drops of rain fell pattering.
Geoffrey, turning back to camp, noticed that beside the hollows the hoofs had made, there was the print of human feet in the powdery snow.
I have passed this way twice before, but on both occasions the Sind valley was covered with snow; now summer reigns in the deep hollows and on the heights.
One can try it with one's own hand; the fingers fit in exactly, and the hollowsare about 3/4 inch deep.
All heights and ridges are thereby reduced, all hollows are filled up with mud, sand, and rubbish.
In the hollows were worlds of blue flowers, with patches here and there a royal purple.
The water which drains from the mud is collected by the Javanese, and by being exposed in the hollows of split bamboos to the rays of the sun, deposits crystals of salt.
For I know that they lie concealed, fallen into hollows long since, and covered up by the leaves of the tree itself,--a proper kind of packing.
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