After waiting for days, as she said, to see them, she had expected something better than a few white-hooded men straggling before the baldacchino.
Suddenly Teresa became aware that one of the hooded figures had turned his head towards them.
The dance of the Hooded Death changed in character, grew more frenzied; the white writhing coils melted into one another in dizzying confusion; figure merged into figure like smoke.
And yet how intensely interested I was to know whether Swann had been wearing his hooded cape!
At times they were hooded with the darkness, which came on them as if, as benighted children fancy, their faces were about to meet the shaggy breast of the forest.
The ladies Bianca, Anna, and Lena issued mantled and hooded between the lights of two barricade watchfires.
Giacinta came running in to her mistress, and cloaked and hooded her hurriedly.
Philippe went his way, bumping his head against a wall like a hooded rook as he was.
After a few moments Mr. Clark brought the little girl in, cloaked and hooded and ready to go.
This hooded cloak which his knife had revealed, which he had torn from its hiding place in the accordion of Vagualame, was none other than the cloak of Fantômas.
Under the flame of a gas-jet struggling against the onslaughts of the wind, Fandor caught sight of the honest face of a constable enveloped in a thick hooded coat.
There was the cloak of many folds, dense black; the hooded mask, the large soft hat shading the eyes; the strange inimitable outline!
Had not Juve been haunted by this form, this figure so mysteriously indicated, haunted by this invisible face hidden by its hooded cloak of black--haunted for years!
Luckily I noticed your hands, the only portions of you visible, covered as you were in that confounded hooded thing they muffled you up in.
So well did he know it, that never could he confuse it with anotherhooded cloak of black--never!
What he held in his hand was a hooded cloak, long and black, such as Italian bandits wear--a species of mask.
When in the hammock under the oak one day, I saw a pair of the odd-looking Arizona hoodedorioles busily going and coming to a drooping branch on the edge of the tree.
The wild hetman stood like a statue for a space, dimly grasping something of the cosmic tragedy of the fitful ephemera called mankind and the hooded shapes of darkness which prey upon it.
All certainty and sanity were swept away, leaving a shadowy universe through which stole hooded figures of grisly potentialities.
There is, indeed, something particularly shabby and dismal-looking in the aspect of the hooded crow, when seen under unfavourable circumstances.
I fancied I heard an answer to it from another hooded crow in the distance, and then, all at once, up flew about a score of rooks and joined him.
I have observed this when rooks and hooded crows have been gathered together about some offal which they were devouring.
Hooded Crows lay four or five eggs of a grey-green, blotched and spotted with smoky brown.
The real heads of the Hooded Ones either have not been named or, if arrested in the early days of the investigation, have been released on bail.
In the females and the young animals this trunk is wanting, and even in the male it is seldom seen unless the animal is excited, when it can be blown out very much like the bag of the hooded seal.
It is not nearly so fierce as the hooded seal, and almost always takes to flight if it is attacked, its huge body quivering like a vast mass of jelly as it shuffles awkwardly along over the beach.
At first Sir Shawn thought it was a hooded lantern.
The Robin's Seat was a wooden seat below a little hooded arch, under a high wall over which had grown all manner of climbing wall-plants.
The Germantown farmhouse presents another variant of this first and simplest type of stoop with a hooded penthouse roof above and quaint side seats flanking the doorway.
Every fraction of his attention was focused on the muffled and hooded men.
On the wall behind it was hanging the same [62] ragged Flemish tapestry where a faded king and queen were playing chess in a garden, while a company of hawkers rode by, carrying hooded birds on their gauntleted wrists.
Notice, please, the novel hooded type of porch, the bevel glass door, the general tidy appearance of the whole front.
The broken roof lines, hooded entrance and pergola porch are the attractive exterior features.
In other cases the hooded snake called naga is placed in a deep earthen pot, from which the accused has to take a ring, seal, or coin without being bitten, when he is considered innocent.
But the filmy vail hooded his eyes, and he gazed with a transfixed smile at Lady Juliana, still holding her hand.
He lowers his hooded head, and might be attending a funeral.
The hooded shape from which it comes is Sergeant Henriot.
A little farther we see the stooping form of a hooded officer, and as he raises his hand to his face we see two gold lines on his sleeve.
That's nothing to do with me," replies the hooded one, whose pride no less than his comfort is at stake.
Winter has chased all these really interesting people south, and in a few weeks, if we have anything of a snow, the back farms will be unvisited save by the doctor's hooded sleigh.
That moment an old man, wearing a hooded mantle but with a bare head, issued from the hypogeum.
Vinicius divined rather than recognized Chilo in the hooded man.
The watchful Chilo came to himself in one moment, threw on his hooded mantle hastily, and, commanding the slave woman to stand aside, looked out cautiously.
