Taking the sword in her hands, which were covered with jewels, she looked at it, then kissed the incrusted blood on the blade, and passed it on to Nelson.
The painted ceilings in these palaces are a glorious adornment; the walls of the saloons, incrusted with various-colored marbles, give an idea of splendor which I never gained from anything else.
There are very glowing frescos on portions of the walls; but, there being much whitewash instead of incrusted marble, it has not the pleasant aspect which one's eye learns to demand in Roman churches.
We soon entered the street; the blackest, ugliest, rudest old street, I do believe, that ever human life incrusted itself with.
Next he took the gourd which we had brought and with a knife scraped off just the minutest particle of the black, licorice-like stuff that incrusted it.
We waited several minutes in the office until finally he returned carrying a gourd, incrustedon its hollow inside surface with a kind of blackish substance.
Ledlie, resting one soil-incrusted boot on his spade.
On the incrusted building we must expect no such deception of the eye or thoughts.
Wherever, by the smallness of the parts, we may be driven to abandon the incrusted structure at all, it must be abandoned altogether.
I have above stated that the incrusted style was the only one in which perfect or permanent color decoration was possible.
But, as soon as he gets acquainted with the incrusted style, he will find that the Southern builders had no intention to deceive him.
Not only does the whole virtue of a shaft depend on its consolidation, but the labor of cutting and adjusting an incrusted coat to it would be greater than the saving of material is worth.
Seven Lamps," Section 18, I especially guarded this incrusted school from the imputation of insincerity, and I must do so now at greater length.
As compared with iron, its conducting power is as 1 to 37½, consequently more fuel is required to heat water in an incrusted boiler than in the same boiler if clean.
As observed on page 86, this locality lies on the flanks of a basaltic plateau, which are incrusted with recent submarine deposits.
As in the Sarawanga plains, the basaltic rocks are here often overlain orincrusted by submarine deposits, the former exposed in all the deeper river-beds, the latter frequently displayed in the sides of their tributaries.
These masses are in part incrusted with agglomerate.
There is lastly my own idea of basaltic plateaux incrusted by reefs.
It has been my object to show on previous pages[153] that this submarine platform is a basaltic plateau built up by submarine lava-flows and incrusted with coral reefs and their deposits.
This hill is only about 150 feet above the sea, its top being formed by two large masses of a basic andesite lava with a glassy groundmass, incrusted with agglomerate, the whole representing a volcanic “neck.
The opposite walls of the vein are in some parts incrusted with transparent crystals of quartz, the middle of the vein being filled up with common opaque white quartz.
Shells and polished pebbles areincrusted upon their head.
A leprosy of yellowish moss has incrustedits pores, and has clothed it all over with a sinister livery.
Zanobi; and then he incrusted with black marble from Prato all the eight outer walls of the said S.
It has incrusted itself upon me; it clasps me, covers me, burns me like the tunic dipped in the blood of Nessus; I feel it beneath my draperies, like an envenomed tissue which nothing can detach from my body!
In a corner too there was a large clock, loudly ticking in its ebony caseincrusted with brass-work.
Here and there its surface is incrustedover with a layer of salt caused by the evaporation of sea- water.
Even shells, of which the animals are still living on these reefs, are very commonly found to be incrusted over with a hard coating of limestone.
The pick advances laboriously through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans.
At last we took straight up a steep gully, half of it snow slope, the upper half ice-incrusted rock, and hewed steps all the five hundred feet to the top.
On the right hand the wall of the glacier towers up, with enormous precipitous cliffs incrusted with hanging ice, to the North Peak of the mountain, eight or nine thousand feet above us.
The formation of the stalactite, with which many of the bones were incrusted in the Cave of Gailenreuth, is thus described by Liebig.
Here stood stout Risingh, firm as a thousand rocks, incrusted with stockades, and intrenched to the chin in mud batteries.
Inside, the stone walls were everywhere covered with significant traceries in low relief, and were incrusted at intervals with disks and tesserae of turquoise-colored porcelain.
Every kind of scintillation flashed from the gem-incrusted dishes.
On his head had been placed a grotesque tiara of hippopotamus leather incrusted with pebbles.
Pilasters, incrusted with marble, and enamelled with lapis-lazuli, broke the monotony of the walls and supported the ceiling with their capitals.
When the coat of dust and filth that incrusted it was removed, he hung the picture upon the wall, and, retiring to look at it, was more than ever astounded at its extraordinary character and power.
