These furnishings followed the contours of the room, their lower parts leading to huge couches upholstered in maroon leather and curved for maximum comfort.
Then steadily, surely, inch by inch the black and yellow crept past the maroon and silver, and the chestnut head appeared in front of the bay.
Up on his withers crouched a hard-faced boy in maroon and silver, who eyed the other horses and riders with cool contempt.
Had we been seeking for Runaway house-servants, we might have taken prisoners; but with a wild African Maroon this is not serviceable.
If the name of the master is not known, the Consulado employs the maroon negro in the public works.
The creole maroon negroes conceal themselves by day in the woods and steal provisions during the night.
Soldiers have hutted themselves at Maroon Town, in the West Indies, at 25l.
The other, a handsome maroon sedan, had been the gift of her father, presented in gratitude because of her excellent reporting of a case known to many as Behind the Green Door.
Her father had arrived ahead of her, she noted, for the maroon car had been put away for the night.
Davis can't be far away," Mr. Parker responded, getting into the maroon sedan.
They then started, and preceding the cattle, marked a line for 15 miles to "Maroon Creek.
Their captor had threatened to maroon them on the Dark Moon.
A woman is leading a bay pony past the church, striding with long strides, so that hermaroon skirt swings like a fan, and hauling the halter rope.
I think the girls' maroon sweaters look dandy--they can be seen for such a distance.
Lottie Weaver was there, in the glory of a new maroon sweater, and Ed Foster was also on time.
It, too, was well laden; but at the start Jennie squeezed in beside her colonel, and the maroon speeder was at once whisperingly dubbed by the others "the honeymoon car.
A dark maroon car, long and low-hung like a racer, was coming along the road, leaving a funnel of dust behind it.
In the morning before breakfast she and Tom ran over to the port in the maroon roadster.
Helen, standing up in the tonneau of the big car, when Tom pulled up suddenly to keep from running the maroon roadster down.
Shah; when exposed to a strong light, the rich, velvety maroon changed to a dull color hue, but when partially shaded it was of a very deep, rich color.
Color very dark velvety maroon with shadings of bright scarlet around each petal; small yellow disk.
The Beauty of Oxton has the upper petals of a very rich maroon color, darkly blotched; under petals very dark crimson, shaded with maroon; light center tinted with rose.
The massed beds of several sorts, with their contrasting borders, were very attractive, specially the maroon Coleuses with border of Centaurea.
Lower petals orange-rose painted with crimson, very dark maroon top petals with a narrow, even crimson edge, white center.
Nor was any artifice of costume omitted that could help out the likeness, for he wore a sash of Stuart tartan over his suit of maroon velvet, and a curiously elaborate claymore hung by his side.
Skylark dropped asMaroon drew by, Their hackles lifted, they scored to cry.
The corolla has a short, dark-maroon tube, encircled by a band of yellow, sometimes merging into white.
Its pert little maroon flowers, with their very long tubes and erect lobes, so ridiculously out of proportion to the size of the tiny plant, give it the look of some very important small personage.
Its creamy or purplish flowers have an exquisitely tinted dark-maroon eye, surrounded by yellow, and it is often streaked in marvelous imitation of the insect's wing.
The bright-green, top-shaped ovary stands up in the midst of the slender stamens, whose yellow anthers show brilliantly against the dark maroon of the petals.
Then came Drake with his men and the two Maroon chiefs.
Lastly, Drake asked Pedro and three Maroon chiefs to go through both the frigates "to see what they liked.
After three days' wandering in the woods the Maroons brought them to a trim little Maroon town, which was built on the side of a hill by a pretty river.
No Maroon would wear such a thing in that locality, and, therefore, it would be well to let the food train pass ahead of the treasure.
Pedro, the Maroon chief, now took Drake's hand, and "prayed him to follow him if he was desirous to see at once the two seas which he had so longed for.
A Maroon went down with a pike through the body; but he contrived to kill the pikeman before he died.
Having gained the shelter of the wood, Drake chose out a Maroon "that had served a master in Panama" to venture into the city as a spy.
Post 8vo, maroon levant morocco, gilt back, sides covered with panels tooled in geometrical designs, gilt edges, by Riviere.
We twist down to a wooden bridge, darkmaroon in colour, and built in one single span across a raging, leaping stream that dashes and splashes merrily far below.
Many of the Burmese wear a shirt of maroon check, just like a check duster; these are their workaday clothes, on festivals they generally manage to come out in silks.
The ground color was light green, almost citron yellow, in fact, and the pattern a bright maroon red, with bronze reflections.
In the foreground, on the pale frosted grass, stood the girl, in a darkmaroon dress, with silver embroidery on the bosom, and a dark red cap on her head.
The whole of the under-parts and inside of the limbs and the hands and feet are rich yellowish; the ears strongly maroon and tufted" (Dr.
The tail is either black or maroon black, sometimes tipped with yellowish brown.
Could that be she standing up and waving a yellow and maroon flag at him?
Amid much laughter and joking a long streamer of yellow and maroon was fastened to the halyards and run up to the truck.
