The Albinos and the Darians--the first originally of Africa, and the second of the middle of America--are as different from us as from the negroes.
Dorsal flesh-colour at the edges; in the middle a broad green stain which fades towards the apex.
The petals are sharply freckled with brown, and up the middle runs a series of dark red dots.
In the middle of the spreading crimson lip is a patch almost white.
The sailor was killed instantly; Baker, in themiddle of the bridge, dropped among the branches of a tree.
Each stood opposite to its fellow across the way, and Roezl noticed a large flat stone in the middle between every pair.
New England must come to me here, by way of the great middle West and the Pacific coast.
I remember coming on once in the middle of the month, and the river was so full of ice between Niagara Falls and Buffalo that I had to shut the car window that I'd kept open all the way through Southern Canada.
From the way I felt in them to-day," sighed Colville, "I should think the churches would begin to thaw out about the middle of May.
He had left her in the middle of a german at three o'clock in the morning, but she now looked as fresh and lambent as a star.
He was a little above the middle height, and if it must be confessed, neither his face nor his figure had quite preserved their youthful lines.
He was a man of middle age, and he was clinging to the handle-bars of the machine.
Now that he knew it was a fellow-cyclist who was raising such a disturbance, Tom turned more toward the middle of the road.
Is that what you call one of them two-wheeled lickity-split things that a man sits on the middle of an' goes like chain-lightning?
The cooks are like the civil engineers: since the middle class have taken to giving dinners, the demand exceeds the supply.
It is these qualities that many times drew Europe to Asia during the middle centuries.
Almost in the middle of this plain, on a height superior to the immediate elevations which bounded it, rose a mountain of gradual ascent, covered with sycamores, and crowned by a superb Saracenic castle.
A slender man of middle size, who, as he stood by Besso, had a diminutive appearance, was in earnest conversation with his host.
The duke bowed to the corporation, with the duchess on his left hand; and on his right there stood a youth, above the middle height and of a frame completely and gracefully formed.
No other roof or building was in any direction visible, yet the house was truly in the middle of the city, and the umbrageous plane trees alone produced that illimitable air which is always so pleasing and effective.
A flight of steps leads to the lofty and central doorway; in the middle of the court there is a garden plot, inclosing a fountain, and a fine plane tree.
Tis a scene of enchantment that has risen to mock us in the middle of the desert,' exclaimed the enraptured pilgrim; 'surely it must vanish even as we gaze!
It is even related that he and his countess on one occasion being roused from their bed in the middle of the night, found no other mode of concealment than that of wading up to their necks in the river which bathed the walls of their retreat.
This beauty lasted till her middle age, though it declined[31].
A silver font with a crimson canopy was placed in the middle of the church; and the child being brought into the hall, the long procession set forward.
This, after some delay, the lord deputy granted; and a conference was held between them, Essex standing on the bank of a stream which separated the two hosts, while the rebel sat on his horse in the middle of the water.
About the middle of October strong hopes were entertained of the earls enlargement; but it was said that "he stood to have his liberty by the like warrant he was committed.
The Blue Nile and the Atbara receiving the entire drainage of Abyssinia, at the same time pour their floods into the main Nile in the middle of June.
The rainy season commences in Abyssinia in the middle of May, but the country being parched by the summer heat, the first rains are absorbed by the soil, and the torrents do not fill until the middle of June.
It was themiddle of November--not the wretched month that chills even the recollection of Old England, but the last of the ten months of rain that causes the wonderful vegetation of the fertile soil in Equatorial Africa.
The jungle became thicker, and although I was in the middle of the herd and within ten yards of several giraffes, I could do nothing.
It was about a week before our departure from Khartoum that Mrs. Baker and I were at tea in the middle of the court-yard, when a miserable boy about twelve years old came uninvited to her side, and knelt down in the dust at her feet.
Middle Ages it reappeared in the Staff of Wamba the Goth (A.
Then we tied a great rope round her middle and haled at it; but the rope broke in sunder, and she stirred not; and the villagers came and did the like, but could not move her from her place.
Presently they swam out to the middle of the basin leaving their clothes on the bank.
The hermit broke his fast and lay down to sleep with them; but in the middle of the night they both arose and fell to praying and weeping.
Heaven forbid that we should say so of a philosophy which has exercised on European thought, at the crisis of its noblest life and action, an influence as great as did the Aristotelian system during the Middle Ages.
Growth of English Industry and Commerce: Early and Middle Ages.
Ashby; "Growth of English History and Commerce: Early and Middle Ages.
Now, there is nothing in the signs of the times to herald the approach of a new industrial revolution and a return to the old order of the Middle Ages.
It will be seen that, with the exception of a break in the middle of the day, the boy was on duty for nearly three-quarters of the twenty-four hours, and for part of the time was engaged in heavy manual labour.
During the Early and Middle Ages the gilds constituted the central feature of the industrial organization.
Plumb in the middle of the back of the head and smack through the brain.
They are supposed to have belonged to some of the marauding Barons of Holdernesse in the Middle Ages.
In the middle of it, clearly marked on the sodden soil, was the track of a bicycle.
In the middle of it was the black figure of the secretary, his head advanced, peering out into the night.
And there in the middle of it was the man himself, his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upwards in his agony.
I can read the first few lines, and these in the middle of the second page, and one or two at the end.
He has been known to drive his wife and his daughter out of doors in the middle of the night, and flog them through the park until the whole village outside the gates was aroused by their screams.
I have a letter here, Mr. Soames, which I wrote to you early this morning in the middle of a restless night.
We were in the middle of our lunch when he suddenly sprang to his feet.
Only one man knew what had happened to him, and that was me, for with my own eyes I saw the skipper tip up his heels and put him over the rail in the middle watch of a dark night, two days before we sighted the Shetland lights.
In the middle of the ball was a small quantity of dust, or rather what looked more like earth.
Here she received the best of educations in the company of about thirty other young ladies, the daughters of well-to-do middle class people.
It was over a baker's kitchen and had no window except one which gave on to a sort of shaft that ran up the middle of the house, so that we had the gas always burning.
As she spoke she glanced in surprise at Gimblet, who was standing in the middle of the room, his head thrown back, his nostrils expanding and contracting.
He stood an instant in the middle of the room with his head on one side, tugging absently at his ear.
It was shut now, and the cold air that pervaded the place entered through cracks in the shutters, and after that encountered no further obstacle, for the top middle pane of the lower sash was destitute of glass.
Pompom seems to enjoy being trampled on by the way he's always in the middle of the room.
He was accorded an arm chair in the middle of the assemblage and all drew near to hear him.
The departure was postponed till themiddle of May.
Their hair is always curled, even when they are at home in a dirty jacket, and short, coarse petticoat, that does not reach to the middle of their legs.
In this year, 1676, an ordinance stipulated that proprietors should pave to the middle of the roadway every street passing in front of their dwellings.
The first was placed in the middle of the rondpoint by the governor general of Canada, Daniel Rémy, Seigneur de Courcelles, being one of his last public acts before being succeeded by Comte Frontenac in the September following.
The exact location of this barn has not been identified but it seems likely that it was in the vicinity of Edward Payne's home on middle ridge near the Ox road, where Payne's church was built in 1766.
Her mother stopped in themiddle of the square and looked doubtfully out over the water of the lagoon.
The Scaligers were a famous family which ruled Verona for many years during the middle ages.
The thatched roofs, like fur caps drawn over eyes, reach down over about a third of the low windows, whose coarse convex glasses have knots in the middle like the bottoms of bottles.
When I had completely dug my hole, I took my mold, and by means of levers and strong cables directed it with care, and suspended it a cubit above the level of the furnace, so that it hung exactly in the middle of the hole.
Men like Galen, Lucan, and Plotinus, who would have gone to the stake in the Middle Age, lived tranquilly under the protection of the law.
In the middle of April, one year after the surrender, I made all my preparations to return to Murfreesborough, and it was no surprise to me that Harry Herndon was keen to go with me.
Keeping a sharp eye ahead, I soon came in sight of a cabin sitting lonely and forlorn in the middle of a small clearing.
The crowd hurries away toward the wood, and does not hear the stifled groan that comes out of the middle of the fire.
Now loomed Governor Printz in the middle of the room, and extending his hand he ordered the dance to cease.
In the majority of instances the middle ear alone is the seat of inflammatory action and suppuration, and usually curable.
Frequently the pus is mingled with blood, the latter either coming from the tender abraded lining of the middle ear, or, may be, from disease of the bones.
The ordinary form of canker is the result of some slight abrasion of the middle ear, and subsequent infection of the wound by germs.
I do not think his portraiture of the Italian aristocracy always redolent of the soil, but that of the lower and middle classes is faithful to a wonderful degree.
Mr Crawford has devoted his attention to the middleand the higher classes.
But I don’t think we can apply Nobby’s sweeping reforms in themiddle of a war.
For some decades in the middle of the last century Nukahiva was the main base of a large portion of the Pacific whaling fleet.
In the middle of the forenoon of the 12th the yacht sailed under a black cornucopia-shaped cloud which we had been watching for some time as it lay in wait across our path.
On the 9th and 10th we passed straight through the middle of the Union Group, but so far from any of the islands that their presence was indicated only by the sight of an occasional land bird.
That this shrine is of considerable age is evidenced by the fact that a hau tree, three feet in diameter, has forced apart the heavy paving stones and is growing in the middle of the court.
It was with that sound injunction well in mind that I stepped out to where the glowering gorilla was waiting in the middle of the circle.
I watched them clamber up to safety and then turned to see the river of pigs sweep by--and there was that sullen, scowling tiger-cat of a Maro standing his ground in the middle of the runway.
Early in the middle watch a light breeze stole out again from landward--this time apparently coming from the Mauna Loa slope of the island--and by daylight we were twenty miles nearer the southerly deadline of the windless triangle.
Almost in the middle of the field was a large thatch-roofed house, oval in form, temporarily occupied by the scorers, the taupo and her handmaidens, and the distinguished visitors.
My glove landed squarely in the middleof Cave Man's face, straightening him up with a jerk and offering the very opening for the jaw that I had awaited ever since the bout began.
The middleof the afternoon found them on a clear, deep stream, which broadened out constantly as they advanced.
To get to the road they had to cross a wide pasture, and when they were in the middle of this they saw a man approaching.
We must be stuck somewhere in the middle of the lake.
All got on board the Snapper, and in a moment more the craft was out in the middle of the cove.
There seemed to be no help for it, and having anchored the rowboat in the middle of the stream, the young hunters proceeded to make themselves as comfortable as possible on board.
It was the middle of the forenoon before they were ready to embark on a tour of the lake.
The ladies of the committee ranged themselves so as to make a background of solemn benevolence on the platform, in the middle of which stood a primeval melodion with two octaves and four stops.
We passed through the village, which had but one street, irregular and narrow, and we were in constant danger of running over the shoals of little children who stood stupidly in the middle of it, gazing at us with open eyes and mouth.
I said to the Prince, "A Knight of Malta always suggests to my mind romance and the Middle Ages.
At last, utterly exhausted and confused, he stopped short and placed himself in the middle of the ballroom, delighted to be the center of all eyes and to make this effective finale.
A table in the middle of the room, covered with photographs and engravings, completed son salon de garçon.
A fountain was playing in the middle of the courtyard of marble, surrounded by palmettos and plants of every description.
However, he and I managed to finish our part; but the Emperor refused to be swung, and we marched down the middle of the line, hand in hand, disregarding the rules in a truly royal manner.
Prince Metternich was shown standing in the middle of an arena, in full diplomatic uniform, with masses of decorations and cordons.
The piano is of a pre-Raphaelite construction, and stands in the middle of the room like an island in a lake, with a footstool placed over the pedals (he considers the pedal as useless).
There is a panel in the middle which you can open if you want some fresh air.
There was a vast platform erected in the middle of the building, which was covered with a red carpet, and over which hung an enormous canopy of red velvet and curtains of velvet with the eagle of Napoleon.
In the middle of this is a fountain; no home is complete without a fountain, and no fountain is complete without its surroundings of palms, plants, and flowers.
Hannibal, having stationed a few to defend the rampart and the gates, and having admitted the rest in close array into the middle of the camp orders them to watch attentively the signal for sallying out.
To these opposite opinions, that of Publius Valerius Flaccus, which recommended a middle course, was preferred.
As a middle course between the two opinions, it was resolved that he should enter the city in ovation.
Now the situation of New Carthage is as follows: at about the middle of the coast of Spain is a bay facing for the most part the south-west, about two thousand five hundred paces in depth, and a little more in breadth.
Nor were there any who rendered less service, or showed less firmness in maintaining their posts, than the deserters; for as they did not repose much confidence even in those of their own party, they fled in the middle of the contest.
In commemoration of this event, there is exhibited at Patavium, every year, on its anniversary day, a naval combat on the river in the middle of the town.
We got here about the middle of the afternoon, so now it must be around five o'clock.
They were twisted all out of shape, and there was a deep smooth groove right across the middle from one wingtip to the other wingtip.
Then after years and years we sat down in the middle of this force and came alongside this carrier flagship.
The little runt in the middle of the row, wearing fewer decorations than any of the others, made movements with his head, as though somebody were working it with strings from behind, and then made some reply in a soft sing-song note.
