With a little tool it can carve strange dreams in ivory and milky jade.
He had a picture of himself getting on an airplane, another of renting a room in a slum, another of stopping the car on a lonely, treeless country road and getting out and looking up to the coldly glimmering Milky Way--why?
Beside it, the Earth is as white as the Moon, and Chicago is as peaceful as the Milky Way.
Galaxy: A term used to confuse people who have always called it The Milky Way.
Innumerable stars glittered in the firmament, intermingling their quivering lustre with the pale splendours of the milky way.
A milky twilight crept about the stairway and the landings below.
Bushes across the river stood round and bright-coloured out of a milky haze; the wood-smoke went up blue and straight; and his doves cooed, preening their feathers in the sunlight.
O, sea-washed city, must the hail of fire Crimson thy milky walls, and salt winds strive In vain to sweeten ditches dark with blood From thy tapped heart?
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Spare blood and sweat: We'll see Him take a private seat, And make His mansion in the mild And milky soul of a soft child.
He is said to be the author of the doctrine of atoms: he denied the immortality of the soul, and first taught that the milkyway was occasioned by a confused light from a multitude of stars.
A thin, white haze hung over the heights and dales of the fiord, and the peaks, glittering like stars, pierced above it, giving it the effect of a milky way moving onwards.
The milky radiance of her brow seemed to fade, her eyes fell under her lids, which slowly closed.
Another common type of defect in corundum gems is the occurrence of patches of milky cloudiness within the material.
The polished stones show merely a milky cloudiness without any of that beautiful sheen of the true moonstone.
In addition to amethyst and citrine quartz we have the pinkish, milky quartz known as "rose quartz.
The twins moved back into what had become a normal position for them in the past months: One on each side of the bed, their thin hands holding Mary's tightly, the milky blind eyes surveying something that could not be seen by his eyes.
You have seen it hidden in her eyes and you have seen it in the milky eyes of the twins.
From one altar were taken several bushels of finely worked lance-heads of milky quartz, nearly all of which had been broken up by the action of fire.
It was fading; all the stars were fading; a milky mistiness was over-spreading the sky.
Barbara used to call it the Milky Way, and let it flow through her imagination like a galaxy of millions upon millions of stars.
Already the few days' sun had softly browned her natural milky pallor.
I sat at the open window of the salon, looking out over the sea that showed pale milky green against the heavy sunset bank.
Quite a galaxy--or is galaxy wrong and does it take more than two to make one, like the Milky Way?
No man with two memories bathe in that milky green sea I had just shut out?
Cocoanuts in their natural state are shielded by great masses of leaves which keep their milky contents cool.
He was covered from head to foot with a milky fluid which was flowing down him and on which the gravel had stuck and plastered him with yellow mud.
Persian species, yields the ammoniacum of commerce, a milky juice that exudes from punctures on the stem and dries in little 'tears'.
He generally uses poisoned arrows, dipped in the milky juice of the tree euphorbia.
The mode of obtaining it is to make an incision in the bark, but not in the wood, and through it the milky sap exudes.
It may also be remarked, that if the Law of Gravity be absolute, there is no security for the stability of a system of stars, whether the system be a Milky Way or a nebulous cluster.
With the conception, however, of a physical centrifugal force or motion due to the pressure of a physical medium, the stability of even the Milky Way may be physically conceived and understood.
The Milky Way is the name given to that band of light which stretches across the sky at night-time, and forms a zone or belt that completely circles the celestial sphere.
But the form of the Milky Way and of certain nebulae seems to present an utter contradiction to any such tendency.
Recent observations go to show that there is a tendency of the sun's apex to drift along the edge of the Milky Way, and this drift seems to point to a plane of motion of the sun, nearly coinciding with the plane of the Milky Way.
The great majority of star clusters are also found along the course of the Milky Way, while many of the irresolvable nebulae seem to congregate near the poles of this starry region.
The Milky Way is divided in one part of its course by a stream of stars, which seems to branch off as a separate stream, thus dividing it into two parts.
Thence it came to pass that, seeing his beard like almond-blossoms, and the milky color of his throne-bearer, they who visited the gardens of the lake remembered him as the White Shah.
Each year when Autumn comes The crows make a black bridge across the milky sea, And then these two poor stars Can run together in gold and be at peace.
They are erect, succulent plants, from two to three feet in height, with a milky juice, and either toothed or pinnatifid leaves.
It is an acrid, glaucous, leafy and prickly plant, with a milky juice.
All the plants of the group agree in the following particulars:--They have a milky sap.
These plants have a milky sap, and leaves without stipules.
