Having a total thickness of about 200 feet, the Tecovas (which is named from exposures found on Tecovas Creek in Potter County, Texas) consists largely of multicolored shales.
They had been kept pretty busy seating the guests, who had appeared in multicolored gowns, and gay flowered hats, with here and there a dress coat of masculine gender which gave quite an air of festivity to the occasion.
Three million kay ahead, the Slingshot terminals appeared as just another unblinking light in a runnel of multicolored jewels.
The scene faded, replaced by a ring of tiny multicolored lights: the Asteroid Belt.
Concurrently, at a signal from the UIPS President's ship Eagle, the station flashed an array of multicolored beacons.
We turn our way out of the wagon-trail toward Funeral Range to find the canyon of Furnace Creek, and in time we are clambering up a narrow gulch between the multicolored strata of clay buttes.
As though proud of his multicolored dress he walks with slow and majestic step.
Juan possessed, besides the loud and showy jewels with which he adorned his person, that supreme luxury of every bull-fighter, a powerful sorrel mare, with a cowboy saddle and a fine blanket bordered with multicolored fringe across the pommel.
It was a scene of rare, romantic beauty, the boiling stream surging and dancing madly away from its foot, and the multicolored mists rising up like a gauzy veil between us and the column of greenish-blue water.
Varied tinted stones and sea-shells had been built into a raised platform, on which stood a couch hidden beneath rich robes of skin, and draped about with multicolored cloth of rude design and texture.
Star-flowers shed their multicolored radiance everywhere, and starlight poured prodigally down from the sky.
Before him, the land sloped gently upward, and was covered with multicolored flowers that twinkled like microcosmic stars.
Often when the boat hugged the bank he saw indescribable buds and blossoms, and multicolored orchids clinging to the drooping bejucos which festooned the enormous trees.
The horizons of this velvet sky were secured to protruding stone eyelets along the second-story galleries by multicolored cotton cords the thickness of cable.
The guards directed them toward a large multicolored silk canopy fanning out from the tall buildings on their right.
The arrival of an American warship at Demerara was such an unusual event that a huge crowd had collected at the pier and among the multicolored throng of black, white, and yellow were the gold lace and uniforms of officers.
The sun was just throwing out his multicolored couriers to inform continents of his coming.
A lofty arcade, mocking the rainbow by a myriad multicolored lights, glowed like a curved horizon, covering a great stretch of green meadow, and making day for the fish, which swarmed in the transparent water.
For the moment the eye is dazzled; a myriad of multicolored fans are fluttering like fabulous butterflies; there are unimagined combinations of insolent hues; a multitude of rainbows oscillating in a deluge of light.
No one could have found fault with Zimballo's zinc bar, nor his highboy stacked to the ceiling with multicolored bottles, nor his tattered billiard table, nor his battered metal furniture.
Well I don't see any corals," declared Tom after he had gazed at themulticolored objects upon the ocean bottom for some time.
She looked down at the pattern on the Persian rug beside his couch--a symmetrical scroll of old rose, on a black ground sown with multicolored flowerets.
On the left they had the Corinthian-columned portico of the garden front of the house; in the distance, the multicolored slopes of the town.
And then comes a memory of that long reef of staircases and temples and buildings, the ghats of Benares, in the blazing morning sun, swarming with a vast multitude of multicolored people and the water also swarming with brown bodies.
They are more like children who reach out for anything that glitters, who lick off the vivid paint on a multicolored toy, and who put a mouth harmonica into their little jaw instead of being content with listening to its music.
Like a field of wildflowers, hundreds of their own multicolored tents, each one tall and pointed at the top, spread out over the rolling brown landscape just beyond the town wall.
By the light of the crescent moon hanging over the Multicolored Palace, Tilia watched the Mameluke sultan raise his right hand to heaven.
Above rows of multicolored and gilded books that covered the walls, he saw some great plaster heads with towering foreheads and vacant eyes that seemed always to be contemplating an immense nothingness.
Through its fine texture could be perceived the flesh as though it were a wrapping of multicolored air.
A fantastic light streaks this world of darkness with multicolored shafts, animal light produced by living organisms.
Before her rapt eyes the multicolored mice danced jigs on slack wires, then were carefully rolled up into little balls of paper which immediately began to swell until each was as big as a football.
I had rather my studio were overrun with multicolored mice--" She stopped with something almost like a sob.
In the center of the beam was something that might have been a smoldering rubrous reflection of the Emperor's pulsing multicolored rose had each of the petals of the latter been clipped and squared.
And through one grand opening in this multicolored surging of hills and peaks you perceive the gold- yellow of cane-fields touching the sky-colored sea.
Seen from the bay, the little red-white-and-yellow city forms but one multicolored streak against the burning green of the lofty island.
It contained great vats of steaming, multicolored liquids, many tables, a great number and variety of frames, racks, and instruments.
The companionway was strewn inches deep in multicolored gems.
