No bright and blazing sun came over the hills of Cuba to light up this picture, but all was blight and gloom, with murky masses of dead, still clouds hanging low down over the island.
Fortunately, too, we had been driven off shore, and when the murky gloom broke away, and we were able to look around, our first anxiety was to see what had become of the brigantine.
There is a tone of rest and homelike comfort even in murky Liverpool; and great magnificence is there--as well of architecture and opulent living as of enterprise and action.
Murky and grim enough to-night is that grand processional walk in St. Bartholomew's church, where the great gray pillars and splendid Norman arches of the twelfth century are mouldering in neglect and decay.
Here and there among the poor homes of the workers a lighted window or a lonely street lamp shone in the murky dusk.
Everywhere, amid this fearful din and these maddening terrors, flitting through the murky haze of steam and smoke and dust, were men with sooty faces and grimy arms.
Black clouds are driving across the murky sky; peals of thunder rend the heavens; lightning gleams at intervals, revealing more clearly the crested billows that here roar over the sands, or there churn and seethe among the rocks.
One evening, however, out of this roaring hive of men and women striving to feed and clothe and house themselves came a flash of vivid lightning in the murky sky,--the bomb of the anarchist.
This murky loathsome Death-trap, this slaughter-house, is not the hall In the golden city!
At dusk, when I went again to the cemetery to superintend the packing of the two-wheeled carts, I found a murky atmosphere.
Out of the abysmal darkness of the black cloud overhead white hail streamed on her, rattled on the rigging, leaped in handfuls off the yards, rebounded on the deck--round and gleaming in the murkyturmoil like a shower of pearls.
It hurtled five blocks through the murky twilight, sustained at a height of one hundred and fifty feet.
The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a reflexion of the higher self, distorted by the murky ethers of the flesh.
The light of life cannot shine through the murky veil that you have drawn about your hearts.
The late moon shimmered through clouds ofmurky vapor, and cast ghostly reflections along the broad river.
The rising moon had at last thrown off its veil of murky clouds, and was shining in undimmed splendor in a starry sky.
From far aloft its burning eye pierced a channel of light through themurky darkness ahead.
The murky heavens reflected the red glare of the flames upon every object for miles around, tinging each with a lurid gleam like nothing in nature.
It was murky with filmy fog-clouds and dust not yet settled to the earth.
V Discontentedly the Grand Duke appraised the scene, and in the murky twilight which heralded the day he found the world a cheerless place.
A thick voice raised the refrain of a song, and it came booming through the murky atmosphere.
Then his eyes caught a murky gleam beside the fallen white shape, and the physical sense of things jumped back to his mind.
There was the grey dome looming out by fits through rolling drifts of murky smoke.
What thousands of wise men and rogues have passed under its murky shadow!
There were no stars to relieve the murky heaviness, nor was it dark; a sort of twilight reigned, as comfortless as tepid water, and there was no breeze now to rustle the leaves into life.
Instead I seem to see only a somber murkytwilight whenever I surprise those two in private colloquy.
But to embark upon thismurky enterprise of Fred's, charged for me with the dread of a hundred lurking pitfalls, into which I should infallibly stumble, charged with the fear of certain failure, all my instincts revolted against it.
No," she declared, scrutinizing me in the murky hallway.
A poor and tenuous oil is that of my peculiar lamp, a petty flame and a murky result.
The quaint old houses in the market square were illuminated with a ruddy glow, and the cathedral towers caught the fitful radiance, and stood up against the murky November sky with a flush of crimson on their hoary heads.
Straws in small bags of coca cola that each had in his right hand jiggled with phallic looseness as did their singular and murky reflections in passing over the inundated sidewalk.
There was only one object, himself, that was the meaning of this word, for the Laotian's eyes seemed to be peering into him with murky beams of light.
In loss and tragedy so great that all life seemed a lugubrious and murky haze he knew that at any second he could fall to pieces and yet here he came anyway.
All this was in the gloom, while we down there were yet in the sunshine, and the stretch of the river abreast of the clearing glittered in a still and dazzling splendour, with a murky and overshadowed bend above and below.
Yet the lines bite at times, and there are great fissures of silence, pauses as deep and as sinister as murky midnight pools.
Ibsen's flame is more murky than brilliant; but it makes light the swamps he traverses on his irresistible progress to the mountains beyond.
Of th' other two, Whose heads are under, from the murky jaw Who hangs, is Brutus: lo!
Between the two points is a waste of murky soil and sand, covered by dense growths of the jungle's choicest variety of obstacles.
Sicto's head was held a little down; the murky eyes avoided meeting those of his tribesmen, and his whole attitude gave the impression of slinking.
