Further down, Loch Ard opens again, and yet again, a lovely mirror in which are reflected the changeful outlines and rich colours of its girdling hills and woods.
The hour was that mysterious one of late twilight, when outlines lose their distinctness and sea and shore melt into one mass of uniform gray.
Miles to eastward gleamed the gray viaduct, the grain elevator outlines of the Flamingo rising yellow above a fire-blue sea.
Behind the gun were a pair of steady gray eyes and a face whose dainty outlines were just now set in a mask of icy grimness.
From that point of vantage, he saw the dark-clothed men line up their sullen prisoners and march them off to the road, where, a furlong below, the fire revealed the dim outlines of several motor cars.
At this point a new performer came upon the stage, a dark-robed thing, so active that its outlines changed elusively, giving it no recognizable features.
She could only see his dim outlines in the dull gleam from the fort's lantern.
The plot follows the outlines of her own life, and all the characters were counterparts of living people whom she knew.
The outlines of the coffee pot on the stove and the frying pan dangling on the door grew blurred.
As the growing light made the dim outlines clearer it brought out on the floor and side benches a promiscuous clutter that contained nothing suggesting a feminine occupant.
With clear, sharp outlines the mountain-peaks stood out against the blue sky,--like giant isles rising out of the sea of mists.
So he had gone aside, and was dreamily gazing at the faint distant outlines of the Alps, rising over the woody hills.
Playfully drawing the ample folds of his habit together, so that the outlines of his tightly laced waist became visible, he assumed a complacent and expectant attitude.
That surfaces bounded by complicated outlines have an advantage in ideation, other things equal, over surfaces bounded by simple outlines.
This combines most splendidly picturesque outlines with graceful fan or shell-like ridgings, which please the more when examined critically, since every curve and fluting serves some definite and practical end.
The Passover, if this view is right, was the occasion when the awful sacrifice was offered; and the tradition of its origin has preserved in its main outlines a vivid memory of the horrors of these fearful nights.
Ere long I was looking from my chamber window on the dim outlines of the hills, and the thick wood below that intercepts the view of the valley beneath.
The air was clear and cold, but the outlines of the landscape had vanished.
There was her strong, healthy, well-developed figure moving before him, but the modish gray dress seemed to give its pronounced outlines something of the dignity of a goddess.
This was merely a little curving hollow from which theoutlines of the plan had long since faded.
Low banks of cloud lay on the chill sea; the outlines of Kelpie Island were hidden.
Such is a hasty limning of the personal outlines of the first journalist in Paris, the chief editor of the chief organ of the democracy in Europe, Armand Marrast, of "Le National.
The outlines of a woman's white-robed figure were visible in one of the boats.
Though perhaps the main outlines were broken, a most charming effect of cosiness was gained.
A wide patch of reflected afternoon light fell through the studio-window from the blue sky outside; and the studio was like a confused swirl of dusty colour, in which the outlines stood forth with their arrested action and changeless emotion.
Both boys could now make out beneath them, the rounded outlines of a huge squatting figure.
The departure had been kept a secret, but the sight of the great yellow bag’s outlines rising above the compound walls had attracted a crowd outside.
The outlines of two men could be seen, but it was too dark to distinguish their features.
In its outlines the task was so broad and simple that it could be comprehended by the most ordinary intelligence.
The broad and simple outlines of English history make it easy to reconceive the past.
To this day there is a haziness about the "reasons" that contrasts with the sharp outlines of the commandments.
Northwards from Nauplia the sharp mountainous outlines of the Argive hills were cut out clear against the pale cobalt of the heavens, glowing pink in the sunrise, and all their glens and hollows were brimmed with bluest shadow.
Outlines of pollen-grains of Primula vulgaris, distended with water, much magnified and drawn under the camera lucida.
The romance kept its form through a vast number of medieval rearrangements, and there is little change in its outlines as set forth in the Shakespearian play of Pericles.
Her round white arms shone like Juno's, as the outlines were revealed by the graceful motions which threw back the wide sleeves.
Again Sardis lay at the foot of the hills, its coarse and common place outlines softened into glorious symmetry by the moonlight's wondrous witchery.
The town could be descried in an uncertain haze, the plain floated still further towards the heights and far in the distance loomed the pale low drawn outlines of the mountains.
George could only see from the verandah the outlines of her figure; her face was quite in the shade.
