The black racers of the eastern states often inhabit forest or forest-edge habitats while the paler and smaller snakes of more southern or western areas typically inhabit scrub, chaparral, or prairie.
The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body.
The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath.
Let not a paler European dare With glowing Yarico's her beauty to compare.
If his eyes could have followed the clerk, he would have seen a face palerthan his own, with puckered, blinking eyes, and jaw set in grim determination.
This species, called Perdiz chico by the natives, is somewhat smaller and paler in colouring than the common Tinamou of the pampas, but very closely resembles the young of that species.
The egg when fresh is of a fine golden yellow, but this colour growspaler from day to day, and finally fades to a parchment-white.
Mr. Gibson turned a little paler than he had been before.
His ruddy colour grew paler for a moment, and he looked grave and not pleased.
His face was paler and more transparent, while the green-shaded electric lamp shed upon it a hue that was unreal and ghastly.
Revenge upon myself," sighed the old man, his face growing a trifle paler as he foresaw what a terrible vengeance was within the power of that shabby stranger.
Her face was paler than ever, paler than death, if that be possible, but in her eyes there shone a light like the light of a flame.
One bright cold morning she was walking with her father through the fields down on the foot-path that led to the church, and it would have been hard to say which of the two looked the paler or the more miserable.
Paler than her white muslin wrapper, the Baroness Trigault sprang from her chair.
He turned evenpaler than he already was if that were possible, and reeled like an ox but partially stunned by the butcher's hammer.
From among all her dresses, she chose the same dark robe she had worn on the night when Pascal Ferailleur was ruined at her house; and as she was even paler than usual, she tried to conceal the fact by a prodigal use of rouge.
His long pale face was made paler by a shock of coarse, tow-coloured hair; his eyes even looked colourless, though they were certainly the least uninteresting feature of his face, for they were not devoid of expression.
In spring when she hears their sweet voices resounding with merriment in the park, she winces, and grows paler than usual.
At the end of three weeks the little fellow could leave his bed, but he was paler and weaker than ever.
Paler and paler grow the blossoms of the sweet rocket, sweeter and sweeter their fragrance rises aloft, like a mute prayer,--twilight hovers over the meadows and the leafy summits of the lindens grow black.
Nevertheless it has hardly varied at all, except in the plumage being either paler or darker-coloured.
Mrs. Marsh grew a shade paler under her cosmetics.
Her pallid face was still paler and the muscles about her sensitive mouth twitched spasmodically.
Days came and went, and Aslog's cheek grew paler and her father's eye more gloomy, for her heart was given to Orm, the poor but beautiful youth whom her father had given her as page.
His breast beat high with hope that the old man might be able to give him some good tidings to take back to his loved Aslog, who, although she bore her privations even cheerfully, was yet paler and feebler every day.
Normally dark brown, with paler spots, it is sometimes deep blue, sometimes lemon-yellow and sometimes of mixed shades.
The body in all is covered with round spots which are paler than the ground color, and crimson or gray.
The spots and cross-bars in the pike are whitish or yellowish, and always paler than the olive-gray ground color.
The Great Lake trout is grayish in color, light or dark according to its surroundings; and the body is covered with round paler spots, which are gray instead of red.
Twice his wife looked at him in the half-light, and noticed that he was paler than she had ever seen him; his troubled eyes were brightly fixed on her.
The great danger she was in only made her a little paler and her lips a little drier.
He was somewhat paler and not quite so yellow as when Henry had last seen him; but certainly his whimsicality and petulance did not seem to have at all diminished during the illness and suffering he had lately undergone.
And now we steal by the black shores; and that solitary red star comes nearer and nearer in the dusk; and at length we can make out two or three otherpaler lights close down by the water.
She cried a great deal, and each day I thought she grewpaler than the day before.
Very early in the dawning she passed the Balearic Isles, mysterious purple in an opal sea, and it was not yet noon when the jagged line of the Atlas Mountains hovered in pale blue shadow along a paler horizon.
The female is like the male, but larger and paler and all the spots on the upper side are pale fulvous, and not as distinctly white on the outer margin as in the male sex.
On the under side the wings arepaler than on the upper side; the still paler spots of the discal areas are defined outwardly and inwardly by elongated dark spots.
Yellow on both sides of the wings, the lower side paler than the upper, and the basal area lightly clouded with fuscous.
The body is velvety-purple above, a little paler on the under side.
The hind wings on the under side are purplish-gray on the inner two thirds and paler gray on the outer third, with many black spots on the disk, margined with white.
The limbal area is defined inwardly by a fine white line, is paler than the rest of the wing, and on the secondaries is marked by a full, regularly curved submarginal series of small dark lunules.
It is, however, paler on the upper side of the wings, and more profusely mottled on the hind wing both above and below, though there is considerable variation in this regard.
The butterflies are of medium or large size, curiously marked with checkered spots, blue and white, with broad paler shades on the under side of the secondaries.
Their wings on the upper side are fulvous, or brown with black margins, spots, and lines upon the upper side of the wings, and with the under side of the wings reproducing the spots of the upper side inpaler tints.
The female does not differ materially from the male, except in the larger size and the somewhat paler ground-color of the upper side of the wings.
On the under side the wings are palerthan is the case in other species, reddish-brown, marbled with darker brown lines and frecklings.
On the under side the wings are paler and a trifle warmer brown, with their outer halves marked with numerous fine white broken lines arranged in pairs, with the space between them darker than the ground-color of the wing.
The female has the ground-color of the wings paler than the male, and both wings from the base to the angled median band on the upper side are dark chocolate-brown.
The moonlit shrubs and spangled heaven alone beheld their mutual sorrow, and the pale moon waned, and the stars gleamed paler and paler in the first gray of dawn ere that vigil was concluded.
His eyes filled with tears--soon his head drooped, and growing ever paler he stood as one petrified.
As they drove back, still she talked, while he, as they got nearer to the town, turned even paler than before; nor could he even smile.
Her face was paler than usual; her eyes had lost something of their piercing brightness.
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