This morning we awoke to hear the wind still blustering, and blowing up clouds, with fitful little showers, and soon blowing them away again, and letting the brightest of sunshine fall over the plashy waste of sand.
Last night, at half past nine, I could read with perfect ease in parts of the room remote from the window; and at nearly half past eleven there was a broad sheet of daylight in the west, gleaming brightly over the plashy sands.
High March was on the northern borders of the Countess's country; not far off was the Markstake, stormy, debatable land, plashy with blood.
The streets and alleys were empty, the rain coursed down all the gutters of the steep little town; its music and their own plashy steps were all they could hear.
He staggered and strode along the plashy pavement, muttering to himself at intervals,-- 'Rest for the soul?
Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side?
He looked up; sudden, plashy drops smote his face.
Upon its first coming it makes for wet meadows, plashy uplands, and sea-coast tracts, although the weather regulates the altitude at which the bird is found.
It flocks during the winter, and according to the severity or openness of the weather indulges in short local migrations from the plashy meadows and uplands to the sea-coast.
The bird feeds on plashy meadows, wet moors, by tarns and stream sides, and on mosses which margin the coast.
Plashy meadows and marshes are also favourite feeding grounds; and here the lapwing makes "game" for an army of gunners.
My kick had sent Moleskin flying on top of him; and borne to earth, prone beneath the superincumbent bulk of his retainer, he lay with hands outspread like a swimmer's and nose buried in the plashy soil.
Beneath the awning a panel of light fell on the plashy pavement.
Just at this moment a plashy tramp on the bank of the stream, by the side of the bridge, caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod.
Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, 10 Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side?
The whole ground, even in the mostplashy places, is covered with flowers.
Among the plashy woodland ways, Swoln brooks and boughs that drip with rain?
At this moment the country, with its waste, unreaped crops, tying in a state of plashy and fermenting ruin, and its desolate and wintry aspect, was in frightful keeping with the appearance of the people when thus congregated together.
