In her mackintosh of changeable silk in two shades of blue, she made a charming picture coming down the rain-soaked path.
Most of its broad avenues are lined with close set rows of cherry trees which were now bursting into blossom in all the most delicate and exquisite shades of pink known to nature.
My Master will care for me,’ said the preacher, as he prepared to leave the castle on horseback when the shades of night were closing in.
For a year he relinquished himself to her endearments, and when he determined to leave, she instructed him how to sail to the land of shades which lay on the verge of the ocean stream, in order to learn his fate from the prophet Teiresias.
Twanging with the fingers for strings of gut, hemp or silk was undoubtedly the more artistic method, since the player was able to command various shades of expression which are impossible with a rigid plectrum.
But the shades of night had fallen, the mountains were shrouded, and the beauties of the banks were obscured before he approached Ampuis.
The shades of Washington, Henry, and Adams are ready to burst their tombs with burning indignation, at the contempt cast upon the sacred principles of liberty which they fought to establish.
Is it possible that he whom we have been accustomed to regard as the blackest impostor--about whose moral character there hang so many shades of suspicion?
The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour, But neither my good word nor princely favour; With Cain go wander thorough shades of night, And never show thy head by day nor light.
Then thus I turn me from my countrv's light, To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.
The former exhibit various shades of weakness, from the mere ineffectual struggle between the grain of conscience left them and the attractions of pleasure, to the sentimental impulse to end their woes by suicide.
On, on through the forest shades the hunted man sped, the voices of his pursuers, like hounds upon a trail, sounding deep behind him.
At length the furious writhings died down into a faint muscular heave, and the black fiend, relaxing none of his grip of the now dead reptile, glided into the dark shades which had covered the retreat of the leopard.
He stood in that hall alone, and remained for many minutes with his eyes bent sternly on the ground, while over his harsh features passed a thousand shades of varying expression.
Thou wouldst not send the spirit of the mighty king upon its long journey through the realms of night with no attendant shades around it.
Other Vowel-Sounds, shades more or less distinct of some one of these Leading Sounds, are interspersed by nature between these diatonic Sounds, like the half tones and quarter tones in Music.
And the number can only be increased by interposing minor shades of sound, as we produce minor shades of color by blending the Seven (7) Prismatic Colors.
The city of Bristol lies on the confines of this region, where it shades off northwestward into the Palaeozoics of Wales and northeastward into the Mesozoics of the midland counties.
The fiber can be dyed in all desirable shadesor colors, some examples having the luster and brilliancy of silk.
There is no hard and fast line between the two, but by a gradation through an infinite number of shades the one tones into the other.
The shades thus communicated were to be put together at the receiving end, on a prearranged system, and so the picture was to be built up.
Stromboli is already veiling himself in the rapidly encroaching shades of darkness, and it is time to say good-night to this fair night, and to go to our cabin.
A number of adjectives cannot be compared for they in themselves express the highest degree of quality, so they have no shades of meaning and will not admit of comparison.
And in writing, the only way we have of expressing these shades of meaning is by means of punctuation marks.
Once we have sensed its beauty and its wondrous power of expression, we notice all these slight differences and shades of meaning which may be expressed by the use of words.
We do not always observe these niceties in our spoken and written speech, but it is interesting to know the shadesof thought and meaning which you can express by the proper use of the language.
Sometimes the noun may have several adjectives qualifying or modifying it; as, The beautiful, old elm tree shades the lawn.
The shades were gathering around the family; the girl had passed from the shadow into the shine.
Oh, punish him, or to th' Elysian shades Dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
Discharge thy shafts, this ready bosom rend, And to the shades a ghost triumphant send; But for my country let my fate atone; Be mine the vengeance, as the crime my own!
The day beheld, and, sickening at the sight, Veil'd her fair glories in the shades of night.
At the same time the worship of the moon-god is associated with the Semites of Arabia and the west rather than with Eridu, whose god revealed himself to mankind by day and not in the shades of night.
Aid us, shades of champions who have led the world's progress!
The distinctions are marked by colors and shades of color--criminal centres designated by black.
Passing where the shades that darken Grow transfigured to thy mind, Thou shalt go with soul untroubled To the mysteries behind; "Pass unmoved the silent portal Where beatitude begins, With an equal balance bearing Thy misfortunes and thy sins.
I record these sayings," she adds, "because they interested me, opening to myself little shades of thought not perceived before.
These various phases were like divers-colored shades covering a lamp: through them all the white flame of religion burned clear and steady, fostered by a natural piety which was as much a part of her as the breath she drew.
Two hanging lamps with crimson shades threw a rosy light over the table, where, in the centre stood a silver basket, full of irises.
He remembered with extreme minuteness how the woman and the man had sat facing each other across the narrow patch of white, emblazoned by a candle with cheap shades and a thin green vase with yellow flowers.
Was she trying to conjure somebody from the shadesof that space where the colouring was all pearl-grey and silver?
Mr. Purcey, however, was not a man who allowed the finest shades of feeling to interfere with his enjoyments.
She lost no shade of any flavor of ecstatic pleasure in anything, and was to Tembarom, who knew nothing about shades and flavors, indeed a touching and endearing thing.
They had deprived him of the opportunity to observe shades of development and to hear the expressing of views of the situation as it stood.
He would have known--awed, marveling at the blackness of the pit into which it can descend--the unknown shades that may enfold it and imprison its gropings.
The whole party seemed to have been amusing themselves in the water during the noon-day heat, which was excessive; and the cool shades around the lagoon looked most luxuriant.
The shades of evening came, however, but no flood, and the man on the look-out returned to the camp.
Music serves admirably to heighten the effect of a dramatic situation, or to give force and intensity to the expression of words; but the same music may often be allied with equal advantage to words of very different shades of meaning.
They may have their eyes protected by shades or by smoke colored glasses, but should keep them open and exposed to the air, and should remain out of doors as much as possible.
To this is attached a reading lamp which I fix in my waistcoat, and to the astonishment of my fellow travelers, when the shades of evening are beginning to set, I take out the lamp and put it in operation--so.
