Far to the west and north, he saw Bonneville very plain, and the dome of the courthouse, a purple silhouette against the glare of the sky.
I had climbed up on one of the hills of the Cigarrales and was looking at the silhouette of the town so black against the stormy marbled sky.
Shadow fills half the street, etching a silhouette of roofs and chimneypots and cornices on the cobblestones, leaving the rest very white with moonlight.
This gave me the first silhouette view I had, and I did not need a glass to recognize them at once as German, the three straight funnels and the 'swan' bows being quite unmistakable.
Just as the moon came down and sat on the sea preliminary to setting, squarely against the round yellow background it formed I saw the silhouette of the conning-tower of a U-boat.
In the silhouette formed by the rising hills two palms, taller than the others, stood out against the sky like lone sentinels guarding the shore against invading buccaneers.
Sir Marmaduke had gone to London, also Mistress de Chavasse, and she had not even caught sight of the weird silhouette of her French prince.
The upper part of Sir Marmaduke's figure appeared in the window embrasure, like a dark and massive silhouette against the yellowish light from within.
They bowed slightly in the direction of the audience chamber where the vague silhouette of the proconsul was alone visible.
The door of the inner chamber is left open and they hear the proconsul's voice and see his silhouette pass and repass in front of them, but that is all.
His form was outlined insilhouette by a light across the street, when a spark flashed in the darkness and he fell headlong to the floor.
As the train skirted the Great Salt Lake with its bleak and desolate islands of rock rising in silhouette against the cold grey skies, Hattie compared the scene to the feeling of utter desolation within her soul.
Morris Stein takes away theSilhouette Theatre from us and we can't get no time for 'Lilith' on Broadway.
Cragmire Tower, a blacker silhouette against the night, topple and fall!
It seemed to project from the blacksilhouette outside the pane, to be thrust forward--and forward--and forward .
Without the slightest heralding sound--a black silhouette crept up against the pane .
Clearly outlined in the open port-hole there suddenly arose that same grotesque silhouette which I had seen once before.
As he spoke he peered across the marsh toward the river, and Colville, following the direction of his gaze, saw the black silhouette of a large lug-sail against the eastern sky, which was softly grey with the foreglow of the rising moon.
Once or twice Barebone, having made a bee-line across from dyke to dyke, failed to strike the exact spot where the low post indicated a plank, and had to pause and stoop down so as to find its silhouetteagainst the sky.
A momentary silhouette against the northern sky showed that it was Colville, come at last.
Along the ridge of the great pit-hill crawled a little group insilhouette against the sky, a horse, a small truck, and a man.
On the crest of the hill, Selby, with its stark houses and the up-pricked headstocks of the pit, stood in black silhouette small against the sky.
She stood by the wash-stand, with her back to the light, her attitude one of tense expectancy: hardly more than a silhouette of a figure moderately tall and very slight, almost angular in its slenderness.
One closely veiled woman showed the silhouette sticking up through her veil just like a blacking tin.
After a while we caught sight of Tarabosch, the famous mountain, and then the silhouette of the old Venetian fortress.
Each player is handed a piece of silhouette paper, on the white side of which is written a number and the name of some animal.
And then with urge of fife and roll of drum In shadowsilhouette behold them come-- The Patriot lads who for their country died, Who rose and followed when my name was cried--!
Against the faint clearness in the frame of the open shutter she presented to him the dark silhouette of her shoulders surmounted by a sleek head, because her hair was still in the two plaits.
More than once his wife would be appalled in the dark of night by the silhouette of old Zelig in nightdress, sitting up in bed and counting a bundle of bank notes which he always replaced under his pillow.
A silhouette is one of the least indicative forms of portraiture for enabling one to judge whether the sitter was handsome or not.
I know of only one portrait of Miss Brawne; it is a silhouette by Edouart, engraved in two of Mr. Forman's publications.
She was bareheaded and the western sun made her profile a dainty silhouette, a silhouette framed in the spun gold of her hair.
Behind them, bordering the stretch of mud and puddles which they had just left, was the silhouette of a dilapidated picket fence; and in front loomed the shadowy shapes of buildings.
He could hold the fingers of one hand so as to cast a silhouette of a hare's head on the wall.
Isagani stared at him vaguely, smiled sadly, and again turned his gaze toward the open balconies, across which was revealed the ethereal silhouette of the bride clinging to the groom's arm as they moved slowly out of sight.
Basilio felt his heart beat fainter, his feet and hands turn cold, while the black silhouette of the jeweler assumed fantastic shapes enveloped in flames.
