From overhead sounded the roaring dissonance of an elevated train; on either side of her phantom shapes swarmed--figures which moved everywhere around her, now illumined by shop windows, now silhouetted against them.
Looking back a few minutes later, he saw Overweg standing upon the ridge where he had left him, silhouetted against a low, gray sky.
The mass of the great elevators that were silhouetted against a lowering sky, the little cluster of houses, and the sea of churned-up mire between them and the track comprised Clermont.
Sally stood in the entrance silhouetted against a blaze of cheerful light.
The eyes of every man on deck were directed upon the silhouetted figures of the captain and the carpenter on the bridge.
As he strode he seemed to be peering eagerly, as if to discern the faces of the guests as they stood silhouetted against the light.
Silhouetted against the fitful moonlight could be discerned the cool and resolute form of Captain Ripponden as he grasped the bridge-rails and looked down upon the orderly mass of humanity.
His figure silhouetted against the ruddy light was, when viewed from the destroyer, just clear of one end of the bridge.
As though in answer, the little jackal appeared silhouetted on top of the dune.
The steel-and-aluminum shape of the great, steerable dish antenna, designed for modern astronomy, was silhouetted against the sky.
They were silhouetted in a station aperture of corrugated iron, of all building materials the most hideous; but the aperture was of that most graceful of all shapes, a Moorish arch.
Owen clambered with difficulty into the rigging, till he reached a spot where his figure stood sharply silhouetted against the moon behind.
The figure of the French colonel had disappeared in the gathering darkness, but within a minute it appeared again at the entrance to his quarters, where his tall frame was again silhouetted against the light within.
He stood silhouetted against the brightly illuminated archway of the door for some few seconds, and then he strode across to the courtyard with the step of a man who has a matter of some importance to carry out.
Beyond that it was impossible to distinguish anybody or anything in the boat, the bows of which were faintly silhouetted against the ghostly phosphorescence of the foam thrown aside by the stem.
Silhouetted against the red glow of the sky she looked as if she were outlined in deep gold.
But as it dropped below the watery horizon it left the British ships silhouetted against a clear outline.
In the distance stood forests, darkly silhouetted against the sky, covered with heavy, low-hanging snow clouds.
A flash of light illumined the side-walk in front of the saloon office and Blagg saw Mascola's figure silhouetted in the open doorway.
As they flashed by the "bull-nose" she saw silhouetted against the brightening light which streamed across the water from the beach, the sharp outline of a fishing-boat.
Silhouetted in the bright moonlight, he leaned against the coaming, his lips curved in a sneering smile.
Saw his reeling figure silhouetted against the white glare of the blazing cabin-house.
He had had no idea who his companions during this patrol excursion were to be, for the night had fallen heavy and it was difficult for those in the group to recognize identities in one another's dimly silhouetted forms.
He had never seen her look more beautiful than she did, standing there in the half light of the staircase, her pale blue dress silhouetted against the dull brown of the woodwork, and one arm flung out along the banister.
As he looked at April, the profile of her face silhouetted against the window, an acute wave of sentiment passed over him, reminding him of the many things they had shared together.
And then at last, in that half-hour when the room was slowly emptying, the door opened and he saw Beatrice, her slim figure silhouetted against the dull red wall-paper of the hall.
But most wonderful of all was a great buck, of I should be afraid to say how many points, that stood silhouetted on the extreme end of a ridge high above our camp.
A tall wagon, a group of silhouetted men, three or four squatting dogs, were squarely within the circle of illumination.
Then, somewhat to his embarrassment, the two figures moved further across the window, and as they were silhouetted against the blue duskiness, he saw that there was an arm about the waist of the girl's white dress.
A trooper stood outside it, his carbine glinting in the light, and another was silhouetted against the sky, sitting motionless in his saddle further back on the prairie.
It grew steadily louder, a blinking ray of brightness flickered across the frame houses, and presently dark figures were silhouetted against the light on the hotel veranda as a lurching wagon drew up beneath it.
They fell silent then, for against the lighted window they could see a head silhouetted through the falling snow.
As Dick lay there waiting he could see on the side of the camp nearest him, the shadowy figure of a warrior sentinel, standing motionless by a tree, silhouetted by the light of one of the fires.
Then his attention was directed to a spur of the Coast Range which had been sharply silhouetted against the cloudless western sky.
From the saturnalia in progress outside came another swirl of sound seeming to lap mockingly against the motionless figure of zu Pfeiffer silhouetted against a green sky; and above him towered the idol leaning sideways.
His tall figure was silhouetted in profile against the green sky and as Birnier watched he saw a gleam as of crystal upon an eyelash.
Through the screen door a tall figure in a Tirai hat wassilhouetted in sepia against the yellow glare.
The outline of the building was clearly silhouetted against the glowing west, but since they were looking at the east face the detail was all in shadow.
He points to the figures now silhouetted against the further sea.
And who shall forget the domes, towers, and pinnacles of the Cathedrals; and the old fort within the city walls as they too were silhouetted against the gold of the evening?
Mysterious with weird echoes of a past age it stands, silhouetted against a flaming sky to-night as I see it for the first time.
Their long curling tails silhouetted below the branches against the light of evening.
Which reminds one of the night on the Sambas River when a hundred little monkeys were silhouetted against a crimson sunset.
The little ships stood out, silhouetted against that great flaming oil tanker.
These monkeys were strikingly silhouetted against the crimson sunset in strange tropical fashion.
The elegant figure, like the figure of a black swan, was silhouetted suddenly against the glare of intermittent gaslight and then swallowed again in night.
Across the ravine rose the mighty Cathedral silhouetted against a dark star-laden sky.
Silhouetted against the evening sky, with the smooth running waters below, it seemed to me a worthy example in brick and stone of the church's magnificence.
The nearer hills were silhouetted boldly against a sky of primrose and pink; but the misty depths where the lake lurked beneath the pines had not yet yielded wholly to the triumph of the new day.
For an instant he glanced toward Spencer, whose clear cut profile was silhouetted against a background of white-blue ice now gleaming in a constant flutter of lightning.
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