Signal-lights of white and two colours broke out upon another slender mast aft of her conning-tower, and winked and jabbered.
To her husband's thought she was like some slender Roman patrician at the stake, as she stood up against the background of flaming splendour, and waited to hear the worst.
But he----" A spasm of trembling went through the slender body.
The slender shape was not yet spoilt, but long before the autumn came, no art would mask the wealthy curves of its maternity.
The clasp of her slender arms about her child, the poise of her still nymph-like figure, expressed fulness of life, buoyant energy, and happiness in fullest measure.
A slender white and golden woman with a string of sapphires very much the colour of her own eyes, picked up a toy Pekingese that squatted near her, and said, cuddling the goggling morsel under her chin: "I agree.
The electric battens over the speaker's head showed her to be a tall, fair, slender woman, dressed in filmy grey, veiling soft clinging silk of the same shade.
The fold between her slender eyebrows deepened and the delicate sensitive upper-lip lifted, showing the white, slightly irregular teeth.
She tried to free her slender hands, but the Doctor's hold was as inexorable as gentle.
The small hands twitched as they gripped the lever, and shudders convulsed the slender frame.
He kissed her gravely on the eyes and lips and forehead, unwound the slender arms that clasped his neck, and gently laid her back upon the pillows.
You were not responsible----" She covered the little ears with the slender hands.
The exquisite face was fuller, the outlines of the form displayed the ripeness of early maturity, the slender palm was now a stately tree.
Are my gifts indeed so worthless Now theslender sum is told?
Tis noon--against the knotted oak The hunters rest the idle spear; Curls through the trees the slender smoke, Where yeomen dight the woodland cheer.
The eddying water shot by his slender legs, but he moved against it easily, and soon ascended the waterfall.
A slender slip of womanhood in the undeveloped period is alluded to in the villages as a "slickit" of a girl.
Each slender bough is drawn out to a line; line follows line as shade grows under the pencil, but each of these lines is separate.
By the hedge here stands a moss-grown willow, and its slender branches extend over the sward.
The slender boughs of the birch, too, reflect the sunshine as if polished.
The slender purple spires of the climbing vetch were lifted above the low hushes to which it clung; there were ferns deeper in the hedge, and yellow bedstraw by the gateways.
The ethereal haze lifted the heavy oaks and they were buoyant on the mead, the rugged bark was chastened and no longer rough, each slender flower beneath them again refined.
The slender lancewood rod swayed, the line swished through the air, and the fly dropped a few inches too high up the rapid among the stones--I had meant it to fall farther across in the dark backwater at the foot of the fall.
Vulgar ostentation of skill--engineering knowledge that led architects to pile up slender alleys of stone to the last point of endurance--was the note of the age.
As she said this, she placed the tips of her slender fingers lightly on my brow, as though she had wished to magnetize my brain and endow my perceptive faculties with still greater power.
My slender legal attainments were several times in requisition on occasions when the head of the Supreme Court would have been a more appropriate referee.
A slender young man, wearing glasses, appeared from the shadow of the nearest van.
Whistling, as he bent over, Sam Truax caught up a long, slender steel bar.
At last, after disconnecting some parts, Hal drew out a long, slender brass piston.
Blackbirds sing a full lay If there be a slender shaft of day.
He seized the slender claw of the Crimson Crab; and before her father could prevent it, the two had leaped from the leaf, and were scuttling swiftly through the clear water.
They made good cheeses, and sold them whenever they could; but they lived in a lonely spot, and few people passed by that way, so that they made but a slender living.
The Queen held out for giving only four thousand foot and four hundred horse, and for deducting the garrisons even from this slender force.
It is difficult, without a strong effort of the imagination, to reduce the English empire to the slender proportions which belonged to her in the days of Elizabeth.
How mysterious she thought those long colonnades of slender pillars, each supporting its own waving comet-head of barley!
The little amazon could scarcely go, He loads her with a quiver and a bow; And, that she might her staggering steps command, He with a slenderjavelin fills her hand.
The Negro exhibits permanently the imperfect brain, projecting lower jaw,[5] and slender bent limbs of a Caucasian child some considerable time before the period of its birth.
The King could discern the slender figure of John Cutts marching on foot before the Grenadiers with his drawn sword in his hand.
Jane opened her purse to pay the fare from her slender funds, but the driver waved the money away.
Besides, think what a free breakfast means to our slender purses.
Wood also becomes far more abundant in the Grazing region, and continues so nearly up to the walls of Paris, Poplars and other trees of slender foliage being planted in rows across the fields as well as by the streams and road-sides.
A tension circles both her slender Wrists--and her raised eyes flash in splendor, Even as he feels his dazzled own.
He danced with stout farm wives, slender village maidens, and executed a clog dance which made the barn shudder on its foundations.
The proud little head, the arched eyebrows, the cheeks faintly touched with a healthy tan, the little waist, the slender but perfect figure, and the toe of a dainty shoe held me in an aphasic spell.
He made, to be sure, a slender dinner, but that's his daily habit.
If you could see her figure, slender and strong, and the grace and pride of her carriage,--the carriage of an imperial princess.
Surely there can't be many such tall slender forms, in diaphanous garments, appearing and disappearing here and there in your parish?
But if we suffered abominably from this plague of flies, it was some slender pleasure to know that they in their turn did not carry on a life of unfettered delight.
Our slender baggage was to go round to Elvenaes, on the Syd Varanger, but we had elected to walk across the intervening neck of land.
And, anyway, it was entirely useless to further recruit our slender stock of tins.
I remember it was at this camp we came upon a piece of chocolate about as big as twelve sixpences (the last of a very slender store), and made a present of it to the skipper.
There is a pretty Lutheran church in black and white outside Torneo, with a tall, slender spire, and away from the church is a quaint bell-tower, also in magpie colours.
Slowly they dimmed into the distance behind us, and for forty kilometres we travelled through forests of slender pines peopled apparently by noisy, quarrelling magpies alone.
We possessed a slender vocabulary of Russian and Norsk between us, and this, it appeared, would be of as much value in Lapland as Spanish or Fijian.
And now with the memory big in us of that grim savage coast not a dozen miles away, we stepped out down a veritable country lane between slender birches, with linnets singing behind the foliage on either hand.
He was slender and upright, and to all appearance strong.
The pink topaz was in a long drop, the slender rim of gold that encircled it being set with diamonds.
Thick in the little harbor lay the slender masts of vessels with steady lights glowing in their rigging.
Could that serious, slender boy, all attention to the word of command, be the grave and clerical Hale Houston of this day gone back to youth again.
In advance was a slender young man, whose face was pale with debauchery.
The slender body which lay upon it was still as death.
Her slender frame shook with little convulsions, that made the chair rattle.
In its function of medicine, the strong draught revived her, giving a twist to her pretty features, and sending a lively shudder through her slender frame.
