The outline of the old building changed, the yard grew larger, and he seemed to be staring down upon it from a much greater height through smoky vapours.
As a town, far up some inland river, feels the pressure of the distant sea, so he became aware that mighty forces from somewhere beyond his ken were urging themselves up against his soul in this smoky little room.
If the wick is turned up until the flame becomes smoky and flares, the point has been passed at which the induced chimney draught can supply sufficient oxygen to combine with the carbon of the vapour, and the "free" carbon escapes as smoke.
The beggar in the angel's guise, Rose far above the smoky skies.
Then the tenebrous sunset was blown out, And all the smoky gold turned into cloud wrack.
Amid that dim and smoky light, Chequering the silvery moonshine bright, A bishop by the altar stood, A noble lord of Douglas blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white.
Along the horizon, light smoky clouds blend imperceptibly with the water.
And every pair of eyes, within and without the smoky room, was fixed on the back of the man who was writing a letter at the table in the corner.
And all the Masters were so akin that evolution by revolution seemed less credible than in the smoky atmosphere of Azure Art studios.
Look hither," and she pointed to thesmoky ceiling, which was covered with hieroglyphics.
The woods were so still and smoky that I was most afraid.
Over all there was that dreamy, languid haze, so common to the Autumn time, when the distant hills are bathed in a smoky light and all things give token of decay.
The sun was sinking behind the dim smoky hills toward the West when she rose.
She led him along the military road to the juncture of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers.
Only two rooms in the little hut, the lower one with its earthen floor, beds in the wall, smoky fire, and single window where the loom stood.
While surely, to a thoughtful mind, the constant sight of so much loveliness around tends to have a more ennobling effect than an environment of bricks and mortar and smoky chimneys, whatever the Londoners may say.
I am afraid poor Father had rather a distracting meal, but he cheerfully ate the smoky toast which the children provided, and did not even grumble when Peggy, by mistake, put six lumps of sugar into his tea.
The hind wings are smoky grey or smoky brown, darker towards the hind margin.
The hind wings, as is usual with the Tortrices, are dull smoky brown.
The hind wings are smoky brown with a paler fringe.
The hind wings are smoky brown, becoming paler towards the base.
The base of the hind wings is grey; along the margin is a broad and dark smoky brown band, and the fringe is very light grey, barred with the dark tint of the band.
The hind wings are dull smoky brown, with a shining surface, and the fringe is light.
The Gipsy (Ocneria dispar) The fore wings of the male are smoky brown, with darker markings, including a V-shaped black mark near the centre.
The hind wings have also a rosy-red hind margin, and are smoky black along the costae, and yellow in the anal angle.
The hind wings are smoky grey, with generally a pale band beyond the middle.
The first is the Smoky Wainscot, so called from the dark smoky tint of the hind wings.
The Clouded Silver (Bapta temerata) The other example is the Clouded Silver, the wings of which are white, and clouded along the hind margin with smoky grey.
The Grey Arches (Aplecta nebulosa) The fore wings of this moth vary from greyish white to a rather dark smoky tint.
The hind wings are pale, but smoky towards the hind margin.
Why did He thus contradict all His past, and court the smoky enthusiasm which He had hitherto damped?
It would save the Apostles from being affected by the coarse, smokyenthusiasm of the crowd.
After passing one low smoky little hut half-buried in foliage, the path branched off in various directions, and the boy having left us, we took the wrong turn.
They are sent up to the girao under the smoky and filthy roof, and kept there on very meagre diet, sometimes for a whole month.
With this they wile away whole hours, lolling in ragged, bast hammocks slung in their dark, smoky huts.
It was what the fisherman would have called a "smoky sou'wester.
Then, at a little after six they squatted around the fire and ate fried eggs and bacon, baked potatoes and smoky toast and washed the repast down with smoky tea.
They were agreed with the Socialists and with Ruskin in their dislike of seeing bricks and mortar substituted for green fields, smoky chimneys for church towers, myriads of factory hands for the rural population of England.
For swiftly, curling to the right, The fire leapt up with willing light Undimmed by smoky cloud, and, red Like gold, upon the offering fed.
The influence ofsmoky town air on health is to some extent illustrated by the fact that the death-rate of twenty-three manufacturing towns, selected chiefly for their smoky character, averaged 21.
An open book displays this familiar quotation, bearing somewhat disrespectful application to the case of the departed:-- A smoky house and a scolding wife Are the plagues of man's life.
