On many of these western islands, and the northern, and it is said particularly on the far northern Shetlands, there are some dark somber faces remaining over from the Armada.
And to hear the sombermovement of the "Keltic" sonata played upon the rocks.
Fort Augustus closes the end of the loch, and here the Benedictines, black-robed, move in somber file where once the red-coated soldiers marched.
The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a .
The blackbird makes up for his somberdress in good deeds.
You look up suddenly to see a mountain woman in a somber calico frock and slat bonnet.
She turned toward me and I saw a tremulous gleam of pleasure disturb the somber stillness of her face; then the match went out in my hand, and we were again in complete darkness.
Victoria sank into somber silence; I pressed her hand compassionately, and passed to my own room to seek in repose forgetfulness from this wretched day.
I notice with disquietude the character of Victoria growing somber apace; at times her revolutionary fervor becomes wild in its exaltation.
On this terrible day, everything converged to throw the population into a somber vertigo.
For some time he brooded somberand silent in his arm chair.
They prefer the gravelly or rocky soils at levels of three to five thousand feet, and grow over drab bajadas and somber foothill slopes near the high Santa Ritas, where they were discovered by Dr.
In the somber depths of the cleft or cañon it was difficult to discern stationary objects clearly enough to obtain a means of estimating the pace of the stream.
Courtenay glanced at the somber shadow of Point Kansas, silhouetted against the deep blue of the seaward arc.
The mountains were lost in mist; the glaciers became sullen, rock-strewn masses of white-brown ice; the fresh greenery of the forests faded into somber belts of blackness.
We to the left, of the long months spent Where the somber seasons slowly blent-- And I to the right, of the ragged rent That took so long to get well.
Lightly the golden glory rose till only the highest peaks retained its flame; then it leapt to the clouds behind the peaks, and gorgeously lit their somber sulphurous masses.
And he looked round him with a new-born admiration of the wooded hills which rose in somber majesty on either side the roaring stream.
The sky between the clouds was a curious vivid blue, the light was strong, and the woods along the bank flashed into bright color and faded to somber green as the gleams of sunshine passed.
The opposite slope was in shadow, but the slanting sunbeams touched a belt of fresh growth that glowed a vivid green against the somber color of the surrounding trees.
Behind the beach, the forest rolled back in waves of somber green to a bold ridge that faded into leaden thunder-clouds.
Rounders and what not were here ensconced at round tables, their backs against the leather-cushioned wall seats, the adjoining windows open to all Broadway and the then all but somber Forty-second Street.
I was taken to him in a very somber and depressed mood and left; he rarely if ever received guests in person or at once.
Nighttime or daytime, in mean or brilliant light, it took on the somber visage of a kill-joy.
None had the courage to approach the somber young man and question him.
For her face was as fair as a beautiful dream, And her voice like the song of the mountain stream; And her eyes like the stars when they glow and gleam Through the somber pines of the nor'land wold, When the winds of winter are keen and cold.
Her swift feet flew To the sombershades of the tangled thicket.
On the somber night bugled the loon, but she heard not the song of the boatmen.
The morn Came stealing softly o'er the somber hills; Dark clouds of smoke hung hovering o'er the field.
The breath of the evening is cold, and lurid along the horizon The flames of the prairies are rolled, on the somber skies flashing their torches.
The library was a somber chamber: its long windows were draped with stiff folds of green velvet, its walls occupied by high bookcases with leaded glass doors and ornamental Gothic points under the ceiling.
In a short time I drank full draughts from the black cup of sleep; for an hour or two all remained in obscurity; Oblivion and Nothingness submerged me in their somber waves.
The sun was sinking as I stood in the road gazing thoughtfully at the barn; and I thought of the evenings I had lain within, almost dead, and seen the sun’s last red rays struggling into that somber apartment of misery, through the crevices.
I repeated: the somber echoes of my voice rang through a gloomy wood near by; and I was a little afraid it might stir up a panther or wildcat, and tempt it to come out and eat a piece of me.
What warrant is there for a picture of less somber colors?
I have criticized the work of Paris, and have depicted insomber colors the condition and the prospects of Europe.
These same yellow birches, picturesque in form, ragged in light-colored bark, give a brightness all their own to the deep forest, mostly of trees with rather somber bark.
She soon saw the three characters of our somber drama.
Marceline was ugly, small, with dark hair and complexion; in truth, she had very lively eyes, but they had a somber color and lacked any tender expression.
ONE TO ONE The solitary rider stood for a moment in silhouette against the somber sky-line, his keen eyes searching the lowering clouds.
Powdery snow eddied through the withered stubble, and, against a background of somber firs that loomed above it, there was only the tall forbidding figure of Colonel Carrington.
While I wondered what his errand might be, I saw two mounted figures outlined against thesomber sky on the crest of a distant rise, whom I recognized as Grace and Captain Ormond.
The background of somber sprays enhanced her fair beauty, and her dress, which, though there was azure about it, was of much the same color, melted into the festoon of wheat stalks below.
His face grew somber as he spoke, but it was Ormond who presently dissipated the gloom by a humorous narrative of the doings of the vanished mule, after which we went to sleep again.
It had come from heaps of refuse, foul and forgotten; it had gathered upon its way things that were derelict, and went to somber drains unknown to man or the sun.
Nothing in thesomber forest stirred or made any sound.
When the two men drove into the yard that August morning, the Hapgood twins were picking nasturtiums, and the flaming yellows and scarlets lighted up their somber gowns, and made patches of brilliant color against the gray of the house.
Both the ladies were in somber black; a ribbon or a brooch seemed out of place to them that day.
He too had a current to stem, and more than once a sad and somberfog had fallen and obscured his course.
By a singular reaction in his vigorous temperament, it was about this time that his somber melancholy gave way to a bitter and sarcastic gayety, more in harmony with his nature.
He had warmed himself by a fire which burned upon that self-same hearth, and he had used the same low, wide chair in which I now sat, thinking many somber thoughts.
The great slumbering woods thrilled at the touch of this dew of light which bathed their lofty brows; they felt something divine insinuating itself in the horror of their somber recesses.
I, Gilbert, am ready to come to his aid--" His voice was swallowed up and lost in the somber arches of the corridor.
This great assemblage of incongruous structures appeared to him but a somber mass whose weight was crushing him.
