In a small telescope this object appears as a nebulous light of oval form, no traces being seen of the wisps and sprays of light presented in Lord Rosse's well known picture of the nebula.
But the astronomer's object is to get rid of all these flames and sprays of coloured light, so that he has very little sympathy with the admiration which Wordsworth is said to have expressed for out-of-focus views of the stars.
Meanwhile the church around him filled with shadows, the lamp grew dim, and the lofty sprays of leafage darkened the tall Virgin's varnished face.
She fastened a branch of mulberry over her hair, twisted bindweed round her arms, and tied it to her wrists, and circled her neck with such longsprays of laurustinus, that her bosom was hidden as by a veil of leaves.
She had converted the space behind the Virgin's statue into a verdant niche, whence leafy sprays projected on either side, forming a bower, and drooping over in front like palm leaves.
Descend,” he commanded the Indian, “and when you reach the bottom take four sprays from the tree, each from a different part.
So the Navajo went down, took the four sprays as he was bidden and put them under his robe.
It seems to represent a cup withsprays of some plant issuing from the top.
On the tomb the sprays look like daisies or their foliage, whereas in drawings of this same badge that occur in several manuscripts in the College of Arms and elsewhere, they seem to be laurels.
Tie sprays of orange blossoms, or any small white flowers on handles with green baby ribbon.
First cover the sprays with ground pecans or peanuts and then with grated egg yolks.
Fill baskets with chicken salad, put mayonnaise with a maraschino cherry on top of each and serve on sprays of orange leaves.
Ah, and who is he apart, marked out with sprays of olive, offering sacrifice?
The songs of those said birds arouse The memory of our youthful hours, As green as those said sprays and boughs, As fresh and sweet as those said flowers.
Then it was thickly powdered with white chrysanthemum leaves and flowers, and it had white reserves often decorated with sprays of conventional white lotus, chrysanthemums, and magnolia.
One eggshell plate, enamelled with chrysanthemums and a sparrow, and with sprays of peonies round the border, on pink diaper-pattern ground, 8 in.
The body decorated with large and small sprays of white prunus, rising from the base and falling from the shoulder.
The base and the upper part is almost covered with white hawthorn in a brilliant vitreous white; the neck decorated with sprays of flowers and hawthorn in white and brilliant coloured enamels.
These lower sprays came down in among the grass, and leaves and grass-blades touched.
Its topmost sprays towered two hundred feet above them, and the great trunk ran a stupendous column to the vault of dusky green above.
The borers cannot be removed by "worming" as in the peach, and neither can the roots be protected by sprays or washes.
The number of applications and thesprays to be used vary greatly in different parts of America.
When black-rot is not prevalent, two sprays with bordeaux mixture are recommended; the first in early July and the second about two weeks later.
Not its flower, but the exquisite foliage resembling sprays of a robust maidenhair fern, is this meadow-rue's chief charm.
Her breathing was soft, though she had come down a steep mountainside, and as fragrant as the breath of the elder bushes that dashed the banks with white sprays of blossom.
On either side of the pebbled walk which led to the main entrance were tall fountains tossing their rainbow-tinted sprays up to the summer sunshine.
You can arrange those sprays of white heath in my hair superbly.
The deep red cones of the sumach And the woodbine's crimson sprays Have bannered the common roadside For the pageant of passing days.
In this case leaves or sprays of the following plants were used:-- 1.
They were like the little floating spraysof sea-weed, when you take them from the water and they become a mere mass of pulp in your hand.
Taking off the top, Alice lifted out a huge bunch of beautiful galax leaves and another of the daintiest sprays of evergreen.
Around the edges were laid sprays of the rarer and more delicate evergreen sent from the South by the loving daughter.
Lucian was first, with Garda; he had gathered for her some sprays of wild blossoms, and these she was combining in various ways as she walked.
Kirby's andromedas, and shining laurel, sprays of yellow jessamine, bright with flowers, pushing through the darker green and springing into the air.
We eat radishes out of the ground, and lettuce, now and then, a little nipped by the frost; and we get long sprays of yellow jessamine, just beginning to blossom in the woods.
Within a day or two, these glossy, black-green vines have thrown out trembling red sprays shining with newness, with long tendrils waving in the air.
Its multiform sprays twist and knot and tie themselves in wonderful intricacies; and still where every green leaf starts is a yellow flower-bud.
The jessamine springs upon it for a trellis: it weaves over and under and around; it throws off long sprays and streamers with two golden buds at the axil of every green leaf, and fluttering out against the blue of the sky.
But still she wears yellow jessamine in her crapy hair, and orders Frank to bring her wreaths and sprays of it whenever she wants it; and Frank obeys.
We rowed up to shore, drew down a branch, and filled the laps of the ladies with sprays of white flowers.
Once we saw a whale spout; several times sharks followed us, attracted by the morning's output of garbage; and at intervals flying fish sallied out insprays of silver.
Their filmy camisas and pañuelos are painted in sprays of blossoms or embroidered in silks and seed pearls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
