Through the reeking mist, the remote gray branches in the Gardens of the Tuileries stood out starkly naked.
The sputtering arc-light swinging over the street made the intervening branches and leaves of the sidewalk sycamores stand out starkly black, like a ragged drop hung over a stage.
The chief difference lay in the mounting of these starkly beautiful weapons.
One was the stock of Alden's rifle, protruding starkly brown from the unrelieved whiteness, and the other was a broken wooden shaft that ended a graceful but wickedly sharp bronze spear head.
Long before the pirate ship had come within extreme visibility range of the Triplanetary Fleet it lost its invisibility and was starkly outlined upon the lookout plates of the three fugitives.
Then in that seething funnel there was waged a starkly fantastic conflict.
And then sheets of blue fire snapped and crackled about the three suits of Triplanetary armor--the two large human figures and the small ones were outlined starkly in blinding blue flame.
Propelling rockets viciously aflame, it twisted and looped around the incandescent rods of destruction so thickly and starkly outlined, under perfect control; unaffected by the hideous distortion of all ether-borne signals.
But life is life andstarkly real if not essentially earnest.
Quite starkly before my very eyes I saw the Sober Stranger, erstwhile drunken, reach out and slip a silver salt-shaker into his pocket.
But when he spoke his statement wasstarkly simple.
At the first assault on their king, Tedric with his sword and Sciro with his hammer had gone starkly berserk.
And then sheets of blue fire snapped and crackled all about the three suits of Triplanetary armor--the two large human figures and the small one were outlined starkly in blinding blue flame.
Long before the pirate ship had come within extreme visibility range of the Triplanetary Fleet, it lost its invisibility and was starkly outlined upon the lookout plates of the three fugitives.
In this scene great gleaming squares and cones of metal rose in towering clusters from the starklybarren land.
The details of the scene were so utterly revolting, the tortures that were being inflicted so starkly horrible, that Leah and Gordon sank back in their chairs sick and shaken.
Then even the slime was swiftly obliterated, and the Xoranians were left triumphant upon a world starkly desolate.
Already twilight was settling over the valleys and the ridges were starkly grim as their color died to the neutrality of night, and the murk of a gathering storm.
Thinking strange, dizzy thoughts of twitching eyelids and plastic scraps and starkly incredible happenings, he managed to call for the police patrol.
All the fences are buried deep, and the trees stand starkly outlined against the sky.
The giant limbs of the trees stand starkly outlined against the sky, and nought but sound silence possesses the aisles of plumed pines.
They led us on to a granite boulder; on its lee side lay something starkly outlined against the snow.
Starkly for an instant he probed Jaffrey Bretton's unflinching eyes.
Prince Prozorovsky went out into the fields; they were barren but for dead rye-stalks that stuck up starkly from the earth.
And so it was with Jeanne Recamier--although the affair from first to last was starkly platonic.
Before his dais trailed a procession of folk who hated him asstarkly as they feared him.
Men say the Australian bush is singularly soulless; starkly devoid of the elements of interest and romance which so strongly endear to the hearts of those dwelling there the countryside in such Old World lands as the England of my birth.
And I say that, in a world constituted as our world is, life knows few tragedies more starkly fell.
And we should realize that it's starkly impossible for intelligence to develop where the oxygen supply is limited.
It was a wild attempt to secure proof of the starkly impossible.
The picture seen through the open door, had there been any to see, was almost as motionless as a tableau, and it was a starkly grim one, with murky shadows against a fitful light.
That battle was homerically barbaric and starkly savage.
July, which began fresh and cool, burned, that year, into a scorching heat, until the torrid skies bent in a blue arch of arid cruelty and the ridges stood starkly stripped of their moisture.
And as he stared, chilled and shaken, at that indescribably terrific spectacle, a Black cruiser, holed and helpless, fell toward that armored mountain with an acceleration starkly impossible to credit.
It was starkly unthinkable that Arisia would leave them to the eternal dominance of such a rapacious, such a tyrannical, such a hellishly insatiable breed of monsters.
His right hand, concealing something which he had not mentioned and which was probably starkly unmentionable, approached her taut-stretched throat.
The starkly incredible downpour slackened; the Lensman knew that the second critical moment was at hand.
Mentor paused, as though seeking a way to describe to the Tellurian a thing which was to him starkly incomprehensible.
She was starkly certain now that the Lensmen could not find her in time.
Over the heads of the people he saw the arena--saw the sagging figures starkly outlined upon the white wall.
At the left of the arena, starkly silhouetted upon the walls, was a line of stakes; their purpose puzzled Trent.
One of the sheds had but half a roof; a truck lay on its side in a pool of water; defeat was written starklyover all.
They saw, lining the river, a cemetery elevatedstarkly against the sky; and followed a canal by a broken, black flood between snowy banks.
Beyond the walls, starkly red against the snow, the blackened main street, the river was spotted with ice.
It seemsstarkly incredible, but it seems to be true.
There were starkly functional organs of reproduction with which, by no stretch of the imagination, could any thought of tenderness or of love be connected.
Beams of starklyincredible power bit at and clung to equally capable defensive screens of pure force.
The very sub-ether screamed and shrieked in protest as it, too, yielded in starkly impossible fashions to that irresistible stress.
Zoyar's mind seethed with a malevolent ferocity starkly impossible for any human mind to grasp.
The Sleeping Beauty is a most happy instance of woman's right attitude toward love and marriage--she is to remainstarkly unconscious, using absolutely no discretion; and cheerfully marry the first man that kisses her!
Why indeed, except for the clear reason, that on a starkly masculine basis this is his one period of overwhelming interest and excitement.
Her two sons, thus starkly reared, found their only imaginative license in secret converse between themselves, sacredly guarded by a pact of mutual faith, which was stronger than any outward compulsion.
