Thin, young men, whose lean countenances had somewhat the aspect of steely machinery, apt for swift, ruthless, utilitarian processes.
Her voice was calm, but the steely edge of an accusation was in it.
Steely stars glittered and magnified their light through the lens of the eager, frosty air, and old landmarks were hidden, and roads familiar to the wayfarer no longer discovered their trend.
Cardinal Altieri was a grey-haired man with steely eyes set near together, the strong lean face of a fighter, and the colourless complexion of most high ecclesiastics, who are generally what the physicians of that day called 'saturnians.
Ortensia stared wildly at the colourless face and the steelyeyes that met her own.
His hard mouth grew a little harder, his steely eyes a shade more steely--that was all.
The words fell grimly, but there was no mockery in the steely eyes, no feeling of any sort.
Somewhere behind those steely blue eyes, there must dwell some answer to the riddle.
He informed West of this before departing, and was slightly puzzled by a certain humourous gleam that shone in the steely eyes at the news.
He returned her gaze with his steely eyes almost as though he challenged her to penetrate to the citadel they guarded.
Andrews' glance had reached the pink cheeks again, when he suddenly found a pair of steely eyes looking sharply into his.
Something in the steelysearching look that passed over her eyes for a minute startled him.
Below in the river the town was reflected complete, with a great rift of steelyblue across it where the wind ruffled the water.
Again the foe discharge the steely shower; Again made frustrate by the virgin-power.
With his steely calm, with his imperturbable detachment from weak humanity, he ought to have been a General of the Order of Jesuits.
She was beside herself, but the only outward symptoms were a white face and a cold steely voice that grated like a rasp on the susceptibilities of the adherents of Aphrodite.
In their steely depths there was a gleam of triumph.
Into the blue-gray eyes of the man from Twin Buttes had come a cold steely temper that transformed the gay, boyish face.
That cold gray of his passionless face, the steely glitter in his eyes, were read correctly by Kao.
Mrs. Porter turned her gaze upon him, her cold, steely gaze.
He seemed almost too fair for a Mexican--a tall, spare-built man with black hair, and eyes so steely blue that they were almost black.
Just across a narrow chasm, a little below us, Ferdinand Ramero stood in all the insolence of a conqueror, with a smile that showed his white teeth, and in his steely eyes was the glitter of a snake about to spring.
It was addressed to Kate’s father, and her stepmother opened it and read with hard pressure of her thin lips, slanted down at the corners, and a steely look in her eyes.
Kindly it broke over the stern face, giving a glimpse of a heart still warm beneath that steely cold.
His keen, hard face, his steely eyes, bespoke the iron will and purpose of the man.
Because a man's eyes were steely gray, sharp like those of a cat's, and capable of the same contraction and enlargement, there was no reason to believe their owner was a criminal.
But instead of the angry, steely expression he had expected to see the boy was amazed to observe that the Frenchman appeared as unconcerned as though the incident was of the most trivial character.
Then the aged Vaeinaemoeinen Sought for where the moon was hidden, Likewise would release the sunlight From the rocks of varied colour, From the depths of steely mountain, From the rocks as hard as iron.
He shall be a man respected, And as hero shall be reckoned, Who the bear's teeth now can number, And the rows of teeth can loosen From the jaws of steely hardness, With his grasp as strong as iron.
When they reached the goal they sought for, And the voyage at length was ended, To the land they drew the vessel, Up they drew the tarry vessel, Laid it on the steely rollers, At the quay with copper edging.
She put down her knitting, and her wide, sad eyes followed the clouds as they covered the purple breast of the Langdales, which rose in threatening, thunder light, beyond the steely tarn in front.
There was a break presently in the snow-fall, and as they reached the shores of Windermere, Nelly was aware of struggling gleams of moonlight on steely water.
The lady, after transfixing the daring actor with one steely glance, looked at her daughter.
On the wrong side of it was a sheet of silver--just the right steely silver because it was the wrong side!
As Katherine she wanted me to wear steely silver and bronzy gold, but all the brocades had such insignificant designs.
On her steely features was a film of power, and the caked and curling remains of her lip stick showed she had been there for some time.
A subdued pallor was traceable under the weathered uniformity of his shaven face; but the well-bred, artificial smile he bent upon the guests had its wonted steely suavity.
From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
His eyes were fastened upon the figure of the guard, and there was something like awe in their steely depths.
I was saving it for an occasion, your highness," he said, his steely eyes glittering.
It was, primarily, a chair, within a suspended framework of steely bars, themselves the foundation for a network of fine-drawn colored wires.
Pettit's face did not change, but into his gray eyes came a little steely glint.
I trust you will think it interesting enough to make it worth your while to join us," I said demurely, lifting my eyes to his and catching a swift flash of something which might be either relief or triumph in his steely gray ones.
That he was resentful as well as mystified at the singular behavior of Mr. Gordon I also gleaned from his darkened face, and a little steely glint in his eyes.
