Most of the Mexicans are lazy old loafers,--but Miguel has a streak of real American industry.
I'll wager our best short-horn against a prairie-dog that if you've a yellow streak it's pure gold!
For four seconds that destructive streak of light, one end of which was lost back in the mists that concealed Manhattan, tore at the proud pile.
Dirk Vanderpool had been sitting alone on the broad terrace of his apartment that occupied the upper stories of the great Gotham Gardens Building when he saw that streak of fire slip down against the darkness of the night.
Betty had lain awake most of the night, too excited to sleep and impatiently awaiting the first streak of dawn.
He can run like a streak o' sunshine, and likes as not dey'll all get shot.
At the earliest streak of morn, the hunter aroused the others, and they prepared to take their final departure.
He went all the way home with me, talking a blue streak and acting as if he were afraid of something or somebody.
He was telling Griswold of the streak of good luck which had snatched him out of a reporter's berth in the South to make him night editor of one of the St. Paul dailies.
The moon had appeared again, and lit up a faint streak of mist which had strayed from the mountain tops, and was swept across the lake.
For one moment she sunk down at the foot of the bed as if greatly exhausted: then beckoning three times to me she glided through the hatchway like a streak of mist.
The cautioning I don't object to," said the son; "but I consider it unfair to drag a fellow away from a streak of good luck.
Having done these things, and arranged their toilets hastily in a mirror with a crack running through it like a streak of lightning, the three adventurers sallied forth, and crossed the street to Washington Hall.
It was impossible to see the faces of the couple until they passed through a moonlit streak in the walk, quite close at hand.
They did not know, of course, that the wily Britt, despite his own depression, was all the while accumulating the most astounding lot of evidence to show that a decided streak of insanity existed in the two heirs.
They usually were busy, and not one of the lads, unless it were Stacy Brown, had a lazy streak in him.
Tad, in a cavelike niche, saw a gray streak of ore that reached for a long distance.
A tiny red streak hissed out of the muzzle--and the roof fell in!
He hit the floor in a flat dive as the purple streak of a stat blast flashed through the space where he had been.
He threw himself once more at Sarah's feet, and turned his face away from her, and towards the blue streak of distant sea.
As I see less of the weather side than I do of the beach, I argue to myself that it is nearer perfection to be minus a streak of dirt than plus a golden edge.
It displays an upper edging of radiant blue, a broad band of iridescent pink with greenish opal-like lights, and a narrow streak of the richest emerald green, close along the back.
Only a slightly bloody streakmay persist, which may appear superficial if the instrument is introduced obliquely.
A streak ov lazy lightning, a mile long, that anyboddy kan dodge, soon loozes awl its novelty.
Down the brook's swift thrut swims The giddy worm, a fatal journey, For darting, az a streak ov silvry light From sentinal place, the Spekled gourmand burys in hiz maw The barbed deceit.
It iz no disgrace for a streak ov litening tew strike at a weazel and miss him.
We had orders to reinforce the main body at once; marched twenty miles the first day, had a few hours' rest, and started at the first streak of dawn again.
Shells, and not only shells but huge boulders, dropped among the advancing troops, crushing and mutilating, and leaving behind a streak of mangled bodies.
Streak after streak of lightning seemed to be piercing each the other, the one from the north and the other from the south.
In any event, everything she had written would be used in the second edition, the Three Star, which followed the Green Streak by two hours.
It took longer to relate all the events than Penny realized, for, before she had finished the story, the Green Streak edition was up, and a boy was distributing papers about the office.
We'll miss the Green Streak edition if we don't get back to the office pronto.
The Green Streak wasn't out then, and I hadn't seen his picture in the paper.
When I reopened my hot fevered eyes I saw that the streak of dawn--the one welcome ray that inspired hope within me--was now a thin golden bar of sunshine, that gave just sufficient light to enable me to distinguish my strange surroundings.
As I ascended, my feet fell noiselessly upon the thick carpet, raising clouds of dust, the particles of which danced in the bright ray from my lamp, like motes in a streak of sunlight.
But see, all around it there is a streak where the top of the water came after somebody's bath this morning.
The wash-bowl was washed with soap, especially where there was a greasy streak around it, and the pitcher was filled, and wiped where the water dripped down the front.
The Marne was merely a silver streak in the shadow, and in the wood near by the trees were fusing into a single clump of darkness.
He leans over to take a look at it, can't make out what it means, glances back apprehensively toward the German quarter of the heavens, and now he's sliding like a streakthrough the blue for French air.
It was like a red streak running in curves and zigzags across fifty or maybe a hundred miles of country.
His cruelty would be the cruelty of battle, and there might be a streak of sentimentalism hidden under the stiff and harsh German manner, like a vein of gold in rock.
It was an interruption, a distraction from the tango; a base streakof materialism in the bacon of ecstasy.
And a streak of Raven, not too much but enough to imagine the great things the Powell streak would show him how to put his hand to.
Tira was a good, strong, husky girl, a streak of the gypsy in her.
Yet there was New England tragedy, a streak of it, darkly visible, through all New England life.
Don't you know the nicest thing about him is the streak of you?
She stood, luxuriously stretching, and turning slowly round in a streak of sunlight so as to bathe her body in it.
Taking a cup of tea and a crust of buttered bread from her warm-hearted hostess, and kissing her child again and again, she rode away in the darkness ere the first streak of dawn-light illumined the eastern sky.
If you fall across a streak of luck, follow it up to the end, but don't keep gold in your tent.
