He was a middle-aged man, his dark hair streaked with grey and there was a bandage around his forehead where he had received a particularly painful blow from his assailant.
Fists beat against the door and two ribbons of flame streaked from the gun, the bullets crashing through the door and out into the corridor.
The thorns tore at his clothes and his hands were soon streaked with scratches, but his thought was to get as far away as possible in the shortest time.
Yes, yes," said a young sculptor, who wore his white-streaked cap and tunic with a jaunty air.
It was a sunless day, with grey clouds hanging over a dull green marsh, streaked with channels of green water.
He stood looking out to sea, into the Channel streaked with green and grey, as if he would draw France out of the southward fogs.
Their faces, so fresh when I had first seen them on the way out, had become grey and muddy, and were streakedwith blood.
Looking down into the precipitous gulf, formed by the Canadian and American shores, one sees the river flowing on steadily like a shifting floor of variegated marble,—green, streaked with white.
We were rapidly driven through Laurent du Pont, as the star-studded sky, streaked by the Milky Way, overarched the region.
The Pic du Midi, streaked with snow, rises up so as to remind one of an Egyptian pyramid.
Its situation is wild and desolate—a vast expanse of undulations, scarcely to be called mountainous, except in the distance, where snow-streaked sierras send cutting blasts over the slate roofs and against the grey stone walls.
Moreover, no woodpecker is so small as this streaked and speckled little creature who is usually too intent {58} on feeding to utter a single zee.
Although you may not get close enough to see that his yellow breast is finely streaked with reddish brown, you may know by these marks that he is not what you at first suspected he was--somebody's pet canary escaped from a cage.
His light breast is heavily streaked and spotted with brown, somewhat like a thrush's, and as he is the largest and reddest of the sparrows, it is not at all difficult to identify him.
The oven-bird and several members of the sparrow tribe, among other birds, have speckled and streaked breasts, too.
Some children say it is difficult to tell the plain gray-breasted swamp sparrow from the larger song sparrow with the streaked breast; but I am sure their eyes are not so sharp as yours.
That lettuce which is panachee, says the Almanach des Gourmands, that is, when it has streakedor variegated leaves, is truly une salade de distinction.
Bones from which streaked bacon has been cut make an excellent addition, but too many must not be used, lest the soup be salt.
This evening I walked up and down on the Pont des Bergues, under a clear, moonless heaven delighting in the freshness of the water, streaked with light from the two quays, and glimmering under the twinkling stars.
In the square of sunlight falling through the door Signora Teresa, kneeling before the chair, had bowed her head, heavy with a twisted mass of ebony hair streaked with silver, into the palm of her hands.
Above brownish, below white, breast streaked with dusky, belly red or yellow.
Crown and nape pale olive-green streaked with blackish; back bright reddish brownstreaked with black and gray; below white; breast and sides washed with buff and streaked with black.
Similar, but more distinctly streaked with yellowish, especially on head and neck.
Breast buffy, lightly streaked with dusky; belly white spotted with black; back black, rusty, and buff.
Above brownish gray margined with buffy; below white, breast lightly streaked with dusky.
Above bright rusty brown with a few black streaks; below white streaked with black and barred with rusty brown.
Above blackish margined with rusty; tail with broken rusty bars and whitish tip; below deep rusty buff streaked with blackish; under surface of wing uniformly barred.
Whole head and breast grayishstreaked with blackish; back black margined with grayish; end half of secondaries white with black bars.
Gradually the background of green comes to the front, and the oak-apples swell, streaked with rosy stains, whence their semblance to the edible fruit of the orchard.
There came the sound of footsteps; and I retreated, casting one glance backward at the black and white, the blue and brown colours that streaked the wall, while the dull green weasels were in perpetual shadow.
Inside, the bark is white streaked with brown; presently it will be all brown.
The grass was well streakedwith blood: quite dry, it is true; still it was blood.
The first puffs of dust, where drops struck like bullets; the cloud that rose to meet them; the drops themselves that streaked slanting down like a flight of steel ramrods; the dust dissolved in a dado of splash.
The trail of the fox was now streaked and flecked with scarlet, and both his hind legs dragged heavily.
Out from one of the snow-streaked thickets jumped a white rabbit, its long ears waving nervously, and paused for a second to look back with a frightened air.
It traverses a ridge and is streaked with slippery beech-roots which like to fling you off your feet, on the one side into a black burn twenty feet below, on the other down a pleasant slope.
Well, he was not giving her a thought at any rate; his box was in the cart now, and his face was streaked with tears that were all for Elspeth.
He takes prizes at the shows; and the success is still remembered of the treble carnation, streaked red and yellow, which he exhibited as the "Arsène carnation.
He had obviously been upset by some violent excitement, for his face, streakedwith red veins and usually so apoplectic, seemed almost pale.
Yet there were still evidences of the invincible cheerfulness of the old French nature, among the old creatures with faces streaked like winter apples, and hands which, even though they trembled, were swift of gesture and of emphasis.
Even in later times than that, however, I can remember being set up to a table, and shown how to draw on a slate, by an old gentleman with a face streaked like a ruddy dried pippin.
His ears were torn by thorns and fighting; his russet coat was streaked with grey along the spine.
Sixty years or so before that date it was called the "Greater Silver-streaked Fritillary.
The chrysalis is of a pale ochreous colour, streaked and mottled with brownish; the hollow part of the back has a brilliant golden sheen, and the points on the rest of the body are gold tipped.
The chrysalis is pale brown, sometimes tinged with greenish, and freckled with darker brown; there is a dark line along the middle of the thorax and body, the wing cases are streaked with blackish, and the body is dotted with black.
The chrysalis is pale whity-brown, hairy above, with black dots; head and the upper edge of the wing-cases streaked with black.
The chrysalis (Plate 5) is of a grey colour, more or less spotted with black and streaked with yellow.
Light and darkness were struggling together, and the orient was streaked by roseate and golden rays.
Hannah's face was a little more sallow and wrinkled, and her hair a little more freely streaked with gray than of yore: that was all the change visible in her personal appearance.
