They wear a small cap, and sometimes a strip of red, like the fillet of the Greeks and Romans, bound round the brows.
It was a beautiful drive to Wellsburg over an unusually level and well-made strip of road.
This field was an uneven, rocky stripof land, and the lake down yonder was half drained, the dam having fallen into disuse.
A man and a woman were making their way through a strip of timber where the shadows were thick.
He found it pleased them, but this man did not reply and still stood with his back turned looking out on the now angry strip of water between Seven League Island and the mainland.
Seven League Island, a rockystrip of land some twenty-one miles long, was one of the most romantic places in the vicinity of West Haven.
The reaction flared up like a strip of lighted paper; then, like a strip of lighted paper, it dropped back to ashes.
So saying, the soldier proceeded to investigate the other's pockets, but he found nothing in them or about his person except his keys and a strip of paper.
On the morning of a fine day, a fortnight after the occurrences above narrated, a horseman was riding over the neck, or narrow strip of marshy ground, which connects the peninsula on which Boston is situated with the main land.
He might have been the first white man down the stream and he would not have been surprised to have rounded a curve and sighted an Indian village on the next strip of sand.
He had counted more than he cared to admit upon the ability of the federal officer to strip away the secrecy which had surrounded "Mr. Seven" since his arrival in Atkinson.
The first game we saw were a number of ruffed grouse standing in a row at the edge of a strip of open water, to take their daily drink.
The loose horses trotted ahead of us most willingly--suspiciously so; and in the course of half an hour, on our coming to a strip of timber, the reason for such unusual conduct was plain.
With a strip of hide he suspended it from a pole in the lodge roof.
Between the narrowstrip of willows and the edge of the water there was an oozy mudflat, fifty yards wide, impassable for man or horse.
They were so far away that we rode boldly through the tall sage-brush to the little river, and across it to the outer edge of the strip of timber.
The medicine-man, with many prayers and sacrifices to the gods, would occasionally take a strip of the fur to wrap round the roll containing his sacred pipe.
A feller came up and put me in a little room and told me to strip off and foller him.
The neck of hallway might have been a strip of purple, awninged.
Here it is parked down its center, a narrow strip set out in shrubs, and on either side, traffic, thus divided, flows evenly up and down a macadamized roadway.
A narrow strip of asphalt ran across the housefrontage, turning in a generous elbow and then back the depth of the lot.
I try never to think of the price I have paid for anything I have; if I did, I should go mad and strip these rags from my shoulders.
He was talking, over his cigar, of an idea for adding a strip of woodland to the lower end of their new estate, when she interrupted him.
It was but a small compensation for these failures that the British were able to annex a strip of territory belonging to the State of Maine.
A small strip of Galicia was ceded to the Russian tsar, who had rendered France some very half-hearted assistance and was further alienated by the extension of the duchy of Warsaw.
By the aid of a microscope Mr Westwood counted in the space of one inch no less than 158 interlacements of bands or ribands, each composed of a strip of white bordered on both sides with a black line.
He never lived to see Hellenic government extend itself over Turkish fiefs, except in that poor strip of northern territory which, thanks greatly to his exertions, was secured for Greece in 1881.
The two pieces of ground were connected by a long strip of frontage which he acquired, thereby saving the willows and alders which then sheltered that reach, and made it a windless course for sculling.
Down on a strip of shingly beach the birds parade, when not in the rookery or at sea getting food.
At five and a half miles we were on the edge of a strip of snow, half a mile across, whose whiteness was thrown in dazzling contrast against the foil of transparent, dark ice.
We were satisfied merely to strip off the skin, leaving much blubber still adhering to it.
The rocky strip was eighty feet wide and three hundred feet high, so, making a cache of the primus, provisions and burberrys, we followed it up till it became so steep that it was necessary to change to the snow.
Three miles, and a clear strip of sunlight showed beneath it.
He tried to strip away the scaffolding in his mind and see it floating proudly free in emptiness, with white-hot sunshine glinting from it, and only a background of unwinking stars.
Over the upper end is a thin strip of board bent to form an arch.
A long and narrow strip of land stretches from Vancouver Island northward to Alaska.
First was the breech-clout, which consisted of a strip of skin or cloth perhaps a foot wide and several feet long; sometimes its ends were decorated with beadwork or other ornamentation.
The women wore a skirt, which was only a long strip of cloth wrapped around the body, and held firmly in place by a belt; they also wore a pretty sleeveless waist.
Surely we shouldn't like to strip and put on miners' clothes?
Should we try to look deeper than the surface; to strip the inner life of the convent of all its mysteries and coverings, and anatomising it inch by inch, search it through down to the very heart?
Suddenly, you discern a small strip of beach shut in snugly between protecting rocks.
Sometimes a strip of bass-wood bark, four feet long and about six inches wide, was used with considerable skill.
The narrowstrip of land between its twin divisions was literally filled with the bison.
The ground selected for the great game was on a narrow strip of land between a lake and the river.
Sometimes the eagle feather is tipped with a strip of weasel skin; that means the wearer had the honor of killing, scalping and counting the first coup upon the enemy all at the same time.
Another element was the coiling of thisstrip of steel preliminary to tempering.
When the strip has been brought to almost a white heat, it is passed between two rollers of the coiling machine.
The strip of steel is slowly passed through a retort heated by the admixture of gas and air at the point of ignition in proportions to produce intense heat.
He wore no jacket or cap, and on one bare arm a strip of linen was roughly tied.
When they crossed the strip of sea, the best of the day was gone, and a fresh breeze blew across the breakwater.
He remarked that the man was bareheaded, and wore his clothes awry, and that a rent near the collar of his long frieze ulster exposed a strip of red flannel lining.
Just a hand to her leg, parson, while I strip the coat and waistcoat off this black-faced herdwick.
A vine wanders along the whole side of the house, a pleasantstrip of green like a frieze, between the two stories.
There was a roughly painted iron bedstead, two gray cotton curtains were suspended from a wooden bracket above it, and a threadbare strip of carpet lay at the foot; it was like a bed in a hospital.
It is a strip of land lying round about the base of a lofty mountain peak, a bare surface of rock with no growth of any kind upon it; deep clefts are riven in its sheer inaccessible sides.
They must strip to work, if they would do any good.
On each side are large handsome shops, and along the middle of the road runs a broadstrip of garden, with large trees and well-kept beds of flowers.
The damage was slight, and, with his customary attention to details, he saw that the nail was one of several which had fastened a narrowstrip of molding around the cabinet.
Thus he dislodged the crosspiece and as it tumbled down he saw that it was the strip of molding from the cabinet.
As he twisted the nails out, one by one, it occurred to him to wonder why the heavy, clinging coat of damp dust which covered the rest of the cabinet was absent from this white unsoiled strip and shiny nails.
To his delight, he found this very buoyant, and with the strip of wood which he lashed across it with his scarf and belt it was almost as good as a life-preserver.
In the shadow of a spur of wooded mountains, lay a narrow strip of land which might by comparison be called flat.
