Liassic period; the trees and shrubs characteristic of the age are the elegant Pterophyllum, which appears in the extreme left of the picture, and the Zamites, which are recognisable by their thick and low trunk and fan-like tuft of foliage.
When these are open, the inside is seen to be full of the small yellowish seeds; each ends in a fine awn three to four inches long, which carries at the end a beautifultuft of the finest silky hairs.
In very many of these a small cup is formed in the middle of the rosette or tuft of leaves, and water collects in this central cup.
If a feather, be sure that some bird has flown over, and dropped it from a sunlit wing; if a tuft of grass, think of the seed from which it came.
As I do not know the points of an elephant as well as those of a horse, the want of the tuft was the only mark I could distinguish.
His forehead was decorated with a great tuft of green feathers, his left leg was lean and feathered, and both thighs and the arms barred with blue.
Crowning the head was a small tuft of leather, said to be supplemented by feathers on festal occasions.
Their belief that bread falls from heaven into this tuft of feathers is thus made clear.
X-6] They were distinguished by a tuft of cotton, falling down upon the breast.
At the same moment the lad darted away with a yell of defiance, leaping from tuft to tuft with the agility of a hare.
Sometimes a treacherous tuft gave way and he slipped waist-deep into the mire, but Osgod was always close at hand, and his long arm enabled him to reach forward to his master from a firmer spot and to draw him from the bog.
At the moment that Osgod was making a long step from one tuft to another the boy stooped and caught his foot, and with a roar of surprise and fury Osgod fell head-foremost into the morass.
Two or three times, moreover, she could not help thinking that a tuft of most splendid flowers had suddenly sprouted out of the earth before her very eyes, as if on purpose to tempt her a few steps farther.
He resolved at all hazards on delivering himself into the hands of the colonists, and pressed forward to a tuft of trees crowning the apex of the hill.
Here was an accumulation of soil worn down from the granite above, and here, an odd, isolated tuft of scrawny verdure, grew a small grove of trees, stunted pine and scraggling brush.
And, in a landscape spotted with light and shadow, the head of black hair might have passed for a bit of such pitch-black shadow as a tuft of thick foliage casts upon the light-smitten ground.
When the branches were taken off and the stick was quite finished, Vatrin approached cautiously, took a good aim, and struck with all his might into the middle of the tuft of grass where the rabbit was sitting.
Alexandre came up to him, noted the direction of his eyes and saw that they were fixed on a tuft of grass, and that under this grass there appeared to be some greyish object.
Lenormand pointed his stick to a corner, to an easy chair, just as one points to a bush or a tuft of grass, and Gourel beat up the bush or the tuft of grass with conscientious thoroughness.
The army are distinguished by a tuft of red horsehair stuck in the crown.
Their usual dress consists of a piece of cotton, passed round the loins, and a peculiar-looking conical hat, surmounted with a tuft of goat's hair.
The lad fancied it had disappeared entirely; but at the moment he was about to slip forward, he detected the tuft agitating the chips and dirt about the entrance.
He was well dressed, wore gold spectacles, and his scant hair and a tuft of whiskers on either side of his cheeks were snowy white, while his features were regular.
I don't want the Americans to make so much fuss over me; I have enough of that at home, where they're not such tuft hunters as here.
The 8th sign on page 25 is the head with the tuft of hair and no underjaw, which I think refers to fast-days, such as might properly occur at the transition point of one long period to another.
In each group 3 is the head withtuft of hair and the Akbal eye; probably the sign denoting beginning.
Both sexes have large green teeth; and the male wears a green hat, which is frequently mistaken by his victims for a tuft of beautiful vegetation.
The very ancient error was to mistake the foot of the shell-fish for the neck of a goose, the shell for its head, and the tentacula for a tuft of feathers.
Weasel, briskly, scuttling away to cover under a tuft of hazel.
I remarked especially a bit of bright gromwell, such as I had found first at Orchard Knob, and a single tuft of white American cowslip (Dodecatheon), the only specimen I had ever seen growing wild.
Once I saw one of them under a pretty tuft of the showy blue baptisia (B.
The plumage of this Bird is a magnificent emerald green, frosted with gold; its breast is red, and its head is surmounted by a beautiful tuft of the green color.
It owes its name—Bearded Griffon—to a tuft of stiff hair that is under the beak.
With the exception of the mane and a tuft of hair at the tip of the tail, the coat of the Lion is entirely smooth, and of a tawny color.
The site chosen for the nest is the foot of a bush, or any large tuft of grass.
The nest of the Grebe is usually placed in a tuft of rushes on the edge of the water.
The animals belonging to the Lynx family differ from the other Felidae in their longer coat, their shorter tail, and their ears, which are terminated by a tuft of hair.
They make their nest on the ground in the midst of a thicket, or in a tuft of grass, and the hen Pheasant lays from twelve to twenty eggs, which require twenty-four days to hatch.
The feathers of the head and upper part of the neck are twisted up so as to form a large tuft or crest, hence the name it bears.
Its tail is short, and terminated by a tuft of long hair.
The head is broad and short, with a tuft of bristles over each eye.
She's an amazingly captivating woman," muttered Lord Henry, still pulling at the tuft of hair over his brow.
Skshetuski slipped down again from the tuft into the swamp, and pushing toward the shore, after a short interval thrust his head out of the reeds.
His hands felt a dry tuft covered with moss; it was like a little island among the rushes.
The tuft was pretty large, rather short, because round, but wide enough for two persons to lie side by side with ease.
Whoever should see him lying thus on the tuftwith bloody face, would think that a corpse thrown up by the water was lying there.
Hereupon he spread out his robe on the top of the hill, the whole nation passed over it, and each man took away a tuft of the hair.
Sometimes they have a thick tuft of owl's feathers, or small rosettes made of broad raven's feathers, cut short, in the centre of which is the tail of a bird of prey spread out like a fan.
A tuft of horse-hair, dyed yellow, is usually fastened to one end of the bow.
He wore the round felt hat with a tuft of feathers, which Mr. Bodmer made him take off, and then drew his portrait, which was an excellent likeness.
It opens at one end, and seven schischikués of gourds are fixed at the top, ornamented with a tuft of horse-hair dyed red.
