Had old Peter Westley ever pictured, as he sat alone in his great empty house, how Highacres would look after scores of young feet had trampled over its velvety stretches?
She forgot the languishing princess she had consigned to the prison above in her joy of the bright sunshine, the inviting slopes of Highacres, velvety green, and the new friend at her side.
In the colouring of the wings, a broad simplicity prevails, the general ground-tint being a clear creamy yellow, with the bars and marginal bands of the deepest velvety black.
In place of this display and grandeur they were surrounded by an edifice of nature's planting--the stately forest tree, while the green sward of the verdant grove furnished a velvety carpet.
The stems are from one to three feet tall and the dark green leaves are velvetyon the upper side and hairy on the under.
They are two or three inches across, with three-toothed, bright yellow rays and very dark maroon or brown centers, specked with yellow, and velvety or hairy involucres.
The flowers, leaves, and stems are all more or less velvety and the akenes have tails an inch long, forming a head, about two inches across.
In the middle of the balustrade was a gap, where a broad flight of shallow stone steps led down to a velvety lawn three hundred years old.
A great moon shone from a velvety African sky; the scented breeze rustled in the palms; and the music of the band drifted to their ears in intermittent waves.
Sometimes hydras are so abundant as to form a velvety surface in warm pools.
As I knelt to place a stool for her little feet, she gazed down with the velvety eyes which had looked out upon me from the coach window in Washington.
Before me, as real as life, I had seen imaged her beautiful pale face, with the scarlet lips parting from the pearly teeth, and the velvety black eyes gazing at me full from beneath the edge of the veiling mantilla.
I seemed to be looking down into the depths of fathomless wells, within which was nothing but velvety darkness.
It was in an open field, under a velvety sky studded with innumerable stars.
The balls of light rose into the velvety darkness and a moment later suffused the sky with a white glare which faded away tremulously after half a minute.
She took some knitting from her work-table, and, shaking out its fleecy softness, began to work, the big wooden needles making a velvety sound as they rubbed together.
He stole a glance at her out of his dark eyes, which, when narrowed, had a velvety look, like the body of a wild bee, then jerked his thumb at the picture of the little model.
No street lamp shone just there, and the night was velvety black above the plane-trees.
A sudden sidelong look from the velvety brown eyes disturbed him.
Her voice went on, velvety in his ear: "It was the moonlight, sweetheart, coming on your face.
The velvety black of his neck, back, and sides is silvered with whitish tints, which have spread since the morning.
One can also determine on the first day the future firmness of the muscles and bones by the relative resistance of these little velvety lumps when held in the hand.
Bight and left was the jungle, dense and utterly impenetrable, except by cutting a way through; and as they passed along this shady tunnel, the greens of some of the lower shrubs seemed to be of a velvety blackness that had a charming effect.
There were heavily groined parlors reposing in velvety carpets, bric-a-brac and rugs.
The caterpillar is greyish, with a broad whitish or yellowish stripe along the back, divided down the centre and edged by blackish lines; a velvety black mark on ring seven; raised warts and hairs dark greyish.
The caterpillar is blackish, or dark slate colour, with two series of velvety black spots, or dashes along the back; head reddish brown.
The caterpillar is velvety blackish grey; warts thickly set with densely feathered blackish hairs.
The very sight gave the boy courage, and at his next whistle the old horse carefully picked his way down the bank, and reaching down his long neck, felt Jacky's shoulder with his velvety muzzle.
It was a fine night, warm and still; the wan moonlight pierced the dusk palely, revealing the road cutting like a path of silver across the velvety darkness of the veld.
It had appeared then a land of shadows, of velvety dark under a purple sky; the shadows had rolled back, and the scene revealed wide stretches of veld, with here and there a clump of trees or low bushes to break the sameness of the view.
There's a small cleared space; that's the parlor, with a velvety green carpet.
The wakened sleeper heard the other man moving about in the velvetyblack gloom.
This note of suspense, of watchfulness, of illicit adventure, was reflected in the very tones of the motley deckhands who brushed past him in the humid velvety blackness.
The leaves throw deep shadows on the rusty red path and a tracery of leaf shadows, on the cow's back and sides--deeper in colour than the velvety black of the hide itself.
She wore no stays, and his hand wandered over her lovely velvety skin down to her enchanting belly.
And while looking up at these, my eye is attracted by a peculiar velvety appearance of the woodwork forming the immense projecting eaves of the roof.
By standing on tiptoe I can touch it; and I discover that it is even more velvety to the touch than to the sight.
She wore a small hat of a dark velvety material; a white, loose blouse, and what seemed a dark blue skirt.
The lustrous dark eyes rove around the circle of eager betters with languishing velvety glances.
Dark lissome girls raise their velvety eyes and applaud this daring horsemanship.
The summer golden brown gives way to the velvety green of early spring.
