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Colour brownish blue; but there were round it twenty very narrow brownish yellow stripes, equidistant from each other, and not quite reaching either extremity of the animal. June 16. South latitude 28 degrees 46 minutes; east longitude 42 degrees 3 minutes. From measurements taken from the living animal the dimensions were: Length from tip of tail to tip of spine, in front of head 1.15 inches.
Vat Number Thirteen lay dashed to the floor the glass cover was broken to a million pieces a sticky, brownish substance covered the matting. Professor Maxon hid his face in his hands. "God!" he cried. "It is all ruined. Three more days would have " "Look!" cried von Horn. "It is not too soon."
David looked in the cans. There wasn't anything in the little can, but the big can was full of something that was about as thick as molasses and almost as black as ink, only it was brownish black. "What is it?" he asked. "Is it molasses? It smells horrid." The man laughed. "No," he answered, "it isn't molasses or anything good to eat. It's creosote. That's a poisonous kind of stuff.
He was a stout man in a dirty white shirt stained to a brownish color round the armpits and caught in very tightly at the waist by the broad elastic belt that held up his yellow corduroy trousers. His face was flabby, of a greenish color; black eyes looked at Andrews fixedly through barely open lids, so that they seemed long slits above the cheekbones. "That's the Chink," thought Andrews.
What color was his hair?" The chief turned in his tracks and regarded Haney with keen, inquiring eyes. The prisoner withstood the scrutiny bravely. "Sort o' blackish, brownish hair." "Black, you mean?" "Well, yes black." "And his eyes?" "Black eyes little an' round like gimlet holes." "Heavy eyebrows, I suppose?" "Yes," Haney agreed readily. "They sort o' stuck out." "And his nose? Big or little?
A number of our small brown and speckled weevils at the approach of any object roll off the leaf they are sitting on, at the same time drawing in their legs and antennæ, which fit so perfectly into cavities for their reception that the insect becomes a mere oval brownish lump, which it is hopeless to look for among the similarly coloured little stones and earth pellets among which it lies motionless.
The tide is out, and for miles the foam runs in on the level sands, forming a long succession of graceful curves marked with a white edge. As the sun sinks, the wet sands are washed with a brownish yellow, the colour of ripe wheat if it could be supposed liquid.
The sand was stained with brownish blood patches; the wounds were ghastly. Both hands were cut from one man, another had his head split to the body, from a third man, the entrails were dropping. Some were howling in convulsions, and from their mouths, filled with sand, came forth curses, or prayers imploring some one to slay them.
The country was changing, gradually, but still unmistakably changing, from a desert, flat and stifling, to a region of small hills and valleys; still brownish yellow, but with the monotony of mesquite varied by live oaks, and in some cases by shallow little streams along whose banks grew cottonwoods, their green foliage restful to the eye weary of desert bareness.
And the coffee did not float out to mid-air in a hot, round brownish ball, because there was a transparent cover over the cup. When one put his lips to the proper edge, a part of the cover yielded as the cup was squeezed. The far side of the cup was flexible. One pressed, and the coffee came into one's lips without the spilling of a drop.
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