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Medad, on a coal-black Arab, followed by three hundred officers of his division, all mounted on steeds of pure race. Slaves, bearing the bridal present of Medad; six Damascus sabres of unrivalled temper. Twelve choice steeds, sumptuously caparisoned, each led by an Anatolian groom. The household of Ithamar, in robes of violet, lined with ermine. The standard of Ithamar.
He was about thirty, above middle height, every mold and line of him slender and fine and strong. His face was resolute, vivacious, intelligent; his eyes were large and brown, pleasant and fearless. A wide black hat, pushed back now, showed a broad forehead white against crisp coal-black hair and the pleasant tan of neck and cheek.
In complexion he was somewhat sallow, but he was distinctly good-looking, with a somewhat Hebrew cast of features, and with coal-black hair, eyebrows, beard and moustache, the beard trimmed square, and the hair worn rather long, trimmed square across the nape of the neck, with a short fringe trimmed square across the forehead.
There was a side-saddle and a most elegant bridle; indeed, the whole equipment would not have disgraced Rotten Row. But, the horse! My courage had to be "screwed to the sticking point" before I could mount him. He was a very fine animal a magnificent coal-black charger sixteen hands high, with a most determined will of his own, not broken for the saddle. Mr.
Having recently made a flying excursion through the valley of the Mohawk visited the old baronial castle of Sir William Johnson, and from thence struck across to the south through the Schoharie-kill valley, to explore the wonders of the great cavern of the Helderbergs, an accident to the light vehicle drawn by my coal-black steed, on my return, obliged me to call upon a coachmaker in the first city west of Albany.
It was a pigeon of snowy whiteness that an instant before had been flying free; it was a coal-black nondescript that now fluttered feebly once or twice and then lay still on the gravelled path, close to the stone sun-dial. I ran down the steps and bent over the pitiful thing. Pfui! the bird was but a charred and blackened lump of dead flesh.
And inwardly we desired to cherish our secret out of the same sense of fearful joy with which one listens to a ghost story we had tasted the coal-black wine pressed from forbidden grapes, and we craved a yet deeper draught.
The noble proprietor for it was he whose portly person nearly filled the entire width of the large window was clad in a dark green velvet vest, with a row of buttons reaching close up to the chin, large cuffs, and large buttons on the pockets; a coal-black peruke, with a single curl quite round it, completely concealed his hair.
I heard the dull, deep roar of welcome, as with superb seat upon my snow-white charger or should it be coal-black? The point cost me much consideration, so anxious was I that the day should be without a flaw I slowly paced at the head of my victorious troops, between wild waves of upturned faces: walked into a lamp-post or on to the toes of some irascible old gentleman, and awoke.
He says: "The most elaborate imitation of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bears no comparison with the beauteous proportions of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung.... The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached" for you must not forget that it is upon the roof of the mine that the impressions of the plants which have been turned into coal are found, not upon the coal itself, though even there they may be discovered by a microscope.
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