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Just before they reached the store he made her shut her eyes and led her to the window. "Now look!" he commanded dramatically. Bessie looked and Tommy was rewarded. She flushed pinkly with delight and clasped her hands in ecstasy. "Oh, Tommy, isn't she perfectly beautiful?" she breathed. "Oh, she's the very loveliest dolly I ever saw. Oh, Tommy!" "I thought you'd like her," said Tommy exultantly.
I pulled it out just before you came." The starfish was clinging pinkly to the rock, and beyond him lay the urchin, the blackness of its draggled spines turning to green as it dried in the sun. "Who's your friend?" asked John, regarding it. "Looks like a miniature Paderewski. Say, he's getting up steam."
Wild roses grew pinkly along the fences, and the roadsides were star-dusted with buttercups. Those of us who had nothing the matter with our consciences enjoyed our walk to the little whitewashed schoolhouse in the valley. Felicity and Cecily were void of offence towards all men. The Story Girl walked uprightly like an incarnate flame in her crimson silk.
Hastings might escape from the chemist's. Although the commonplace is no respecter of enchantments, it was quite fifteen minutes before the sword fell and Mrs. Hastings did make the moment her prey, as pinkly excited as though her drawing-room had been untenanted. And in the meantime no one knows what pleasantly absurd thing St.
Electric bulbs burned pinkly in the chandeliers and on silver candelabra on the table, giving a half light that was very romantic and fascinating. From a curtained window that opened upon an interior court we could catch strains from the cabaret singers below in the main dining-room. Everything was new and bright.
Out of it, the meadow-larks showed their good-luck waistcoats and rippled their tunes; out of it, countless wild roses smiled up pinkly to the sun. But all the loveliness of the new day only mocked at the lonely girls in the wagon. To them, the grey sands of their desert home, the blistering "northers," the brassy skies, were, unconsciously, synonymous of safety and peace.
His heart leaped; for through the centre of the plateau ran a black fissure, like a crack in the dish; and off to the left a fleecy cloud rose lazily from the gorge, blushing pinkly in the light of the setting sun. This must mark the falls; the Death River lay at his feet. The excitement of this discovery was immediately superseded by a far greater.
It was here that two pale girls, abruptly transformed from April primroses to June roses oh! such pinkly blooming tea-roses gave simultaneously a wild little shriek.
"Did you know that Mr. Bevan was the Mr. Bevan?" Everybody was listening now. George huddled pinkly in his chair. He had not foreseen this bally-hooing. Shadrach, Meschach and Abednego combined had never felt a tithe of the warmth that consumed him. He was essentially a modest young man. "The Mr. Bevan?" echoed Lady Caroline coldly.
Some years before, it is true, he had been drawn to the life by a government poster, designed by one who must himself have been a capable dramatist. "Join the Army and See the World," urged the large-lettered legend above the picture. The latter revealed an entrancing tropical scene with graceful palms adorning the marge of a pinkly sun-kissed sea.
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