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"After a moment I stooped and touched him, and the entire prostrate figure dissolved into dust where it lay, leaving at my feet a shadow shape in thin silhouette against the pavement merely a gray layer of finest dust shaped like a man, a tracery of impalpable powder on the stones.
He had walked about a hundred and fifty yards down the track and was standing in the shelter of the Pullman office building. It was very dark there just enough light for me to make out his silhouette. I started forward then stopped: frightened. "For I distinctly saw the figure of a man coming into the yards from Atlantic Avenue.
"But wha's the woman Dite's ta'en?" T'nowhead or some one of the more silent members of the company asked of Pete. "Ou, we dinna ken wha she is," answered Pete; "but she'll be some Glasca lassie, for he's there noo. Look, lads, look at this. He sent this at the same time; it's her picture." Pete produced the silhouette of a young lady, and handed it round. "What do ye think?" he asked.
Then a cry of horror burst from the crowd, silenced instantly as a piercing shriek filled the air. "My God! It's me Patsy!" Bareheaded in the open doorway of the now blazing loft, a silhouette against the flame, his little white gown reaching to his knees, his crutch gone, the stifling smoke rolling out in great whirls above his head, stood the cripple!
The nurse rose from the deepening gloom and stood erect in the moonlight, her figure throwing upon the whitewashed wall a distorted, specterlike silhouette. "Yes, marm." "Is Lucy still outdoors?" "Yes." Ellen waited an instant; then she said: "There's somethin' in her room I want you should get for me." "All right, Miss Webster." "It's a long white envelope. You'll find it somewheres.
Of all those aboard, he was the one who could least appreciate the effects of the shots for he could scarcely discern the silhouette of the submersible. But in spite of that he continued bellowing with all the force of his faith. "Now you've hit it!... Hurrah! Hurrah!" And the strange thing was that the enemy instantly disappeared from the blue surface.
French trade being ruined withal, money is running dreadfully low: but they appoint a new Controller-General; a M. de Silhouette, who is thought to have an extraordinary creative genius in Finance. Had he but a Fortunatus-Purse, how lucky were it!
Marta gave intermittent glances at the garden; the glances of a guardian. She happened to be looking in that direction when figures sprang across the road, crouching, running with the short, quick steps of no body movement accompanying that of the legs. The search-light caught them in merciless silhouette and the automatic and the rifles from behind the sand-bags on the first terrace let go.
She was for Max no more than a graceful silhouette, majestically poised, for he could not see her face, or even be sure that the effect of crown and plumes on her high-held head was not a trick of shadow.
Below the fringe the rocks were scoured almost white, and whiter still at their feet, like a tangled drapery of ragged lace, was the foam of the long slow seas. And the solid silhouette of the island broke suddenly into bosky valleys soft with trees and bracken, and cliff-ringed bays, with wide-spread arms of tumbled rock whose outer ends were tiny islets and hungry reefs.
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