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In a moment Day had stripped himself of his light silk-hooded gown, and in another moment it was on the person of Murgh, though how it got there, when they came to think of it afterward, none could remember. Still, the yellow and red head-dress, the coal-black silky furs, the yellow skirt, the gleaming pearls, all vanished beneath it.
The head should be long, the skull flat rather than round, with a very slight rise over the eyes, but with nothing approaching a stop. The skull should be coated with moderately long hair which is softer than the rest of the coat. In the lighter-coloured dogs a black muzzle is preferred. There should be a good moustache of rather silky hair, and a fair beard.
The leaves show me their silky completeness, rustling above the stream in softest tree talk; the curious staminate flower-clusters hang like bunches of inverted commas; the neat little burs, with their inoffensive prickles, mature and discharge the angular nuts but I am not again, I fear, to be present at the hour of the leaf-birth of the beech's year.
'If the Gospels are not true in fact, as history, as reality, I cannot see how they are true at all, or of any value. The next minute she rose, and, going to the little wooden dressing-table, she began to brush out and plat for the night her straight silky veil of hair. As she passed him Robert saw her face pale and set.
Gently! my good captain," he said. "I am a port officer and boats cannot be seized at will in His Most Catholic Majesty's city of New Orleans." His manner stung Alvarez, who replied hotly: "I repeat, it is my boat! It was stolen from me by these thieves from Kaintock!" "But that must be proved," and the lieutenant's voice was very soft and silky.
Serena was a pretty girl, with smooth, silky hair, end eyes of the colour of the nodding harebells that blossom on the edge of the woods. She was slight and delicate. The neighbours called her sickly; and a great doctor from Philadelphia who had spent a summer at Bytown had put his ear to her chest, and looked grave, and said that she ought to winter in a mild climate.
Ho! how they fill us with wine instead of blood! now they open the veins of the Faun yonder, to show how the tide within bubbles and sparkles. Come hither, jolly old god! thou ridest on a goat, eh? what long silky hair he has! He is worth all the coursers of Parthia. But a word with thee this wine of thine is too strong for us mortals.
"Did you pull this hair from Titania's mane?" asked Gerfaut, as he drew through his fingers the more glossy than silky lock, which he ridiculed by this ironical supposition.
Hungry, and curious to see what was going on, Tús dismounted, and leaving his horse with the attendants, entered the principal apartment, where he saw a fascinating female, and was transported with joy. She was Tall as the graceful cypress, and as bright, As ever struck a lover's ravished sight; Why of her musky locks or ringlets tell? Each silky hair itself contained a spell.
I love you for your own sake your own merits have made you dear to me." I smiled bitterly. She did not see the smile. I slowly caressed her silky hair. "For that sweet answer, carissima mia, you shall have your reward. You called me a fairy prince just now perhaps I merit that title more than you know. You remember the jewels I sent you before we ever met?" "Remember them!" she exclaimed.
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