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She threw aside the veiling cloud of hair, and in the gleam of the last retreating spirals her face glared out like some old Greek mask of tragedy. The sweet lips that even at their sweetest could never lose their delicate cruelty, had no sweetness now.
Meg had been sewing at an overall for little Fay, but at that moment she laid it on her knee and ran her hands through her cropped hair, then about two inches long all over her head, so that it stood on end in broken spirals and feathery curls above her bright eyes. In the evening the uniform was discarded "by request." Jan looked across at her and laughed.
My thoughts went floating on vast and mystic currents as I sat to-day in solitude and half-shade by the creek returning mainly to two principal centres. Or what is humanity in its faith, love, heroism, poetry, even morals, but emotion? The misty nebulae are moving, and besides are whirling around in great spirals, some one way, some another.
The clear, pure atmosphere brought the Blue Ridge and Alleghany and Massanutten almost overhead. Even the cloud of murderous smoke from the guns above made beautiful spirals in the air, and the broad fields of luxuriant wheat glistened with dew.
The cloth is tensioned either by threading it over and under a series of stout rails, or else between two in a specially adjustable arrangement by means of which the tension may be varied by rotating slightly the two rails so as to alter the angle formed by the cloth in contact with them. This view illustrates a double cropper in which both the spirals are controlled by one belt.
But on a chance they signalled the discovery to a distant trawler, then soared upward for a general coup de l'oeil, turned there aloft like a seahawk for a while, sheering in widening spirals, and finally, high in the grey sky, set a steady course for parts unknown.
Without being scrupulously regular, the work, at its best, does not lack merit. The pretty, close-whorled spirals, placed one against the other on the same level, have a very pleasing general effect. No pilgrim returning from Santiago de Compostella ever slung handsomer tippet from his shoulders. But only too often the caddis worm dashes ahead, regardless of proportion.
As for the crowd, they looked askance at Kennedy, as if he had taken leave of his senses. I heard the wireless operator cursing the way his receiver was acting. Higher and higher Norton went in one spiral after another, those spirals which his gyroscope had already made famous. The man with the megaphone in front of the judge's stand announced in hollow tones that Mr.
Both smoked in silence for a few moments, each waiting for the other to speak. "Well, my friend, what do you know?" inquired the detective, while he watched the delicate spirals of blue smoke as they diffused themselves in the golden haze of the sunlight. "Just what I was about to ask you," said his companion. "Oh, time enough for that later.
The shields and the clubs are elaborately worked, but almost always without any representation of plants, animals, or the human figure. As a rule the decorations take the simple shape of the 'herring-bone' pattern, or such other patterns as can be produced without the aid of spirals, or curves, or circles. There is a natural and necessary cause of this choice of decoration.
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