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Out into the glare of the great flame they issued warily, out into the strangely glowing mist that covered the incredible village as with a virescent pall. Blinking, they stared about them, not knowing for a moment whither to run or where to shoot.

Past the creamy reef the purple ocean glittered in the nooning sun, while the motionless waters of the lagoon were turquoise and bice near by and virescent in the distance.

When he had really perceived her to be the one who had troubled his soul so many times and long, the blood in his face never very much passed off and left it, like the shade of a cloud. Between them stood a table covered with green baize, which, reflecting upwards a band of sunlight shining across the chamber, flung upon his already white features the virescent hues of death.

The two functions of art in Italy, in this entirely liberal and virescent phase of it, virgin art, we may call it, retaining the most literal sense of the words virga and virgo, are to manifest the doctrines of a religion which now, for the first time, men had soul enough to understand; and to adorn edifices or dress, with which the completed politeness of daily life might be invested, its convenience completed, and its decorous and honourable pride satisfied.

The summer had already made impression upon that mass of uniform colour by tipping every twig with a tiny sprout of virescent yellow; while the minute sounds which issued from the forest revealed that the apparently still place was becoming a perfect reservoir of insect life. Abner Power was quite sentimental that day. 'In such places as these, he said, as he rode alongside Mrs.

There wasnt a single bare spot visible in the whole lush, healthy expanse. And it was green. Green. Not just here and there, but over every inch of soft, undulating surface; a pale applegreen where the blades waved to expose its underparts and a rich, dazzling emerald on top. Even the runners, sinuously encroaching upon the sidewalk, were deeply virescent. The Metamorphizer worked.