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Perhaps the most curious of all the Thymelaceae is the celebrated Lagetta, or lace-bark tree of Jamaica; out of which the ladies of that island know how to manufacture cuffs, collars, and berthas, that, when cut into the proper shapes, and bleached to a perfect whiteness, have all the appearance of real lace!
His face was small, and beautifully tinted a rich, reddish copper color, and his eyes were black, alert, and very shining. The teachers greeted him very kindly, and he shook hands with them gravely, like a very old man. And from that day onward Little Wolf-Willow shut his heart within himself, and suffered. In the first place, the white people all looked sick to him unhealthy, bleached.
In one place, Marco found, upon a rock a little above the water, a slab of pine wood, which was bleached by the sun and rain. It had drifted down, the summer before, from some stream emptying into the pond.
The fact is he had never given up his purpose to return at the first opportunity. He fastened the bridle to the spigot and mounted in hot haste, kicking his little heels into the bleached staves, and plying the riding whip like a young fury. It was rare sport, and the lad fairly reveled in it, in his little heart defying those who had forbidden him this pleasure, and glorying in his triumph.
"Forepaugh was to open in Philadelphia, so I shipped our fake over there, and when they had their street parade I followed right behind it with our bleached animal on a truck which was liberally placarded. The notices called attention to the fact that Forepaugh's alleged sacred elephant was simply painted and that the men who did it were bunglers at the business.
Ignace. Jenieve felt as if she were choking, but again she asked out of her heart to his, "Monsieur the chief Pontiac, what ails the French and Indians?" He floated around to face her, the high ridges of his bleached features catching light; but this time he showed only dim dead eyes.
She was a rather flashily dressed girl, but remarkably good looking, in spite of the rouge and powder which had long since spoiled what might otherwise have been a clear and fine complexion. The roots of her hair showed plainly that it had been bleached. Garrick examined the body closely, and more especially the jagged wound in the breast. I bent over also. It seemed utterly inexplicable.
It was a wind that sang and piped and keened of many things but what it sang to each listener was only what was in that listener's heart. And Nora Shelley, standing at the door of her father's bleached cottage on the grey sands, heard a new strain in it. The wind had sung often to her of the outer world she longed for, but there had never been the note of fulfilment in it before.
And then, in a second, I spied the rattler The shutters wide in his yellow eyes, The head of him arched, sunk back in the rings of him, A circle of filth, the color of ashes, Or oak leaves bleached under layers of leaves, I stood like a stone as he shrank and uncoiled And started to crawl beneath the stump, When I fell limp in the grass.
There was a dreadful half-choked, whimper and then silence. "Tommy stood regarding the still form with a bleached face. He then bent over him, but without touching, looked up at me. "'Saved a firing party the trouble, he said. 'He's dead all right. "He straightened himself up. "'What the devil shall we do with it, McNab?
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