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Upper parts shining steel-blue, but the face buff. Under parts rich buff, brick-red on the throat, where there is also a steel-blue collar. Tail very long and deeply forked, with the side-feathers narrow, and some white spots on them. Song a musical laugh, heard when the birds fly low over meadows and ponds. Nest a sort of bracket, made of little mud balls and straw stuck on a beam in a hayloft.
Bronzed by frost and sun, with his brick-red neck and arch of chest revealed by the coarse blue shirt that, belted at the waist, enhanced his slenderness, the repentant prodigal was at least a passable specimen of the animal man, but it was the strength and patience in his face that struck the girl, as he turned towards her, bareheaded, with a little smile in his eyes.
Mike's sun-tanned face turned brick-red; he could have bitten off his unruly Irish tongue. The girl stared at him helplessly, her cheeks, that were scarlet, tingling under the hot rush of blood. "There ye are, an' believe me, I didn't mean it. I was goin' to keep me mouth shut, but I never could do that." "You knew then, yesterday?" "Indade I didn't, an' that's a good sign to ye nobody'll know.
His head had fallen over on one shoulder; his mouth was open; his hands, grimy and large, showed half shut in his lap. There was a staring patch of black sticking plaster at the side of his chin; his clothes, that were yet decent, showed stains here and there; his face, young and slackened in sleep, was burned brick-red by exposure.
In fact, however, the impression of colour which I receive from the object is not that of brick-red at all, but a much less decided tint; which I may easily prove by bending my head downwards and letting the scene image itself on the retina in an unusual way, in which case the recognition of the object as a viaduct being less distinct, I am better able to attend to the exact shade of the colour.
Here Michael's wife Katya came puffing out of her house like a traction engine such was the shape in which nature formed her and falling on her knees, caught his hand to her vast bosom, weeping like the overflowing of a river and blubbering uncouth sounds. "Get up, you crazy woman!" snarled John Flint, his face going brick-red. "Stop licking my hand, and get up!"
Neale got hold of the first tie thrown off the car. "Phwat the hell's ye're hurry!" protested his partner. This fellow was gnarled and knotted, brick-red in color, with face a network of seams, and narrow, sun-burnt slits for eyes. He answered to the name of Pat. They carried the tie out to the end of the rails and dropped it on the level road-bed.
You stumble across cannon and symmetric pyramids of shot where you least expect them; the line of sea-wall is intersected by figures in brick-red tunic, moving back and forward on ledges of masonry; the morning air is alive with drum-beats and bugle and trumpet-calls; everything is of the barrack most barrack-like; the broad arrow is indented in large deep character on the Rock.
"What's this hyer garment?" asked the brick-red customer of the clerk, holding up the waistcoat that went with the suit. "That's a vest," explained the salesman. "You wear it under the coat." "You don't say!" The vaquero examined the article curiously and disdainfully. "I've heard tell of these didoes, but I never did see one before. Well, I'll take this suit. Wrap it up.
This stone takes a very high polish, and is found in a variety of pleasing tints, such as chocolate, brownish-red, brick-red, and yellowish. For the two years previous to 1885, $15,000 worth of it was sold. A remarkable mass of rock crystal has been received by Messrs. Tiffany & Co. from a locality near Cave City, Va.
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