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So loosen up as soon as you can." They took King and Darcy to police headquarters in a taxicab which King, with still half-drunken gravity, insisted on paying for. Colonel Ashley or Colonel Brentnall as he had registered at the hotel having, by means of a more or less adroit bit of camouflage, obtained possession of the newspaper containing an account of the murder of Mrs.
Spiders also have amazing defence mechanisms. Some spiders camouflage themselves as a bird dropping. Others, as a dried yellow or black rotting leaf or twig. And yet others resemble ants which are often rejected by birds, reptiles and other insects. Some are even able to change colour and shape, to some extent, to match their surroundings.
By the infallible revelations of the camera, untricked by camouflage, concealed gun positions were spotted for the benefit of our artillery, and highly useful information about likely objectives was provided for the bombing craft. The frequent bombing of German supply centres in Belgium and North France came into being with the development of aerial photography.
Yet those thousands bore it. They somehow looked through Lincoln's express disavowal of any intention to interfere with slavery, and saw that at bottom our war was indeed against slavery, that slavery was behind the Southern camouflage about independence, and behind the Northern slogan about preserving the Union. They saw and they stuck.
Gradually the camouflage of bovine geniality was lifted from the face of Germany and the dripping fangs of the Blonde Beast were displayed the Minotaur countenance of one glutted with human flesh, weary with rape and rapine, but still tragically insatiable and lusting for the new sensation of hounding America to destruction.
Her words searched their hearts and found out the weak places; those fears and misgivings that they had known were there from the beginning, and had been trying hard to hide from themselves because they saw no cure for them. With one clear-cut sentence she tore away all camouflage and set them face to face with the facts. They were in a desperate strait and they knew it.
A charming and most interesting addition to the party was M. Forain, the famous French caricaturist, and now one of the chief instructors of the French Army in the art of camouflage the art of making a thing look like anything in the world except what it is!
He was trying to uncover the verbal camouflage by which the astute white brushed away all rights of all black men whatsoever. To Peter there grew up something sadly comical in Tump's efforts. The big negro might well typify all the colored folk of the South, struggling in a web of law and custom they did not understand, misplacing their suspicions, befogged and fearful.
*Interlude. *News, The. Ladder Leaning on a Cloud, The. Inside-out. *England, My England. *Mortal Coil, The. *Thimble, The. Bugler of the Immortals, The. *Coming of the Terror, The. *Mad Man, the Dead Man, and the Devil, The. *Gold Fish, The. *Camouflage. *Red and White. Behind the Veil. *Passing of Pan, The. *Holy Fire. *'Melia No-Good. *Return, The. *Lazarus. Evocation, The. "Huppdiwupp."
"They shifted a couple of trees to a place where there had been no trees before and thought that that was camouflage." Happy confident days! The doctor, noting the almost summery heat that had set in, talked of the mosquito headquarters that would develop in the pond near our quarry. "I'll oil that pond," he gave forth, and prepared accordingly.
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