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Updated: May 8, 2025
We watched silently during the next minute, as the tiers of lights dimmed slowly from white to yellow, then a red, and nothing was left but the murky mourning of the night, which hung over all like a pall. A mean, cheese-coloured crescent of a moon revealed one horn above a ragged bundle of clouds low in the distance.
He asked for a ticket for himself and one for his slave to Philadelphia. This caused the principal officer a very mean-looking, cheese-coloured fellow, who was sitting there to look up at us very suspiciously, and in a fierce tone of voice he said to me, "Boy, do you belong to that gentleman?"
Adopting the customary compromise of untrained domestics, she did not invite him inside, but departed, leaving the door open to show that there was no ill will. Aubrey stepped into the hall and closed the door behind him. In an immense mirror the pale cheese-coloured flutter of a gas jet was remotely reflected.
Salé, the fierce old pirate town, where Robinson Crusoe was so long a slave, lay before us, snow-white in its cheese-coloured ramparts skirted by fig and olive gardens. Below its gates a stretch of waste land, endlessly trailed over by mules and camels, sloped down to the mouth of the Bou-Regreg, the blue-brown river dividing it from Rabat.
All right, now I've scared him." "Last prisoner, sirr," announces the Sergeant-Major. "Glad to hear it. H'm! Private M'Queen again!" Private M'Queen is an unpleasant-looking creature, with a drooping red moustache and a cheese-coloured complexion. His misdeeds are recited.
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