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The colouring too, is high very high indeed, and the chiaroscuro is perfect " "Ha!" interposed Jack, "all the chiar being on the surface, and the oscuro down in the mine, eh?" "Exactly so," replied Clearemout. "It is a splendid picture.
The flames, as they fitfully lit up the landscape into that dim distinctness termed by artists the chiar oscuro, made the bushes and trunks of trees appear like monsters issuing stealthily from the forest that lined the background. There seemed to be some attraction, however, elsewhere for the real monsters, not a single wild beast having as yet appeared on the scene.
When walking on the grass, there is a certain elegance in its movements, while the beautiful chiar' oscuro tints of its wings, the gray and orange hues on its breast, its long black legs streaked with pink, its large beak, small head, and symmetrical proportions, combine to render it a bird of no ordinary beauty.
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