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And these are night-black locks and brow as bright as day, Cheeks ruddy as the rose and straight and slender form. And also quoth another: She shineth forth, a moon, and bends, a willow-wand, And breathes, pure ambergris, and gazes, a gazelle. It seems as if grief loved my heart and when from her Estrangement I endure, possession to it fell.
The whole of her slender form was hidden beneath the voluminous folds of the big coat, which had been originally designed to fit Garth's own proportions, and against the high fur collar her delicate cameo face, with its white skin and scarlet lips and its sombre, night-black eyes, emerged like some vivid flower from its sheath. Trent laughed shortly.
The points of an ordinary animal may be overlooked, but a great horse speaks for himself in every language and to every man. He was coal-black, this Diablo, except for the white stocking of his off forefoot; he was night-black, and so silken sleek that, as he turned and pranced, flashes of light glimmered from shoulders to flanks.
Davilof could just see the rounded whiteness of them, glimmering like pale pearl next the satin sheen of night-black hair. With a stifled cry he sprang forward and gripped them in his strong, supple hands, drawing them down inexorably. "Kiss me!" he demanded fiercely. "Magda, kiss me!" She shook her head, struggling for speech. "No!" she gasped. "No!"
A wild look flared in her face, wiped oft entirely its superficial look of domesticity. "Do you remember the heavy, night-black cloud, the thunder that crashed through our very bodies, the lightning that nearly blinded us, and the rain that beat us almost to pieces?" "Oh, Lulu!" Julia said; "I had forgotten that.
Never had Helen seen such night-black, fathomless, inscrutable eyes; never had she looked upon a face so creased and lined or skin so like dry, wrinkled parchment. Angela pounded across the floor looking like a witch with her great stick, and waved a bony hand to indicate the bathroom. Catching her first glimpse of Longstreet, who came to his daughter's door, she demanded: 'Your papa?
Which signified, "Moon and stars rain and hail make ice." But she could not read the riddle of the mysterious words. The other ladies, who were also unable to guess the meaning of the words, could not but laugh; and they laughed so shrilly that the Princess Terute heard, and came among them, fully robed, and wearing a veil over her night-black hair.
"From the dark thorn-hedge rustles forth the owl, and by his hooting rouses the hoarse choir of the ravens; in night-black swarm they gather, and croak aloud with their hollow voices, magpies, crows, and daws!
"You can ride and shoot an arrow swift and far. Your eyes are keen and your tread lithe and soft like a fawn " "It is all the wild lore of the woodland I learned as a child." "But Sho-caw does not know! To him the gypsy heart of you, the sun-brown skin and scarlet cheeks, the night-black hair beneath the turban, are but the lure and charm of an errant daughter of the O-kee-fee-ne-kee wilderness.
At last, thoroughly worn out, with scorched feet and a burning head, he worked his way out of the Mosque, but he was supremely happy for he had now seen: "Safa, Zem-Zem, Hatim's wall, And holy Kaaba's night-black pall."
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