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White-necked and white-bosomed, all had great roving eyes, the gait of peacocks, and hair reaching to the waist. Later, when sleeping and when waking, both at noon and at twilight, he would seem still to be holding a pair of white hands, and moving in the dance. Chichikov's horses also found nothing of which to disapprove.
With sardonic scorn he pointed out to himself that his imagination was still held by, his nerves were still thrilling under, the mental image of a girl looking up to him as no woman had ever looked a girl, white-armed, white-necked with softened eyes of appeal and confidence.
Presently a white-necked raven, which was sitting on a stump some way down, flew off, shrieking with fear, as the plover pursued it. "Well, that is a coward," said Leo. "He is running away from a bird half his size." "Very wise," observed Jack. "Timbo, when he was out with me the other day, told me they call him the `hammering iron, on account of his `Tine tine tine' cry.
On the 27th May we gladly shook the dust of Mvumi from our feet, and continued on our route ever westward. Five of my donkeys had died the night before, from the effects of the water of Marenga Mkali. Before leaving the camp of Mvumi, I went to look at their carcases; but found them to have been clean picked by the hyaenas, and the bones taken possession of by an army of white-necked crows.
Annie Martin's story, in her "Home Life on an Ostrich Farm," of the white-necked African crow that, in order to feast upon the eggs of the ostrich, carries a stone high in the air above them and breaks them by letting it fall? This looks like reason, a knowledge of the relation of cause and effect. Mrs.
A pretty, white-necked waitress came up and asked him with a great display of flashing teeth: "Will monsieur have breakfast?" "Of course I will! Give me some eggs, a cutlet, and cheese. And a bottle of white wine!" She turned to go; he called her back. "Tell me, is it not in one of those houses that the Emperor has his quarters?" "There, monsieur, in that one right before you.
That he may increase beyond the prolificness of the white-necked crow and cover the ground after the fashion of the binding grass. That in battle his sword may be as a vividly-coloured and many-forked lightning flash, accompanied by thunderbolts as irresistible as Buddha's divine wrath; in peace his voice as resounding as the rolling of many powerful drums among the Khingan Mountains.
He does this apparently because the spirit moves him, as a boy slings a stone at the sky, but fervor is added by the appearance of a rival or an enemy, for he is much like a Tyrannus in his masterful way of controlling the landscape. He will attack caracaras and white-necked ravens, lighting on their backs and giving them vicious blows while screaming in their ears."
The common Indian swift. Chætura nudipes. The white-necked spine-tail. A black bird glossed with green, having the chin, throat, and front and sides of the neck white. Cuculus canorus. The common or European cuckoo. Cuculus saturatus. The Himalayan cuckoo. Cuculus poliocephalus. The small cuckoo. This is very like the common cuckoo in appearance, but it is considerably smaller.
Englishmen of her day will never believe that Katharine of Arragon could have looked otherwise than Mrs. Siddons did in Shakespeare's play of "Henry VIII.;" but nothing could in truth be more unlike the historical woman than the tall, large, bare-armed, white-necked, Juno-eyed, ermine-robed ideal of queenship of the English stage. GREAT RUSSELL STREET, October 12, 1831.
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