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Being a Panamanian, he could not of course know that Uncle Sam was in a hurry for his census. Till at length, as the sun was firing the western jungle tree-tops, a scintillating idea rewarded his unwonted cogitation.
Cool, restrained, and satisfying, the composition has all the elements of chromatic perfection. In the golden background occasional dots of light and dark brown serve to deepen the tone into a slightly bronze colour. The effect is especially scintillating and rich, more like hammered gold than a flat sheet.
But with the morning, the glorious unstained morning the passion of living would stir even the blood of a clod. It comes over the mountains, Anna, pink darkening into orange red, everywhere a wonderful cloud sea, scintillating with colour.
"Some unformed idea that we were going to escort, or rescue, benighted travelers flickered dimly in my mind as I galloped through the night air; but when I managed to approach my companion and called out to him for explanation, he only turned half round and grinned at me. "Before us lay now the white plain, scintillating under the high moon's rays.
'Madame la Marquise, it is a privilege to extend to you my most respectful salutations. She laughed at this quietly, with the melting laugh of the nightingale. 'Monsieur, you mistake my title. Although my uncle is a marquis, I am but Lady Alicia. 'Your pardon, my lady. For the moment I was back in that scintillating Court which surrounded Louis le Grand.
His head had fallen backward over the edge and could not be seen. Without moving a muscle, her body crouching, Nance spoke: "You wuz awake you heered?" "Yes!" The gleaming eyes burned through the gray dawn, two points of scintillating, hellish light fixed in purpose on the intruder. She had only meant to take the money. The fool had fought. She killed him because she had to.
It was he who told me of the doctor's habits and of his daily journey. At that instant, to give point to his words, the carriage came round to the door." "Could you not follow it?" "Excellent, Watson! You are scintillating this evening. The idea did cross my mind. There is, as you may have observed, a bicycle shop next to our inn.
It seemed this voyaging through the sparkling water, under the scintillating heavens, this resolute pushing into the opening splendors of night like a pleasure trip. "It is the witching hour of half past ten," said my comrade, "let us turn in." When we looked from our state-room window in the morning we saw land.
In one blinding salvo they launched their supposedly irresistible planes of force dazzling, scintillating planes under whose fierce power the studying, questing, scouting fortresses previously encountered had fled back southward; cut, beaten, and crippled. These spiraling monsters, however, did not pause or waver in their stolidly ordered motion.
She crept out of bed, her bare feet white with cold, her bare arms flushed and burning. Blinded by the blaze of the rising sun, she felt her way around the room, calling, "Jack! Jack!" The window was open; she crept to it. The street was a surging, scintillating torrent of steel. "God with us!"
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