65 adjectives to describe strand

No wonder she sang as she gave a last fond pat to the pretty dress and tucked a wandering little strand of hair into place.

Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand?

His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand.

Perilous strands.

" She put the red tam on her brown hair, tucking up the loose strands, in front of the glass, as she spoke.

A vote's a vote, if it comes from Greenland's coral strand or Afric's icy mountains.

Darkness had transformed the streets into vast sheets of black satin shot with golden strands and studded with lamp-posts like sturdy stems for ethereal blooms of golden haze.

On the wild heath in mournful guise he stood, Ere the shrill boatswain gave the hated sign; He dropt a tear unseen into the flood, He stole one secret moment to repine "Why am I ravish'd from my native strand? What savage race protects this impious gain?

The skiff of the party continued to pull slowly along the fringed shore, occasionally sheering more into the lake, to avoid some overhanging and nearly horizontal tree, and then returning so closely to the land, as barely to clear the pebbles of the narrow strand with the oar.

Her long, shining braid was half undone and its silken strands fell over her shoulder and glistened in the lamp-glow on the table.

The episode, to him, was a disconnected, unnecessary fragment, one bloody strand in the whole terrifying snarl.

"Young man, I suppose your poor deserted mother is looking for you everywhere, and has probably torn out every solitary strand of hair she possesses by this time.

Not that his days were all of teasing and torment, either; for if his comrades did sometimes treat him so, why then there were other times when he and they were as great friends as could be, and used to go a-swimming together in the most amicable fashion where there was a bit of sandy strand below the little bluff along the East River above Fort George.

In stead of them and their sweet harmonie, 15 Let those three Fatall Sisters, whose sad hands Doe weave the direfull threeds of destinie, And in their wrath break off the vitall bands, Approach hereto; and let the dreadfull Queene Of Darknes deepe come from the Stygian strands, 20 And grisly ghosts, to heare this dolefull teene*, [* Teene, sorrow]

The motor road was woven in twisted strands while the railway overhead strode across the gaps between height and height, on a vast trestle that might have been built for an army of Martians.

I shall once again train my hair in graceful curling strands under (respectively) the south-east and south-west corners of my ears.

"Poor soul", cried one, "hast thou no fear To walk this haunted strand?

No shipwrecked mariner could have felt more poignancy in his search for a hospitable strand than I on the plunging prow of the Noa-Noa in my quest through the bright sunshine of that afternoon for the haven of desire.

While from the far-divided shore Where liberty unconquer'd roves, Her ardent glance shall oft' explore The parent isle her spirit loves; Shall spread upon the western main Harmonious concord's golden chain, While stern on Gallia's ever hostile strand From Albion's cliff she pours her daring band.

I despaired very soon of ever comprehending the intricate strands of their relationship.

She had seen the thread of Fate spun for each, without knowing that invisible strands connected them.

Thou the living light of all our lovely stormy strand, Thou the brave north-country's very glory of glories, Grace.

The girl was sitting on the edge of the bed, mechanically pulling the long matted strands of her hair.

With this single exception, the narrow thread-like line of descent from the Indian wife, diminished to a mere strand by injudicious alliances, and deaths in the gutters of old New Orleans, was extinct.

Beside these are a whole host of knights, priests, nobles, burghers, yeomen, pages, ladies, lasses, landlords, beggars, peddlers, and what not, all living the merriest of merry lives, and all bound by nothing but a few odd strands of certain old ballads (snipped and clipped and tied together again in a score of knots) which draw these jocund fellows here and there, singing as they go.

65 adjectives to describe  strand