Directly above me was a narrow, jagged, and irregular strip of sky with stars.

Porter was like a character in a comic strip; a six foot scone in a thought balloon hovered over his car.

Remove the tongue and lard it with thin strips of bacon; sprinkle with paprica; lay in a baking-pan; add 1 onion sliced thin and 1 cup of the water in which the tongue was cooked and pour over 1 pint of cream.

But Carleton had no men to spare for more than the actual walls and the narrow little strip of the Lower Town between the base of the cliff and the St Lawrence.

I found the house where Olinto liveda small, smoke-blackened, semi-detached place standing back in a tiny strip of weedy garden, with a wooden veranda before the first floor windows.

While its eastern slope almost reaches the sea, it is separated on its western side by a broad strip of inundated land from San Miguel Bay.

A lash some eighteen inches long, single or forked; purplish as long as its coat of limeholding the polypesstill remained, but when that was rubbed off a mere round strip of dark horn; and in both cases flexible and elastic, so that it can be coiled up and tied in knots; a very curious and graceful piece of Nature's workmanship.

Yamato had certain interests in Korea, where it already ruled a small coastal strip in the east.

One long straight strip of rich flat land, many hundred miles long, but only a very few miles broad.

Just at the crest of the rise, where the pale strip of road met the twilight of the sky, the full moon hung, a golden disc scarcely more luminous than the sky around it.

The alluvial strip of land which in them stretched from a quarter of a mile to a mile from the lagoon to the slopes of the hills, here was cramped to the barest strip.

The lighted cigarette slipped from his fingers to the ragged strip of matting.

In these dry watercourses, among the sand ridges, beside the humid marshy hollows, and among the thick strips of grass jungle, tigers are always to be found.

This paper was a slender strip, and could not be seen by the audience.

He made the slotted strips she wanted, and delivered them to her the next day with civil words.

The chair was a cheap one, made of white wood, and had the usual smooth strip of wood at the top.

It was Germany’s plan to control the Balkan countries and thus have a solid strip of territory, including Germany, Austria, the Balkan states, and Turkey through which her trade might pass to Asia Minor, Persia, and India.

The alluvial strip of land which in them stretched from a quarter of a mile to a mile from the lagoon to the slopes of the hills, here was cramped to the barest strip.

The impact of the blow was such that the leaden solder which filled the interstices of the segments of the turret was squeezed out from between the plates in curly strips, like icing from between the layers of a misused birthday cake.

Establishment of a neutral strip twenty-four miles wide on the east (German) side of the Rhine, paralleling that river from the Holland border to the border of Switzerland.

Nor did he step aside for a torn strip of red cloth lying in their way.

Further, as the first point of the coloured strip distinguishing each several zyda reaches the golden indicator, a single slightly prolonged soundI fancy what is known on Earth as a single chordis emitted.

Fires of hell, in two long lines, bordering a barren, ghastly, hazy strip of land, burst forth from the earth.

Our less practised eye could not at first discern the faint blue strip edging the horizon, but it grew and grew upon our vision, and fatigue and all discomfort proportionably disappeared.

The pavilion for the duke and the other spectators was built at the west side of the false listsa strip of ground ten feet wide, extending entirely around the true lists, but separated from it by a barrier or railing three feet high.