He stood there laughing in an idiotic kind of way, wrapping his stiff hands in his parki, Indian fashion, and looking down to the level of the ancient river terrace, where the weather-stained old Indian sled was sharply etched on the moonlit whiteness.

For us, the pages of the past turn all undimmed; battles, brutally etched, stand clear as our own hills against the skyfor in this land we have no haze to soften truth.

Even the hands were crinkled like too large gloves, a wide, curiously etched marriage band hanging loosely from the third finger.

Thatched roof and bamboo grove are daintily etched against the amber dawn.

There was that picture so acidly etched into Miss Slayback's brain that she had only to close her eyes in the slit-like sanctity of her room and in the brief moment of courting sleep feel the pink penumbra of her vision begin to glow.

But there are not elsewhere to be found pages so drenched with beauty as hers; and for all her vague abstractions of language, and wide, suffused effects, she possessed yet the skill to present a picture, keenly etched and vividly colored, in the fewest words, when she chose.

It contained a single room, walled with hard-finish and profusely etched with figures in vermilion.

But the contrast between them and the chief in his soldier's uniform seated at breakfast was rather too striking; and incidentally it etched in bold lines the folly of those who idealize the life of even exceptionally good and pleasant-natured savages.