" When he saw the Colonel stop and stare, he threw down his rope and began to laugh, for there below were the blackened remains of a big fire, silhouetted sharply on the snow.

The night was soft and dark; after being out in it for a time I could discern the shrubs dimly silhouetted against the light.

Yet she never mistrusted him ... perhaps because she had never really seen himonly in outline, half wrapped in shadows, or merely silhouetted against a weirdly lighted background.

The man's fantastic headgear, the fringe of his curling oily locks, the hawk outline of his face momentarily silhouetted against the phosphorescence astern as he glanced to windward, all lent him an appearance of another day.

Before her, silhouetted high against the steely sky, rose the two great, black, ivy-clad towers of the ancient castle.

And then we came to a great iron bridge, sternly silhouetted in the sunset.

The tall ruins of the Cloth Hall and Cathedral were alternately silhouetted or brightly illuminated in the yellow glare of flames.

There was a blinding flash close to my face and a deafening explosion; and when I recovered my sight, the form of a man appeared for an instant dimly silhouetted in the opening of the street door.