Sun-suffused, A cloud may soothe the eye made blind by blaze, Better the very clarity of heaven: The soft streaks are the beautiful and dear.

The pale, faint streaks are showers that fail to reach the ground, being evaporated on the way down through the dry, thirsty air, like streams in deserts.

The darker streaks are land; the bright spots, water.

The darker streaks are land; the bright spots, water.

That single streak of prudence was proof absolute and convincing.

The reddish-brown streaks so common in hickory and certain other woods are mostly the result of injury by birds.[30]

The little difficulty that strangers found in recognizing this anchorage at night, is now overcome by a light-vessel being placed near the Roman Rocks; but the streaks of sand, resembling snow, down the sides of the hills over Simons Bay, and the remarkable break in the high land over another bay, just to the northward, are sufficient guides of themselves in clear weather.)

'Tis streak of dawn; Mosby is off, the woods are wide Hist!

The streak soon became a helmet, then a hemisphere, then an Arabian arch confined at the bottom, until finally it shot up out of the liquid mass as though it were a bomb sending forth flashes of flame.