His nose was pale pink, and when he got older, it became jet black.

On the wire-fence that circled the haystack sat a row of red-winged blackbirds like a string of jet beads, patiently waiting for the oats to ripen and indulging in low-spoken but pleasant gossip about all the other birds in the valley.

The motors exhaust into the hollow shafts, J, of the propellers, which are extended some distance beyond the propellers, so that the remaining energy of the water may be utilized to aid in propelling the torpedo on the well known principle of jet propulsion.

Jet bracelets shone with every movement of her slender hands, cased in close-fitting black gloves.

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My mother said she was a naughty person, and that she did not dare tell where she got her gold cross and those jet ear-rings.

"Stopperswhat do you mean by stoppers?" Tump opened his jet eyes and their yellowish whites.

She was evidently got up for mourning, and never looked so well as in deep black, with jet ornaments.

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Before him loomed a giant 747 glistening in the sun, its huge jet engines screaming with impatience for full power to be applied, and the passenger door was open at the top of the stairs with a smiling flight attendant beckoning Graham aboard.

This nozzle, from whence the jet escapes, is formed of rings that screw together.

* I went onward by train-engine all along the coast to a region of iron-ore, alum, and jet-excavations round Whitby and Middlesborough.

"A man could not buy jet things," objected Matilde.

"All the women have literally rosy cheeks, snowy foreheads and bosoms, jet eye-brows, and scarlet lips, to which they generally add coal-black hair.

The jet lag isn't so bad that way, and the flight isn't such an ordeal.

Jet masses of vapor were curling up amid the stars, blotting out, one by one, their brightness from the sky.

The quantity forced up by the one coolie encounters in mid air that sent up by the man standing immediately opposite to him, and the two jets meeting and mixing confusedly together, tumble down in broken frothy masses into the vat.

I never saw him, however, look so handsome in my life; for his tarpaulin is mighty becoming to his pale, dark face, and those jet moustaches of his, when he has not time to tend them and keep every hair in place, will be quite fierce.

A jet pin heaved upon her bosom with every sigh of memory, or emotion of unknown origin.

Still heading sharply upward, with altimeter needle steadily mounting, with the cold becoming ever greater, the liner flung herself out boldly over the jet plain of ocean.

" "Yes, missus;" and the jet pony, so many shades lighter than his driver, was soon lost in the distance.

As soon as the abbey and the jet-sellers are left behind, you pass a farm, and come out on a great expanse of close-growing smooth turf, where the whole world seems to be made up of grass and sky.

The sun sinks into the river; the black rigging, the round hulls, stand out against its conflagration, and look like jewels of jet set in gold.

Gideon sat up and peered about him, rolling his eyes hither and thither at the menacing leap and dance of the jet shadows.

Then he would take a long breath, eyes closed, and, after fumbling back of the molasses jug, would soon be seated again beneath the streaming gas-jet spelling to himself the words of his coverless book.