The line was checkered by illuminated patches and belts of gloom.

Like beauty marks the dames they serve; Like colors at their spear-heads wave; While Tarfe kneels at Celia's feet, The King is Dorelice's slave. With belts of green and azure blue The gallant knights are girded fair; Their cloaks with golden orange glow, And verdant are the vests they wear.

There were plenty of life-belts on deck and the boats were ready for immediate launching.

The boast of the Hindenburg line had been its belts of protective wire.

It is found only in the northern and southern Arctic land-belts, to which indeed nearly all wild animals, except the few small ones that are encouraged because they prey upon large and noxious insects, are now confined.

Westy whispered; "have they got jackknives hanging from their belts?"

Afterwards a lighter kind of matchlock musket came into use, and they carried their ammunition in bandeliers, which were broad belts that came over the shoulder, to which were hung several little cases of wood covered with leather, each containing a charge of powder; the balls they carried loose in a pouch; and they had also a priming-horn hanging by their side.

Both mother and daughter were dressed in rough brown smocks, with narrow green belts falling loosely,strange garments to Eric.

"All life belts on?"

Across the yew hedge, the tarn sparkled like a mirror and on its farther side, where a clump of dark pines overhung a beach of silver sand, the hillslopes shone with yellow grass, relieved by the green of fern and belts of moss.

Bright sunshine pierced the tossing alder branches, and the rapid close by sparkled between belts of moving shade.

It had stolen up shallow rapids, slipping between the watchers' legs, dived under swimming dogs, made bold dashes along the bank, and hidden in belts of reeds.

Belts of dry bent-grass shone like gold and mossy patches glimmered luminously green.

Rifles were taken down and cartridge-belts being swung when Kellyan called a halt.

With their white cross-belts and bright breastplates, they made a very picturesque body of spectators for whatever happened in the Hall, and never failed to applaud in the right or the wrong place at will.

Every fellow had whitened his belts, burnished his arms, curled his moustache, and was scowling his manliest for Uncle Sam's approval.

We always found it in situ, in belts green, white, and blue, a tricolor of woods, water, and sky.

A surgeon was leaning over him bandaging his wounds, while on the other side of the bed stood three red-shirted men, whose rough beards and belts with bowie knives and pistols showed them to be miners.

All of this various strata of rock and sand belongs, geologically speaking, to what is known as the lower silurian system, extending from near the western shores of Lake Michigan, and sweeping over all the lower half of Minnesota, westward and upward along the valley of the great Red and Assinniboin Rivers to the north, marking one of the most prolific grain growing belts on the continent, if not in the world.

Now" "Life-belts, sir?

"And knives in belts!

Fire at will!" Out from belts and pockets came the lethal pistols.

These messages stated that Nissr had been sighted in flames and falling, in North latitude 19°, 35'; longitude 28°, 16', or about two hundred and fifty miles north-west of the Cape Verdes; that wreckage from her had been observed somewhat south of that point; and that bodies floating in vacuum-belts had been recovered by a Spanish torpedo-boat.

The red sun glittered on their spurs, rifles, and the flat buckles of their cross-belts.

Filling our guns with cartridges out of our belts, we rode out to reconnoitre and try and get the boys' saddles.