So it is made to shine, like a bluish spark moving to and fro over the cold black slime of the sea-bed.

He was smartly dressed in dark blue; he had a beautiful neck-tie, and the genuine whiteness of his wristbands was remarkable in a district where starched linen was usually either grey or bluish.

It bore the sweet, small, old-fashioned roses that flower a tender pink and fade gracefully to bluish white.

The eyebrows are not thick with hair; the eyes may even be called small, of a colour like horn, but speckled and stained with spots of bluish yellow.

While its stipes are purplish, its leaves are bluish-green, and its scales light-brown or yellow.

Sterile pinnæ broader, bluish or greenish glaucous above, often crowded to overlapping.

[Illustration: Mountain Spleenwort (From the "Fern Bulletin")] Small evergreen ferns of a bluish-green color, growing in the crevices of rocks and cliffs.

In early spring it sends up a graceful circle of large, handsome, bluish-green blades.

Osmunda Claytoniàna] The fronds have a bluish-green tint; they mature their spores about the last of May.

Covered with a fine bloom, bluish-white and powdery, in appearance like a plum.

" The brave spirit had at length broken down, never again to rise; the action of her heart had failed, the valves no longer performed their duty, and the bluish shade of forehead and neck told that the blood was no longer sent pure and vivifying through the arteries.

It was a face that must have looked singularly lovely when tinted with the rosy hues of health, so delicate were the features and so large and blue the half-closed eyes, but it was ghastly pale, and a livid, bluish tinge had settled around the small mouth, whose ruby hues had fled to give place to a sickly purple.

Heavy masses of soft silken hair, black as midnight, with bluish reflections on its lustrous waves (bleu à force d'être noir, as Alexandre Dumas describes such tresses), untortured by crimping-pins or curling-tongs, were rolled back in plain folds above her low, broad brow.

The young girl lay motionless in her berth, her face tinged with a livid bluish hue, her eyes closed, and her small hands clenched as if in agony.

It is nothing much, just a bluish look round her mouth, but I fear perhaps she will not be fit to go.

She was sitting perfectly upright as usual, and, except for the slight bluish look round her mouth, seemed quite herself.

The marble's bluish gray is relieved by sparkling crystallizations, and its unwrought blocks are handled with an ornamental effect in the piers, lintels, and arches, and well set off by a simple high-pitched slate roof, with terra-cotta hiprolls, crestings, and finials.

The floral leaves are rhomboidal, acuminate, and membraneous, the upper ones being shorter than the calyces, bracteas obovate; the calyces are bluish, nearly cylindrical, contracted toward the mouth, and ribbed with many veins.

The corolla is of a pale bluish violet, of a deeper tint on the inner surface than the outer, tubular, two-lipped, the upper lip with two and the lower with three lobes.

Her beautiful face was tinted with a bluish light, that seemed to surround her with a halo of romance.

The rays of the sun, oblique beams of gold that filtered in from above, illuminating the spirals of dust, flies and moths, made him think in a homesick way of the lush green of the orchard, the white spots of the hamlets, the black smoke columns of the harbor filled with steamships, and the triple file of bluish convexities crowned with froth that were discharging their contents with a sonorous surge upon the bronze-colored beach.

These memories made him turn his eyes toward a huge bluish bulk extending out into the sea and looking to the casual spectator like a great barren island.

It was a sparkling effervescence of yellowing flames, of bluish backs and rosy fins.

It appeared of bluish crystala statue made of a Venetian mirror composition that was going to break as soon as it touched the bottom.

They struggled desperately, one to free himself from the strangle hold, while Joe wished to force a confession from the fellow beneath him whose staring eyes were bulging out of his skull, and whose face had commenced to turn a bluish-black.