Long, blue, spiky shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them.

Even in the lower regions, where they have been closed for many a century, their rocky orbits are still discernible, filled in with the detritus of flood and avalanche.

A considerable flow of daylight thus diverted, The Convenience Merchandise Corner, even of early afternoon, fades out into half-discernible corners; a rear-wall display of overalls and striped denim coats crowded back into indefinitude, the haberdashery counter, with a giant gilt shirt-stud suspended above, hardly more outstanding.

On the road hither the immense mountain called the Puy de Dôme is discernible at a great distance; it is said to have been a volcano.

Already a wintry wilderness of garden without, upon which snow and sleet are pitilessly beating, is barely discernible.

"Not only on the stage is the expression of the back discernible, and a knowledge of its character valuable, but in every-day life in drawing-room and street.

If at the close of the sixteenth century the mannerists sought to startle and entrance the world by empty exhibitions of muscular anatomy misunderstood, and by a braggadocio display of meaningless effectscrowding their compositions with studies from the nude, and painting agitated groups without a discernible cause for agitationthe crime surely lay with the patrons who liked such decoration, and with the journeymen who provided it.

The reason why such communications are more delightful and blessed than in the world, is, because conjugial love, as it is the love of the spirit, becomes interior and purer, and thereby more perceivable; and every delight increases according to perception, and to such a degree that its blessedness is discernible in its delight.

Apart from Confucius's criticism of the inadequate capacity of the emperor of his day, there is discernible, though only in the form of cryptic hints, a fundamentally important progressive idea.

And they, too, were among those whose voices are not discernible by human ears.

His face was not in sight, and only the barest outlines of his figure were discernible.

I gaze long and earnestly, but there is no foaming and seething of the water such as is invariably caused by the revolutions of the screwnaught but the long white furrow that a sailing vessel leaves behind is discernible in the schooner's wake.

In effect, two hours later a vague semicircular line that curves outward is discernible about eight miles off.

Back Cup is now only half a mile off, and the seaweed thrown up on its rocky base is plainly discernible.

Then, with discernible impatience, more shortly, "Wilbur Cowan!"

Some one was coming up the lane; at least, a huge faded cotton umbrella was making progress toward the house, and beneath it a pair of nether extremities in trousers was discernible.

Of tales of the old slavery days he seemed indeed to possess an exhaustless store,some weirdly grotesque, some broadly humorous; some bearing the stamp of truth, faint, perhaps, but still discernible; others palpable inventions, whether his own or not we never knew, though his fancy doubtless embellished them.

It is obviously inconsistent with our national dignity that a remedy should not be immediately applied; but when we seek for such, only two courses of action are discernible, in the maze of political quibbles and constitutional scruples that at once suggest themselves.

In this division, effort is no less discernible than powerboth in language and thought there is a struggle at something not yet achieved, and not, perhaps, even yet definite and distinct to the poet himself.

Gracefulness still hovered about the human ruin, discernible in the most aimless of imbecility's weak movements, and the limbs were not those of one accustomed to the drudgery of life.

I do not find Shakespeare's touches very discernible.

In this recommendation the example of the English Board of Agriculture and the influence of his friend Arthur Young are discernible.

In many places they are still discernible.

It is chiefly differentiated from many similar compositions in Latinand the distinction is of some importancein that the interest is purely pastoral; no political or religious allusions being discernible under the arguments of the somewhat quarrelsome swains.

A few States, as I have said, cling to the crude alphabetical system, and quite a number have no discernible system whatever.