It passed, unreal and timeless, in a glorious mist, a delighted fever: the background a blur of glossy white bulkheads and iron rails, awnings that fluttered in the warm, languorous winds, an infinite tropic ocean poignantly blue; the foreground, Miss Forrester.

He had finished breakfast, and lighted a short, fat, glossy pipe.

The wrinkled face was Wutzler's, but his weazened body was lost in the glossy black folds of a native jacket, and below the patched trousers, his bare ankles and coolie-sandals of straw moved uneasily, as though trying to hide behind each other.

" cried Ralph, bending down to smooth the glossy neck of his animal, and laughing gaily,"why, nothing but a word!

I remember a tall poplar of monumental proportions and aspect, a vast pillar of glossy green, placed on the summit of a lofty hill, and a beacon to all the country round.

Mrs. Lessways' thin, wrinkled face, bordered by her untidy but still black and glossy hair, was upturned from below in an expression of tragic fretfulness.

And she thought of his glossy opulence.

On the other, a gang of men and boys, who, as the night fell, worked, many of them, altogether naked, their glossy bronze figures gleaming in the red lamplight, and both men and women singing over their work in wild choruses, which, when the screaming cracked voices of the women were silent, and the really rich tenors of the men had it to themselves, were not unpleasant.

Adj. smooth; polished &c v.; leiodermatous^, slick, velutinous^; even; level &c 213; plane &c (flat) 251; sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate^, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled^; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly &c (feathery) 256.

I did not inherit the fulness of my mother's beauty, but had yet some traits of her,the pale, clear skin, the large, black eyes, the glossy and abundant hair.

He would have liked furiously to kick and trample upon that glossy emblem of the civilised world; he had much ado to refrain.

Under them was a neglected orange grove, and in one of the orange-trees, amid the glossy foliage, appeared my first summer tanager.

A humming-bird was hovering amid the white blossoms and glossy leaves.

Not far beyond my halting-place of two days before I came to a Cherokee rosebush, one of the most beautiful of plants,white, fragrant, single roses (real roses) set in the midst of the handsomest of glossy green leaves.

The country breds, with slender limbs, small heads, and glossy coats, look dainty and delicate as antelopes.

A well-kept shrubbery surrounded the house, and tall casuarinas, and glossy dark green india-rubber and bhur trees, formed a thousand combinations of shade and colour.

The plumage was very thick and glossy, and it proved afterwards to be excellent eating.

He glanced in the direction of the sound, and his quick eye detected the glossy coats, the beautifully spotted hides of not one leopard, but two.

Tall and commanding in his appearance, his dark, glossy hair, and finely curved mustache, gave a fine effect to his noble countenance, the peculiar light of his eye speaking volumes.

It might not be so likely a place to get fancy drinks in as Broome Street, certainly, we must admit, as we picture to ourselves some brushy ravine in which the trapper has his irons cunningly set out for the betrayal of the stone-marten and the glossy-backed "fisher-cat,"but the breeze in it is quite as wholesome as a brandy-smash.

A mountain-plant whose stem has a thin, glossy, black sheath, that is stripped off and used in twisting the decorative leglet called tikus.

The Hottentots are black, but without that glossy appearance which distinguishes the negro.

The yucca makes it soft and glossy.

His shirt front was as glossy as his baldness, and in his buttonhole he wore the red ribbon bestowed on him for waiving his claim to a Velasquez that was wanted for the Louvre.

Then they had been very fine to see in their clean uniforms and on their glossy horses, garlanded with flowers.