A few light-colored bristles were already sprouting on his chin and cheeks, and he wore town attire, with a silk hat and gloves, and a bright blue necktie.

Presently a brown one, with light-colored stripes and a bluish tail, is seen traveling over the crumbling wall, running into crannies and out again.

Dead trees, one might have said,light-colored, apparently with no bark to cover them; but if I glanced up, I saw that each bore at the top a scanty head of branches just now putting forth fresh green leaves, while long funereal streamers of dark Spanish moss hung thickly from every bough.

The blacks, it is said, have crisped hair, the Polynesians and light-colored peoples have smooth hair.

Whoever would picture the present ethnic affiliations of the light-colored peoples of the Philippines will soon land in confusion on account of the great number of tribes.

Among the wild tribes of the light-colored population tattooing is not less diffused, but the patterns are not alike in the different tribes.

Then she started off, and ran steadily, the rapid show of the light-colored soles of her feet behind her suggestive of a steamer's wake.

Following the well-defined path, he looked across the little valley before him, and could see, just inside the edge of the woodsthe trees and bushes being much more thinly attired than in the summer timethe form of a lady in a light-colored dress with a red scarf upon her shoulders, sometimes moving slowly, sometimes stopping.

" The Blue Veins did not allow that any such requirement existed for admission to their circle, but, on the contrary, declared that character and culture were the only things considered; and that if most of their members were light-colored, it was because such persons, as a rule, had had better opportunities to qualify themselves for membership.

Three light-colored men, brothers, by the name, we will say, of Green, living in a Boston suburb, married respectively a white, a brown and a black woman.

The wood, which is very light-colored with a tinge of rose in it, is often made into common furniture, as it takes a fine polish and is easy to work with.

The sugar with which the most pains have been taken is very light-colored, and I have seen it almost white.

And it is very light-colored.

It is a low, thick-branched tree with large light-colored downy leaves and dark-scarlet fruit.

I suspect that the touch of sentiment in the place where the young chief will accept a drink from the girl's hand alone is such a case of European influence, and so, in all probability is the preference for a light complexion implied in the tale; for Shooter (p. I) tells us expressly that to be told that he is light-colored "would be esteemed a very poor compliment by a Kaffir.

Zorka, on the contrary, looked gay as she walked along beside the light-colored bear.

But that very day the siren of Bosnia danced her wild dance again in the next village, and with her sweet, melodious voice urged the light-colored little bear: "Mariska, jump, jump!"

He was a tall, imposing gentleman, in a dark suit, over which he wore a light-colored overcoat.

He was dressed from head to foot in a suit of cross-barred, light-colored tweed, of which he wore the coat buttoned tight over his chest, as though to hide some deficiency of linen.

" "Oh, dear, yes; with very stiff mustaches, turned up high at the corners, and pink cheeks, and a very sharp, nobby-looking hat, with a light-colored grey coat, and light gloves.

"You see that light-colored spot in the portico?

" I gazed and gazed at the little light-colored spot in the portico.

Take two pounds of sour apples, peel, cut fine, mix with one-half cup of light-colored raisins, sugar and cinnamon to taste.

Most of them was so light-colored that I fancied I could almost see through them, as if they was the little transparent bugs that crawl about on leaves.

One of these was a young man wearing a nice light-colored sack coat, with a shiny white collar sticking above it, and his black derby hat was on the desk beside him.