Silvery-mauve and blue it lay on the quiet, snowy fields, with a deeper color on the trees, as if they had wound yards and yards of the gauzy stuff around their bare shoulders, for the night was chilly.

Mrs. Gray, in an attractive mauve house-gown, came in from the kitchen.

Tell me, do you see that young lady in a mauve-coloured dress and a large hat, sitting three tables to the left of us?" She looked across and nodded.

" Emile Lemoine, mauve-pink, suffused with white; very handsome. " La Tour d'Auvergne, mauve shaded with rose.

She supposed that it was his right, and she submitted, but released herself as quickly as possible. 'My dearest, how lovely you look in this morning light,' he exclaimed, 'while all the other women are upstairs making up their faces to meet the sun, and we shall see every shade of bismuth by-and-by, from pale mauve to purple.'

Sometimes the mere act of holding the blue or mauve sheet and breathing its scent was like holding his wife's hand and being enveloped in her fresh young fragrance: the sentimental disappointment vanished in the penetrating physical sensation.

He tried to turn away his face from the child's hot kisses; and as he did so he caught sight of a mauve envelope among the hats and sticks on the hall table.

Only a pale, cold mauve tint was left where the flame had blazed.

When I was a little child I played beside you, picking mauve flowers.

It is the little child that prays to you who used to pick mauve flowers.

The dawn light strengthenedthe sky filled with pale tints of emerald, mauve, and rose.

Kitty has taken off her straw hat, the sunlight caresses the delicate plenitudes of the bent neck, the delicate plenitudes bound with white cambric, cambric swelling gently over the bosom into the narrow circle of the waist, cambric fluted to the little wrist, reedy translucid hands; cambric falling outwards and flowing like a great white flower over the green sward, over the mauve stocking, and the little shoe set firmly.

The other looked white, but was really mauve-colored, with black on the head.

They included big and little white egrets and also the mauve and pearl-colored heron, with a partially black head and many- colored bill, which flies with quick, repeated wing-flappings, instead of the usual slow heron wing-beats.

R87788, 29Dec51, Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH) Stories in green, zinzolin, rose, purple, mauve, lilac, and orange. R87807.

R86315, 10Oct51, Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH) Stories in green, zinzolin, rose, purple, mauve, lilac, and orange; translated from the French by Isaac Goldberg.

Her small face was smaller; there was a tinge of green in its honey-whiteness, and of mauve in the dull rose of her mouth.

VII A STILL-CREATION-DAY The blue-green sea is living velvet, and full of light-rings; it goes out to a distant mauve horizon, near which sea-gulls with white gleaming wings are flying.

"With yellow stripes!" shouts the H.C. "On a mauve background," says she, warming to it.

Far above it rose other clay slopes of variegated hues, red and russet and mauve and gray, and colors indescribably merged, all running in veins through this range of hills.

The colors were mauve, taupe, pearl-gray, all stained by a descending band of crimson, as if a higher slope had been stabbed to let its life blood flow down.

These slopes were smooth, graceful, symmetrical, with tiny tracery of erosion, and each appeared to retain its own color, yellow or cinnamon or mauve.

Up there the blue-bells lie in sheets of mauve, and the cuckoo is busy.

Her caskets of jewels were matched by the most wonderful collection of dresses in France, the richest and daintiest confections, from pearl embroidered ball-gowns which cost twenty thousand francs to the mauve and silver in which she went a-hunting in the forest of Fontainebleau.

For awhile they wandered in the sunset light, she with her face to the sky and the wonderful mauve streamers of cloud that spread towards her from the west.