Then, having lifted the inanimate body to the couch, and placed the vase, with its contents, on the floor of his cavern, he stepped to the entrance, and shading his eyes with his hand, seemed to gaze abroad in quest of some anticipated visitor.

I am thinking of fern forests that once did towering stand, Crowning all the barren mountains, shading all the dreary land.

He waddled down the compound path, shading with his fan a shrewd, bland face, thoughtful, yet smooth as a babe's.

Marjorie was a plain little body while Hollis was noticeably handsome with eloquent brown eyes and hair with its golden, boyish beauty just shading into brown; his sensitive, mobile lips were prettier than any girl's, and there was no voice in school like his in tone or culture.

But, as the shore of this vast sea of sand, Stretches afar a country rich and green, With waving foliage shading all the land, And flowing waters bright with sunny sheen; And here browse countless herds of dappled deer, Blesboks and antelopes, remote from fear.

"The unbelievers have cooked their morning food," said the Baggara chief, shading his eyes with his tawny, sinewy hand.

Alone, at least, in the finer shading of that adjective; aside from the usual assortment of self-contained fellow-travellers in the third-class carriage, he had no company other than his thoughts; a gray and meagre crew, if that pathetic face of middle-age furnished trustworthy reflection of his mind....

" Ten days later, a girl in her late teens stood shading her eyes watching a tiny object against the sky.

"Nam-Bok was ever clumsy at the paddle," she maundered reminiscently, shading the sun from her eyes and staring across the silver-spilled water.

Their mania was an excessive simplification of argument; they put high-sounding words in the place of reason, and made too much of a few ideas, always the same, lifeless for lack of colour or shading.

exclaimed Prather, shading his eyes to watch the file of figures now passing under the cotton-woods.

" The road was not again visible for some distance, but when the buggy reappeared Peggy gave a start, and exclaimed: "Dar's on'y one pusson in it now, Miss Rob." "Which is it?" exclaimed her mistress quickly, shading her eyes, and endeavoring to see for herself.

All tan should be darker at the roots than at the middle of the hairs, shading off to a still lighter tan at the tips.

San Francisco Bay was distantly visible from the bleachers, blue shading to gray.

The forests were composed of mere leaved wood, the palms becoming at every step more rare; one or two might sometimes be seen, here and there, towering aloft like giants, and shading everything around.

Then she pushed the door and looked in, shading her candle with her hand, from her eyes, so as to look over it.

Over the limbs of the damsel she wrapt it: the maid still trembled, Shading her face with her hands; for the eyes of the goddess were awful.

Nothing could exceed the delicacy of her complexion, or the lovely mould of her features, which, though they had lost much of their fulness and roundness, had gained in expression; while the pencilled brows clearly traced upon her snowy forehead, the long dark eyelashes shading her cheek, and the rich satin tresses drooping over her shoulders, completed her attractions.

The main portion of the house was of two stories, its immediate front occupied by the inevitable facade with its four white pillars, which rose from the level of the ground to the edge of the roof, shading the front entrance to the middle rooms.

The same leaf will sometimes show two at least of these coloursgreen shading into brown, or into a ruddy gold.

The mingling, shading, and contrast of these colours give a lovely resultthe tree is aglow, its foliage ripe with colour.

It is a goodly spectacle to see her in rustling ample silk, in costly sealskin, in a bonnet 'loud' but rich, shading a countenance that glows ruddy red as a furnace.

There was a centerpiece of red roses, red silk candle shades shading white candles in clear glass candlesticks, and tiny green Christmas ferns scattered on the white cloth.

"Where are we?" queried Julius, peering out of the window, his hand shading his eyes.

" She seated herself on the chair by the bedside, and, shading the candle from the patient's faceand her own, tooproduced from a bag that hung from her waist a half-finished stocking and began to knit silently and with the skill characteristic of the German housewife.