Then the flat scales open and the seeds take wing, but the empty cones become still more beautiful and effective, for their diameter is nearly doubled by the spreading of the scales, and their color changes to a warm yellowish-brown; while they remain swinging on the tree all the following winter and summer, and continue effectively beautiful even on the ground many years after they fall.

Every part is flower, (or fruit,) such is its superfluity of color,stem, branch, peduncle, pedicel, petiole, and even the at length yellowish purple-veined leaves.

The body of the edifice, unfortunately, (and it is an outrage which the English churchwardens are fond of perpetrating,) has been newly covered with a yellowish plaster or wash, so as quite to destroy the aspect of antiquity, except upon the tower, which wears the dark gray hue of many centuries.

See this minute agglomeration of yellowish specks on the stalk of the cress.

The King's letter was written in blue characters upon a rare and precious skin of yellowish color, and these were the words of it: "The King of the Indies, before whom walk a thousand elephants, who lives in a palace, of which the roof blazes with a hundred thousand rubies, and whose treasure-house contains twenty thousand diamond crowns, to the Caliph Harun-al-Rashid sends greeting.

The young are of a pale yellowish tint, irregularly brindled with light brown.

Choose ducks with plump bellies, and with thick and yellowish feet.

The rest of the torn follicle makes itself over into a peculiar yellowish body, the true corpus luteum, should pregnancy occur.

He was short and stocky, red-faced, somewhere near the fifties, and a yellowish-gray mustache hung over tobacco blackened lips.

His blood is of a yellowish colour, like those that have been bitten by vipers, and his gall flows as thick in him as oil in a poisoned stomach.

The ridge just hid the shells as they struck, but we could see the smoke from each, now a tall black column, like the "Jack Johnsons" of the west, now a yellowish cloud that hung long afterward like fogand with it the continuous rattle of infantry fire.

Then there are smaller growths like low plants, and curiously colored, some pink, some red, others a yellowish white.

She was gone, and I stood alone in the street, up which yellowish wreaths of fog were beginning to roll.

" "Ah, what was that?" "Some yellowish dust.

There were still no clouds to be seen anywhere, no visible signs of an approaching storm; but the thick veil of yellowish vapor was fast drawing an unnatural twilight over the noonday.

The horses could be indistinctly seen advancing slowly and reluctantly through the yellowish gloom with a curious, sliding motion, as if stepping on ice.

On their heads they wear conical felt hats adorned with a frayed peacock's feather, or a faded band of red cords and tassels,their bodies are clad in red waistcoats, blue jackets, and small-clothes of skin or yellowish homespun cloth,skin sandals are bound to their feet with cords that interlace each other up the leg as far as the knee,and over all is worn a long brown or blue cloak with a short cape, buckled closely round the neck.

During this opening spring weather, no light and scarcely any warmth can penetrate the dull, yellowish-gray mist, which incessantly hangs over the city.

The warmth of an English landscape in sunlight is due to the highest lights being yellowish, and to the shadows being bluish from the sky light illuminating them.

The translucent varieties were found to transmit a yellowish and to reflect a bluish white lightor, in other words, to exhibit the phenomenon of opalescence.

It's hidden under the leaves and it's only yellowish-green.

If lead is present, a yellowish color will be seen very soon after the addition of the iodide.

Each rice kernel, when sufficiently browned, should be of a yellowish brown, about the color of ripened wheat.

On the bottom of the pan or vessel in which true butter is heated, a yellowish-brown crust is formed, consisting of roasted or toasted casein.

Thereas she could not help but stare into the black darkness, there surely was the glare of their eyes, that horrid, yellowish-green, glassy glare!