On the day of the Colonel's arrival all the presents which Newcome had ever sent his sister-in-law from India had been taken out of the cotton and lavender in which the faithful creature kept them.

As a preliminary to future moves, he decided not to lose sight of Lavender for the rest of the day.

She had seen the gradual heightening of brilliance from dawn to noon, and then the fading-out from that high, white-hot glare, through gold and rose and salmon and purple, to the ashy lavenders of twilight and so into gray and the metallic, glittering coldness of the mountain night.

Go back to the Life-saving Station where he had worked in his lusty youthback to the sound of the surf upon the shore, back to the pines and cedars of the Beach, out of the bondage of dry old lavender to the goodly fragrance of balsam and sea-salt!

And after she had gone I arranged your linen and sprinkled lavender among it.

"This, Captain Darby, makes your rejection final," vowed Blossy to herself, as she tore the note into fragments and drowned them in the spirits of lavender with which the sisters had been seeking to soothe her distracted nerves.

Miss Lucinda took her lavender-bottle out of her pocket and softly bathed his head and face; then she took off her sack and folded it up under his head, and put the lavender beside him.

It is so beautifully kept, and such lovely linen, all with lavender between it; and she talked to the housekeeper, and looked over everythingshe seemed to know each sheet by name!

The sky over the city gradually turned from flawless blue through lavender into violet, and silver stars emerged. 2: Sent to Ceres THE SPLENDOR of the Asteroid Belt stretched away in all directions, and the piercing light of uncountable stars filled the background.