The world, so much of it as I could see, had assumed a dreadful shade of gloom, as though, in very deed, the last day of the worlds approached.

They are commonly from fifteen to eighteen inches long, and three in diameter; green, shaded with dark purple on their sunward sides.

Oftener than not Adalia spends its evening snugly behind these drawn shades in great scoured kitchens or dining-rooms, the house-fronts dark.

He must himself be in someway shaded from the light, which must be cast forward so that both the hunter and the boatman will be in the shadow.

Then, seeming not to notice the shade on her companion's face: "I promised my children they should sing for you.

And yet he is anything but quarrelsome or contrary, even when a shade over the line of strict sobriety.

Along the sides of the highway we travelled, were planted rows of trees, not unlike our sycamores, which afforded a refreshing shade to the traveller; and commonly a rivulet ran bubbling along one side or the other of the road.

" It was always Pap's custom to call Shade by the first syllable of his second name.

He said when he was a young man he and a railroad brakeman got busted at Topeka, and they had an order book printed, and went all over Kansas taking orders for Osier willows, which they warranted to grow so high in two years they would make fences for the farms that no animals or blizzards could get over or through, and make shade for the houses and the whole farm.

The fan continued its majestic sweep from the shade into the sunlight, and back again into the shadow.

He really seemed to me all alive, and is either a genius or crazythe shade between is so delicate that I can't always tell to which a person belongs!

Crossing the treeless plains of the Sacramento and San Joaquin from the west and reaching the Sierra foot-hills, you enter the lower fringe of the forest, composed of small oaks and pines, growing so far apart that not one twentieth of the surface of the ground is in shade at clear noonday.

It was only a little spot of shade like an island in a sea of heat and brightness.

Her hair was a trifle darker in shade than the silky brown on the head of Carolyn June.

A good part of her territory is already as bare and common-place as much of our neighborhood, and her villages generally are not so well shaded as ours.

But the reader should remember when reading it that the man who wrote it was in such a weakened condition that he had not sufficient energy left to withstand the hot wind, whilst the shade under which the party sought shelter was of the scantiest description.

More high, to where creation seems to end, Shade above shade the desert pines ascend.

CHAPTER XXX BY ANOTHER HAND A wanderer from Little Arcady in early days returned to its placid shades after many years, drawn thither by a little quick-born yearning to walk the old streets again.

I turn from it all to wander back With Memory down the dusty track Of the years that lie between, To the farm-house old and brown, Shaded with poplars dusky green, I pause at its gate, not a bearded man, But a boy with earnest eyes.

Kurt sat down in the shade near his mother's grave and looked away across the hills with dim eyes.

But Robin had not gone more than three furlongs in that direction when he came suddenly to the brow of a hill, and saw beneath him another band of the King's men seated in the shade along the roadside in the valley beneath.

At eleven, our morning visit to the school hospital over, we breakfasted in the salle-à-manger, a large bright room, one or other of whose many south windows had almost daily, even in the depth of winter, to be shaded against the rays of the sun.

Neuman's face took a shade off color.

He desired that "all would aim at the Lucanian traitor and deserter;" adding, that "the man who should send that victim to the shades before him, would acquire the most distinguished glory, and furnish the highest consolation for his own death."

They waited on vines to cover their sides and trees to cast shade across their doorways.