From a belt of marvellous, glowing gold, rich and splendid streamers of light spiralled up into the blackness of the heavens.

" His followers all he bade them dress in Christian array, With rude and rustic mantles of color bright and gay; With silken streamers in their caps, their caps of pointed crown, With flowing blouse, and mantle and gaberdine of brown.

" Into the night the shallop turned, while floated far behind The captive's lamentation like a streamer on the wind.

" "Suspended?" gasped Mrs. Kingdom, pushing back the white streamer to the cap which she wore in memory of the late Mr. Kingdom, and sitting upright.

"As the last rays of sunlight disappeared, the corona burst out all around the sun, so intensely bright near the sun that the eye could scarcely bear it; extending less dazzlingly bright around the sun for the space of about half the sun's diameter, and in some directions sending off streamers for millions of miles.

Faint streamers from the dark, inscrutable house of fear reached him even then and left their vague, undecipherable signatures upon the surface of his soul.

But the brilliancy varied, as the green ethereal fire waved mysteriously to and fro, or shot up long streamers toward the zenith.

Ah, with what fervent joy Jack marks the Union banner, flapping its twin streamers among the hurtling pines!

But no one with such streamers as Sir Edward's can ever have idle hands.

Mark, too, how grandly the banners wave as the wind is deflected against their sides, and how trimly each is attached to the very summit of its peak, like a streamer at a masthead; how smooth and silky they are in texture, and how finely their fading fringes are penciled on the azure sky.

It must be about four o'clock of a midsummer afternoon and a cloudless sky, except for white streamers over Tinto.

And there for a long time he crouched, watching the strange, grey, ragged masses trail their streamers across his narrowed sky.