But, as I reached the bend in the road where you get your first sight of the buildings, I saw a thin streak of smoke rising from one of its chimneys, and anxious as to its meaning, I drove in" "Wait, Mr. Ranelagh, I am sorry to interrupt you, but by which gate did you enter?"

Her hair was beginning to turn gray, and showed a streak at each side, over her temples.

Your Uncle Pros has got sensein streaks.

Across 'Sieur George's crown, leaving a long, bare streak through his white hair, was the souvenir of a Mexican sabre.

It bore the following, written in pencil, in a firm hand: + BENEATH THIS TREE LIES THE BODY OF JOHN OAKHURST, WHO STRUCK A STREAK OF BAD LUCK ON THE 23D OF NOVEMBER, 1850, AND HANDED IN HIS CHECKS ON THE 7TH DECEMBER, 1850.

"I've been thinking," said Smith, as he refilled his pipe, "of what the Doctor was saying the other evening about every body having a streak of the vagabond in him, which makes him relish an occasional tramp in the old woods among the natural things; things that have not been marred by the barbarisms, so to speak, of civilization.

His eyes were full of hating tears, and they were running down his face, making horrid white streaks on his dirty cheeks.

Just then Doc came in swearing "a blue streak," and announced that Williams had escaped.

As he sat silently watching the white streak of foam in the wake of the vessel, he could see, as in a mirror, all the details of that flowery parlor; he could hear the continuous flow of the fountain in the garden, and the melodious tones of "Buena Notte, amato bene.

It's the game ones that cry when they're licked; analyze a smilin' loser and you'll find the yellow streak.

One moonlit night the old wolf took her cubs to the edge of one of these snow-fields, where the eager eyes soon noticed dark streaks shooting hither and yon over the bare white surface.

At the touch of the rein laid flat against its neck, the cow-pony he rode laid back its ears, turned like a streak of light, and leaped to a hand gallop.

"Take a better look, Andy; don't you see now that it's the same biplane we raced with the day Sandy dropped that bag of sand, hoping to break our winning streak in the dash for Old Thunder Top?"

Then, once again, as we crossed the streak of light that streamed like a narrow moon path from the doorway, Evan paused and nodded his head toward the hall.

" "The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances: he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.

He saw bubbling streaks of white and black hulks.

" "And how?" "I will paint out the streak upon the White Rose, and make it in all things like the Happy Delivery.

Persons in whose make-up it rules are more liable to imagine disturbances of their mentality, or exhibit a well-developed imaginative streak.

He had inherited an obstinate streak from some of his forebears, and declined when it went that far.

Like dazzling pearls the tear-drops streak The pallid beauty of her cheek.

When the husbands took cranky streaks the wives simply made light of it to themselves, and forgot it as soon as possible.

Then I talked a blue streak about you, about the girls, about "Many Waters"how I lost my wheat, and everything.

To the west, a line of low rugged hills threw slight violet streaks on the pale sky.

You men do not recognize the romantic streak which, of more or less breadth and thickness, runs through every woman, making her love good love-making.

He heard talk of a prehistoric sea-beach line, a streak of golden sands which paralleled the shore and lay hidden below the tundra mud.