It was still raining, and Mrs. Kirby's cottages bloomed through the gray haze like the names they bore, vivid blue and green and magenta.

The colors were astonishing, clear and bright, and it was as if the body held a fire of its own, and the colors came through that transparent flesh and skin, vivid and alive and warm.

There was a revival in the mosaic art, for example: Mosaics became more realistic and vivid, with an increased emphasis on depicting three-dimensional forms.

The plantation legend was " burned " into the mind of the public through Mitchell's vivid prose.

From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

He has been called the " Father of History ", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative.

All of these discoveries were eagerly covered by the world's press, but most of their representatives were kept in their hotels ; only H. V. Morton was allowed on the scene, and his vivid descriptions helped to cement Carter's reputation with the British public.

A vivid description of living standards of the mill workers in England in 1844 was given by Friedrich Engels.

As a result, much of the misleading and vivid detail was removed from the scholarly series of events, even if it remained in the popular accounts.

However, the term lucid was used by van Eeden in its sense of " having insight ", as in the phrase a lucid interval applied to someone in temporary remission from a psychosis, rather than as a reference to the perceptual quality of the experience, which may or may not be clear and vivid.

Paid a low wage, Mao was forced to live in a cramped room near to the university with seven other Hunanese students, but believed that the beauty of Peking offered " vivid and living compensation.

One of Mitchell's most vivid memories of her mother was a women's suffrage rally led by Carrie Chapman Catt.

While Polybius was not the first to promote this ideal ; it was his account that provided the most vivid, cogent illustration of this ideal for later political theorists.

It was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual vivid stripes on the front part of the body only.

The most exclusive was saffron, used as much for its vivid yellow-red color as for its flavor.

Late 17th century was also marked by a vivid intellectual and artistic activity.

Abdullahi Mohammed Hussein of Telecom Somalia explained this by stating that " the government post and telecoms company used to have a monopoly but after the regime was toppled, we were free to set up our own business ", The Economist cited the telephone industry in anarchic Somalia as " a vivid illustration of the way in which governments … can often be more of a hindrance than a help.

The establishment of the democracy was to radically change Athens :" And so it was that the Athenians found themselves suddenly a great power ... they gave vivid proof of what equality and freedom of speech might achieve "

There was even a case where an agent started running deception operations independently from Portugal using little more than guidebooks, maps and a very vivid imagination to convince his Abwehr handlers that he was spying in the UK.

Though during most of the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE several regional powers competed relentlessly for hegemony, many developments occurred: there was new emphasis on grandiose architecture, new clothing fashions, vivid diplomatic correspondence on clay tablets, renewed economic exchanges, and the New Kingdom of Egypt played the role of the main superpower.

De la Beche had been inspired to create the painting by a vivid description of the food chain of the Lias by William Buckland that was based on analysis of coprolites.

Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.

But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.

The sharp ray was absorbed by a cloud, then reflected to the earth in a softer, diffused radiance.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

She even spoke differently when she was clean, and she was clean now for his departure and her voice clear and rather sharp.

( 1 ) When an object was placed in the patient's hand, he had no difficulty determining whether it was warm or cold, sharp or blunt, rough or smooth, flexible, soft, or hard ; ;

A sharp tremor was followed by a jerky roll.

Instead Sergeant Early was quiet, sharp and confident.

Carroll was sharp and military, but he was up against tough competition for that RA berth, and he wanted to play it cool.

It was unlikely that any girl as sharp as Mary Jane Brennan would believe it without proof.

Hank was beginning to feel sharp concern for Mr. Black.

The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.

He was surprised by the sharp sensation he experienced as he approached the pool which Charlotte had mentioned.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

It was day, but in the thin atmosphere contrasts were sharp between light and shadow.

As a tyrannosaurid, Albertosaurus was a bipedal predator with tiny, two-fingered hands and a massive head with dozens of large, sharp teeth.

The final issue of the Englishman, No. 57 for February 15, ran to some length and was printed as a separate pamphlet, entitled The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So-called.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.

Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.

February's volume was 1 per cent above January's for the first pickup since last October, although it's still 1.5 per cent off from February 1960.

When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

This medication was continued until February, 1958.

In 1932 Dorset received its own exchange, which made business easier for the Manchester office, but it was not until February 1953 that area service was extended to include Manchester and Dorset.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.

On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D. C., which was placed under substantial military guard.

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

Gen. Beauregard arrived at Johnston's headquarters at Bowling Green on February 4, 1862 and was given overall command of Polk's force at the western end of Johnston's line at Columbus, Kentucky.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.