Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

It was dark early, because of the storm.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

Underneath him the sea was a dark and muddied gray.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.

A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.

There was a host of dark horses.

It was dark.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

The school was small, dark and ill-equipped.

Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.

Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.

it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.

But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.

Rachel's tone was dry.

The times I can recall when I was publicly humiliated by him -- lovely dinner parties in our Trianon Suite where the collation was postponed and postponed and postponed, only to be served dry and overcooked at a table where the host's chair was vacant ; ;

In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.

Then we drove on, until there was no more road and we traversed dry rice fields, bouncing across their squat earth walls.

The terminology of the range, in speakin' of `` dry stock '' and `` wet stock '', was confusin' to the tenderfoot.

Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.

Harvest was in the late spring and during the dry summer months.

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The gut was then cut and stretched and fastened to stakes to dry and then made into waterproof parkas, bags, and other receptacles ( Turner Ch.

It enlarged a network of monitoring sites to determine how acidic the precipitation actually was, and to determine long term trends, and established a network for dry deposition.

A novel assay that mimics dry bacterial exposure to touch surfaces was developed because this test method is thought to more closely replicate real world touch surface exposure conditions.

This clump was the best on the island, planted near a water seep, but the dry climate and sea birds, eager for anything upon which to perch, did not give the trees or shrubs much of a chance to survive.

The following day, at 01: 00, Marlborough dispatched Cadogan, his Quartermaster-General, with an advanced guard to reconnoitre the same dry ground that Villeroi ’ s army was now heading, country that was well known to the Duke from previous campaigns.

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.

Fire the hot and dry element, like the other elements was an abstract principle and not identical with the normal solids, liquids and combustion phenomena we experience: