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black and seemed
He seemed timid ( at first, ) wore nose glasses from which a black ribbon dangled, and was no bigger than a jockey.
He was clad in silk and velvet, with the royal lions of Aquilonia worked in gold upon his rich jupon, and the crown of Aquilonia shone on his square-cut black mane ; but the great sword at his side seemed more natural to him than the regal accoutrements.
Within days, Catherine seemed entirely restored, rose from bed and donned the black and white habit of the Third Order of St. Dominic.
According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.
Likewise, the vision, which appeared within a circular vignette or matte, was similarly superimposed over a black area in the backdrop to the scene, rather than over a part of the set with detail in it, so that nothing appeared through the image, which seemed quite solid.
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky — seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
His appearance is vaguely similar to that of Dennis the Menace ; he wears a black and red chequered jumper, black trousers and takes better care of his hair than his equally mischievous counterpart he also used to have a white tie but it has seemed to have disappeared.
In the case of Native Son, people complained that he portrayed a black man in ways that seemed to confirm whites ' worst fears.
" Beat Generation " sold books, sold black turtleneck sweaters and bongos, berets and dark glasses, sold a way of life that seemed like dangerous fun — thus to be either condemned or imitated.
He seemed to provoke them by his aggressively non-conformist lifestyle, symbolized in his black leather jacket, battered hat, dark glasses and perennial scowl.
To us, Buñuel, big and athletic, his black eyes protruding a little, seemed exactly like he always is in Un Chien Andalou, meticulously honing the razor that will slice the open eye in two.
Unpainted, rusting, jagged wire fences along the tracks barred the city from its waterfront ... The engines that pulled trains along the tracks burned coal or oil ; from their smokestacks a dense black smog rose toward the apartment houses, coating windowsills with grit ... stench seemed to hang over Riverside Drive endlessly after each passage of a train carrying south to the slaughterhouses in downtown Manhattan carload after carload of cattle and pigs.
' And it is in this vigorously creative black pop music, at a time when bebop seemed to have lost both its direction and its audience, that some of hard bop's roots may be found.
" Calling black ballplayers ( or ballplayers in " white " professional clubs in that era who seemed too dark to be Caucasian ) " Cuban " was a common practice through World War II.
In 1673, when the king's interest in Montespan seemed to deteriorate, Montespan again employed La Voisin, who provided a series of black masses officiated by Etienne Guibourg.
Locomotives were painted in a shade of green so dark it seemed almost black.
When Leibowitz accused them of excluding black men from juries, they seemed to not comprehend what he was accusing them of.
Beside the main church stood a weighty black cannon with a plaque saying ' Captured at Sevastopol 1865 ', which I thought was a remarkable piece of initiative on the part of the locals-it's not every day, after all, that you find a Nottinghamshire market town storming a Crimean redoubt and bringing home booty-and the shops seemed prosperous and well ordered.
However, the Avatar actress seemed to open Ebony to a new segment – Americans of mixed black and Hispanic ancestry.
Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times called it " a strange and disturbing drama ," which seemed to be " a dark mirror " of " Mr. Williams's concept of life — full of black and appalling images.
The film did not offer anything extra for British fans, except the opportunity to see the sketches in colour at a time when many viewers still had black and white sets, and indeed many were disappointed that the film seemed to belie its title.
After lunch, at which she seemed preoccupied, she left in her mother's Chevrolet wearing a blue Schiaparelli coat over black skirt and white blouse.
That seemed strange to me, as though white sex was cleaner than black sex.

black and rigidly
It is more rigidly balanced than red – black trees, leading to slower insertion and removal but faster retrieval.
The 17 foot ( 5. 1 m ) tall facade is broken down into a rigidly geometric, almost Mondrianesque composition of brightly colored panels between thin steel columns and braces, painted black.
Hopkins, like the rest of Baltimore, was rigidly segregated, and the only black employees at the institution were janitors.

black and back
Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.
The straight, black hair flopped in a vigorous nod, the slender nose plunged toward glass teeth and drew safely back.
She was nude to the waist and her tumbled abundance of black hair did not conceal the knife slashes on her back.
He brushed back his black hair, shoving it under his pastor's cap to keep it from blowing in his eyes.
The white people fall back bitterly before the black horde ; ;
Pigments or dyes that absorb light rather than reflect it back to the eye " look black ".
Home caps are white in front and black at the back with an orange bill, while the road caps are all black with an orange bill.
They also felt that it would give ammunition to those who were advocating repatriating black people back to Africa.
The back has tawny-colored underfur and long, black-tipped guard hairs that form a black dorsal stripe and a dark cross on the shoulder area.
In 1994, the ' make or break ' system, according to Pleasance, was the 32-bit CD-ROM-based game console: the CD32, but it was not sufficiently profitable to put Commodore back in the black.
* Response time is the time a pixel in a monitor takes to go from active ( white ) to inactive ( black ) and back to active ( white ) again, measured in milliseconds.
The reds range from coppers to deep rusts, with or without somewhat common black hairs peppered along the back, face, and ear edges, lending much character and an almost burnished appearance ; this is referred to among breeders and enthusiasts as a " stag " or an " overlay " or " sable ".
There is then a cut to close shot of the hands on the girl's foot shown inside a black circular mask, and then a cut back to the continuation of the original scene.
In the SeSotho group of languages spoken in South Africa pushback refers to a combed back hair style, commonly worn by black women with chemically straightened hair ; and stop-nonsense refers to pre-fabricated concrete slabs used as fencing.
It had a black back and a white belly.
The back was primarily a glossy black, while the stomach was white.
It also has a white neck stripe but the back is normally black.
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