While conversing with him the captain felt something move behind him, and turning round and removing a few skins and old buffalo robes, discovered a young girl, about fourteen years of age, crouched beneath, who directed her
large black eyes full in his face, and continued to gaze in mute surprise and terror.
I went to see him because I was told he had a
large black pearl which he was willing to sell cheaply, and when I discovered that it was beyond my means I began to talk to him about Strickland.
He was a shy, quiet, dark person, with a pale, closely-shav en face, agreeably animated by
large black eyes, set deep in their orbits.
"As gentle as e'er a lady in the land," said Tony, turning his
large black eye round the room, and letting it dwell a moment on the beautiful face of Julia--her heart throbbed with tumultuous emotion at the first sound of his voice, and she was highly amused at the ingenuity he had displayed, in paying a characteristic compliment to her gentleness, in this clandestine manner--if he preserves his incognito so ingeniously he will never be detected, thought Julia, and all will be well.
It was a
large black stove that stood in the hall and was only lighted if the weather was very bad and the Vicar had a cold.
They were "cestracio philippi" sharks, with brown backs and whitish bellies, armed with eleven rows of teeth-- eyed sharks--their throat being marked with a
large black spot surrounded with white like an eye.
His naturally dark complexion had been deepened by exposure to the tropical sun, and a mass of jetty locks clustered about his temples, and threw a darker shade into his
large black eyes.
The startling contrast between the corpse-like pallor of her complexion and the overpowering life and light, the glittering metallic brightness in her
large black eyes, held him literally spell-bound.
The first object with which they had an association, or of which they had a remembrance, was a
large black board with a dry Ogre chalking ghastly white figures on it.
Just then the Tulip Society of Haarlem offered a prize for the discovery (we dare not say the manufacture) of a
large black tulip without a spot of colour, a thing which had not yet been accomplished, and was considered impossible, as at that time there did not exist a flower of that species approaching even to a dark nut brown.
She had an Italian cast of countenance and bearing,
large black eyes beneath their well arched brows, a native nobleness, and candid grace.
It was a
large black beetle with formidable jaws -- a "pinchbug," he called it.