And the sound of their going was "as the rushing of a stream of foam when the thunder is traveling above, and
dark-brown night sits on half the hill." To the camp of Swaran was the sound carried, so that he sent a messenger to view the foe.
But she has one thing in the drawer which she can venture to wear to-day, because she can hang it on the chain of
dark-brown berries which she has been used to wear on grand days, with a tiny flat scent-bottle at the end of it tucked inside her frock; and she must put on her brown berries-- her neck would look so unfinished without it.
They were just in time to see another figure standing against a pedestal near the reclining marble: a breathing blooming girl, whose form, not shamed by the Ariadne, was clad in Quakerish gray drapery; her long cloak, fastened at the neck, was thrown backward from her arms, and one beautiful ungloved hand pillowed her cheek, pushing somewhat backward the white beaver bonnet which made a sort of halo to her face around the simply braided
dark-brown hair.
Passepartout, who had been purchasing several dozen mangoes-- a fruit as large as good-sized apples, of a
dark-brown colour outside and a bright red within, and whose white pulp, melting in the mouth, affords gourmands a delicious sensation--was waiting for them on deck.
Her neck rose out of a frill of down, and her well-remembered cable of
dark-brown hair was partially coiled up in a mass at the back of her head and partly hanging on her shoulder--the evident result of haste.
Some were small and
dark-brown in color; those larger were of a dull tin color; but the really ripe ones were pails of bright tin that shone and glistened beautifully in the rays of sunshine that touched them.
One of the horses, a sleek,
dark-brown three-year-old, seeing the dog, started away, switched its tail and snorted.
Her glossy
dark-brown hair showed its coils beneath a cheap hat of black straw whose only ornament was a velvet ribbon and bow.
She had the
dark-brown eyes of her mother -- full and soft, with the steady luster in them which Mrs.
She was a strong, well-made animal, of a bright dun color, beautifully dappled, and with a
dark-brown mane and tail.
Twenty-five years is a long time - a quarter of a century is a dim and distant past; but to this day I remember the
dark-brown feet, hands, and faces of two of these men whose hearts had been broken by the sea.
He might have been sitting for his portrait, which would have represented a rather striking young man of five-and-twenty, with a square forehead, short
dark-brown hair, standing erect, with a slight wave at the end, like a thick crop of corn, and a half-ardent, half-sarcastic glance from under his well-marked horizontal eyebrows.