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It consisted of wood and stones, and was covered with a thick layer of moss, raised at the head in a slanting direction. [10]
It was Virginia who first caught sight of the new dome of the Capitol through the slanting rain, but she merely pressed her lips together and said nothing. [9]
To the right, where a river empties in, were scattered groups of queer, rakish craft, each with four slanting pipes and a tiny flag floating from her halyards; a flag--as the binoculars revealed--of crimson bars and stars on a field of blue. [9]
If the stone were now tipped over, it would slide into its place, and could be easily raised from its slanting position to the perpendicular. [6]
The silky mountains were clothed in soft, rich splendors of melting color, and some of the cliffs were veiled in slanting mists. [5]
The slanting walls were built as firmly as if they were intended to last for centuries and defy a violent assault. [10]
At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss. [4]
The planet Mars was burning like a red coal; the northern constellation was slanting downward about its central point of flame; and while he looked, a falling star slid from the zenith and was lost. [6]
The State House was a building with much pretension to beauty, built in the classical style, of a yellow stone, with sold white blinds in the high windows and mighty columns capped at the gently slanting roof. [9]
They were toiling up a long, slanting ridge of snow--twelve persons, roped together some fifteen feet apart, marching in single file, and strongly marked against the clear blue sky. [5]
I was obliged to exert the utmost care and caution, for in many places the road was not two yards wide, and often the lower side of it sloped away in slanting precipices eight and even nine feet deep. [5]
It consisted of the plank platform on which he stood, a wooden house, half painted, with a dirty piazza (unroofed) in front, and a sign board hung on a slanting pole--bearing the legend, "Hotel. [5]
You could follow the line of the procession back, and slanting upward into the sky, far away in a glittering snaky rope, till it was only a faint streak in the distance. [5]
One stroke of the knife cut into the sleeve of Reeder's coat and passed downward in a slanting direction through his clothing, and entered his body at the small of the back; another blow struck more squarely, and made a much more dangerous wound. [5]
The toils of the forenoon, the heats of midday, in the warm season, the slanting light of the descending sun, or the sobered translucency of twilight have subdued the vivacity of the early day. [6]
The fragrant marshes that bordered it were a vivid green under the slanting rays of the sun, and she was gazing across them at the breakers crashing on the beach beyond. [9]
White walls, gaudily-painted temples and private villas gleamed among the green, and the slanting rays of the low sun, shining on the drops that fell from the never-resting wheels and buckets that irrigated the land, turned them into showers of diamonds. [10]
One was from Susan Holt, and the other, written in a large, slanting, and angular handwriting, was signed Lily Dallam. [9]
And the afternoon sun, slanting through the square of the window, fell upon the maps and papers before him. [9]
From where I stood, the two vessels seemed nothing but spars and sails, while their narrow decks, far below, slanting over by the force of the wind aloft, appeared hardly capable of supporting the great fabrics raised upon them. [5]
The sun was still slanting over the tops of the houses the next morning when Virginia, a ghostly figure, crept down the stairs and withdrew the lock and bolt on the front door. [9]
At times a sort of mist descended, and then suddenly heavy slanting rain came down. [2]
The walls and slanting roof of this quickly-built and movable banqueting-hall, consisted of a strong, impenetrable carpet-stuff, woven at Thebes, and afterwards dyed purple at Tanis by the Phoenicians. [10]
The sun was slanting in yellow bars through the branches of the great trees, and a robin's note rose above the bass chorus of the frogs. [9]
The sun was slanting his last rays into the corridors as I musingly looked down from one of the arched openings, quite spellbound by the strangeness and dead silence of the place, broken only by the plash of waves on the sandy beach below. [4]
The setting sun shot slanting rays on the glittering surface of the glassy waters in which the numberless masts of the Nile-boats were mirrored. [10]
The sun had risen brightly and its slanting rays struck straight into Napoleon's face as, shading his eyes with his hand, he looked at the fleches. [2]
The sun had reached the other side of the house, and its slanting rays shone into the open window, lighting up the room and part of the morocco cushion at which Princess Mary was looking. [2]
It was a perfect evening of early June, the great lawn a vivid green in the slanting light. [9]
It was one of these long, slanting, two-mile crossings; so I was a good long time in getting over. [5]
On both sides of the valley through which the Hebrews were passing towered lofty cliffs of grey granite, which glittered and flashed marvellously when the slanting sunbeams struck the bits of quartz thickly imbedded in the primeval rock. [10]
A man's figure muffled in a greatcoat slanting carefully across the street caught their eyes. [9]
And, though the month was March, the slopes of Burrow Head were green as the lawn of Carvel Hall in May, and the slanting rays danced on the ruffed water. [9]
The army was made up of white slanting lines that filled the air like the cobwebs that float about in autumn and which Dessalles called les fils de la Vierge. [2]
He took a look at a small and uncertain-minded glass which hung slanting forward over the chapped sideboard. [6]
There was no light in Arsinoe's room but that which could creep in through a narrow opening just below the ceiling; the slanting rays fell directly on the bed up to which Keraunus went. [10]
The ghostly blue light from a distant arc came slanting in at the window, glinting on the brass knobs of the chest of drawers-another Bumpus heirloom. [9]
Well, the American husband is old Dryfoos all over; no mustache; and hay-colored chin-whiskers cut slanting froze the corners of his mouth. [8]
Higher up the hill, on the very horizon, our guns were visible through the wonderfully clear air, brightly illuminated by slanting morning sunbeams. [2]
The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with the tangled braid Of foam-flecked Oregon. [6]
All the shrubs, fir trees, stables, houses, etc., seem to be bent in a slanting direction, as by an immense pressure of air. [5]
The eyes were dark, very bright, and wide apart, with little eyebrows dabbed over them at a slanting angle. [9]
The shutters were closed, and the intensity of the tropical glare without was softened and diffused by the slanting green slats. [9]
The weather had cleared, the violet-paned windows caught the slanting sunlight and flung it back across the piles of snow. [9]
At last Cynthia came to a queerly fashioned little green door that seemed all askew with the slanting street, and rang the bell, and in another moment was standing on the threshold of Miss Lucretia Penniman's little sitting room. [9]
Arrow-heads must be brought to a sharp point, and the guillotine- axe must have a slanting edge. [6]
They wall up both banks with slanting solid stone masonry--so that from end to end of these rivers the banks look like the wharves at St. Louis and other towns on the Mississippi River. [5]
Half-way to her bench she stopped, just where a wide shaft of light fell slanting from a window, and slowly lifted her face. [5]
She looked up at the sun, which was slanting towards evening. [11]
We had seen and travelled over so much worse places that this little bit of slanting road seemed as nothing. [6]
When she awoke again, broad day was shining through the lofty openings in the walls, and, stealing in slanting rays but midway down, seemed to make the building darker than it had been at night. [12]
It rose in a slanting direction towards the wall, that the sufferers' heads might be higher than their feet. [10]
So he began-- 'Do you see that long slanting line on the face of the water? [5]

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