Breezes whispered through his hair and a single black-barred feather drifted down. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
The Sandeman's familiar tattoo of a black-barred violet flower was missing from his cheek, but Medart knew him well enough to recognize him easily without it. From Wordnik.com. [Zeta Exchange A Terran Empire story] Reference
All was accordingly got ready: the towel, the most antique ewer, even the jennet, piebald, black-barred, cream-coated, pink-eyed -- and only then, on the day before the party, was the Duke's pleasure signified to his lady. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
I dunno, maybe they could have black-barred the stick figures 'genital regions, too? fanboy d add some stick figure animation in the tv spots or throw the new poster art at the end of theatrical trailers and voila - you've marketed a movie gocitizen. From Wordnik.com. [Zack and Miri Make a Porno MPAA Approved Movie Poster | /Film] Reference
Here and there a moor-hen or two swam quietly about flicking its black-barred white tail. From Wordnik.com. [Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp] Reference
Tigers they looked like, superb tigers of the insect world, with their tawny black-barred bodies. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Maya the Bee] Reference
They went indoors again, and upstairs to their parents 'front bedroom, whose windows looked down on the road, and across the country at the black-barred sunset, black and red barred, without light. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
For instance, it is probable that in each generation of the barb-pigeon, which produces most rarely a blue and black-barred bird, there has been a tendency in each generation in the plumage to assume this colour. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference
The house to which we had been directed was on the hill, and from its windows one could look down on the barracks-like pile of stone with the evil little black-barred slits of windows, below and perhaps a quarter of a mile away. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
A powerful raptor, apparently an eagle with black-barred wings, hung high in air amongst the swallows winging their way northwards, and the Madeiran sparrow-hawk was never out of sight; ravens, unscared by stone-throwing boys, flew over us unconcernedly, while the bushes sheltered many blackbirds, the Canary-bird. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
Look at those gigantic ceibas yonder; those long, trailing ropes of purple orchids; see those flamingoes with their scarlet, black-barred wings, their long thin legs, and their curiously twisted beaks; observe those graceful white birds with their handsome crested heads; ay, and even the very monkeys swinging down by the creepers to dip up the water and drink it out of the palms of their hands; it is all much more familiar and homelike to me than ever was the scenery of Devon. From Wordnik.com. [Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess] Reference
As they came near one bed of reeds several coots began to paddle away, jerking their bald heads as they went, while a couple of moor-hens, which as likely as not were both cocks, swam as fast as their long thin unwebbed toes would allow them, twitching their black-barred white tails in unison with the jerking of their scarlet-fronted little heads, and then taking flight upon their rounded wings, dragging their long thin toes along the top of the water, and shrieking with fear, till they dropped into the sheltering cover ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp] Reference
Fashion Don't by E! or worse, black-barred in the back of Unless you're on the catwalk, the Chanel-clad matriarch of an old-money family, the designer him / herself and / or schmoozing with the actual designer (like. From Wordnik.com. [Fashiontribes.com Fashion Blog - Style, Beauty, Luxury Lifestyle & Shopping] Reference
Furthermore, in this sea of houses, the eye could distinguish, by the high, perforated mitres of stone which at that period capped even its topmost attic windows, the palace presented by the town, in the reign of Charles VI, to Juvénal des Ursins; a little farther on, the black-barred roofs of the market-shed in the Marché Palus; farther off still, the new chancel of Saint-Germain le Vieux, lengthened in 1458 by taking in a piece of the Rue aux Febves with here and there a glimpse of causeway, crowded with people, some pillory at a corner of the street, some fine piece of the pavement of Philip Augustusmagnificent flagging, furrowed in the middle for the benefit of the horses, and so badly replaced in the middle of the sixteenth century by the wretched cobblestones called pavé de la Ligue; some solitary court-yard with one of those diaphanous wrought-iron stair-case turrets they were so fond of in the fifteenth century, one of which is still to be seen in the Rue des Bourdonnais. From Wordnik.com. [II. A Birds-Eye View of Paris. Book III] Reference
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