... and delicately fluted; the green belt was broader than the orange, and pressed down on and contracted it. Above the green in turn appeared a red glow, broader and burlier in make; it was softly brindled, and in the ribs or bars the colour was rosier,... Nature - Page 199edited by - 1884Full view - About this book
| Kate Flint - 2000 - 450 pages
...orange, and pressed down on and contracted it. Above the green in turn appeared a red glow, broader and burlier in make; it was softly brindled, and in the...was a mallow colour. Above this was a vague lilac and so it continues.85 Such sunsets fed directly into Tennyson's 'St Telemachus', into a rather limp... | |
| Judith Flanders - 2004 - 560 pages
...orange, and pressed down on and contracted it. Above the green in turn appeared a red glow, broader and burlier in make; it was softly brindled, and in the...was a mallow colour. Above this was a vague lilac . . ,68 Given the Victorian home, the olive, celadon, and lilac skies must have harmonized beautifully.... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 1196 pages
...took a beautiful olive or celadon green, not so vivid as the previous day's, and delicately tinted : the green belt was broader than the orange, and pressed...it, compared by one beholder to a man's open hand. By 4.45 the red had driven out the green, and, fusing with the remains of the orange, reached the horizon.... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1920 - 354 pages
...orange and pressed down on and contracted it. Above the green in turn appeared a red glow broader and burlier in make ; it was softly brindled and in the ribs or bars of colour was rosier ; in the channels where the blue of the sky shone through VOL. 167 65 •? it... | |
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