In the form crocale the spots are white, the bands narrow.
Small butterflies, white in color, with the apical region of the primaries dark brown, marked with spots and bands of yellowish-orange or crimson.
On the under side the wings are pale, with the dark bands of the upper side reproduced.
The dark apical tract of the primaries is marked by two irregular, somewhat broken bands of white spots.
Allied to the preceding species, but easily distinguished by the submarginal white bands of crescent-shaped spots on the under side.
The female is dark brown on the upper side, with the wings at the base shot with bright lilac-blue; the dark bands on the disk in this sex are prominent, especially on the fore wings.
The hind wings are crossed by irregular basal, median, and postmedian brown bands of darker spots, shaded with deeper brown internally.
The wings on the upper side are generally some shade of deep brown or black, marked with spots and bands of white or fulvous, the median band on the hind wings being generally more or less conspicuous.
The fore wings are crossed by irregular bands of dark spots.
The butterflies are characterized for the most part by dark upper surfaces, with light under surfaces marked with broad bands and lines of varying intensity of color.
On the under side the wings are fulvous, marked with blackbands and spots, and crossed by bands and crescents of pale yellow, as is shown in the figure on the plate.
The circular bands of sky-blue, with small figures in gold, could not be seen without admiration.
Hostile bands stood nearer to each other; all came to close action; prisoners were not exchanged, but made slaves, and among the Romans sold to the infamous schools for gladiators.
The command operated on the South Fork of the Cheyenne and at the foot of the Black Hills for about two weeks, having several small engagements with roving bands of Indians during the time.
The only disagreeable part of the expedition was the necessity of keeping two bands constantly baling.
Several times the leaders of both bands had to call upon their men to present arms, the mob falling back and flying the moment they did so.
What with the war with the Turks, and the war of one captain with another, and what with bands of klephts who plunder everyone, there is no peace nor quiet.
After a time the two bands joined, Martyn considering it imprudent to venture out among the enraged populace in smaller force.
Your bands will fall in behind the main body, which I shall lead.
I think that money would be much better laid out in feeding them than in enabling the politicians and the Klephts to spend it in gaudy dresses and in keeping bands of armed ruffians round them.
They learned that fresh troops had lately arrived at Chios, and that as these bands were principally composed of volunteers, Vehid Pasha, the governor, had great difficulty in maintaining order among them.
They believe entirely in fighting in their own way and dispersing when they choose, just as the Spanish guerilla bands did during the Peninsular War.
I am working off my post as well as I can with the bands playing and flags fluttering outside.
Genoa was a great military post--a large garrison always in the town, constant parades and military display, with bands and flags that were beyond everything attractive to schoolboys.
So the procession moved forward slowly and deliberately to the sound of bombs, songs, and religious melodies let loose into the air by bands of musicians that followed the floats.
Now distant strains of music are heard and the small boys rush headlong toward the outskirts of the town to meet the bands of music, five of which have been engaged, as well as three orchestras.
The bands enter the town playing lively airs, followed by ragged or half-naked urchins, one in the camisa of his brother, another in his father's pantaloons.
To drown out the fitful cheers and the audible murmurs, the bands struck up Spanish national airs.
Gathered in smallbands with such arms as they could secure, they sustained themselves by highway robbery and the levying of blackmail from the country folk.
There is about as much sense and justice in such logic as there would be in that of keeping a babe confined in swaddling-bands and then blaming it for not knowing how to walk.
I can't quite believe it yet, but I haven't been able to find any indication that he can even detect the bands we are using.
It will take six bands of tubes on your tightest beam, LSV3, to reach us.
Bands of robbers infested our peninsula, and it was a dangerous calling to lie in wait for them, and follow them up into the mountains.
The citizens could once more pursue their daily avocations in tranquillity, and bandsof disorderly soldiers no longer roamed about in the neighborhood, destroying and plundering.
Croizette was obliged to repress the advantages of her bust by bands which oppressed and suffocated her, but she kept her pretty plump face with its dimples.
Interlacing bands and curves of intricate pattern, and exhibiting the peculiar Moorish curve, are very characteristic of Saracenic ornament.
A good material for smaller belts, and for strings and bands for connecting larger ones, is that recently patented by Vornberger, in which the gut of cattle is the basis.
They unanimously resolved to desert their Pannonian encampments, and boldly to advance into the warm and wealthy neighborhood of the Byzantine court, which already maintained in pride and luxury so many bands of confederate Goths.
And this insult was a coarse allusion to the white bands which enveloped their legs.
But they say that one of his bands is quartered in the suburb, and that there is a report of a rising in Hertfordshire.
The sound of a bugle was heard at a little distance, and in a few moments a troop of about a hundred men were seen rising above an undulation in the ground, and as the two bands recognized each other, a shout of joy was given and returned.
They stood in ranks of five or six deep and their spear-points glimmering in the moonlight looked like long bands of level steel.
These bands of Northern stipendiaries assumed, therefore, a civil, as well as a military, importance; they were as indispensable to the safety of one state as they were destructive to the security of all.
The two bands coming unexpectedly on each other through this narrow defile, the jealousy of the two houses presently declared itself.
It penetrated the corners and showed up the rude bunk and some mining implements; from a rafter hung a roll of skins done up in bands of some pliable withes.
But when dispersed by the collapse of his revolution against Madero they had split up into bands and overrun the northern Mexican states.
Valles's army will scatter intobands that will rake the country with fine-tooth combs for the least bit of plunder.
The mob, it seems, formed at the Court House, and dividing itself into bands scattered into every direction, holding up and searching both black men and women, beating and shooting those who showed a disposition to resist.
There were plain old fashioned half moon rings in her ears, and bands of gold upon her bare arms enhanced their beauty.
Bands magnificent in equipment and rich in talent have been organized, to flourish for a few years only.
And those who through the same agency had learned in the military bands and drum corps the art of music were indispensable adjuvants in elevating her lowly inhabitants.
The bands struck up, and the brilliant adventurer, Napoleon III.
The bands played, and so did the fountains; the moon and the gas lamps lit up the scene, and altogether it was a brilliant and an animated picture.
Every now and then they fall into the hands of marauding bands and get robbed.
Hope] is a flatterer, A parasite, a keeper back of death; Who gently would dissolve the bands of death Which false Hope lingers in extremity?
In other cases bands of Rebels scoured the country, went to the house of every Home-Guard, and took away his musket.
Presently two bandsof furious wretches appeared, each headed by a man in a state of nudity.
Bands of evangelists from the settlement frequently went up the coast in canoes to the Fort on Saturday to hold services on the Sunday, and their efforts received a manifest blessing.
The two bands of men immediately surrounded them, and so hid their horrid work.
On either side the walls were lined with tiers of boxes bound with steel bands and ready for shipment.
This is a famous game region, and you will be likely to meet small bandsof antelope, mule deer, and wild sheep.
Some of them were probably only camps built by bands of prospectors, and inhabited for a few months or years, while some specially interesting canyon was being explored, and then carelessly abandoned for more promising fields.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
