Among the ducks which whistled around and overhead were many of a small dark species unknown to us.
Of the difficulties and dangers in reaching those points, through marsh and quaking bog, we will not stop to speak; at length all were in place, and ducks already streamed overhead within half gunshot while we awaited the signal to open.
Close overhead hovered graceful Little Gulls (Larus minutus), adults whose dark under-wing contrasted with the snowy breast, others in the marbled plumage of immaturity.
A most curious picture do these singular birds present, either while flying past or hovering overhead on quick-beating pinions, with their absurdly long legs extending far behind like dead straws.
A marsh-harrier, oologically inclined, was being bullied and chased by a score of peewits: and now and then a little string of ducks high overhead would still remind one of winter.
Straight for the sunken tub they held their course, and not till almost overhead did they descry the lurking gun.
Towards morning the sky overhead and far to the north was quite clear.
Cloud has been coming and going overhead all day, drifting from the S.
When the wind arose the sky overhead was clearer than I ever remember to have seen it, the constellations brilliant, and the Milky Way like a bright auroral streamer.
Sheety white snowy stratus cloud hung about overhead during the first march, but now the sky is clearing, the sun very warm and bright.
Weather very curious, snow clouds, looking very dense and spoiling the light, pass overhead from the S.
The spread of stratus cloud overhead was very remarkable.
Shortly after we started mist formed about us, waxing and waning in density; a slight southerly breeze sprang up, cumulo-stratus cloud formed overhead with a rather windy appearance (radial E.
The sky was blue all around the horizon, but overhead a cumulo-stratus grew early; it seemed to be drifting to the south and later to the east.
The roof of the laboratory high overhead plunged downward; the far-distant walls swept inward, contracted.
Far overhead swept a black roof fading into the horizon, beneath his feet was the same metal substance.
The rivers were bordered with high trees, which met overhead and shut out the air, so that they panted for breath; the currents were against them; the water was very unwholesome to drink, and their bread was all gone.
Overhead the rain drums deafeningly on the tarpaulins.
The heat was lessening, and the pale turquoise sky overhead was flecked and dappled with little puffs of rosy cloud, bulking in size and deepening in colour to the westward, where their upper edges were pure gold.
Overhead the roof is perforated at regular intervals with circular shafts, affording both light and ventilation, and enabling the temperature to be regulated to a nicety.
A curious feature about these cellars is that the roots of the larger trees in the garden above have penetrated through the roof of the upper story and hang pendent overhead like innumerable stalactites.
The rain had ceased, the storm had swept across the river and was now flashing and muttering intermittently some seven or eight miles away, and a few stars were peeping out here and there overhead and to the southward.
Not till the sun was directly overhead did the little band come to a halt, and then only to allow them to eat a little, while girths were loosened to give the horses every chance of resting.
Overhead the square of the open hatchway framed a beautiful if confined area of blue sky, across which a few white clouds were scudding.
In any case, the Redskin pointed overheadto the dummy he held and nodded.
A squirrel chattered; a woodpecker rapped high overhead on a dead limb, and at last the young man thrust the key back into his pocket and carried the metal strong box into the house again, unopened.
The sky overhead was splendidly soft and blue, broken by tumbling cloud masses, which, it seemed, one could almost reach out and touch.
Thus she would often remain feeling amply rewarded if she did but catch a sound of her father's voice, until pale dawn and a faint movement overhead warned her that she must return to her room or risk discovery.
Here all was silent, save that through the open window overhead a sound of Jim's unintelligible muttering could be heard occasionally.
It was very pleasant in the garden with the bluest of blue skies overhead and the baby chuckling and crowing in the very first rapture of life on the grass at their feet.
Just a nip of cold in the air, the forerunner of winter, and overhead the leaves on the trees turning all their various reds and golds for autumn.
Under the nearest lamp-post a policeman stood, a solid, magnificent figure of law and order, and overhead in a very dark sky countless little stars shone and twinkled.
The avenue was almost closed overhead by the prodigal foliage of mango trees, and blackened with the soft, thick darkness of the tropics; yet to-night it was meteorically lighted by myriads of fire-flies shimmering in the branches.
Our Lord the Sun burned high overhead in a sky of cloudless blue, and day shimmered in His heat.
The ring of ocean was unbroken on every side, and overhead the vault of heaven remained unchanged.
Out of the black cloud overhead there came a blinding flash of light, which spat downwards on to the altar.
Overhead the night-hawks called, and now and then one came down with a whiz of swooping wings.
Overhead the doctor slept a troubled sleep, and in Gilead Judge Carter slept a sound sleep of good digestion.
A sleeping bag really is no substitute for a roof overhead on a rainy night as alluring advertisements would lead you to believe.
In use keep the axe clear of overhead limbs or brush which might turn it.
Overhead meanwhile the splendid silent sun, blending all, fusing all, bathing all in floods of soft ecstatic perspiration.
And if those three spaceships overhead did come from Walden--but why three?
And every planet they visited would be left with the impression that the fleet overhead was that of bloodthirsty space-marauders who would presently send single ships to collect loot--which must be yielded without resistance.
It loomed hugely overhead when the double file of shaggy horses trotted under its lower arches and across the grass-grown space within it.
So we will sit in silence, the toad and I, watching Altair burn along the shore of the horizon, and overhead Arcturus, and the rival fireflies flickering through the leaves of the apple tree.
What's a fellow to do these days without your music, when we have no longer the noise of the cannon or the shrieking of guns overhead as a substitute?
Overhead observation balloons were floating, which were to move more rapidly than the army and form a part of the advance guard.
With a delicious sound the brook rushed by, and the branches Swayed and sighed overheadin scarcely audible whispers.
It is a sweet place, in the early summer especially, so many wild flowers and ferns, and lots of squirrels overhead among the branches, and little rabbits scudding about down below.
The heather seems to change its shade a dozen times a day, as well as with every season--according as the sky is cloudy or bright, or the sun overhead or on his way up or down.
Before it had burst in sparks, there roared out overhead a deafening voice of fire and thunder, shaking the air about them, bewildering the brain.
Overhead hung the old banners in the high wooden roof; a great fire blazed on the hearth; and under the musician's gallery at the farther end they saw the bright little window behind which sat the secretary.
Occasionally somewhere overhead in the great buildings sounded the whir of a lift, a footstep, the throwing up of a window.
The woods were green, the sky overhead faultlessly blue, and they were alone by themselves in the world, and thus they soon drifted back into that train of thought.
They remained where they liked, went on or rested again for a spell, and in unison with the sky overhead which was cloudless, no carking care came to disturb their serenity.
Overhead the scales could no longer be heard, but the inhabitant of the second storey was still pacing from one end of the room to another.
