The ceiling of the boat was festooned with dry morcillas and shiny sobreasadas--her favorite sausages; and there were strips of smoked tunny, and a ham or two sprinkled with red pepper.
Wine-colored nets, the warps festooned with cork toggles, were spread out on the sand, and among them some young roosters were pecking about or grooming their shiny feathers, all agleam with a metallic rainbow luster.
The runners, naked and tattooed, their hair carefully combed in sleek bands and shiny chignons, are chatting, smoking little pipes, or bathing their muscular legs in the fresh water of the torrent.
The atmosphere, the dawning day, the infantine grace of these little girls in their long frocks and shiny coiffures--all is redundant with freshness and youth.
The truth was that he had been rather bragging to the other Cocks, and only a few minutes later he spoke with pride of the time when "our" shiny egg should hatch.
She came off the nest each day just long enough to stroll around and chat with her friends, telling them what wonderful things she expected, and never letting them forget that it was she who had laid the shiny egg.
He came to see if theshiny egg had hatched, but he wouldn't ask.
The Dorking Hen was on one of the long perches where the fowls roost at night, the newly hatched Chicken lay shivering in the nest, and on the floor were the pieces of the wonderful shiny egg.
And still the Dorking Hen sat on her shiny egg and told what a wonderful Chicken she expected to hatch.
The fowls went away, and she tried to roll the shiny one away from the other eggs, but it was slippery and very light and would not stay where she put it.
While Mrs. Dorking was talking with the Bantam by her nest, the Black Spanish Hen scratched a hole in the earth under the perches, poked the pieces of the shiny egg into it, and covered them up.
From that day to this, nobody in the poultry yard has ever spoken of the shiny egg, and the Dorkings are much liked by the other fowls.
The poplars put forth shiny leaves which glittered restlessly in the sunshine, and the meadow-larks filled the whole world with music.
Say, with their shiny hoofs and yeller harness, it almost made your eyes ache to look at 'em.
I finds him half propped up with pillows on a shiny mahogany table, his face all screwed up from the hurt inside, and the freckles showin' up on his dead white skin like peach stains on a table cloth.
I'd peeled off about a yard, when out rolls somethin' shiny that Snick spots and made a grab for.
For a gent that acted as though he'd been born wearin' a high collar and a shiny hat, Sir Twiggle wasn't so worse.
It appeared to her very much like the egg of a bird, resplendent as it was like a bright russet cloud; shiny and smooth like variegated curd and covered with a net for the sake of protection.
Crumbs, that shiny glance Kinder made me king of all the sky from here to France.
Then into the clean grate went a handful of shavings and pitch-pine kindlings, one or two bits of hard wood, and a sprinkle of small, shiny nut-coal.
Indeed, the wiser thing for me to do would be to throw this shiny jewelry into the canal, instead of putting it around Leonora's white neck.
She tied a large, red turban around her temples, from which, attached to a shiny brooch, a heron's feather stuck out.
She stored the cookies in the shiny tin pail that stood on the shelf in the clothes-press of the downstairs bedroom, because that was where her mother had always kept them, to be handy and yet out of reach of the hired help.
His head was that round andshiny when he was a little fellow it was like to a little round apple.
These seeds are flattened, almost quadrangular; testa hard, of a chestnut color, shiny and without albumen.
Among my visitors for the evening is a young gentleman arrayed in shiny top-boots, tight-fitting corduroy trousers, and jockey cap.
Beyond this well the country assumes the character of a broad sink or mud-basin, the shiny surface of its mud glistening in the sun like a sheet of muddy water.
California Bartlett pears, with seductive and appetizing labels on their tin coverings, are seen in plenty, and shiny wrappers envelop oblong cakes of Limburger cheese.
He had driven out from Pierre along the dusty roads, through the sultry heat, in a long shiny automobile.
Mrs. Miller was a dignified, reserved woman who maintained shiny order in her house.
What if some of that shiny hair was twisted around the buttons?
But, luckily for his happiness to-day, he did not know how Angela had laughed when she saw the shiny shoes outside his door.
It was one of those still, shinyautumn days, when everything does seem to be waiting.
The sun was setting in red splendour over the grey and purple hills, and the canal lay smooth and shiny in the shadow--no ripple broke its surface.
A lean Mexican with a long shiny black mustache and a thin neck protruding from a soiled linen collar elbowed a way to the front.
In the moonlight his figure and face were clearly visible: his thin whip-cord body and predatory face, and bald head as shiny and hard as a fish-scale.
It would do for me, you said, but you prance around in a bright shiny one yourself.
He threatened to beat Neale with every snap of his heavy riding whip along the leg of his shiny boots.
He was dressed in a shinyblack suit that was at least two full sizes too small for him.
His long, fat legs, ending in shiny patent leather slippers, hung limply down, and his towsled fair head leant on her shoulder.
The walls were covered with pink and white moire paper, whose shiny surface was broken by various pictures.
Therefore it behooved him to treat her with as much respect as Coppy's big sword or shiny pistol.
It was a very shiny card, and on it was written in ink in round, very distinct writing-- "Miss Elsmaria Buttermish.
The pram's dry as a bone and shiny as yer 'at, and we'll start the first thing in the morning.
When mature, the leaves are dark green and shiny on the upper surface, pale on the lower, more or less covered with down, and with conspicuous rusty brown hairs in the forks of the veins.
They are thick and somewhat leathery, dark green and shiny on the upper surface, lighter green and rough hairy beneath.
These leaves are from two to four inches long and one-half to one inch wide, light green, shiny above and smooth beneath.
The bark is a dark reddish-brown; the leaves are lance-shaped bright green and shiny above, while the fruit is round and bright red in color.
They are dark green andshiny above, but pale and hairy beneath, borne on stout, hairy petioles.
They are green, shiny above and dull below, ranging from 2 to 4 inches long and about the same in breadth.
