| 单词 | fleecy |
| 例句 | I skipped to the window, stunned to see that there was hardly a cloud in the sky, and those there were just fleecy little white puffs that couldn’t possibly be carrying any rain. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Here, Abby showed him his own fleecy dog bed, and it was heated! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I sat down on the metal bleachers, glad for my fleecy sweatpants. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Over chair-backs in hall they dropped their mantles and passed in to the polished tubs, where maids poured out warm baths for them, anointed them, and pulled fresh tunics, fleecy cloaks around them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The longer I stared up at it and the blue sky and fleecy clouds beyond, the more it seemed like a bridge across the world. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I sat on our usual bench, prying the juicy red seeds out of the fruit and slowly sucking on them one by one, staring at the fleecy white clouds. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull on a thick, fleecy nightgown and climb into bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Meanwhile at Kirke’s hands the rest were gently bathed, anointed with sweet oil, and dressed afresh in tunics and new cloaks with fleecy linings. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He said no more, but Helen called the maids and sent them to make beds, with purple rugs piled up, and sheets outspread, and fleecy coverlets, in the porch inside the gate. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If he chanced to meet his mother in the hall, she would not look at him but rather study the fleecy spheres of lint that drifted along the floor in her son’s wake. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I must have fallen asleep, because when I opened my eyes, there were blankets on top of me, several of those thin, fleecy airline squares. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There was a beautiful day unfolding outside, with fleecy clouds in a blue, blue sky, and a mild breeze rustling the grass in the backyard. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The sky was dappled with small, white, fleecy clouds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This atmospheric pastiche spins modal melodies into fleecy lines. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The second trick was more specific to the fleecy ballads that Harris records as Grouper, which sometimes conceal themselves in so much reverb and white noise that the music starts fudging your sense of distance. Review | This new Grouper album, ‘Shade,’ is life-affirming in ways you might not remember 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z A deeper baking dish produced the ideal combination of a soft, fleecy stuffing below and enough surface area for a crispy top layer. The best way to make Thanksgiving stuffing, according to so many tests 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z A set of variations on a song from the Ladino tradition of Sephardic Jews spins, Mr. Tommasini wrote, “modal melodies into fleecy lines.” Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The artist was soon opening up these backdrops to stretches of azure sky flecked with fleecy white clouds, tracts of verdant hills and majestic mountains. Ode to Cima From Conegliano 2010-04-09T13:55:00Z Those hands might account for the contradictory brushwork, as thick as raw meat here, fleecy there. A Question Still Hanging at the Met Breuer: Why? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z AS I rose unsteadily from the floor where Doña Lucia was kneeling, I took in the view through the window of white brick buildings and fat, fleecy clouds. The Age of Purification 2011-05-20T22:30:36Z She looks middle-aged, with a fleecy perm and wearing a gray hoodie underneath a black blazer. For 40 years he blamed himself for a girl’s murder. Then came a shocking discovery 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z That was my family last December, so wistful for something frostier and fleecier than the Middle East climate where we lived that we opted for a Nordic winter break in Sweden. Advice | In Sweden, embracing the cozy charm of a Nordic winter He was less impressed with their brains, asserting that “the fleecy sheep is the stupidest of animals.” To Save a Ruin, Send in the Sheep 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z "Use something woolly or fleecy - cotton will not hold the heat in," is her tip. Cost of Living: How you're delaying switching on the heating 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Enjoy it while you can: In a few million years, the nebula will be gone, evaporated by its fierce stellar progeny like a fleecy windblown cirrus cloud on a summer afternoon, Webb Telescope Captures New View of ‘Pillars of Creation’ 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The clouds spread like a white fleecy carpet below us. Neutron star chaser: Telescope spots dead suns crash 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Here’s this fleecy white creature, submissive and prepared for the bloodbath soon to come, a pure being, elevated far above the muck. Review: The putrid waste of Ottessa Moshfegh's new novel, 'Lapvona' 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Cross-legged opposite Cooper in her fleecy armchairs, assuming the roles of therapist and client feels inevitable. How Alexandra Cooper turned 'Call Her Daddy' into a multimillion-dollar baby 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Keep your face covered in comfy style at outdoor viewing parties with this cozy hood complete with a fleecy lining and big Seahawks logo. The top fitness, camping and snowsport gifts for 2020 | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z “I wear a neck buff, a bit like a snood. Lots of people have the colourful thin ones to wear on hikes and things, but I get a slightly fleecy one for winter,” says Hadler. 'Denim is rubbish for keeping you warm': experts' tips for cold-weather dressing 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The bright morning sunshine was soon blanketed by the fleecy Glasgow sky. “Found Wanting” 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Here the sheep's wool with its beautiful muted colours is spun into beanies, fleecy jumpers and soft yarn. The seaweed-eating sheep that belch in a good way 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z When I read the Odyssey, I still quietly picture the “fleecy sea.” The Mail 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Fabrics include, obviously, the periodic table, a soft fleecy starscape or unicorns. Give the gift of no plastic this Christmas 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z In orderly ranks and rows, clouds sailed across the sky, fleecy white at their tops, gray beneath. Summer seemed finally to be exiled from Washington on Saturday 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Despite her fleecy disguise, however, Miranda found it tricky to bond with the flock. The artist in sheep's clothing 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “In the loftier heights beyond, the verdure-clad mountains are seen rising into shapely cones and coquetting with the fleecy clouds,” he wrote. Is the Animas truly the ‘River of Lost Souls’? 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Both the couch in the main cabin and the conference-room area in the rear had been opened out into their bed configurations, with fleecy comforters and pillowcases monogrammed with the plane’s registration number. Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Reusable nappies are typically made from a cloth, such as bamboo, and a fleecy liner, and go in the washing machine. Should parents pay to bin used nappies? - BBC News 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z While floating inside the transparent plastic vessel – in some cases for four weeks – the lambs appeared to develop normally, transforming from bald, pink foetuses into fleecy, white newborns. Artificial womb for premature babies successful in animal trials 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The nest will be fleecy and spongy, elastic at the sides to allow for her chicks to grow. The Hummingbird and the Pine Tree 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z "The top layer is lovely and fleecy so they're comfortable," says another. The invention that stop girls missing school every month - BBC News 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Two Tasmanian farmers were in for a surprise Sunday when a wild, impossibly fleecy sheep wandered onto their land. The Sheer Amount of Wool on This Sheep Baaa-ffles Farmers 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z He felt immediately exhilarated by it: he wanted a chance to render the weathered wood of the pirate ship, the chop of the ocean, the fleecy yarn. When Hollywood Wants Good, Clean Fun, It Goes to Mormon Country 2013-05-23T11:01:10Z The fleecy mass in the heavens covered the straggling procession with its azure shade and moved with the line of travellers. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z With watchful diligence I keep, From prowling wolves, his fleecy sheep; At home, his midnight hours secure, And drive the robber from the door. Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z We were descending a steep hill, and on one side towered a lofty down, round which the white mists of morning still hung like fleecy clouds. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z Blanche's fingers were always busy with soft, fleecy garments, which Jules used sometimes to take in his hands and rub affectionately against his face. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z And as she spoke down dropped on their heads a great soft fleecy shawl or mantle. Christmas Tree Land 2012-04-06T02:00:25.787Z The white fleecy cloud drew off from the sun which it had momentarily obscured. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Here and there the heavens were flecked with fleecy clouds, which gambolled gently before the breeze. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z For, above the squalor of the city's meanest slum, burn the great fires of the setting sun, and overhead the fleecy white clouds sail silently all night long. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z A dense cloud, murky as midnight, spread over the face of the heavens, where a moment before, naught met the gazer's eye, save the fleecy mackerel-clouds, drifting afar through its cerulean halls. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Full lowly did the herdsman fall;— "O spare, thou noble Baron, spare These herds, a widow's little all; These flocks, an orphan's fleecy care!" In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z Sitting there, he could see the flash of white sails on the blue lake, and slow-moving masses of fleecy clouds in the blue of the sky above. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z In the kitchen of her house the wide hearth was almost shut in by a three-sided settle, whose seats were strewn with fleecy white sheepskins. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z It made a path through the length of the heavy black cloud at last and carried its passengers into a misty, billowy bank of white, which seemed as soft and fleecy as a lady's veil. Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies 2012-03-17T02:01:04.773Z The shepherd—’midst his fleecy drove, Goes like a moon the stars above.” Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z The forms of brightness, and colors of every hue, changed with the rapidity of fleecy clouds driven before the wind. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The fleecy clouds overhead became transparently light red, as they stretched over to reach the silver-streaked west. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z A strong nose, cheeks round and delicate, a complexion of florid and transparent pink,—its hue being heightened by the snowy whiteness of the fleecy beard which frames the face and falls upon the breast. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z It was a glorious morning, with but few clouds in the sky, and those were of that fleecy, broken appearance that characterises the regions of the trade-winds. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z The exquisite beauty of the dawn, the dewy freshness of the air, the fleecy clouds floating in the sky—all speak of Him. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z The housewife waits to roll her fleecy stores, With all her gay-dress'd maids attending round. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z So that on a summer day, with the gold-fringed, fleecy clouds sailing overhead, it is really raining; but the drops, being very small, evaporate long before reaching the earth. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The roof of the nave is a semicircular vault, painted to represent the heavens, with all their drapery of light and fleecy clouds; and when viewed from the west door, has a very pretty effect. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The sea gleamed silver under it, and scarcely half a mile away dim hillsides and long ranks of somber pines half-veiled in fleecy mists went sliding by. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Wool, wool, n. the soft, curly hair of sheep and other animals: short, thick hair: any light, fleecy substance resembling wool.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Resonant concussions and white, fleecy puffs of smoke amidst low wharves and jetties where Colon lay in the forest, spread a Royal salute upon the vibrating air. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z The grey light was growing clearer, and the mangroves taking shape among the fleecy mist, when Austin stood looking down upon the creek in the heavy, windless morning. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z And the snowflakes fell softly, silently, and covered them with a shining robe of fleeciest white. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z She had a soft wrap of some kind about her head and shoulders, and, though he could not at first see her face, the way the fleecy fabric hung emphasized her shapely figure. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The roar of the river seemed to have sunk to a lower tone that night, and save for its dull reverberations there was deep silence among the pines across which the fleecy mists were drifting. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Putting on some fleecy shawls, the ladies went down the solitary road, and turned by-and-by into a narrow lane that looked like a grove of evergreens. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z Astern of her the Peak's white cone gleamed above its wrappings of fleecy mist, and ahead on the far horizon Grand Canary swam a purple cloud. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z And, most astonishing of all, on the very hill so lately hidden by dark trees and fleecy clouds, they beheld a most entrancing sight. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z She lay wrapped in fleecy shawls in a big chair near the foot of the veranda stairway, looking very frail, but she smiled at him benevolently. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Only one white fleecy cloud flecked the sweep of cerulean, and the empty moor lay still under the drowsy silence of the Sunday afternoon. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Lake Macopic was beautiful, reflecting the sunlight, the blue sky, and the white, fleecy clouds. The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered 2012-01-20T03:00:16.183Z High overhead the great black wall of the Cañadas cut, a tremendous ebony rampart, against the luminous blue, and beyond it the peak's white cone gleamed ethereally above its wrappings of fleecy mist. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z It rolled itself into a fleecy cloud, which mounted higher and higher until it touched the sky. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z In the centre of the north side of Montpelier Square is Mrs. Lovett Cameron's home, a cheerful-looking little house, gay with window boxes, and fleecy muslin curtains draped with bright coloured ribbons. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Adjusting his hat so that the mosquito netting veil hung down all around his head, Adrian started out with the smoke-machine trailing a fleecy cloud behind him. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z At the front rose a dense fog of fleecy white, for the volunteers had not yet been afforded the luxury of smokeless powder. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The trade breeze had fallen away, and only a little cool air came down from the black Isleta hill, while fleecy mists drifted ethereally athwart the jagged peaks of the great cordillera. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z Dawn is slowly breaking over the horizon, and tinting with all the colors of the rainbow the fleecy clouds. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z He wore a high crowned, pearl grey fedora, set squarely on his head and his fleecy coat had heavily padded shoulders. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z There was a light flurry of snow that night, and when the boys awoke next morning they found the ground hidden under a white, fleecy blanket. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z Of course, they had hailed the fleecy, drifting snow with delight; it looked to be the first real snowstorm of the season. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z Waking early the next morning, I found my head and shoulders covered with a fleecy mantle of snow. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z Rub a stick of wax against your coat-sleeve, and it emits sparks: hold it near to light, fleecy particles of wool or cotton, and it first attracts, then it repels them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z It was just the day for it, they had all decided—the roads in excellent condition after the late rain, a delicious sea-breeze blowing, and light fleecy clouds tempering the heat of the July sun. Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children 2011-12-22T03:00:21.710Z The blue sky was flecked with fleecy clouds driving fast before the western breeze. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Yes, Elmer, watching, could see the different shades of feeling crossing the strong face of the injured man, just as sometimes he had observed clouds chasing athwart the blue sky in fleecy array. Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge 2011-12-15T03:00:17.777Z Here and there the little groves of orange-trees and laurel stood out in the fleecy whiteness, or great cypresses rose solitary and still, casting their shadows across the road. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z Did ever you see a sky more blue before, or cloudlets more fleecy and light? Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z We were up here in the clouds almost, for so high was the turret that often we could see little fleecy cloudlets resting over the trees in the valley far beneath. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z A trained eye, looking at the fleecy clouds which were peeping over the horizon, would have prophesied a change, and that rough weather was at hand. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z In front of them a wonderful vista of white snow mountains emerged from fleecy cloud, and far beneath the silvery vapor appeared the faint and shadowy blurs of distant hillsides clothed with mighty forest. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z What if she wrote to Stuart Goldwin a letter very different from the one she had already written him, and which was then hid under the fleecy laces that clad her bosom? An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z They look like a big, fleecy, pink cloud resting right on the surface of the water. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z There was beauty and brightness everywhere, and the tall waving palm trees, that shot upwards their green-fringed tops against the blue sky and fleecy clouds, lent to the whole scene additional charm. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z Ah," said Adelaide, coming up on to the bridge with her head half-enveloped in a fleecy shawl, "quicken up. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Above could be seen stray fleecy clouds, flitting athwart the vast realms of space, while the atmosphere near the earth’s surface was laden with a thin vapor. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z They sang because fleecy lambs were sporting again in the meadows. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The diamond coverlet was rather heavy to sleep under, so Twinkle laid it aside and covered the girl with a soft, fleecy robe. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z It was as lovely a morning as any man could wish to see, with a pale turquoise sky overhead, across which clouds of fleecy whiteness sped with extraordinary rapidity. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z To the west, opposite the sun, it seemed driven by the light against the rock in immense masses of foaming cloud until it becomes lost in the distance, mixing its tints with the fleecy sky. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z And the moon through yon white and fleecy cloud, Pale, silent, and softly creeps, Like a spectre clad in a silvery shroud, While nature quietly sleeps. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The present manufacture of fleecy hosiery dates from the end of the 18th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z A fleecy, flower-like bud was floating, lightly as thistle-down, high in the air, and seemed to be slowly dropping into the Valley. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z Him may you mark in every vale Moving beneath his fleecy trail, And tell whene'er the motions die Where every town and hamlet lie. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z Across the heavens, which were suddenly aflame with crimson and gold, floated delicate, fleecy clouds. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z Shadows thrown by fleecy clouds, with which from our height, we seem to be on a level, chase one another over the emerald carpet. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z White fleecy clouds are constantly driving over the sun on the wings of a south-east wind. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Slowly and gently the white object floated downward, and even as Dot and Tot watched it, the fleecy blossom sank upon the moss a few feet from where they stood. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z But still I watch their fleecy trains, That piling all the south with light, Dapple in France the fertile plains. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z I woke, and there all fleecy white, My dainty dog in sunshine played, His feathery paw, which caused the fright, Upon my bosom gently laid. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Over the black houses, standing in half shadow, the moon stood surrounded by fleecy clouds. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z The fields are very green and fresh, and the larks sing very joyfully, looking no bigger than midges against the little fleecy cloudlets. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z A few fleecy white clouds hung above the forest,--an indication that a shower of rain would fall toward evening; the sun was burning hot; there was not a breath of air. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z There was a gentle breeze blowing, and the sky was clear, save here and there a few fleecy clouds lying low on a hazy horizon. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Overhead flocks of small fleecy clouds, as white as swans-down, drifted across the changeable April sky, while the breeze, passing through the thick woods, stirred the delicate flower-like shadows on the moist ground. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Soon after sunset the moon sailed majestically through the little fleecy clouds lying low on the horizon. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z One no longer seemed to see the moon gliding through fleecy clouds. Stories of Great Musicians 2011-09-10T02:00:28.157Z The little Tatrang stream winds, silvery blue, in and out among the quiet villages, forming cascades in its downward progress, which in the dim distance look like fleecy mists. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z It was summer then, the sun shone bright, clouds were fleecy, and the sky was blue, and the plain all round him was bright with the greenery of grass and dotted with wild flowers. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z “She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool; But the cruel rocks, they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull.” Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z There was a great billowy heave on the blue sea, blue everywhere, except where the light shadow of some white fleecy cloud made a patch of fleeting grey or grey-green. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z And they go with fine, fleecy black hair—almost as fine as fur. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Lovely are the azure lakes that rest against your mountain sides, reflecting in their limpid depths your rocks and trees, your lights and shades, your fleecy clouds and snow-clad peaks! Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z Above was the blue sky, with here and there a fleecy cloud, and yonder an eagle soaring. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z Yonder it was, and the sky, too, and white fleecy clouds, and screaming sea-birds, and the glorious sun itself. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z The rooks lazily cawed as they flew off with the acorns, the hills were half hidden with a yellowy vapour, and a few distant fleecy clouds, far up, floated in the azure. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Two fierce-horned rams Made a fleecy cushion whereon he sat, And a sleeping ewe made a creamy mat For his hoofed feet. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z When at last I was able to follow my kind young protector away over the wild moorland after his fleecy flock, O! In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z The Angora from the heights of central Asia Minor has curly, fleecy, silky, white wool, 4 to 7 in. long. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The rounded ridge of the Downs rose high to the south—so near that the fleecy clouds sailing up were not visible till they slid suddenly into view over the summit. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Snow fell and drifted, until there was scarcely anything to be seen one morning when Carolyn May awoke and looked out of her bedroom windows but a white, fleecy mantle. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z The unsightly sagebrush was transformed into every conceivable shape, and its stubby, unyielding branches bedecked with soft, fleecy snow that completely hid their identity and brought their grotesque forms out in cameo like relief. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z In the sky, puffs of fleecy clouds were hurrying away like sheep eager to reach the fold of mother-dusk. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z There was a full moon, but she wore a veil of fleecy clouds. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z It was a lovely afternoon: white fleecy clouds lingered in the upper atmosphere, so gauze-like in texture as scarcely to diminish the sun’s rays when they passed over. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z The delicate hue, the contrast of the fleecy white with the deepest azure, the ever-changing form, the light shining through the gauzy texture, the gentle dreamy motion, lend these clouds an exquisite beauty. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z There was a strange sinking, as if she was floating off, like the fleecy white drifts above her. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z First it looked like flame, then it appeared to be steam, and finally it had the appearance of a pillar of fire inside one of white fleecy wool. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z Now the sun was shining, and fleecy clouds swept along the bosom of a brisk southeasterly breeze. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Athene as the goddess of woman's work as well as of man's, Athene Ergane, becomes clear to Furtwangler as he thinks of the fleecy clouds. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Where should we all have been now but for those warm and fleecy coverings? Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z He turned his eyes upon the great landscape lying beneath, flooded with the chill matutinal sunshine, and flecked here and there with the elusive shadows of the fleecy drifting clouds. The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories 2011-07-19T02:00:22.090Z There are, I think, no men there, only girls; no sheep, but fleecy lambs. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Above and parallel with the horizon stretched a long rift, in clouds rendered marvelously rich in gold and garnet, through which the blue sky beyond was visible, slightly obscured by light, fleecy clouds of silver. The Mountains of Oregon 2011-07-17T02:00:38.297Z Outside, the pale winter twilight still lingered and the sky was piled high with fleecy white clouds. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z She wore a light evening gown, a fleecy white wrap concealing her shoulders and part of her dark hair. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z Overhead, fleecy clouds were floating across a starry blue sky, now concealing and now exposing to view a pallid crescent of new moon. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z She always loved beautiful colours, and to-night the little fleecy clouds were all touched with crimson and gold, like fairy islands in a pale green sea, more beautiful than anything she had ever seen. In God's Garden Stories of the Saints for Little Children 2011-07-10T02:00:24.773Z Not a moment too soon, for the furious roar of the baffled breakers sounded deafeningly, as their fleecy crests boiled and foamed under our lee only half a dozen cables-length away. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The snowflakes, large and fleecy, now fell thickly about him. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z But now and then, when the wind tore the fleecy mist, Baby Jane could see a jagged mountain-top appear high up in the sky, where she had never expected it. Baby Jane's Mission 2011-07-03T02:00:10.693Z Yet the owner of a flock was once surprised by seeing one of his fleecy people rushing to and fro beneath his window, in great agitation and alarm. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z On the distant horizon the eye discerns the rent and pointed rocks, and the fleecy spray of the cataracts. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The wreaths of fleecy steam mingled with denser columns of smoke that issued from 'tween decks. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z With fleecy wool garments next the body and sufficient clothing, properly distributed, many a patient who complains of the cold will at once be more comfortable. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The fleecy clouds were packed in a cumulose mass upon the horizon, and this began to rise in portentous majesty, as the sun set behind it. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Look! just at the edge of that fleecy cloud. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z The storm-cloud rolled away as quickly as it had come, leaving only a few torn wisps of fleecy cloud to mark its wake. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z I do not know what time of the day it was; for the sun was obscured and the heavens were fleecy with black clouds. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z Often the water was perfectly calm like a huge mirror, reflecting the trees and rocks along the shore, as well as the great fleecy clouds which floated lazily overhead. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z After tea, in the evening, she throws a white fleecy shawl around her shoulders, and strolls down stairs and out in the garden, the sweet, flower-scented garden. Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel 2011-06-11T02:00:13.290Z Her hair was combed out like a fleecy vail down her back, and glittered with diamond powder until it resembled the gorgeous plumage of a tropical bird. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z I gazed around in some perplexity up to the sky, where the rosy tints were fading from the fleecy clouds, and then back into his face for inspiration. A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z These corpuscles, being admitted into the moist air of our earth, form nuclei of condensation and drops are formed; and the growth of the high, fleecy clouds finds its beginning around these corpuscles. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z I would have admired the splendid domes and spires of Antioch rising all around above the tree-tops, and the brilliant tints of an eastern sky flecked with fantastic and fleecy clouds. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z The stars were shining beautifully, and a few fleecy white clouds were floating above our heads. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z Over her head was thrown a vail of delicate texture, and in one hand she carried a handkerchief that looked like a bit of a fleecy cloud. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Cirro-cumulus are flocks of small detached fleecy clouds, generally white and without shadows. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z A cloud passing overhead, a little, soft, fleecy, white cloud bobbing along, and then some birds flying by, and then a rustle among the leaves. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Woolly, fleecy puffs of smoke floating gently down wind, getting more and more attenuated, gradually disappearing, while below each puff an oval of ground has been plastered with bullets. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z The south wind was out one day for a sail, In a cloudy boat, so fleecy and frail, And he chanced to spy, where musing she stood, My dear little rose in her snowy hood. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z It is as if the fleecy clouds that float about the sun at midsummer had descended upon the earth, and clothed it in their beauty! Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z Day dawned, but a thick, fleecy mist prevailed, the moisture dripping from the steel caps of the soldiers, who, in spite of it being a summer's morn in fair Normandy, actually shivered with cold. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z The sheep went in black and came out white and fleecy and flurried, scrambling to land. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z It was a lovely sunny morning, with great fleecy clouds on the horizon, and a blue sky overhead. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z The wondrous shepherd James Hogg Was happy with his good sheep dog, Meditating o'er his sweet lays While his fleecy flocks did graze. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z Then, as the sun rose over the hilltops, the river lifted its white canopy of fog, slowly extended it over the valley, and dispersed it in fleecy clouds. The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z An east wind had spun fine silver cloud lines curving across the blue, clustering, widening into two vast, fleecy pinions that were floating slowly to the gates of the west. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z These three men and Goody Brown flocked to the window and looked after her as she moved through the light of a moon buried half the time under the fleecy whiteness of drifting clouds. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z Constance Hadlow, wrapped in a fleecy shawl, and sitting in a patch of sunshine outside the shadow of the yew-tree, declared it was "bitterly cold." That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z The setting sun was crimsoning the fleecy clouds far overhead, and throwing long shadows in the warm August evening. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z This was still flushed with a warm lustre caught from the western sky, though the sun had dipped and the fleecy mists were creeping across the dusky plain below. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z How different from the roughness of the old garments was this fleecy robe, glinting and reflecting the light. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The snow doesn't fall to any great depth, three feet being the greatest, and that was light and fleecy frost. All about the Klondyke gold mines 2011-04-13T02:00:12.887Z The peak of the nearest mountain pierced the fleecy clouds. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z The word “flocculent” is used of many substances which have a fleecy or “flock”-like appearance, such as a precipitate of ferric hydrate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The last lingering star is trembling still in the sky, but the fleecy clouds have caught a tint of rose from the not yet risen sun. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z The moon had suddenly made her appearance, amid banks of fleecy clouds, that were fantastically flitting across the face of the azure heaven. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z His vision became fixed upon a fleecy cloud way to the southward or was it the smoke from a burning forest? Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z The afternoon was one of the loveliest; not a cloud in the azure sky save some low-lying fleecy cumuli, snow-white but rose-tinted, towards which the sun seemed hastening as to a couch of repose. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z The intense whiteness of the fleecy column is indescribable. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z Heedlessly catching up the first she could find, a white fleecy shawl, she ran up the companion with it in her hand. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z Shortly before the sun sank into the sea of cloud that spread in fleecy undulations beneath them, they reached the base of the Cleaver, a gigantic ridge that seemed to bar their further progress. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z These may be done in four-thread fleecy, but they look much better in double Berlin wool, No. 9 pins, by the Eagle gauge. The New Guide to Knitting & Crochet 2011-03-17T02:00:11.807Z Now I can see the summit quite distinctly; the sun is shining upon it, while the fleecy clouds roll off and settle on the lake, from which they arise in thick mist. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z The donkey and llamas still hang out with their fleecy charges, but they are purely ornamental. The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday 2011-03-04T05:00:00Z It is nearly six o'clock; the sun is quite low, and beams pale golden through a ragged veil of fleecy clouds. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z One or two of us made a start forwards, but at that moment the last red glow vanished from the belt of fleecy cloud hanging in mid-sky. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z The little vine lay under the fleecy snow against the old stone-wall and slept peacefully, and so did the violet and the daisy. A Little Book of Profitable Tales 2011-03-03T03:00:47.690Z One hand is lifting up her gown, the other is holding together the large soft white fleecy shawl that covers her shoulders, and is therefore necessarily laid upon her breast. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Every soldier, fighting his battles over again by the home fireside, loves to describe the aeroplanes that hovered above his trench while white, fleecy clouds of shrapnel burst around them. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z White, fleecy clouds were hanging in the air, and threw the dark spots of their shadow here and there over the landscape. A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys 2011-02-25T03:01:12.793Z At first, this silvery radiance filled the room, and then the fleecy vapor began to condense slowly. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z One little fleecy cloud here and there overhead caught the tinge, but the whole air on the eastern side was luminously pink. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z The silvery mists, ever lurking among the fringing willows of the stream murmuring through the meadows, were already rising to cloud the lowlands with fleecy whiteness, radiantly starred with fireflies. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Sometimes a snowy, fleecy vapor seems to spread over its top. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Dazzled as by a flash of lightning, he gazed at his cousin—her beautifully poised head, covered with its fleecy white shawl, dominating the throng. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z And the sentence was borne afar on the fleecy pinions of the Light, from Ashtoreth to Mazaroth, star echoing to star. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z Around its head there was still a fleecy vapour, which seemed slowly melting away in the moonbeams; at times each icy peak would be revealed clearly, to half vanish again in a semi-transparent veil. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z It looked like a patch of fleecy cloud. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z The sky was softly blue, and clear of clouds, save a few light and fleecy ones, which sailed slowly along, seemingly far away in the depths of ether. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z There was something so familiar in the pink-cheeked fleecy outline, that in his surprise Fritz forgot to be afraid, and spoke aloud, crying, 'Why! A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z Gently—so gently—she pushed the fleecy fog-billows from her breast. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z On the left, knelt the shepherds surrounded by their fleecy sheep; and, from the right, came the three kings with golden crowns on their heads and dressed in cloaks of violet, red and green. Little Tom 2011-02-02T03:00:21.113Z Overhead a disc of orange moon rode lazily, now and then dodging behind a fleecy cloud. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z There had been several light and fleecy falls of snow since the arrival of the "city cousins" at the farmhouse, but they had been only about enough to keep the sleighing in good order. Winter Fun 2011-01-25T03:00:22.297Z The sun was dropping down the west, toward masses of sparkling, fleecy white clouds that piled the horizon high. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Then the forest trees were clothed in fleecy white garments, and the branches of the evergreens drooped under their heavy cloak. Among the Forest People 2011-01-17T03:00:55.113Z Drop down, O fleecy Fog, and hide Her sceptic sneer and all her pride! The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The English sky of a June day can be a very lovely thing—soft fleecy clouds, floating over a surface of translucent blue. The Ranch Girls in Europe 2011-01-13T03:01:01.483Z Susie was watching that commotion in the snow as she had never watched any thing before, and just then a fleecy head came out on this side of the high drift. Winter Fun 2011-01-25T03:00:22.297Z The sunset glow lingered long in the sky, till night drew on her garment of soft fleecy mists lying all round the horizon. The Yellow Rose 2011-01-12T03:00:29.407Z The huge waves dashed together, like fleecy rams butting against each other. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z There were perfumed valleys and grassy hills, whose crops stretched down before the breeze; thick fleecy clouds crossed their tops, and overhead amid a blue air rang the shrill trilling of birds. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z In the afternoon, pleasant, with a moderate breeze, and the clouds assuming their usual soft, fleecy, trade-wind appearance.” Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Under the early autumn haze the meadows lay carpeted with golden rod and fleecy lace of the Queen's handkerchief. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z It is true the night was dark, even the stars being obscured by fleecy clouds; but not a breath of wind ruffled the waters, and the waves had sunk to rest. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z The pathway is traceable only by the marks of the hoofs of beasts of burden and the ruts of wheels, and the fleecy banks at each side rise gradually higher. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z One posits the fraudulence of Campbell’s proclaimed fiscal conservatism by introducing “a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” its demonic eyes glowing red and the fleecy innocents around it bolting in terror. Carly Fiorina Means Business 2010-06-04T08:10:00Z Flores, which was sending off to us, even at this distance, her perfumes of shrub and flower, lay sleeping in the moonlight, with a few fleecy, white clouds wound around the mountain-top, like a turban. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z First a faint haze, rising in the still air, then a burst of white, until the fleecy pillar was plainly outlined as it ascended and drifted backward into the green forest. The Girl From Tim's Place The few white fleecy masses that remained were good indications of the swift march of the wind in the upper air. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. She wrapped herself well within the fleecy folds of nature, and in less than 110 ten minutes was safely sailing in the boat of dreamland. Irene Iddesleigh To Mrs. Lancing's imaginative eye this mist took the form of a flock of fleecy white birds just hovering before winging flight. Capricious Caroline This ascending column of atmosphere, when it reaches a certain point, is condensed into cumuli of beautiful, fleecy clouds, often piled up in the most fantastic and gorgeous shapes. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The winter cap which grandmamma had knitted him out of grey fleecy wool was drawn over his ears. The Undying Past The wind was strong, and fleecy clouds flew over the heavens; some of which, as they formed and dispersed themselves about the flanks of the Aletschhorn, showed extraordinary iridescences. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. It was high noon; but the sun was partially shrouded by light fleecy clouds, and threw a softened light on the green bank on which I seated myself. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 Above the distant mountains a broad and yellow moon played at hide-and-seek with fleecy remnants of cloud. The Trail of Conflict October 4th.—Weather clear, and beautiful, with trade-clouds, white and fleecy, and a light breeze from the eastward. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The fleecy clouds which gather round the isthmian hills in the rainy season were given the very undeserved title of "the white death" by the French workers at the isthmus. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise Suddenly the sun burst forth through the light fleecy clouds, and the day seemed to be all sunshine. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 The sky—unusually blue it seemed to her, and dotted all over with little masses of fleecy, white clouds—seemed somehow lower and nearer; or was she, perhaps higher up? The Hillman The wind 225seemed to have slackened slightly, but the mantle of snow still enfolded them in its fleecy whiteness. Jane Stewardess of the Air Lines Around the curve of the “horse-shoe” arose broken, bald, rocky mountains, on the crests of which were piled fleecy, white clouds, blinking in the moonlight, like banks of snow. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Two wooden needles, No. 10, and for a small muff 1 ounce of blue and 1 ounce of black fleecy. The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book The snow shoots into the air fifty feet, and the wind carries a cloud of fleecy confusion over the ram and out of the cut. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories She covered him up with thick, fleecy blankets, and set a bottle of whisky beside the bed. The Voice of the Pack It was a fight above the clouds, for both the French and the German machines were flying high, and had gone up above the bunches of fleecy vapor that now hid the ground from sight. Air Service Boys Over The Rhine Fighting Above The Clouds It is a fleecy, white cloud, which hangs perpetually over Table Mountain during fine weather. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Two needles No. 10 and 3 skeins of coarse fleecy. The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book We had watched the dawn break and a glorious sunrise turn fleecy clouds into flaming swords. Glories of Spain I saw the fields only when the cotton was white, when there were no green leaves left, and the fleecy down did not seem to me a vegetable at all. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches It was good to lie staring up at the boughs, and know that every fleecy cloud going by was a cloud nearer to his seeing Lily again. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The normal condition of the weather is that of a clear sky, with passing trade-clouds, white and fleecy, and with moderate breezes. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z A cloud to the West looked like a fleecy carpet beneath them. Unexplored! A little further in the background was a shepherd-boy, stretched out on the grass by the side of his flock, playing a reed pipe and gazing dreamily up at the fleecy summer clouds. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II The sun rose up between the fleecy clouds, filling the world with jubilant brightness, the sweet scents of sunrise in the country perfumed the warm air. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Clouds hovered over us, delicate and fleecy as the feathers of the marabou, and white and curly as the feathers of the ostrich. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories The weather was charming, there being a bright, clear sky, with only a few fleecy trade-clouds passing. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Above was the azure vault variegated with fleecy clouds; beneath was nature’s verdant carpet. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The ruddy light of approaching day scarce tinged the tree-tops, but the highest fleecy clouds had caught the glow long before the horizon was touched. The Firebrand "Hum!" said the Major, his eyes travelling up to a patch of fleecy cloud. Our Admirable Betty A Romance “For instance, if I wished, Sir, Of mutton-pies to tell, Should I say ‘dreams of fleecy flocks Pent in a wheaten cell’?” Rhyme? And Reason? An occasional cloud, fleecy and jagged, sails lazily aloft, marking its shadow on the mountain side. The Fortunes Of Glencore Above was the azure vault variegated with fleecy clouds; beneath was nature’s verdant carpet. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The stars were faint in the sky, and away eastwards little fleecy red clouds were strewn over the house-tops. The Missioner But with the early days of August, when the coral-tree puts forth its blood-red blossoms and the sky grows mottled with light fleecy clouds, the ghosts of the brave prepare to take flight for heaven. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II It may be made in three-thread fleecy, or double German wool, with ivory or wooden pins, No. 8. My Knitting Book The sky above our heads was serene and placid, presenting one vast expanse of blue, relieved, here and there, by a few light fleecy clouds. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Above was the azure vault, variegated with fleecy clouds; beneath was Nature’s verdant carpet. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Virgil, alluding to the indications of fair weather, says: “Brightly the stars shine forth; Cynthia no more Glimmers obnoxious to her brother’s rays; Nor fleecy clouds float lightly through the sky.” The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Mats of the latter sort were shaggy on one side, and, being bleached white, resembled fleecy sheep-skins. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Cast on any uneven number of stitches, with eight-thread Zephyr fleecy, or double German wool, and No. 2 needles. My Knitting Book If we watch a passing railroad train we shall notice a mass of fleecy white mist floating away from the smokestack, assuming the billowy forms of some of the clouds in summer. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. Overhead white, fleecy clouds played a game of hide-and-seek with the sunshine. Patricia Brent, Spinster Brightly the stars shine forth; Cynthia no more Glimmers obnoxious to her brother’s rays; Nor fleecy clouds float lightly through the sky. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The shepherd feeds his fleecy flock with care, And mourns to find one little lamb has strayed; He, unfatigued, roams through the midnight air, O’er hills, o’er rocks, and through the mossy glade. Lives of Celebrated Women Cast eighty stitches on each of three needles, No. 9.—Three-thread fleecy. My Knitting Book The girls, in fleecy muslin clouds, were so much in evidence that the boys, in the background, were only a little hampered by the embarrassment of full dress. Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 When mount we? when these shackles cast? when quit This cell of the creation? this small nest, Stuck in a corner of the universe, Wrapt up in fleecy cloud, and fine-spun air? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes She took a white shawl which was lying on a chair, made a veil for her head of one corner, while the rest of its fleecy length fell over her dark dress. East Angels "And pray what may a fascinator be?" said I. And I learned that it was simply a beautiful fleecy thing to wear upon the head in the evening. Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 Two colours,—say blue and claret,—four, or six-thread fleecy,—Needles No. 6. My Knitting Book She could not see it, but she could see the fleecy clouds that reflected its light. The Shadow We had samples of all the different kinds of weather England provides last week—rain, snow, sleet, light breezes, fleecy clouds sailing slowly across the blue, dull and threatening times when the skies were leaden. Windyridge The moon had sunk below the trees, but still tinged the fleecy clouds, and left a trail of pale blue light behind her. Edelweiss A Story They report that white fleecy shadows hover around it by night, though perhaps the owls and birds building in the crevices may account for the supposed supernatural appearances.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. They are prettiest in four-thread embroidery fleecy, or German wool.—Two needles No. 16, and two No. 20, will be required. My Knitting Book Perhaps the strangest thing about it was that Sheila did not look like a person who could have had even the smallest, fleeciest of clouds brushing her most distant horizon. Leerie By and by the blue was to conquer, and the sportive winds were to let loose and drive before them the whitest and fleeciest of clouds, but always far up in high heaven. Windyridge Roden, though intending to go below, still remained on deck, held by a kind of fascination, as the ship glided slowly through the silent fleecy smother. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Practice makes perfect, and so Klaas Stuurmann finds no difficulty in taking his fleecy census, fast as the sheep pass forth. Tales of South Africa Six-thread fleecy in two colours—say blue and white; or, what is preferable, German quilt wool—Needles No. 2, pointed at both ends. My Knitting Book It presents a striking object as the ship stands in, and the Table Mountain, without its fleecy covering, rises with its flattened summit cut clearly against the line of blue sky. The Ruined Cities of Zululand Then upon the ridge comes a white, moving mass of fleecy backs. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War High overhead a white fleecy cloud or two soared around a craggy peak. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Nod could not help watching them under his eyebrows, where they sat, with tail-tufts over their shoulders, in their fleecy hair, blinking mildly from their pale pink eyes. The Three Mulla-mulgars This may be worked with Zephyr fleecy,—No. 9 needles, each piece being about three and a half inches square. My Knitting Book Sometimes they are set like fleecy plumes high above the earth. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place So I will affront the condemnatory vagueness of wool and fleecy cloud, be content to think that nobody will care where I praise, that everybody will think me impertinent where I judge. A Novelist on Novels Far down in the river-bed lay waves of fleecy mist, and the rising sun gilded the heights with his early splendour. A Frontier Mystery His care, meanwhile, their present want attends, And various fowl, and various fruits he sends; The oxen low, the fleecy lambkins bleat, And rural sounds are echo'd through the fleet. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Helen did that and laid the fleecy wrap within reach, smiled and nodded and ran lightly downstairs. Helen Grant's Schooldays A dense white fog had come softly rolling up, and now the derelict Good Hope lay enwrapped in fleecy white clouds, thick and impenetrable. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam The whole sky was scattered over with fleecy dark clouds, such as any sunshiny day produces, and which were changing their shapes and positions every moment. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) All the little clouds that had been scuttling across the heavens before the East wind's icy breath, now melted together into a tumbled, fleecy mass. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days Before proceeding far on their return, they were met by a colder and sharper wind, and the snow which it blew from the summits of the rocks involved them in a white fleecy cloud. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist Now his ship looked like a fat, fleecy cumulus. Keep Your Shape It resembled a fleecy down sprinkled with dust. Toilers of the Sea That young gentleman was sitting with his back against the trunk of a tree, looking idly up at the fleecy clouds, while an expression of discontent overspread his face. The Princess and Joe Potter Sometimes he and Quicksilver approached a cloud that, at a distance, looked as if it were made of fleecy silver; although, when they plunged into it, they found themselves chilled and moistened with gray mist. A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys But, so far from doing them an injury, the fleecy mantle protected them from the open exposure to cold under which the strawberry will sometimes perish. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 "Righteousness" becomes "dewy nectar," "sheep" the "fleecy care," and the call upon Jerusalem to "Arise and shine" is turned into an invocation to "exalt her tow'ry head." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The weather was all that could be desired—a gentle breeze blowing from the north, and light, fleecy white clouds tempering the heat of the sun. Elsie on the Hudson Afterward, he left the girl, and went up on deck, where he stood staring through long minutes toward the fleecy masses of cumulus clouds that lay along the New Jersey horizon. When the Cock Crows But in this fleecy covering, the wolf So hid its teeth that it was at the door Before they dreamed of treachery. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation The fleecy animals straggled and spread out over the whole road. The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea Far above, replacing the hard stars and blackness of space, common to the firmaments of all dead and near-dead worlds, were great fleecy clouds and blue sky. Big Pill And we marked the purple dingles Where the lazy vapors lolled, Like thin, fleecy ribs of moonlight Touched with amethyst and gold; And we marked the wild deer glimmer Like dim specters where they strolled.... Blooms of the Berry Think how beautiful such a scene must have looked at evening, when the tops of the hills, and a few fleecy clouds were rosy in the sunbeams. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Above in the clear sky the fleecy clouds assume each moment a new form—a yet more tender color—now pale blue, now gray, now a soft pink that verges upon crimson. Portia or By Passions Rocked Masses of fleecy clouds drifted overhead, and early-returned birds flitted through the air or chirped and twittered among the trees. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon Of the invisible members of “the Colonel’s” household, fleecy rumors only pervaded society at intervals. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Through this green canopy of arching boughs, where sunshine and shadow intermingled, one caught glimpses of the sky, a dome of azure velvet flecked with fleecy white. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge Over the fleecy mound, Hobo regarded Peggy with bright, intelligent eyes. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted She gazes distressfully around her, and then plucks with a little mournful, helpless fashion at a dainty, fleecy thing that lies close to her throat, and is her only covering from the angry blast. Portia or By Passions Rocked A glow to the eastward marks where the dawn will break, and the fleecy trade-clouds about the horizon are already assuming shape and colour. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Now clear, now resplendent she shines, and now through a tremulous mist shows her pure face, and again for a space is hidden, "As if her head she bow'd Stooping through a fleecy cloud." Rossmoyne From these bottles fumes arose, mingled, and fell in stifling clouds of fleecy white. The Blue Goose Outside the Bara Koti a light haze was visible through the branches of the trees, lying like a thin veil on the distant horizon; and, overhead, light fleecy clouds drifted imperceptibly across the blue sky. Banked Fires The sky was a deep blue—usually described as an Italian sky—broken only by a few fleecy, cumulus clouds, which served to bring out more clearly the rich colour of the background. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Night by night we had the same true breeze, the sea unchanged, the fleecy trade clouds forming on the sea-line—to fade ere they had reached the zenith. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Silently, with dreamy languor, the fleecy snow is falling. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings The opposing tufts came nearer, and now and then a dark form straightened and advanced to another shelter, or was hidden from sight by a bubble of fleecy white that burst from his shoulder. The Blue Goose Lovely are these fleecy feathers, Dainty in each rare device; All unlike our ducklet feathers,-- White and soft, but cold as ice. Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children The repeated cheers of welcome were intensified by the accompaniment of a fleecy cloud of waving handkerchiefs. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century They have only one spare bedroom, which they offer; but they have filled their drawing-room with blankets; piles and piles of white fleecy blankets on chairs and sofas and on the floor. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium Sometimes, when passing a high projection, the impulse comes to lean over and grab a handful of the fleecy covering. Cavalry of the Clouds By the time we had reached the gates of the park, the clouds began to break, and to sail across the sky, in white fleecy shapes. Ellen Middleton—A Tale When the Throat gaped alongside, the fleecy horizon had rolled still higher, and beneath it the setting sun showed through like a harvest moon, blood-red. The Plow-Woman But he is at last emancipated, and, as was said of Mary’s fleecy companion, now contemplate the condemned thing! The So-called Human Race Even the Angora dogs and cats are remarkable for the extraordinary length of their fleecy covering. Across Asia on a Bicycle The storm became beautiful in its fleecy rains in the far south. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Judith, short-skirted and trim in fleecy white sweater, collar rolled high to the tips of small, pink ears, blond curls blowing in the wind, pursued ardently. The Wishing Moon She wore a dress of some white, fleecy material, her golden hair flying in the wind, and flapping against her bare shoulders and half-bared white arms. Kidnapped at the Altar or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain The sky was blue with June’s own cerulean hue, and across its depths floated the softest of fleecy white clouds. Peggy Owen and Liberty She amazed the sputtering housekeeper by stopping only to throw a fleecy hood over her hair before hurrying out of the front door of the Corner House. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended "We'd better take our sweaters," said Dolly, as she handed the two white, fleecy garments to Dotty. Two Little Women "Come my little fleecy," the Old King was saying to a little girl cloud who came tumbling down before him. Fairy Tales from the German Forests She was struggling furiously but quite hopelessly; the brambles were wrapped about her fleecy body like cords of steel, and would hold her there till she died of exhaustion. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts White Cloud had often longed for this very thing, so she went gladly, and soon found herself among the fleecy clouds in the sky. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children The finest examples occur between the first appearance of the fleecy cumuli and the commencement of rain, while the lower atmosphere is comparatively dry, and during the approach of thunder storms. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World The moon emerged from behind a cloud, touching with a delicate sepia some fleecy edge of cumuli. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography She pointed over the fringe of treetops below them to the broad, winding ribbon of sparkling gray-blue, touched here and there with the reflection of the fleecy pink clouds drifting far overhead. Anything Once "A flock of sheep," said the Anywhere Man, gazing upon the pasture, where the fleecy ewes were nipping grass between the rocks and the eager lambs nuzzled their mothers. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, when he decided to adopt a pastoral life, and assumed the provisional name of Thyrsis, never looked upon his flocks and herds with more unalloyed contentment than I upon that fleecy family. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 Astern, above the horizon, were fleecy clouds—they afterwards rode high, and became his friends, those mares' tails—and out of that horizon, from the northeast, came occasional light puffs of wind. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The softness of the fleecy ball, By skilful fingers taught to flow In lengthening lines—they watch’d it all— And round and round the spindle go. Needlework As Art There had been quite a fall of snow from midnight to dawn, and the trees were glittering with thousands of diamond-sparks and patches of fleecy ermine. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart It was the last night of the year 1775, the stars were winter bright, but the fleecy clouds of impending storm were driven across the sky. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France It was a bright day in early spring; large, fleecy clouds floated in a blue sky; the wind was cool, but the sun lay hot in sheltered places. The Thread of Gold "A male Kuhräuber," said Axel musingly, swinging his stick and gazing up at the fleecy clouds floating over the pine tops, "a male Kuhräuber would be quite unlike anything you have yet seen." The Benefactress Examples: bride, bridal; guide, guidance; please, pleasure; fleece, fleecy; force, forcible; argue, arguing; arrive, arrival; conceive, conceivable; college, collegiate; write, writing; use, using; change, changing; judge, judging; believe, believing. The Century Handbook of Writing "My cattle, my trees"; and even, "my birds, my pretty, fleecy clouds up there." Kildares of Storm We were now running into a bank of white fleecy clouds, which enveloped us in its folds, blotting the whole earth from view. How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. Could he resist the fleecy softness of that hair—the thousand ripples breaking up the sunshine—only there wasn't any sunshine to break. Phemie Frost's Experiences The same white fleecy clouds in the clear blue summer sky; heaven arches itself overhead like a perfect dome, there is nothing to bar one’s way, and the soul rises up unfettered beneath it. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Bay windows bordered with soft-colored glass, and curtained with fleecy white, let the sunshine stream into the pretty, freshly-decorated room, where it seemed to love to stay and shine. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife In a moment I made out a cruel black rock, with the angry sea breaking into fleecy spray upon it. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 The sun shone gloriously, the clouds, a long way beneath us, looked more substantial; through the gaps in their fleecy whiteness the earth appeared. How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. I came from my room like a moving picture, with my black alpaca newly flounced, and surmounted by that fleecy white jacket with great buttons and double-breasted in front. Phemie Frost's Experiences Light, fleecy clouds sailing high aloft through the sparkling azure sky—filling one’s soul with longings to soar as high and as free as they. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I It was so pleasant to sit there in the dreamy silence watching the white fleecy clouds, the birds, and the flowers, it was little wonder the swift-winged moments flew heedlessly by. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love Again, there was scurrying, fleecy clouds and our ship was scudding before the breeze. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew Ahead lay a wide vista of tremendous mountains, with their crowning, snow-bound peaks lost in a world of gray, fleecy cloud. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country The ladies soon appeared in light, fleecy wraps, Miss Gladden carrying a fine guitar, which called forth exclamations of pleasure from the gentlemen. The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West Is it not these same fleecy clouds far away in the blue expanse that the eye looks for at home on a bright summer day? Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I “I have lost all I hold dear in life,” she answered, pathetically, lifting her beautiful, childish blue eyes toward the white fleecy clouds tinted by the setting sun. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love That one instance is the landscape of Rubens in our own gallery, in which the mottled or fleecy sky is given with perfect truth and exquisite beauty. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Yon citron grove, whence first in fear we came, Droops its fair honors to the conquering flame: Far fly the swains, like us, in deep despair, And leave to ruffian bands their fleecy care. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir In minutes Bell's plane was tearing madly through sunlit fleecy monsters which looked soft and warm and alluring, and were cold and damp and blinding in their depths. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 He felt no pain, and his bed was so soft, he seemed to be resting on a fleecy cloud. Raiding with Morgan She looked up at the white, fleecy clouds above her, vaguely wondering why the love of one person made the earth a very paradise, or a wilderness. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love When both edges are soft, as is always the case when the sky is clear and windless, the cloud looks solid, round, and fleecy. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) The day was brilliant, the sun shining brightly, and the blue sky relieved by a few white fleecy clouds moving softly before a gentle air. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' The presence of this in large amounts was indicated by the intense blueness of the sky, across which fleecy clouds were drifting. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 A flood of light streamed through and between the encompassing peaks, tinging the men and animals with its fleecy veil, as if some of the snow from the crests had been sprinkled over them. A Waif of the Mountains The shifting moonbeams pierced the white, fleecy clouds that enveloped them, and as he turned his face toward her she saw it was Rex. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love Little Inez had thrown aside her hat with the setting of the sun, and now her wealth of golden hair streamed and fluttered in fleecy masses about her shoulders. Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils And there, too, were the significant clouds, fleecy white clouds for the most part, but all deepening to a heavy, gray density. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Great fleecy clouds rolled and frolicked in well-nigh human abandon. The Spoilers of the Valley A faint, fleecy veil of moonlight having been lifted over the mountain crests, was now flung downward and caught against and suspended upon the projecting rocks and crags. A Waif of the Mountains Could those white, fleecy clouds darken on the morrow that was to give her the only treasure she had ever coveted in her life? Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love To celebrate his triumph, first He spread a fleecy mantle o'er the earth— A frozen shroud symbolic of the Death he wrought. The Loom of Life By ten o'clock a hot blazing sun streams down upon the pickers as they diligently relieve the heavy-laden bushes of the white fleecy load of cotton. The Story of the Cotton Plant The moon came up, and still lingering, torn with suspense, she watched a drift of fleecy clouds darken it. Nan of Music Mountain During our Civil War, it will be remembered, India did her uttermost; and Bombay laid the foundations of her greatness in the high prices then paid for the fleecy staple. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Rex Lyon stood upon the porch of Whitestone Hall gazing up at the white, fleecy clouds that scudded over the blue sky, lost in deep thought. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love A few fleecy clouds, dyed fiery orange, drifted slowly eastward across the narrow zone of sky which stretched from summit to summit like a roof. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers Until then it had seemed so smooth and velvety and peaceful drifting around over their heads, as though lying on a soft, fleecy cloud. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 Pattern for a Light Scarf.—Cast on the number of stitches required upon No. 18 needles, and any kind of material you choose; three-threads fleecy is generally preferred. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet "Dear little lambs in your fleecy fold, Mother will keep you from harm and cold; Fondly we watched you in vale and glade, Say, will you dream of our loving shade?" Pinafore Palace “It is time to commence arranging your toilet, mademoiselle,” said the maid, approaching her softly with the white glimmering satin robe, and fleecy veil over her arm. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love He uncurled himself on the litter of withered grass-bents that formed his winter couch, crept towards the nearest bolt-hole of his burrow, and peeped at the fleecy clouds as they wandered idly overhead. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain And around and about them everywhere were soft, fleecy clouds, and over their heads was the glowing sky, and the stars were shining through it, as a lady’s eyes shine through a veil of gossamer. Irish Fairy Tales Wool.—This is of various colors and shades; German wool, single, and double; Hamburgh wool, fleecy, of three, four, five, six, seven, and eight threads; embroidery fleecy Shetland wool; English wool, coarse yarn, for mitts. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet Little lambs were frisking In the fields so green, While the fleecy mothers All at rest were seen. Pinafore Palace Moonlight was over me, with stars and fleecy white clouds. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Behind these again dropped a back-cloth representing a stone balustrade, blue hills and fleecy clouds. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 They could not see the little pipers, but up the steps was borne by the cool, sweet air the fairy music; and lured on by it step by step they travelled down the fleecy stairway. Irish Fairy Tales German fleecy, thought but little used, is much superior to that of this country. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet Now and then plover and curlew cried, a half-moon hung in the west, and the black hills rose out of fleecy mist. Partners of the Out-Trail One of the best articles of dress, not only for the prevention of rheumatism, but for powerful co-operation in its cure, is fleecy hosiery. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The Germans in return sprinkled our lines vigorously with shrapnel, the fleecy white puffs of their shells showing up like clouds on the clear blue sky. From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade Under this fleecy blanket, the cañon and the lower part of the trail stood forth clearly. Louisiana Lou A Western Story Harlequin Quilt, with Tucks.—This is done in double knitting stitch, with six threads fleecy. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet The children gazed at them, half frightened, half-admiring, and wrapped themselves more closely in the warm, fleecy cloud. Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon. A tall, angular woman must adopt soft, fleecy materials, so made that they can float and curve about all ungraceful angles, hiding, or softening them. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Overhead the low-hanging clouds covered the moonless sky like a hood, and not a star shone through the fleecy thickness to aid in the search for the little girl. The Biography of a Prairie Girl The bleating and affrighted sheep are plunged, unwillingly, into the pool, and now by the sturdy hand stripped of their fleecy coats. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago Sofa Pillow.—Work in six threads fleecy, and with a good sized crochet needle; work as follows. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet The fleecy white clouds began to look rosy. Bobby of Cloverfield Farm “Who in your swelling dugs bland liquors bear, “Who give your fleecy coverings, garments soft “For us to form; and more in life than death “Assist our wants. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Her eyes were deep blue and her skin as white as fleecy clouds in spring. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 What is the use," said a fleecy cloud, "Of these dew-drops that I hold? Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul The sun was setting, and fleecy fragments of cloud were painted ruddy gold against the silver background of the sky. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West The sky was clear blue, with a few fleecy clouds drifting lazily past. Letters on an Elk Hunt A few fleecy clouds floated in the sky. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field They are white and fleecy and almost cloudlike; and so thin that any sand or broken leaves still remaining will drop out of their own weight. Makers of Many Things The sky was clear and the few clouds were gloriously bright and cool and fleecy. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Streamers and fleecy masses of cosmical fog seem almost to fill the spaces between the stars, as clouds choke a mountain valley. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Her pastor loved as a pastor might— His house that was built on a golden rock; He pointed it out as a shining light To the lesser lambs of his fleecy flock. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Pure caffein forms long, white, silky, flexible needles, which readily felt together to form light, fleecy masses. All About Coffee He was clad in a suit of grey, with a blue hood, and his muscular body was enveloped in a wide blue mantle flecked with grey—an emblem of the sky with its fleecy clouds. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas And slowly a faint light dawned and growed brighter and brighter and fleecy clouds appeared. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands In America we never have a day like this, warm and yet cool, with all those nice, white, fleecy clouds in the sky. The Limit And a little round tear dripped on to the ball of scarlet fleecy wool. Not Like Other Girls First came a soft, fleecy baby blanket, then two little garments, once whitest muslin but now yellow with age, and then another smaller one of flannel. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast The third is that of a boy, as beautiful as could be, with fleecy hair. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo Above us, immense fleecy masses of brilliant white cloud, wind-driven from the Atlantic, soared up grandly, higher and higher over the bright blue sky. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot A soft wind blew gently from the south-east, and before it the fleecy clouds passed dreamily above the poplar trees. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 A fleecy shawl seemed to lie lightly over her shoulders. The Golden House For there stood a little figure no taller than Winnie, dressed in a white fleecy robe trailing on the ground. Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly On his breast floated the fleecy clouds of morn, while his summit rose high above these clouds, and stood, in the calm of the firmament, a stupendous pile of ice and snow. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Certain of the included species mimic terrestrial cloud-scenery—now appearing like fleecy cirrus transpenetrated with the red glow of sunset—now like prodigious masses of cumulo-stratus hanging heavily above the horizon. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Doesn't she look like a fairy peeping out from a fleecy cloud, In that lovely dress and veil? Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly The wind blew east, and a few fleecy clouds raced along the blue sky overhead. Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 The sun sunk in fleecy golden vapours behind it. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father The uplands before me were barred by what I at first took to be long horizontal layers of fleecy cloud. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Danvers watched as she pulled the fleecy covering around the sleeping child. A Man of Two Countries How pure and fleecy it looked! while far, far below us the river gleamed like silver through the leaves. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California The damp sea air fanned his long hair and caused him to look in the direction of the fleecy white clouds which were creeping upward from the horizon. El Diablo Only the white sail, that like a bit of fleecy cloud, equally fleeting, was fast lessening to a speck upon the distant horizon. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Ermine was standing, as she spoke, by the half-door, her eyes fixed on the fleecy clouds which were floating across the blue summer sky. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford In wedding finery she will prance before her delighted friends for a few minutes, and then march out to shed white silk and fleecy tulle. The Art of Disappearing I was constantly surprised at the grandeur of this western coast, with its magnificent chains of mountains, rising peak above peak, and fleecy clouds resting on their summits. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California The white moon rode buoyantly through fleecy clouds, that thinly dappled the azure sky of Louisiana, and a soft breeze played through the now silent streets. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The nights are serene and bright, so that it is delightful to lie awake upon the deck of the steamer and watch the stars now and then screened by the fleecy clouds. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Moreover, the fleecy animals still clothe us in a less primitive fashion. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles She wore a fleecy fabric, topaz-coloured, with black lace trimmings; yellow roses gemmed her hair, and topaz and ruby ornaments clasped her throat and arms. Macaria High above us the fleecy clouds parted, and we caught a glimpse of what seemed like "the promised land." Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California A monstrous dignity of fleecy clouds scudded undignified across the blue. Anthony Lyveden Therefore, she was surprised, when she emerged from the woodland, to find the sky, formerly all blue and fleecy clouds, changed to a threatening, lowering gray. Lucile Triumphant Across the moon’s face had drifted a white, fleecy cloud; therefore the light was not so brilliant as half an hour before. The Seven Secrets The shadow fled from her countenance, which grew radiant as some fleecy vapour suddenly smitten with a blaze of sunlight, and clearer and sweeter than chiming bells her voice rang through the room. Macaria Mummy Mountain in the north and Longs Peak in the south continually gather handfuls of fleecy cloud. The Book of the National Parks The shepherd fell into a passion, whistled, scolded, and pelted the poor fleecy amateurs with stones. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets Gaze yonder,' I says, 'upon that great yellow orb with all them fleecy white clouds banked up behind it.' Sundry Accounts The fog, fleecy, not so wet as impenetrable—when had it engulfed us? Desert Dust “It’s lovely, mother!” exclaimed Rose, lifting up a little fleecy shoulder cape of lavender wool. A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony There was a hum of insects in the air, and the soft wind ever and anon blew a fleecy cloud over the moon, dimming for a moment her serene splendor. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Full lowly did the herdsman fall; 'O spare, thou noble Baron, spare These herds, a widow's little all; These flocks, an orphan's fleecy care!' The Children's Garland from the Best Poets Inside, swathed in the secrecy of the fleecy folds of mist—what was happening to the dog? The Raid on the Termites But still the clouds eddy about in fleecy billows wholly obscuring the mountains. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty The faint glimmer of the electric light, heavily shaded, assumed fantastic and portentous shapes and fleecy enormous shadows on the white surface of the staring walls. The Wooden Horse The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, With an indolent expression and an undulating throat Like an unsuccessful literary man. More Beasts (For Worse Children) Even a little boy could appreciate the picture the tall skyscrapers made, some buildings white, some gray, with here and there a gleaming gold dome against the fleecy September clouds. Sunny Boy in the Big City She was leaning on the taffrail, listening to the singing, her white fleecy wrap falling around her like a cloud. Killykinick But just across them floats a long level wisp of fleecy cloud, and apparently the limits of earth have been reached and sky has begun. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty It was a beautiful evening; a soft mist hid the moon's sharper outline, but she shone, a vague circlet of light through a little fleet of fleecy white cloud. The Wooden Horse They sat quietly for a while, watching the clouds hovering over the mountains, sometimes over the peaks, sometimes nestling in fleecy patches half-way up. Across the Mesa It was a trying wait, and the dawn came with provoking slowness, a grey mist veiling the ground until the sun gained power and the sky showed pale-blue flecked with fleecy clouds. With Haig on the Somme She had just driven up in a pretty, light 214 carriage, and was still muffled in a soft fleecy wrap that fell around her like a cloud. Killykinick Who can forget "the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas"? Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions I'd skim along through fleecy clouds, An' see the great, Big Bear An' ask him how he liked to live So high up in the air. Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse The air was cool and bracing, the sun just beginning to be a bit warm, the mountains emerging from behind fleecy clouds, and the sky as blue as that of Italy. Across the Mesa A shrapnel burst above them, and as its fleecy white cloud unrolled there were two more bursts, one immediately below, which carried away the parachute, the other about eighty yards to the left. With Haig on the Somme There are fleecy clouds on the horizon, and at sunset they take strange shapes so that it is impossible not to believe that you see a range of lofty mountains. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Milt felt the luxury in the room—the fleecy robe over Claire's shoulders, the silver box of candy by her elbow, the smell of expensive cigars, and the portly complacence of Mr. Boltwood. Free Air "Clear as a whistle!" she exclaimed, peering through the tendrils of a Virginia creeper at the sea of blue ether where fleecy white clouds were floating, driven eastward by the fresh spring wind. Aunt Jane of Kentucky There wild woods grow, and rivers row By mony a fleecy flock, But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jock. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 I found Mannering standing at the gate, and I paused beside him to glance at the sky, across which one or two fleecy clouds were hurrying from the west. The Motor Pirate |
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