A castle or church of brilliant white marble
glittered on the summit of one of the mountains near us, and, as the sun
went down without a cloud, the distant summits changed in hue to a glowing
purple, mounting almost to crimson, which afterwards darkened into a deep
violet. The western half of the sky was of a pale orange and the eastern a
dark red, which blended together in the blue of the zenith, that deepened
as twilight came on.
--Taylor: _Views Afoot_.
+Theme LXV.+--_Write a description in which the color element enters
largely._
5. _Animals, birds, fishes, etc._
The Tailless Tyke had now grown into an immense dog, heavy of muscle and
huge of bone. A great bull head; undershot jaw, square and lengthy and
terrible; vicious yellow gleaming eyes; cropped ears; and an expression
incomparably savage. His coat was a tawny lionlike yellow, short, harsh,
dense; and his back running up from shoulder to loins ended abruptly in a
knoblike tail. He looked like the devil of a dog's hell, and his
reputation was as bad as his looks. He never attacked unprovoked; but a
challenge was never ignored and he was greedy of insults.
--Alfred Ollivant: _Bob, Son of Battle_.
(Copyright, Doubleday and McClure.)
Read the description of the kingbird (page 224), and of the mongoose (page
242).
+Theme LXVI.+--_Write a description of some animal, bird, or fish._
(What questions should you ask yourself about each description you write?)
6.
Pages:
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290