streak

As the road-mender plied his dusty labour, and the hail-clouds, rolling away, revealed bright bars and streaks of sky which were responded to by silver gleams upon the landscape, the little man (who wore a red cap now, in place of his blue one) seemed fascinated by the figure on the heap of stones.

With its faint, grey streaks came the savages of Bekwando, crawling up in a semicircle through the long, rough grass, then suddenly, at a signal, bounding upright with spears poised in their hands - an ugly sight in the dim dawn for men chilled with the moist, damp air and only half-awake.

The east was pink with the dawn and long streaks of light climbed into the sky where a few stars still shone.

It was the same panorama he had admired from that spot the day before, but now the whole place was full of troops and covered by smoke clouds from the guns, and the slanting rays of the bright sun, rising slightly to the left behind Pierre, cast upon it through the clear morning air penetrating streaks of rosy, golden tinted light and long dark shadows.

He stood, listened, and gazed sometimes down at the wet mossy ground, sometimes at Laska listening all alert, sometimes at the sea of bare tree tops that stretched on the slope below him, sometimes at the darkening sky, covered with white streaks of cloud.

The frock was quite dry, and in truth it had been helped a little by aunt Sarah's ministrations; but the colors had run in the rubbing, the pattern was blurred, and there were muddy streaks here and there.

On the horizon fine streaks of cirrhous clouds were succeeded by masses of cumuli.

Passing under the stern, we read Streak, painted in small white letters.

We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down.

At seventeen feet they struck a thin streak of gravel, and in it coarse gold, testpans running as high as six and eight dollars.

It was a beautiful shiny yellow, streaked with red.

The Parvis was filled with a thick smoke, which the musketry streaked with flame.