In front of them the Lys rolled its waters like a river of molten tin; while on the other side was a black mass of trees, profiled on a stormy sky, invaded by large
coppery clouds which created a sort of twilight amid the night.
When he was a young man his hair and beard were red; his eyebrows were still
coppery.
From the west sky a wrathful shine--all that wild March could afford in the way of sunset--had burst forth after the cloudy day, flooding the tired and sticky faces of the threshers, and dyeing them with a
coppery light, as also the flapping garments of the women, which clung to them like dull flames.
Away in the distance before and behind, the green boughs, now turning in places to a
coppery redness, shot their broad arches across the track.
His eyes were brighter than I had ever seen them, but slightly bloodshot, and a
coppery flush tinged his clear, sunburnt skin.
At touch of the man's hand upon her flesh the girl went pallid beneath her
coppery skin, for the persons of the royal women of the courts of Mars are held but little less than sacred.
And all night long, in the starlight pale, We sail away, with a pea-green sail, And whistle and warble a moony song To the echoing sound of a
coppery gong.
She turned a
coppery hue, then that portion of her surface which was unobscured as yet grew grey and ashen, and at length, as totality approached, her mountains and her plains were to be seen glowing luridly through a crimson gloom.
He was a huge fellow, standing I should say six feet six or seven inches, well developed and of a
coppery red not unlike that of our own North American Indian, nor were his features dissimilar to theirs.
It was kind of Polly to say that, and Tom felt it; for his red crop was a tender point, and to be associated with Polly's pretty brown curls seemed to lessen its
coppery glow.
The expression of this snake's face was hideous and fierce; the pupil consisted of a vertical slit in a mottled and
coppery iris; the jaws were broad at the base, and the nose terminated in a triangular projection.
There were red,
coppery gleams on the roofs of houses, on the corners of walls, on the panels of carriages, on the very coats of the horses, and on the broad back of Mr Verloc's overcoat, where they produced a dull effect of rustiness.