The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the
middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
As he stood there, gazing into the
middle distance, an individual of dishevelled aspect sidled up, a vagrant of almost the maximum seediness, from whose midriff there protruded a trayful of a strange welter of collar-studs, shoe-laces, rubber rings, buttonhooks, and dying roosters.
In the
middle distance symmetrical mounds of woolly green moss bounded by croquet hoops formed the base of shrubs shaped like orange-trees but studded with large pink and red roses.
Suddenly the sun sank behind the Island of Elba, the lane of dancing sunlight was instantaneously quenched and swallowed in the trackless waste, and in the
middle distance, already miles astern, either my sight deceived me or a black speck bobbed amid the gray.
It came to a standstill in the
middle distance, and there it had been planned that Tibby should meet her, and drive her, and a tea-basket, up to join them.
A group of dark Scotch firs was introduced in the
middle distance to relieve the prevailing freshness of the rest; but in the foreground was part of the gnarled trunk and of the spreading boughs of a large forest- tree, whose foliage was of a brilliant golden green - not golden from autumnal mellowness, but from the sunshine and the very immaturity of the scarce expanded leaves.
It was addressing the head Shipping-Master who, having let me in, had, apparently, remained hovering in the
middle distance ever since "Mr.
Above the date- plumes in the
middle distance, swelled a domed and pinnacled mass, glimmering through a tinted, exquisite mist; away toward the horizon a dozen shapely pyramids watched over ruined Memphis: and at our feet the bland impassible Sphynx looked out upon the picture from her throne in the sands as placidly and pensively as she had looked upon its like full fifty lagging centuries ago.
When the French temperament sees a man running rapidly and pointing into the
middle distance and hears him shouting, ' La!
In the
middle distance lay the golf links, dotted as they had been in the morning with the dark figures of the golfers, lying motionless upon the grass of the course or among the heather which skirted it.
In the foreground was the long slope, strewn with rocks and dotted with tree-ferns; farther off in the
middle distance, looking over the saddle-back hill, I could just see the yellow and green mass of bamboos through which we had passed; and then, gradually, the vegetation increased until it formed the huge forest which extended as far as the eyes could reach, and for a good two thousand miles beyond.
You think your husband is a great man now because they are beginning to talk of his foregrounds and
middle distances in the newspaper columns that nobody reads.
middle distance - the part of a scene between the foreground and the background