How pretty it looked with its
parti-coloured sail in the sunlight, moored in the quiet bay!
He gave the blazing flare to Powell and walked aft to watch the passing of that menace of destruction coming blindly with its
parti-coloured stare out of a blind night on the wings of a sweeping wind.
Some went bare, only for a hanging cloak or great-coat, and carried their trousers on their backs like a useless burthen: some had made an imitation of the tartan with little
parti-coloured stripes patched together like an old wife's quilt; others, again, still wore the Highland philabeg, but by putting a few stitches between the legs transformed it into a pair of trousers like a Dutchman's.
He disclosed, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three days' growth, and two scowling eyes; one of which displayed various
parti-coloured symptoms of having been recently damaged by a blow.
Was he ashamed of his shaven head and
parti-coloured coat?
On the doorsteps there were lounging footmen with bright
parti-coloured plumage and white polls, like an extinct race of monstrous birds; and butlers, solitary men of recluse demeanour, each of whom appeared distrustful of all other butlers.
The prisoners wear a
parti-coloured dress; and those who are sentenced to hard labour, work at nail-making, or stone- cutting.
Chiropterologists focused on finding new caves suitable for the wintering of the cool-philic species of bats, like common pipistrelle and
parti-coloured bat.Intense cave research is currently ongoing in this gorge.
Suetonius, the Roman historian, recounted how Caligula's boats had"sterns set with gems,
parti-coloured sails, huge spacious baths, colonnades and banquet halls, and even a great variety of vines and fruit trees." Romans initially accepted Caligula's luxurious tastes, perhaps intrigued by them.