Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly
whitish. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.
And just as I was stooping and laying down the stakes, I saw something odd and round and
whitish lying on the ground under a nut-bush by the side of me.
He had two
whitish tusks, beautifully curved, and about eight feet in length; and in these the shanks of the anchor had firmly caught.
The soil of a great part of this Green River valley is a
whitish clay, into which the rain cannot penetrate, but which dries and cracks with the sun.
They were "cestracio philippi" sharks, with brown backs and
whitish bellies, armed with eleven rows of teeth-- eyed sharks--their throat being marked with a large black spot surrounded with white like an eye.
The islet appeared to him in the shadow like a black mass, beyond the narrow strip of
whitish water which separated him from it.
Again a
whitish object gleamed before me: it was a gate--a wicket; it moved on its hinges as I touched it.
There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam's eggs, but with
whitish skin instead of shell.
But as the last two days had been very warm, like an Indian summer, the ice was not now transparent, showing the dark green color of the water, and the bottom, but opaque and
whitish or gray, and though twice as thick was hardly stronger than before, for the air bubbles had greatly expanded under this heat and run together, and lost their regularity; they were no longer one directly over another, but often like silvery coins poured from a bag, one overlapping another, or in thin flakes, as if occupying slight cleavages.
All this was black in the falling dusk, and I could just distinguish the
whitish ruts of a cart-track stretching over the marsh towards the higher land, far away.
As far as Raskolnikov could make out from his stolen glances, he was a man no longer young, stout, with a full, fair, almost
whitish beard.
Of the enormous and much-dreaded globe there remained nothing but these fragments carried in all directions, now become asteroids in their turn, some flaming like a sword, some surrounded by a
whitish cloud, and others leaving behind them trains of brilliant cosmical dust.