Its fantastic colors are more brilliant and beautiful than the sun on the
undulating waters.
Whether it was that this
undulating tester rolled the savage away to far distant scenes, I know not, but he now spoke of his native island; and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to go on and tell it.
The air and water were shining in the beams of the morning sun; on the shore the sailors were sitting, chatting and laughing; and at ten yards from them the boat was at anchor,
undulating gracefully on the water.
Sometimes the landscape towered into bold and mountainous heights that partook of sublimity; at other times, it stretched along the water side in fresh smiling meadows, and graceful
undulating valleys.
It was encamped on a slight rise of the
undulating road, and from where I stood tents and vans and men were clearly silhouetted against the sky.
No, there was nothing but land--slightly
undulating, I knew, because often our wheels ground against the brake as we went down into a hollow and lurched up again on the other side.
The
undulating common seemed now dark almost to blackness, except where its roadways lay grey and pale under the deep blue sky of the early night.
The forest at the farthest extremity of the panorama seemed carved in some precious stone of a yellowish-green color; its
undulating outline was silhouetted against the horizon and was pierced beyond Valuevo by the Smolensk highroad crowded with troops.
I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of
undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.
To the north-eastward, the glare of snow lay under the starlight of the sable sky and I could see an
undulating crest of hillocks pinkish white.
This region, which resembles one of the immeasurable steppes of Asia, has not inaptly been termed "the great American desert." It spreads forth into
undulating and treeless plains, and desolate sandy wastes wearisome to the eye from their extent and monotony, and which are supposed by geologists to have formed the ancient floor of the ocean, countless ages since, when its primeval waves beat against the granite bases of the Rocky Mountains.
Night had fallen and he traveled high along the upper terrace where the gorgeous tropic moon lighted the dizzy pathway through the gently
undulating branches of the tree tops.
