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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shade
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shade/shield your eyes (=protect them from a bright light or the sun)
▪ They gazed out to sea, shielding their eyes from the sun.
window shade
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cool
▪ The room was painted in a cool shade of dusty grey.
▪ It was surprisingly cool in the shade.
▪ Between the windows, in the cool shade, his uncle sat upright in a chair, asleep.
▪ Gradually its polychrome walls converged upon us, and the foliage grew more lush in the cool shade.
▪ South facing rooms which already appear to be warmer due to the extra light can more easily accommodate cooler shades such as pale blue.
▪ She stayed in the sitting-room a lot, reading in the cool shade with the french windows to my garden thrown wide.
dappled
▪ By and large, roses are for open situations and full sun, not dappled sunlight or shade.
▪ But it does best in the dappled shade you get under shrubs or woodland trees.
▪ Plant soft-leaved species, susceptible to sun-scorch, in dappled shade.
▪ Slats close to the building will cast dappled shade, while the tree is drawn into the composition by the well-detailed pergola.
▪ They like living in the dappled shade of taller trees.
dark
▪ Shamrock cup and saucer by Beleek Bestlite 31170 solid brass lamp base with dark green enamelled shade.
▪ Suddenly the smooth water broke, and a porpoise arched out of it, a darker shade of gray.
▪ Strong or dark shades are normally only found in nomadic and tribal rugs.
▪ The pickpocket himself wore dark shades.
▪ From day to day the dark shades of his shirts, ties, and high-buttoning suits subtly changed.
▪ If a darker shade is required, knead more colour in.
▪ Do wear darker shades to disguise the bits you'd rather hide and highlight good points with detail.
▪ Wood can always be stained to a darker shade than its present state, but can not be lightened other than by bleaching.
deep
▪ A pendant fitting for use above a dining table should have a deep shade or one that is designed to avoid glare.
▪ Mr Grange lurks like a big spider in the deep shade at the back of the produce stand beside the watermelons.
▪ Few of us are blessed with ideal situations, often having to endure steep slopes, narrow alley-ways or deep shade.
▪ Do they live in deep shade because it meets their requirements best or because they have been forced there through competition?
▪ Clasen combined these blonde tones with deeper, warmer shades of camel or vicuna.
▪ Take full shade a step further and you have what most of us would rather forget: dense or deep shade.
▪ If you prefer silver, stick with bluish pinks and deeper shades.
▪ In deep shade, there is a continual shadow.
delicate
▪ It was not quite dark yet and the evening sky on the high tops was still aglow with delicate pastel shades.
▪ The dark galaxy spiralled around her, each constellation pricked out in delicate shades of fragrance.
different
▪ I could unquestionably get him several different shades of hairs from this house.
▪ Her favorites are a pale cocoa-colored lamb and another whose coat is different shades of gray.
▪ Eyes, hair, skin: all different shades of grey and white.
▪ In the low lands, miles of rice fields stretched out like handwoven carpets in different shades of green.
▪ Grated crayon added to paint produces interesting effects and can give different shades of colour.
▪ But Dot saw plenty of coal heaped up beside the tracks in so many different shades of black.
▪ One colour with white will give different shades of the one colour.
▪ Colour the remaining fondant icing three different shades of green.
light
▪ In the evening, when the sun mellowed and cast deep shadows, these ribs became stripes of light and shade.
▪ The left distinguished only light and shade.
▪ Flourishing in sun or light shade, this stachys makes good ground cover under roses.
▪ Note that this refers to card subjects, so the light and shade effects found in a plant canopy will be absent.
▪ It lacks light and shade, the conviction and theatrical intensity that drives words straight into people's hearts.
▪ A simple pergola and screen provide light and shade.
▪ Tous Les Matins Du Monde needs more light and shade.
▪ Thick white clouds raced across the blue sky, casting a perpetual kaleidoscope of light and shade over the earth.
natural
▪ If you hair looks dull and uneven, brighten the colour with a semi permanent rinse close to your natural shade.
▪ Temporary colorants are a good way to add warmth, richness and shine to your natural shade.
▪ A few floating plants can be grown with this to provide natural shade.
▪ In four natural shades it costs around £29.95 per metre.
pale
▪ Outside again she glanced up at the sky which was a pale shade of blue.
▪ Lacy white curtains fluttered at open windows, and washable slipcovers in white or pale shades covered the upholstery.
▪ Stick to very pale or clear shades.
▪ In the window the Durex poster, the one with the motorbike, has faded to pale northern shades of sea.
▪ When they feel especially daring, they might wear a paler shade of beige.
▪ These consist of pale neutral shades of blue, green and brown with some definite greys included.
▪ Use the colourings straight from the tube or bottle, or diluted for a paler shade.
pastel
▪ Cool, refreshing pastel shades are just right for a long hot summer!
▪ Look out, too, for a brand new baby quality called Bobtail in six pastel shades.
▪ We went for the mid-tones and pastel shades.
▪ The familiar tweed jackets appeared in fresh fruit pastel shades enlivened with a spattering of matched sequins.
▪ It was not quite dark yet and the evening sky on the high tops was still aglow with delicate pastel shades.
▪ Opt for ivory and pretty pastel shades and mix subtle patterns and textures together.
▪ White &038; pastel shades, then stripes of all colours &038; widths.
▪ This term is now commonly applied to a number of items, particularly from Anatolia, which have light pastel shades.
right
▪ The right dress and shade of lipstick?
▪ It was whipped out at every store she entered to ensure that the dress she loved was the right shade of red.
▪ I feel most comfortable in a special dress which is just the right shade and style.
▪ They work for just about everybody, given the right choice of shade.
▪ Each pixel must be individually addressed by a voltage to give the right shade at the right moment.
soft
▪ Apply cream blusher in a soft terracotta shade, or powder first, then apply a powder blusher in glowing earthy tone.
▪ The soft shade of coral was the perfect finishing touch.
subtle
▪ As with the Hebrew prophets, there were no greys, no subtle shades.
▪ No problem. Subtle shades continue to be in vogue.
▪ For a natural glow to your skin mix a subtle shade of blusher with loose powder.
▪ His ear is magnificent, capturing each subtle shade of accent and edge, each riff of language.
▪ Luckily it had short sleeves, and she knew that the subtle shade of pale aquamarine suited her colouring.
▪ The flowers are a subtle shade of pale green, rimmed in purple as the days go on.
▪ Although most mosaics comprise three to six basic colours, a work of good quality will include many subtle shades.
▪ There are no hidden depths or subtle shades here.
various
▪ A large, empty room with high, narrow windows through which the bright day filtered slowly on to various shades of brown.
▪ Even in his bluest period, Picasso blended enough colors to make various shades seem like an entire palette.
▪ The old ones, too tight and all in various shades of grey and brown, had been discarded.
■ NOUN
window
▪ A broken toaster and sev-eral ripped window shades were crammed in near a cracked welding gun and a rotting fence post.
■ VERB
lie
▪ Elsbeth lay there in the shade, watching everything, saying nothing.
▪ Wade lay back in the shade.
▪ Everything in the sun was old gold; everything that lay in the shade was blue.
▪ You work in the sun, you lie in the shade.
paint
▪ The room was painted in a cool shade of dusty grey.
▪ Bamboo pieces also suit rooms painted white and in shades of green, browns and neutrals.
▪ It was very still, with the landscape painted in shades of smoke.
▪ Both the adobe exterior and the high ceilinged interior have been painted a particularly sunny shade.
▪ The kitchen was done in thirty-year-old linoleum with cabinets painted an intense shade of pink.
▪ Prepare your eye for the return of the dark, vampy mouth painted in deep shades of burgundy, violet and rose-brown.
provide
▪ Adobe have worked with Pantone to provide over 700 colour shades and combinations that are provided in a reference library on disk.
▪ Soybeans could be a special case, however, because the plant provides its own shade as it grows.
▪ A simple pergola and screen provide light and shade.
▪ Reichardt is currently experimenting with free-range ducks, which are raised in an open field bordered by nearby trees to provide shade.
▪ A few floating plants can be grown with this to provide natural shade.
▪ Pines, too, provide filtered shade as sunlight flickers through the needles.
▪ A few small plants will help provide shade and shelter for the animals, and food for some of them.
▪ It provided them with shade on bright days, and a fixed point in the ocean.
sit
▪ He was persuaded to come round to the back of the house and sit in the shade.
▪ Every now and then I sat in the shade of my camel, head between knees and dry retched.
▪ She followed him into the field and they sat beneath the shade of a large oak tree.
▪ Calm and untroubled, Richmann sat in the shade of a palm tree, and relaxed.
▪ Let's go back and sit together in the shade, shall we?
▪ Selma sits in the shade of her house, enjoying a day's holiday because her employers are away.
▪ Ali went and sat in the shade.
▪ And you could bet that the moment he'd left they'd sat down in the shade.
turn
▪ Gingko biloba is a deciduous conifer with beautifully shaped leaves which turn a rich shade of golden-yellow before falling.
▪ They had once been white, he remembered, but now they had turned a curious shade of yellow.
▪ The sky was turning several shades of blue as night gave way to day.
▪ In the glow of the porch light, he saw her eyes turn that mesmerizing shade of periwinkle.
▪ The grapes that hung over mine host's door were turning a dusky shade as the juice ripened in their skins.
▪ Now that the sun had come out the ocean itself turned the most remarkable shade of blue.
▪ The world turns a shade greyer.
▪ The landscape turned two shades darker, richer, and the air in the car cooled off even more.
wear
▪ He always liked it when she wore a certain shade of lipstick, coral, not cherry.
▪ The pickpocket himself wore dark shades.
▪ Proud of his pink tie: I've worn a tie this shade for forty-five years.
▪ When they feel especially daring, they might wear a paler shade of beige.
▪ Now, it is permissible to wear all kinds of shades, according to your clothes as well as your personal colouring.
▪ Do wear darker shades to disguise the bits you'd rather hide and highlight good points with detail.
▪ The Freemans man wears pastels in up-to-date shades of blush pink, powder green and pale cream.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a cardboard sun shade for the car window
▪ a plant that likes shade
▪ In the fall, the woods are full of countless shades of brown, yellow and orange.
▪ The room was decorated in pastel shades.
▪ Valerie's eyes are a beautiful shade of blue.
▪ When buying make-up, choose the right shade to match your skin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All shades of political opinion on the committee worked well together elucidating the policies of the industries.
▪ Bamboo shades and screens contribute a pleasing serenity to quiet spaces.
▪ In ditches and damp springs, you may sometimes notice that the water is discoloured to a strong shade of orange.
▪ It grows well in partial shade and reaches a height of about four feet.
▪ Lincoln had actually become a shade unsure of Grant but continued to be impressed by his quiet, unremitting resolve.
▪ On the mantelpiece there was a small lamp with a crimson shade and I switched it on.
▪ Reduce prominent lids with a matte, sludgy shade of eyeshadow over the entire lid, blended away up to the brow.
▪ Window shades were drawn against the afternoon sun and the light in the house had an amber cast.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
tree
▪ It must be the way the trees are shading out the sun.
▪ Thus, three trees shading a house can cut air conditioning needs by up to 50 per cent.
▪ Tamarisk trees shaded a narrow strip between the water and a line of shops and cafés.
▪ Lined with trees, shaded by trees, how different this road might look.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a narrow road shaded by rows of trees
▪ The shaded areas on the map represent national parks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finley was shading the lefty spray hitter toward left.
▪ I use the pencils for techniques such as cross-hatching, contour and scribble drawing, shading and frottage.
▪ One day, tired and hot from the chase, she came upon a crystal-clear river deeply shaded by silvery willows.
▪ Sahara hats are popular -- white, Lawrence of Arabia headgear that shades the neck and cheeks.
▪ Skelton had partnered Florida in the knockout event and just shaded Whitaker and Fonda in a thrilling dash to the finishing line.
▪ We turned off the main street into a narrow, shaded alley.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shade

Shade \Shade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shading.]

  1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from.
    --Milton.

    I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens.
    --Dryden.

  2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes.

    Ere in our own house I do shade my head.
    --Shak.

  3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of.

    Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams.
    --Milton.

  4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken.

  5. To mark with gradations of light or color.

  6. To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. [Obs.]

    [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade That part of Justice which is Equity.
    --Spenser.

Shade

Shade \Shade\ (sh[=a]d), n. [OE. shade, shadewe, schadewe, AS. sceadu, scead; akin to OS. skado, D. schaduw, OHG. scato, (gen. scatewes), G. schatten, Goth. skadus, Ir. & Gael. sgath, and probably to Gr. sko`tos darkness. [root]162. Cf. Shadow, Shed a hat.]

  1. Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.

    Note: Shade differs from shadow as it implies no particular form or definite limit; whereas a shadow represents in form the object which intercepts the light. When we speak of the shade of a tree, we have no reference to its form; but when we speak of measuring a pyramid or other object by its shadow, we have reference to its form and extent.

  2. Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.

    The shades of night were falling fast.
    --Longfellow.

  3. An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat.

    Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there Weep our sad bosoms empty.
    --Shak.

  4. That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.

    The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
    --Ps. cxxi.

  5. Sleep under a fresh tree's shade.
    --Shak.

    Let the arched knife well sharpened now assail the spreading shades of vegetables.
    --J. Philips.

    5. Shadow. [Poetic.]

    Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue.
    --Pope.

  6. The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes.

    Swift as thought the flitting shade Thro' air his momentary journey made.
    --Dryden.

  7. (Painting, Drawing, etc.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above.

  8. Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.

    White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees, or shades and mixtures, as green only in by the eyes.
    --Locke.

  9. A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms.

    New shades and combinations of thought.
    --De Quincey.

    Every shade of religious and political opinion has its own headquarters.
    --Macaulay.

    The Shades, the Nether World; the supposed abode of souls after leaving the body.

Shade

Shade \Shade\ (sh[=a]d), v. i. [See Shade, n.] To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off.

This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades.
--Edmund Gurney.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shade

c.1400, "to screen from light or heat," from shade (n.). From 1520s as "to cast a shadow over;" figurative use in this sense from 1580s. Sense in painting and drawing is from 1797. In reference to colors, 1819. Related: Shaded; shading.

shade

Middle English schade, Kentish ssed, from late Old English scead "partial darkness; shelter, protection," also partly from sceadu "shade, shadow, darkness; shady place, arbor, protection from glare or heat," both from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (cognates: Old Saxon skado, Middle Dutch scade, Dutch schaduw, Old High German scato, German Schatten, Gothic skadus), from PIE *skot-wo-, from root *skot- "dark, shade" (cognates: Greek skotos "darkness, gloom," Albanian kot "darkness," Old Irish scath, Old Welsh scod, Breton squeut "darkness," Gaelic sgath "shade, shadow, shelter").\n

\nFigurative use in reference to comparative obscurity is from 1640s. Meaning "a ghost" is from 1610s; dramatic (or mock-dramatic) expression "shades of _____" to invoke or acknowledge a memory is from 1818, from the "ghost" sense. Meaning "lamp cover" is from 1780. Sense of "window blind" first recorded 1845. Meaning "cover to protect the eyes" is from 180

  1. Meaning "grade of color" first recorded 1680s; that of "degree or gradiation of darkness in a color" is from 1680s (compare nuance, from French nue "cloud"). Meaning "small amount or degree" is from 178

Wiktionary
shade

Etymology 1 n. (label en uncountable) darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To shield from light. 2 (context transitive English) To alter slightly. 3 (context intransitive English) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color. 4 (context intransitive baseball of a defensive player English) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position. 5 (context transitive English) To darken, particularly in drawing. 6 To surpass by a narrow margin. 7 (context transitive obsolete English) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen. 8 (context transitive obsolete English) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

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WordNet
shade

  1. v. cast a shadow over [syn: shadow, shade off]

  2. represent the effect of shade or shadow on [syn: fill in]

  3. protect from light, heat, or view; "Shade your eyes when you step out into the bright sunlight"

shade

  1. n. relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body; "it is much cooler in the shade"; "there's too much shadiness to take good photographs" [syn: shadiness, shadowiness]

  2. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" [syn: tint, tincture, tone]

  3. protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight; "they used umbrellas as shades"; "as the sun moved he readjusted the shade"

  4. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning" [syn: nuance, nicety, subtlety, refinement]

  5. a position of relative inferiority; "an achievement that puts everything else in the shade"; "his brother's success left him in the shade"

  6. a slight amount or degree of difference; "a tad too expensive"; "not a tad of difference"; "the new model is a shade better than the old one" [syn: tad]

  7. a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: ghost, spook, wraith, specter, spectre]

  8. a representation of the effect of shade in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)

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Wikipedia
Shade (shadow)

Shade is the blocking of sunlight (in particular direct sunshine) by any object, and also the shadow created by that object. Shade also consists of the colors grey, black, white, etc. It may refer to blocking of sunlight by a roof, a tree, an umbrella, a window shade or blind, curtains, or other objects.

Shade (film)

Shade is a 2003 neo-noir crime drama starring Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, Roger Guenveur Smith, Melanie Griffith and Sylvester Stallone. The film follows a trio of grifters who attempt to set up a legendary card sharp nicknamed "The Dean". The film was directed and written by Damian Nieman.

Shade (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, shades are humanoids who have merged with the essence of the Plane of Shadow. In Third Edition, a shade is created by applying a template to a humanoid creature.

Shade (comics)

The Shade (Richard Swift) is a comic book character developed in the 1940s for National Comics, first appearing in the pages of Flash Comics in a story titled "The Man Who Commanded the Night", scripted by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Hal Sharp. Debuting as a villain, the Shade was best known for fighting against two generations of superheroes, most notably the Golden Age and Silver Age versions of the Flash. He eventually became a mentor for Jack Knight, the son of the Golden Age Starman Ted Knight, a hero the Shade had also fought.

Though initially portrayed in the Golden Age comics as a thief with a cane that could manipulate shadows, the character was reinvented in 1994 as a morally ambiguous Victorian era immortal who gained the ability to manipulate shadows and his immortality from an unexplained mystical event. In 2009, the Shade was ranked as IGN's 89th Greatest Villain of All Time.

Shade

Shade, Shades or Shading may refer to:

  • Shade (color), a mixture of a color with black (often generalized as any variety of a color)
  • Shade (shadow), the blocking of sunlight
  • Shading, a process used in art and graphic design
Shade (mythology)

In literature and poetry, a shade (translating Greek σκιά, Latin umbra) can be taken to mean the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld. The image of an underworld where the dead live in shadow is common to the Ancient Near East, in Biblical Hebrew expressed by the term tsalmaveth (צַלמָוֶת: lit. "death-shadow", "shadow of death"; alternate term for Hell). The Witch of Endor in the First Book of Samuel notably conjures the ghost (owb) of Samuel.

Only select individuals are exempt from the fate of dwelling in shadow after death, ascending to the divine sphere. This is the apotheosis aspired to by kings claiming divinity, and reflected in the veneration of heroes. Plutarch relates how Alexander the Great was inconsolable after the death of Hephaistion up to the moment he received an oracle of Ammon confirming that the deceased was a hero, i.e. enjoyed the status of a divinity.

Shades appear in Homer's the Odyssey, when Odysseus experiences a vision of Hades, and in the Aeneid, when Aeneas travels to the underworld. In the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, many of the dead are similarly referred to as shades (Italian ombra), including Dante's guide, Virgil.

The phrase "peace to the gentle shade [and endless rest]" is sometimes seen in epitaphs, and was used by Alexander Pope in his epitaph for Nicholas Rowe.

Shade (interactive fiction)

Shade is a psychological horror interactive fiction game written and published by Andrew Plotkin in 2000.

Shade (Silverchair song)

"Shade" is a song by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. It was released as the fourth single from their debut album, Frogstomp, in 1995. It was the group's only single not chosen to be on their compilation album The Best of Volume 1.

Shade (Murray Head album)

Shade is a studio album by Murray Head. It was released in October 1982.

In 1996, it was reissued by Sony Records with three bonus tracks.

Shade (novel)

Shade is a novel published in 2005 by the Irish novelist and film writer Neil Jordan.

The book begins in the 1950s with the brutal murder of the central protagonist, Nina Hardy, at the hands of a mentally and physically scarred veteran of the Second World War. What follows is an explanation of the motivation leading to the murder, of her childhood, her parents' lives, the brutality of war and the aftermath of her demise. The novel's narrative jumps between times and between narrators cohesively.

The title itself comes from the shade (or ghost) of Nina Hardy which, travelling through time, is able to review but not change the events leading to its loss of corporeality. Along with accounts of analogous occurrences that foreshadow Nina's brutal end, the impotence of her ghost to actually alter its fate lends a poignant air of inevitability to the entire story. Despite the novel's disclosure of its end it never loses impetus as the reader strives to find out why Nina was killed. The book is strongly descriptive, especially visually, and deals with emotive issues with plenty of narrative tricks and a strong literary style which doesn't descend into mawkishness as it so easily could in the hands of a less accomplished writer.

Category:2005 novels Category:Irish novels Category:21st-century Irish novels

Shade (Holly Cole album)

Shade is a studio album by Holly Cole. It was released in Canada in 2003 on Alert Records.

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Usage examples of "shade".

By noon he was riding a farmland road where the acequias carried the water down along the foot-trodden selvedges of the fields and he stood the horse to water and walked it up and back in the shade of a cottonwood grove to cool it.

Under their stimulating influence the Convention was eager to begin the balloting, but the gathering shades of evening compelled an adjournment to the next morning.

His eyes, Aerian to the core, were shading to blue, which was never a good sign.

His keen eyes detected slight aerosol droplets, revealed in a shaft of sunlight viewed against shade.

Pulling his hat low for shade, Mat searched the road for a woman, for anyone, mounted or afoot, and his heart sank.

The sky had turned crimson and saffron in the east, and the deep midnight blue Dasaratha had seen from the akasa chamber had turned to a lighter blue, the exact blue shade of the white-and-blue china vase he had been gifted with by the Greek envoy just last week.

The day was away back in the alcheringa and it had been very still and very hot, and the whole tribe, with the exception of one man, lay amongst the bracken in the shade of big eucalypti and lesser myrtles and other scrub.

O clock and took a hearty alfresco breakfast with his officers under the shade of a spread tarpaulin and then, from the rear seat of the Rolls, he gave a clenched fist cavalry order to advance.

And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber--instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on Christmas Day in Australia.

Plunging into the deep shade of the arboretum, I noticed that the leaves overhead were so thick, hardly any sunlight at all was allowed to get through.

The two heads, one hoary and aged and the other young and bright, leaned together as the duke of Avaria and the duchess of Fesse bent close in intimate conversation The door closed, cutting them off, and Hanna felt rushed along as Hugh led his retinue at a brisk pace under shaded porticos and out across the blistering hot courtyard that separated the regnal palace from the one where the skopos dwelled.

The boy squatted in front of his master in the shade of the awning and watched him eat with a tender anxiety.

Pandaras, sitting bare-chested and cross-legged in the shade of the awning at the far end of the main deck, looked up from the embroidery work he was doing on the collar of his shirt.

He wore a peaked badgeless naval cap which shaded his face but could not conceal his marked stoop and splendid snow-white Buffalo Bill beard.

When the hunters tired of fishing, and when they wearied of crossing the sand-dunes and the glaring, shimmering beachglaring and shimmering on every fine day of summer-to poke off the mussels and spear the butterfish and groper, they pushed through the Ceratopetalums and the burrawangs, and, following the tortuous bed of the principal creek amid the ferns and the moss and the vines and the myrtles, gradually ascending, they entered the sub-tropical patch where the ferns were huge and lank and staghorns clustered on rocks and trees, and the beautiful Dendrobium clung, and the supplejacks and leatherwoods and bangalow palms ran up in slender height, and that pretty massive parasite-the wild fig-made its umbrageous shade, as has been written.