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Usage examples of silhouette.

Beyond the agora, Achamian saw a cohort of birds wheeling above the great domes of the Temple Xothei, whose silhouette loomed above the tenements hedging the north end of the market.

His night vision had returned and he could see clearly the squat silhouette of the alkaloid factory on the horizon.

Using ink and aquarelle I can paint a lakescape of unsurpassed translucence with all the mountains of paradise reflected therein, but am unable to draw a boat or a bridge or the silhouette of human panic in the blazing windows of a villa by Plam.

This time he knew what to look for, and he saw the muzzy silhouette of the Blucher skulking under her camouflage.

Katherine called, and I looked up to see her poised on the edge of the cenote, silhouetted against the sun fifteen feet above my head.

For a while Rand sat in the common room, but he found himself eyeing every patron who came in, every stranger who could be anyoneor anythingespecially in the moment when he was first silhouetted as a cloaked black shape in the doorway.

He put his head out the door, saw rain puddles in the street beyond the open main doors and the silhouettes of Van Deef and Astoria engaged in conversation.

The other Eraser had crawled a few feet away from the cabin, a burning silhouette that had collapsed, its outlines blurred by flame.

Behind us lay Lamma Island, its fawny green deepened in silhouette by the falling sun.

Standing in darkness with her three pursuers silhouetted against the glow of gaslight in the foyer, Eleanor had a slight advantage.

But Wing Goy, still peering downward, saw a long, black silhouette creeping forward at his feet.

She had reviewed them in her mind while dressing, and saw that Silhouette knew what needed to be done, as she had said, but had lacked the gumption, as she had confessed.

Only the lamp Hake carried, silhouetting Jak and Strom, gave him the courage to keep on.

The photographs were enlarged, hand-tinted and glued to hardboard sheets to be cut out as silhouettes.

The many folds of the sheers had prevented her from seeing more than the silhouette of a hatted man.