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From the back she had got down to the buttocks and was pushing into the folds, not leaving any part of the body without passing over it, making him shine like her three saucepans on Saturdays after a big clean.
The young girl had put on her Sunday dress, an old frock of rough blue poplin, already faded and worn in the
folds.
It was beginning to torture her, this garment of which the least
folds
cut and burnt her.
It was a little gold scent-bottle lying between two
folds
of the sheet.
Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at 20,000 francs; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering-pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy
folds
and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top-shell snails--greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun-carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred-star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery-furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother-of-pearl; green parrot shells from the seas of China; the virtually unknown cone snail from the genus Coenodullus; every variety of cowry used as money in India and Africa; a "glory-of-the-seas," the most valuable shell in the East Indies; finally, common periwinkles, delphinula snails, turret snails, violet snails, European cowries, volute snails, olive shells, miter shells, helmet shells, murex snails, whelks, harp shells, spiky periwinkles, triton snails, horn shells, spindle shells, conch shells, spider conchs, limpets, glass snails, sea butterflies-- every kind of delicate, fragile seashell that science has baptized with its most delightful names.
Either they stick to the oyster's shell, or they become embedded in the creature's
folds.
There, between its leaflike folds, I saw a loose pearl as big as a coconut.
Perhaps, following the examples of oyster farmers in China and India, he had even predetermined the creation of this pearl by sticking under the mollusk's
folds
some piece of glass or metal that was gradually covered with mother-of-pearl.
Her hair, whose two black
folds
seemed each of a single piece, so smooth were they, was parted in the middle by a delicate line that curved slightly with the curve of the head; and, just showing the tip of the ear, it was joined behind in a thick chignon, with a wavy movement at the temples that the country doctor saw now for the first time in his life.
The silver dish covers reflected the lighted wax candles in the candelabra, the cut crystal covered with light steam reflected from one to the other pale rays; bouquets were placed in a row the whole length of the table; and in the large-bordered plates each napkin, arranged after the fashion of a bishop's mitre, held between its two gaping
folds
a small oval shaped roll.
Chapter NineOften when Charles was out she took from the cupboard, between the
folds
of the linen where she had left it, the green silk cigar case.
Then her dress fell on both sides of her chair, puffing out full of folds, and reached the ground.
That dress with the narrow
folds
hid a distracted fear, of whose torment those chaste lips said nothing.
Grease and tobacco stains followed along his broad chest the lines of the buttons, and grew more numerous the farther they were from his neckcloth, in which the massive
folds
of his red chin rested; this was dotted with yellow spots, that disappeared beneath the coarse hair of his greyish beard.
He thought he saw a shadow behind the window in the room; but the curtain, sliding along the pole as though no one were touching it, slowly opened its long oblique
folds
that spread out with a single movement, and thus hung straight and motionless as a plaster wall.
He was dreaming of what she had said, of the line of her lips; her face, as in a magic mirror, shone on the plates of the shakos, the
folds
of her gown fell along the walls, and days of love unrolled to all infinity before him in the vistas of the future.
Her voice now took more mellow infections, her figure also; something subtle and penetrating escaped even from the
folds
of her gown and from the line of her foot.
Emma, in a dimity dressing-gown, leant her head against the back of the old arm-chair; the yellow wall-paper formed, as it were, a golden background behind her, and her bare head was mirrored in the glass with the white parting in the middle, and the tip of her ears peeping out from the
folds
of her hair.
Over there, on the left bank, are five or six winding valleys, along the
folds
of which the eye can make out quite plainly a number of little streams.
By some secret process of the ecclesiastical toilet-table, he had made his fine curly hair lie quite flat; but, by an oversight which intensified the anger of M. Chelan, beneath the long
folds
of his cassock one could see the spurs of the Guard of Honour.
Madame de Renal bowed her head which for a moment was almost entirely concealed by the
folds
of her shawl.
He was slim but firmly built, his clothes were black and close-fitting, with many
folds
and pockets, buckles and buttons and a belt, all of which gave the impression of being very practical but without making it very clear what they were actually for.
He turned his face toward him - its many deep
folds
seemed to show strength rather than age - and immediately began once more to search.
From the dim woods on either bank, Night's ghostly army, the grey shadows, creep out with noiseless tread to chase away the lingering rear- guard of the light, and pass, with noiseless, unseen feet, above the waving river-grass, and through the sighing rushes; and Night, upon her sombre throne,
folds
her black wings above the darkening world, and, from her phantom palace, lit by the pale stars, reigns in stillness.
Gregor had hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more
folds
into it so that everything really looked as if it had just been thrown down by chance.
The horseman did not wait to hear more than the advice to pursue his course up the road; but he had slowly turned his horse towards the bars, and was gathering the
folds
of an ample cloak around his manly form, preparatory to facing the storm again, when something in the speech of the female suddenly arrested the movement.
Once, and once only, as they moved towards the repast, did Lawton see a foot thrust itself from beneath the
folds
of her robe, and exhibit its little beauties encased in a slipper of blue silk, clasped close to the shape by a buckle of brilliants.
A few of the Southern dragoons, who were patrolling the passes which led to the encampment of the corps, could be distinguished at a distance on the heights, bending to their pommels as they faced the keen air which had so lately traversed the great fresh-water lakes, and drawing their watch coats about them in tighter
folds.
The black tresses, that during the dinner had been drawn in close
folds
over the crown of the head, were now loosened, and fell in profusion over her shoulders and bosom, imparting a slight degree of wildness to her countenance; the chilling white of her complexion was strongly contrasted with eyes of the deepest black, that were fixed in rooted attention on a picture she held in her hand.
His face assumed the ghastly paleness of death, and his hand drew a box of tin from the
folds
of his shirt; he opened it, showing by the act that it contained a small piece of paper.
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