"Marking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... number and variety of snowy peaks and glaciers all around the elevated horizon; the ancient lake-beds, now green or brown with scanty vegetation, the vast moraines, the ridges of glacial debris, the flat terraces, marking, as it were with parallel roads, the bluff sides of the mountains, the enormous boulders perched upon them, and strewed everywhere around, the little Boodhist monuments of quaint, picturesque shapes, ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... boat contained four white men and but three Indians. One of the former was Donald Hester, and he it was who steered. Although he had been well treated by his captors, after the mystic marking on his arm to which the Zebra attracted their attention had saved him from an awful death, he was still held a close prisoner, and was still uncertain as to the fate reserved for him. This, however, ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... de la plume, where both events and characters unfold themselves like the buds of some unknown plant, how much more strongly is it the case of the story that has so long been mused over that one day it had to be told! Then the marking events of the actors' lives, their adventures, whether of sorrow or of joy, their sayings and doings, noble or bright or mistaken, recorded in the book, are but a tithe of the adventures, sayings and doings with ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... deep red, pink, or white varieties. When any particular flower becomes fashionable and is grown in large quantities, variations are always met with sufficient to produce great varieties of tint or marking, as shown by our roses, auriculas, and geraniums. When varied leaves are required, it is found that a number of plants vary sufficiently in this direction also, and we have zonal geraniums, variegated ivies, gold and silver marked hollies, ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... Christopher M. Weimer, May 2002. Circumflexes represent macrons in this file, and c represents c with an acute marking. Also, the name Brahma (not Param Brahma) is spelled with a breve over the final a, ...
— The Siksha-Patri of the Swami-Narayana Sect • Professor Monier Williams (Trans.)
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