Then, on the slight turn of the Lower Hope Reach,
clusters of factory chimneys come distinctly into view, tall and slender above the squat ranges of cement works in Grays and Greenhithe.
The sidewalks were superb marble slabs polished as smooth as glass, and the curbs that separated the walks from the broad street were also set thick with
clustered emeralds.
His naturally dark complexion had been deepened by exposure to the tropical sun, and a mass of jetty locks
clustered about his temples, and threw a darker shade into his large black eyes.
The
cluster shivered, as from hooked fore-foot to hooked hind-foot it telegraphed uneasiness.
The dogs
clustered together in fear, now and again snarling menacingly as a pair of eyes drew close.
And, above it, the woman of marble, composed and blind on the high pedestal, seemed to ward off the devouring night with a
cluster of lights.
Each of the Martians, standing in the great crescent I have described, had discharged, by means of the gunlike tube he carried, a huge canister over whatever hill, copse,
cluster of houses, or other possible cover for guns, chanced to be in front of him.
These were very numerous, for the place was thickly inhabited, and a large group of the queer people
clustered near, gazing sharply upon the strangers who had emerged from the long spiral stairway.
It was a fruitless search, however, in so far as antelope is concerned; but one night as I lay courting sleep at the edge of a little
cluster of date-palms that surround an ancient well in the midst of the arid, shifting sands, I suddenly became conscious of a strange sound coming apparently from the earth beneath my head.
It must have been close to three o'clock in the morning that Anderssen brought the boat's nose to the shore before a clearing where could be dimly seen in the waning moonlight a
cluster of native huts encircled by a thorn boma.
Long lines of poorly lighted streets might be faintly traced, with here and there a lighter spot, where lamps were
clustered round a square or market, or round some great building; after a time these grew more distinct, and the lamps themselves were visible; slight yellow specks, that seemed to be rapidly snuffed out, one by one, as intervening obstacles hid them from the sight.
As they passed onward, parting the boughs that
clustered in their way, the serenity which the child had first assumed, stole into her breast in earnest; the old man cast no longer fearful looks behind, but felt at ease and cheerful, for the further they passed into the deep green shade, the more they felt that the tranquil mind of God was there, and shed its peace on them.