Around the World With Eyes Wide Open : the Wonders of the World Pictured By the Pen And Pencil
The book Around the World With Eyes Wide Open : the Wonders of the World Pictured By the Pen And Pencil was written by author Tupper, Henry Allen, 1828-1902 Here you can read free online of Around the World With Eyes Wide Open : the Wonders of the World Pictured By the Pen And Pencil book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Around the World With Eyes Wide Open : the Wonders of the World Pictured By the Pen And Pencil a good or bad book?
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It supports a shield over its breast of a bluish-green color, with a satiny gloss, and back of the neck it bears another shield, much larger, of a velvety black color, glossed with bronze and purple. At first sight A KANDYAN GIRL. WITH EYES WIDE OPEN. 151 the plumage of the six-shafted paradise bird seems to be black, but in certain lights it glows with bronze and deep purple; its throat and breast are of a golden hue, changing to green and blue tints; the back of the head contains a curved ban...d of feathers, resembling the sheen of emerald and topaz more than organic substance, and from the sides of the head spring the six feathers from which the bird receives its name. But as my vocabulary of color names is about spent, I must cease the futile attempt to give a word-painting of this bird, clothed by nature with all the hues of the rainbow. PEARI, FISHERIJJS OF C«YI,ON. CHAPTER VIII. THE SPICY BREEZES OF CEYLON. OME years ago I was in the Louvre Gallery in Paris, and I was nearly as much interested in watching the performances of some of the visitors as I was in the great masterpieces.
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