Descriptive Quotes

A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better ...

They began to come upon chains and packsaddles, singletrees, dead mules, wagons. Saddletrees eaten b...

His feet went banging down some stairs. He closed his eyes. They went through cinders and dirt, his ...

They filed out in descending order by altitudes, the father first, out through the sunlit doors in a...

They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a shi...

The lamplight was eerie, and, standing there motionless in our bathrobes, sleepy, with shadows flick...

It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars.

Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and ...

...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking

Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. Th...

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream o...

She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered...

Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.

And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to...

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an ar...

An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the f...

Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewi...

Behind all the surface composure, there seemed to be a great darkness: an urge to test himself, to t...

They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood alone. She was a...

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over,...

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch ...

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It...

At this the Wart's eyes grew rounder and rounder, until they were about as big as the owl's who was ...

I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of he...