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  • His face and neck were hidden beneath a black beard, intershot with grey, which would have been stiff and bushy had it not been limp and draggled and dripping with water.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • The eyes themselves were of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same; which runs through many shades and colourings like intershot silk in sunshine; which is grey, dark and light, and greenish-grey, and sometimes of the clear azure of the deep sea.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • A thick mist was in them, intershot with sparkling points of light.

    LOVE OF LIFE 2010

  • A thick mist was in them, intershot with sparkling points of light.

    LOVE OF LIFE 2010

  • And such water! — clear as the clearest spring water, and crystalline in its clearness, all intershot with

    "The High Seat Of Abundance" 1908

  • A thick mist was in them, intershot with sparkling points of light.

    Love of Life 1907

  • A thick mist was in them, intershot with sparkling points of light.

    Love of Life 1905

  • The eyes themselves were of that baffling protean gray which is never twice the same; which runs through many shades and colorings like intershot silk in sunshine; which is gray, dark and light, and greenish gray, and sometimes of the clear azure of the deep sea.

    Chapter 3 1904

  • His face and neck were hidden beneath a black beard, intershot with gray, which would have been stiff and bushy had it not been limp and draggled and dripping with water.

    Chapter 2 1904

  • Before her sight something like a veil was drawn; and yet it was not a veil, but a peculiar haze, now and then intershot with sparkles of pale light.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

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