umbered

Afternoons, ever so fast, last light drained into the hills across the bay, into everything around her, trees and earth and the pressed leaves beneath her feet, umbered rust and gold, and once a skein of geese passed silently over her shoulder, flying down the world into their secret night.

THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

Afternoons, ever so fast, last light drained into the hills across the bay, into everything around her, trees and earth and the pressed leaves beneath her feet, umbered rust and gold, and once a skein of geese passed silently over her shoulder, flying down the world into their secret night.

THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

Afternoons, ever so fast, last light drained into the hills across the bay, into everything around her, trees and earth and the pressed leaves beneath her feet, umbered rust and gold, and once a skein of geese passed silently over her shoulder, flying down the world into their secret night.

THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

Afternoons, ever so fast, last light drained into the hills across the bay, into everything around her, trees and earth and the pressed leaves beneath her feet, umbered rust and gold, and once a skein of geese passed silently over her shoulder, flying down the world into their secret night.

THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

The Phoenician traders brought intelligence to Greece of a people, the Cimmerians, who dwelt on the borders of Hades in the umbered realms of perpetual night.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.

Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The light which once flushed those pale summits with its rose at dawn and purple at sunset, is now umbered and faint; the air which once inlaid the clefts of all their golden crags with azure, is now defiled with languid coils of smoke, belched from worse than volcanic fires; their very glacier waves are ebbing, and their snows fading, as if hell had breathed on them; the waters that once sunk at their feet into crystalline rest, are now dimmed and foul, from deep to deep, and shore to shore. '

Normandy Picturesque Henry Blackburn 1863

My dog trotting a few feet ahead of us, mud-umbered, and purposeful, taking occasion to stop, drop, and roll at the water’s edge in pearled foam and river-silt, getting up to shake vigorously and then with such perfect intention, he stares querously at my wife and I as if to ask where are we going?

Two poems from Chris Banks Lemon Hound 2007