...small apartment, its walls and both floors weathered by rain and time. Splitting up, they... at the warm glow of the window. Wood splintered and snapped as he broke through ...the wall, threatening to stick in the wood. Leonardo kept his katana close and sacrificed ... and taking a piece of burnt black wood from the edge of the fire. ...fell to the floor, and the rough wood scraped at the bloody mess of her...
...drugs. Eliza found the manila envelope inside a heavy trunk up in the cobwebby attic. The trunk itself had weathered the years well; the bottom was a bit mildewed, and the leather straps were bald in patches, but ... the mice nests were swept from the corners, Eliza had spent a weekend with cast-off planks of wood, a can of flat-head nails, and a red hammer. Now it was a glorified place rich with ...
... uneven planked floor. It was dank, dark and cooler inside, with the fading light beaming through cracks in weatheredwood. She skipped ahead to one the windowed openings to look down at the rain swollen June creek; a ... from his back pocket and, while she watched, sprayed his love on the wood that had been a wall nearly as long as it had been a tree. ...
... wear out of my dwindling supply of clean clothes. I rounded the corner, looking up to see the weathered red bricks of my apartment building. The smooth, pale stone ledges each window had before it, the various ... tan, with thin red and green sort of zig zag lines that met together to make diamonds. The wood fronts were chipped, scratched, and worn, a hand me down from a friend of my Mother’s. My ...
... Otokichi's brother realized this, and grabbing the axe the crew kept on ship, chopped away at the mast. Wood chipped away as he kept striking it, trying to take it down as fast as he could before the ... them spoke to each other. "Why are we clinging like this?" Kyukichi asked. He had become a weathered and sunken husk of the slightly pudgy boy who had set out for Edo. "We are going to die...
...at the end of the fence, taking a tentative peek around the weathered granite to make sure the coast was clear. It was. He... feet behind it, the barn was beginning to crumble, its brittle wood already succumbing to the fire shooting from the second floor of the...the second story was weighing heavily on the first, causing the compromised wood to groan and pop under the weight. His eyes were burning ...
... crystal scattering in a short radius around her face; they contact wood, stone, even some metal, and shatter. "Nay. You're a... discontented with his squished position and claims the shoulder opposite the wood where he might preen. "An' I'll stay out o' ...as the sea. Her whippy frame liquefies thalassic storms with the weathered luminescence of seaglass, leaving her hide that lovely, charming hue of...
... with one small hand and let her steps lead her toward him. Amid the rustle of fabric upon wood, an arcane conversation that no mere human could understand. The silvered music arose around her. Take your ... of sienna tresses, found her steely gaze and held those gleaming orbs before gesturing inside with a hand weathered by the sun, his palm callus-lined by the hilt of a blade, the string of a bow....
..., muted oranges and yellows and biege and reds...She wanted something "different' on the walls. Something weathered and soft. But the walls had a couple generations of wallpaper layers and plaster patch jobs and ... so far as to pulling some of it off in various places to reveal hints of the wood lathe work below. Then we took patching plaster--and added to the jagged areas around the wallpaper and...
... welt on his head, observing the sleeping men scattered him. They all seemed as beaten, worn and weathered as he was. Shaking his head at the sight of Will and Carter falling asleep in such protective ... . “Let us hope we last the day.” Much gulped and stared out into the wood at the surrounding enemies. He really did not like their odds. *** Marian and Robin ...
