The sprawling Martians were no longer to be seen, the mound of
blue-green powder had risen to cover them from sight, and a fighting-machine, with its legs contracted, crumpled, and abbreviated, stood across the corner of the pit.
THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of
blue-green marble.
In the dust and the steam the electric lights would shine like far-off twinkling stars--red and
blue-green and purple stars, according to the color of the mist and the brew from which it came.
"The Lural Az," I said, pointing toward its
blue-green surface.
Happily the tropical suns had bleached the tapestries to a faded
blue-green colour, and the mirror with its frame of shells, the work of the steward's love, when the time hung heavy in the southern seas, was quaint rather than ugly.
A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a
blue-green world with a pale stag in it.
Behind the
blue-green of the twin trees rose a dark-bluish brick Georgian pile, with a shell-shaped fan-light over its pillared door.
Below them, as they stood, the forest slid away in a sheet of
blue-green for mile upon mile; below the forest was a village in its sprinkle of terraced fields and steep grazing-grounds.
Following recent reports of illnesses and dog deaths in other parts of the country, Illinois health officials are warning of the danger from potentially toxic
blue-green algae to people and pets.
An increase in reports of toxic
blue-green algae in Scotland this summer has prompted the British Veterinary Association to urge Paisley dog owners to act.