"At the edge of the timber a great galvanised-iron shed, nearly all roof,
coming down to within 6ft. of the `board' over the `shoots'. Cloud of red dust in the dead timber behind, going up -- noon-day dust. Fence covered with skins; carcases being burned; blue smoke going straight up
as in noonday. Great glossy (greasy-glossy) black crows `flopping' around.英文原著 · 《On the Track》
-on embedded turtles' eggs. -on glossy coating to dikes. Macaulay, Dr., on calcareous casts at Madeira. MacCulloch, Dr., on an amygdaloid. -on chlorophaeite. -on laminated pitchstone. Mackenzie, Sir G., on cavernous lava-streams. -on glossy coatings to dikes.英文原著 · 《Volcanic Islands》
Half an hour before dinner there was a grating of wheels on the gravel. Severne looked out of his bedroom window, and saw Uxmoor drive up. Dark blue coach; silver harness, glittering in the sun; four chestnuts, glossy as velvet; two neat grooms as quick as lightning. He was down in a moment, and his traps in the hall, and the grooms drove the trap round to the stables.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Wealth can make even a sick-room pretty. The Klosking lay on snowy pillows whose glossy damask was edged with lace; and upon her form was an eider-down quilt covered with violet-colored satin, and her face was set in that sweet cap which hid her wound, and made her eloquent face less ghastly.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
I spare you the rest, and simply remark that our Zoe, fired by the example of those two ladies, has devoted herself to nursing Aunt Maitland. It is very good of her, but experience tells me she will very soon find it extremely trying; and as she is a very pretty girl, and therefore a fit subject of male charity, you might pay her a visit now and then, and show her that this best of all possible worlds contains young gentlemen of distinction, with long and glossy beards, as well as peevish old women, who are extra selfish and tyrannical when they happen to be sick."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
At last an order came, and the first troop moved with muffled tumult across the bridge. Coleman and his dragoman followed the last troop. The horses scrambled up the muddy bank much as if they were merely breaking out of a pasture, but probably all the men felt a sudden tightening of their muscles. Coleman, in his excitement, felt, more than he saw, glossy horse flanks, green-clothed men chumping in their saddles, banging sabres and canteens, and carbines slanted in line.英文原著 · 《Active Service》