Sentence examples for and dark back from inspiring English sources

At this time of the year the drakes are very striking, with a green and purple crest and a chestnut-orange ruff around their necks, orange-brown flanks and dark back.

These are the story lines (though that may be precisely the wrong word, for they come to us in circular, disconnected form) of "All Souls," "Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me," "A Heart So White" and "Dark Back of Time," the four novels by the Spanish writer Javier Marías that are now available in English.

The author's work, including "All Souls" (1989), "A Heart So White" (1992) and "Dark Back of Time" (1998), has been compared with Paul Auster's existential whodunits.

Those who insist on wandering unescorted through the shop's aisles and dark back rooms can easily get lost among the 50,000 items stocked.

It's nature's law: there's light and dark, back and forth, night and day.

Light bellies, silver sides, and dark backs help camouflage smolts in a pelagic marine environment from predators in the open ocean, whereas in freshwater streams and rivers dark and colorful morphologies allow resident fish to blend into shallow rocky substrates.

The reconstruction itself was revealing: Psittacosaurus was indeed countershaded, with a lighter belly and darker back.

There were three bedrooms upstairs, one quite pleasant, an enormous and fairly new bathroom and in a dark back room there was a TV and a chair.

From his walkup to Octopus Ink, and then, after dark, back to the apartment, with two videotapes under his arm.

Train station, train 30 seconds late (the platform's digital clock gave the seconds, can you imagine any American train station's?) and thru the dark back to London with the little transfer at Ashford.

So although gay men in the Soviet Union never felt free, they were not easily rolled and murdered in dark back alleys the way their counterparts in the US were.