I had accompanied Webb on the last leg of his journey to Roanoke, and as we made our way through the smoky rises and falls of the Blue Ridge he reflected on how his ancestors had crossed those mountains, after fleeing Ireland, only to take up new fights against new enemies — the Indians, the British, the Yankees, the Germans, the Vietcong.
Ms. Etheridge's voice is robust enough for her imagery: it starts out smoky and rises to wrenching, leathery shouts, savoring its own strength.
The Great Smoky Mountains rise in the distance.
Fiber-optic lights inside the chandelier and the walls shift color continuously, from amber to smoky gray, rose and amethyst.
Many varieties are gemstones, including amethyst, citrine, smoky quartz, and rose quartz.
Behind the audience, shafts of smoky white light rose from floor to ceiling.
After dinner, she told Audie that she was going up to the spa, but instead ducked into the bamboo grove and walked quickly through the thick flowering trees into the smoky air that rose from the town.
Or rather, a baritone, with an unforced, smooth but smoky lower range that rises without a break to a light top, free and easy.
Ms. Lewis, 38, a jewelry designer, works largely in semiprecious stones, like rock crystal, rose quartz, smoky quartz and green onyx.
And even as its home city has fitfully struggled back from the dead, WBGO has become a community mainstay -- one that grew directly out of Newark's longstanding, though now largely vanished, tradition as a hotbed of jazz, studded with the smoky nightspots that gave rise to musicians like Mr. Person, Sarah Vaughan and Wayne Shorter.
Most of the semi-precious stones used by the Crystal Healer are members of the quartz and chalcedony family, such as amethyst, adventurine, agate, carnelian, citrine, rose quartz, smoky quartz, tiger's eye.
