How To Use Coloured In A Sentence
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Predators have been observed to avoid attacking brightly coloured species.
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But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair.
South Wind
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All was coloured with admiration of his beauty and grace, and mingled with boundless pity for their sad overclouding and defeature!
Thomas Wingfold, Curate
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Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
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The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
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Strange flashes of varicoloured, rainbow light began to appear and disappear on the path before me.
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Before one embarks on this high flying experience, the organisers supply a crash helmet, and a safety waist belt which is securely tied with a long and strong rope to the huge multi-coloured parasail.
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There was a convoluted tangle of coloured threads around you, some of which seemed to be paths.
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Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.
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All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
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He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Even when the fountain was working properly it was frequently full of soap suds or discoloured because someone had put something into the water.
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These columbines have bell-shaped flowers, spurred petals, and self-coloured tepals.
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It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Light-coloured clothes tend to show the dirt.
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Archaeologists were excited to find lots of bronzes, ceramics, lacquerworks, wood tomb figures, steel weapons and leather weapons, jewelry and even coloured drawings.
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Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain.
The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct
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Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss.
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I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster.
Là-bas
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If the heat has been moderate, and not continued too long, the golden-coloured fcaly porous mafsj called aurum mu - fivum, will be found at the bottom of the veflel; but, if it has been too ftroitg, the - aurum mufivum fufes to a black mafs of a ftriated texture.
The first principles of chemistry
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To finish the portrait, the bearing of the gracious Duncan was brief, bluff, and consequential, and the upward turn of his short copper-coloured nose indicated that he was somewhat addicted to wrath and usquebaugh.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Sites promoted as tourist attractions are usually signposted from main roads; look out for brown-coloured ‘tourist signs’.
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Officers and sailors who normally wear winter rig came to work in jeans, brightly coloured shirts and for some, riding boots.
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Looking with disgust at the clothing she was going to have to put on, she sighed and began to remove the beautiful rose-coloured silk robes.
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Some of the prints were badly discoloured.
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But the painted kerbing and the gaily-coloured banners can't disguise the extent of the social and educational deprivation of this community.
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With his mate riding shotgun and in disbelief, this is a reasonable comedy about looks, with some funny gross-out moments as you view the world through Hal's rose-coloured eyes.
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Single crystals of two or more different colours are not uncommon, making unusual multicoloured faceted stones.
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There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin.
Power, corruption and lies
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Mr Hardman, I'm sorry, but your view of Little Lever is very different from mine. I took off my rose-coloured glasses a long time ago.
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The article told of a honey-coloured cat that attacked an 83-year-old woman in her garden.
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Her smooth black hair fell around her shoulders, and her cream-coloured dress nearly matched her pale complexion.
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The coloured border pattern of geranium or ivy leaf is not one whit better drawn, or more like geraniums and ivy, than the figures are like figures; but you call the geranium leaf idealized -- why don't you call the figures so?
The Two Paths
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The colours are vibrant and bright, although coloured lighting is overused in many areas.
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The master warmed beneath his copper-coloured rind.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Wealthy women might have a string of brightly coloured beads linking the two brooches across the chest.
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It is, however, one method by which self-coloured warps for denim cloths (e.g. T1 fabric) can be prepared.
Chapter 5
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The carpet had discoloured over the years.
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Orange-coloured grounds may be formed by mixing vermilion or red lead with King's yellow, or orange lake or red orpiment (? realgar) will make a brighter orange ground than can be produced by any mixture.
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing
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The base of these hills was of close-grained white-coloured granite, or whinstone: the summits of good freestone: on the sides several good pieces of iron ore were picked up.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
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Erythronium dens-canis is the true dog's tooth violet, the name comes from the shape of the corm, and has rose coloured flowers on 10 cm stems and purple marked leaves.
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In the North Alley of the said Nine Altars, there is another goodly faire great glass window, called Joseph's Window, the which hath in it all the whole storye of Joseph, most artificially wrought in pictures in fine coloured glass, accordinge as it is sett forth in the Bible, verye good and godly to the beholders thereof.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
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Under Kevin Sutley's direction, this production finds a queasy pace, coloured as much by the insane bingeing on stage as the emotional minefield it traverses.
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This external render is then coloured with the local earth colour to decorate the church.
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Hats, caps or other headgear can be worn to protect the head and face from being coloured with hard-to-rinse dyes.
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I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
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And this impression is greatly helped by the fantastical finery of his dress: sky-blue satin cravat, yards of gold chain, white French gloves, light drab great-coat lined with velvet of the same colour, invisible inexpressibles, skin-coloured and fitting like a glove, etc., etc.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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On the stiff soil the trees were ironbark, box, apple, gum, and some large acacias, with long lanceolate phyllodia, and large spikes of golden coloured flowers.
Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
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This is a beautifully coloured, quick and tasty soup, which freezes well.
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I watch rice being planted, traditional canoes paddled in peacoloured swamps and monks in saffron robes walking along red dirt roads.
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We observe the Admiral, dressed in a cinnamon coloured velvet coat trimmed with elaborate gold clasps.
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He stood there, as calm as ever, wearing only his neat black trousers and his scuffed boots, a few tendrils of plum-coloured hair tracing a colourful pattern against the smooth monotony of his skin.
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He had azure coloured eyes and flaxen hair with indigo streaks.
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Castor oil plants are easy to recognise from the palmate like leaves with pointy ‘fingers’ and an often purple coloured stem.
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But art deco coloured glass means subdued lighting, hence the problems with reading the menu.
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They're tiny knitted creatures, with spindly legs and multicoloured bodies, and snapping at their heels is a gnarly-looking wolf in sheep's clothing.
The graffiti knitting epidemic
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But far from a happy trip down memory lane, her memories of Ventry are coloured by sadness and tragedy.
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I am not planning to start my own party but I am looking to organise all coloureds in this province under the auspices of the ANC.
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We conclude that it is still possible that our current understanding of planetary systems is unduly coloured by our intimate knowledge of our own solar system.
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Dark-coloured drinks, such as brandy, red wine and whisky, contain toxic additives called congeners, formed during fermentation.
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We talk a little bit about the ways in which her rather bleak view of the world has been coloured by her first-hand experiences of mortality.
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He believed that more metallics could be created by adding amounts of the four coloured inks used in every printing press to a single base ink containing a silver pigment.
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Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches.
Brave New World
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Hymen blew his torch out, put it into the cupboard for use on a future day, and exchanged his garish saffron-coloured robe for decent temporary mourning.
The Newcomes
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The tailoring is classic and structured and the subtle pinstripes and tonal coloured checks feature soft detailing.
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Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.
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He said that many girls use substandard coloured contact lenses without knowing the negative effects like serious eye injuries and inflamed cornea.
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This dentine is darker than enamel, so teeth appear stained and discoloured.
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Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern.
My Tropic Isle
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Accidentally knocking over the bottle, I watched as the crimson coloured liquid soaked into the white papers.
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I wanted the top of the cupcakes to look like a jube so I went a little big crazy with the coloured sugar crystals - they would of looked better if I didn't rush spreading on the swiss meringue buttercream.
The Red Deer
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A copper coloured (golden brown) American style ale / lager hybrid with a lasting head.
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He had blond hair and was wearing a light-coloured jacket, white trousers and black shoes.
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Mr Blair was wearing a black and blue T-shirt, jeans and training shoes, while his wife was dressed for the heat in multi-coloured patterned trousers, a white smock and trainers.
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Brightly-coloured neon signs are mostly used as rooftop advertisements for hotels or other commercial institutions.
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Sinai, grey granite dyked with decaying porphyritic trap, and everywhere veined with white and various-coloured quartzes.
The Land of Midian
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You can often choose between plain white or coloured and patterned scarves.
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The hard rock, which yields a shining black surface with copper-coloured spots when polished, transformed the poor villages with no irrigation facility to speak of, into a hub of economic activity.
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You see, last night I dreamt about a huge rainbow and lots of rainbow coloured objects, Orange cups with strawberry coloured liquid in them and the like.
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Look at the world through rose-coloured glasses.
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The sepia coloured calendar, which is selling well, is available from the Canal Street pub at £3.99.
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Not only have the top-boots and breeches vanished from the costume of innkeepers, but also the long, parti-coloured waistcoat, and the birds'-eye fogle round their necks.
Can You Forgive Her?
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The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the caste, penny plain twopence coloured, the stink and glory of the performance and the final conflagration.
Archive 2010-04-01
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Drifts of sea pinks coloured the soft grass of the cliff tops and house martins zipped by flashing their pure white rumps.
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The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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Shapes are stencilled onto coloured papers to make cut-outs, and onto photos, for cropping them into interesting shapes.
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The pale walls provide a perfect foil for the brightly coloured furniture.
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He ensured there were Tudor roses on the gowns of the staff and on the Tudor coloured counterpanes of the beds; the roof and stained glass windows were also of royal quality.
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Red-coloured flames and black smoke are rendered in a stylised fashion.
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Dwarves, all wearing brightly coloured pointy hats, hurried pass on all manner of errands.
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The front was covered with decorations, including mock-ups of a throne and floral crown, window-sill models of Coronation regalia and the Royal coach, coloured lights and Royal portraits.
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I can remember the sun slanting down onto the honey-coloured wood of the lab bench.
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The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation.
The War of The Worlds
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J. P. Newell, he always wore his gown, mortar board, exquisitely coloured hood and dog collar,’ he writes.
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Mesa table-mountains and free-standing buttes flashed by, chocolate-coloured and beige, magenta and orange.
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The agent meets me outside the pastel-coloured Victorian villa, which sits on one of the area's most picturesque and leafy squares.
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I have discovered that on these, the boundaries of hereditaments were often carelessly delineated and only outlined with coloured crayon.
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With the brightly coloured banderillas (barbed darts) he approaches the bull excellently and positions them carefully on the neck, bringing the crowd to its feet with applause.
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Seen nearer at hand, the dun-coloured desert resolved itself into uncountable pimpling clay and mud-heaps, of divers shade and varying sizes: some consisted of but a few bucketfuls of mullock, others were taller than the tallest man.
Australia Felix
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Warts are small, skin-coloured, roughish lumps on the skin.
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The suspect was described only as a white man, in a light coloured short-sleeved shirt.
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The octagonal shelter, which is coloured purple and silver, has seats and roof.
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Look at the world through rose-coloured glasses.
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They were shown how to make colourful outfits, tabards, headbands and banners using brightly coloured silks that they painted.
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The female is paler and lacks the grey crown, white cheeks, black bib and eye stripe and chestnut brown nape, but has a straw coloured stripe behind the eye.
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The officer was built like a wrestler, with thinning sand coloured hair and a neatly groomed beard.
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The ‘ink’ is a microcapsule of TiO2 particles in a coloured fluid.
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The flame in the furnace can be looked at through coloured glasses.
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Fences, wooden shutters and doors are painted in striking colours to contrast with the indigenous cream-coloured limestone of buildings.
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Multicoloured, multilayered cakes and mousses abound, along with carambola, mango and cream pastry and pistachio and cappuccino squares.
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In places it is punctured by bollards and peeled back to form benches, revealing glazed voids packed with multi-coloured fluorescent tubes that scintillate seductively with kaleidoscopic light.
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Where I had a showerproof jacket over an ordinary suit and no hat, he had come equipped with the full bit: a red padded cap with ear flaps fastened with a strap under his chin, blue padded trousers tucked into short wide-legged gumboots, and a red padded jacket fastened up the front with silver coloured press studs.
Slay Ride
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Its straggle of brightly-coloured box-like houses is dramatically set between steep stark mountains and a sound strewn, even at the height of midsummer, with huge stately icebergs.
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He turned and there was Beth, in the dirty cream coloured Ute.
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Yet she seemed to enjoying the thought of his largely built figure looming over her with his raven coloured eyes staring into hers.
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You should wear something light-coloured when you're cycling at night so that you're more visible.
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Light-coloured carpets show the dirt.
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One loaded it into a dark-coloured car while the wheelman sat at the ready.
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First there is a courthouse and across from it a theatre and then a bakery and a coffee shop; not to mention the imposing plain-coloured sound stages (eight of them, in total) that look like airplane hangars.
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Many of these enquiries were based on anecdotal evidence and coloured by popular prejudices.
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It had a high ceiling and a luridly coloured square of carpet on the floor.
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If the white grout between tiles has become discoloured or black, simply apply a paste of bicarbonate of soda with a soft toothbrush.
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We talk a little bit about the ways in which her rather bleak view of the world has been coloured by her first-hand experiences of mortality.
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Every coloured blob indicates a weekend shutdown along part of a particular line.
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I took the flimsy song words on paper and ripped them up, till coloured confetti showered on my legs and hands.
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Let's put on our rose-coloured specs and look at the good.
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The mammies all wore the brightly coloured cloths wound tightly round their ample figures, and turban-like round their heads.
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The uncoloured portions are those in respect of which no claim is made, is that right?
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It is a 70-m long linen hanging, embroidered with coloured wools.
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But search time can be reduced if anyone seeing a goose wearing a coloured collar with black letters can report it to the laboratory.
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A great flock of multicoloured tropical birds burst forth from the depths of the jungle, cawing and squawking as they rose ever higher into the air.
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But, oh, at the moment my praises go to Lisa Simon's gentle scrub and her suchard dragee coloured body cream.
Weekend Beauty - Bath & Body: Confessions of a Bathaholic
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She was gorgeous, with braided coffee coloured hair, smooth, spotless dark skin, hazel eyes and heart shaped lips.
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Rather, my instinct is telling me that the "ablautless" forms are coloured by uvulars, hence *-a-, and that ablauting forms stem from a lengthened Narten present, *ɢēb- or *gʰēbʰ- in traditional notation, since it's already been established by other IEists that long vowels are not affected by laryngeal colouring and thus, by extension, they wouldn't be affected by uvular colouring.
PIE *kap- and *ghabh-
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And what would you think of a wealth of gentians, large and small; great yellow arnicas; beautiful Martagon lilies; and St. - Bruno lilies; of every variety of daphne; of androsace, with its rose-coloured clusters; of the flame-coloured orchis; of saxifrage; of great, velvety campanulas; of pretty violet asters, wrapped in little, cravat-like tufting, to protect them from the cold?
Samuel Brohl and Company
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With buckshot, you can take a shot, go circle the hits with coloured "sharpie", take another shot, circle with a different coloured sharpie, etc ...
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With pasta or potatoes, the water is often starchy and with veg such as broccoli, the water can be "discoloured" from the veg itself - so not really suitable for washing stuff.
How can I recycle this?
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I think that buying coloured knickers is perhaps a metaphor for my larger state of mind at the moment.
The One With The Big Changes Afoot
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The nails were discoloured and black, while the skin was already grained with dirt which even a scrubbing-brush could not remove.
Chapter 6
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You should wear something light-coloured when you're cycling at night so that you're more visible.
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With the dried tail of a herring sticking out of their saffron-coloured, shrivelled chops, Lord! how they gaped when I passed by, hurriedly, like
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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There were plenty of fish: blue-striped grunts, moray eels, butterflyfish, bright yellow trumpetfish and multi-coloured wrasse.
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The sensual styling is complemented by body coloured bumpers, stylish front fog lamps and tinted glass.
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He wore a baseball cap, light-coloured jogging bottoms, trainers and a big woolly duffel-type coat with a hood.
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Company reports resemble glossy fashion magazines and the pastel-coloured web pages are frequently adorned with pictures of exotic flowers and fruits.
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One was a family photograph of her entire family; one was a black-and-white photograph of her mother, specially coloured and framed; and the third was the diamanté necklace her mother wore on her 21st birthday.
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Although not given to blushing, Dick felt that he coloured under his dye at the praise; for although they had certainly sold cheaply, he doubted whether the term honest could be fairly applied to the whole transaction.
The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
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Parole in Libertà Futuriste Olfattive Tattili Termiche Words in Futurist, Olfactory, Tactile, Thermal Freedom is made from tin and consists of 27 lithographed pages filled with words, poetic phrases and brightly coloured graphic images.
February 2009
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Dickens then visits a workroom, featuring coloured prints, a china shepherdess on the mantelshelf, carpets, stuffed chairs and an open fire.
Bedlam
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They are tumbling down in wind-blown, varicoloured showers on to pavements and woodland floors everywhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not to jar anyone's misty, watercoloured memories, but not every one of her films was well-regarded, even during her heyday.
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They are fulfilling their dream of rural life in a honey-coloured cottage.
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There was a dress I liked - yes - there it was, an old rose-coloured one with a frilled skirt.
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Multicoloured, multilayered cakes and mousses abound, along with carambola, mango and cream pastry and pistachio and cappuccino squares.
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The building features window keystones, coloured tiles, and heavy overhanging cornices.
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I will wander down it and pick flowers, green cowbind and the moonlight-coloured May, wild roses and ivy serpentine.
The Waves
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The areas where Holocene macrofossils have been located and carbon-dated are indicated by coloured zones to the north of the current treelines.
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Looking around at all the lean kids in coloured shirts, even I can see that Manchester United or Liverpool do more to stop British boys being too fat than any government programme.
Olympic success is great but it will not change society
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We found a multitude of interesting subjects - flying gurnards and dragonets, strange octopuses and rainbow coloured nudibranchs, and even several different kinds of frogfish.
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Bottles for spirits and liqueurs have already been produced with distinctive finishes and a range of coloured stem glasses, vases and other glassware is under development.
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Rosie drew an elephant and coloured it in.
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The tent was made of reinforced cambric, fawn coloured, with sewn - in groundsheet, and at each end a circular sleeve-door and ventilator.
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The design is pretty startling and very boldly coloured.
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Speaking of the highly-coloured males, especially among birds, the same writer states that "the _normal colour_ (italics ours) is that of the young and the female, and the colour of the male is the result of his excessive variability.
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
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Lily was blessed with her mother's flame coloured locks, and mischievous streak.
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Beneath it he created his own rose-coloured granite sarcophagus, and tended the flowers around it daily.
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The dorsal fin generally was uncoloured, unspotted, and semitransparent.
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Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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Wearing a flesh-coloured foam helmet that gives her the proportions of a newborn, Lee performs an uncanny imitation of a baby in this almost dialogue-free exploration of the mother-child bond.
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The steel roof has been coloured to match the finish of the original wrought iron.
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It was an unusual insect, with coloured wings that faded from red to yellow.
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Where colours were hard to make or obtain, uncoloured tesserae were overpainted: red glass was particularly difficult and often, as in the narthex panel in Hagia Sophia, red paint was applied.
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Artisans began to experiment with single coloured glazes, and the collection includes several such simple, monochromatic vases, dishes, and bowls.
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And to me it's like a map of some epic struggle between individuality and conformity - a wee multi-coloured pointer to the future of art.
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Because the well water is discoloured and foul-smelling, people have to walk about two kilometres looking for cleaner water.
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Under the segregationist policies of the apartheid regime, they were designated "coloureds" - people of mixed race origin - and denied significant political representation.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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This can result in partially blocked pipes, which can mean discoloured water and reduced flow.
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The teacher delineated China on the blackboard with a coloured chalk.
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Add both to the butter and cook gently for 10-15 min until soft but uncoloured.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the years, he persuaded the Department of Agriculture to recognise coloured stock as a European breed type.
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The rust-coloured gantry running along the wall up there leads to the tunnel system entrance at the east end of the room.
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I was so excited to be at the heartland of hippie that I initially looked at things through rose-coloured specs, almost imagining myself back in the era of the the Free Store run by counter-culture heroes the Diggers and the infamous Drog Store Cafe.
Insider's guide to musical pilgrimages: Country, soul, blues, folk, world music
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The elongate, loose inflorescence usually bears 4 10 brilliantly rose-coloured flowers which completely lack nectar or other food for anthophilous insects and thus act by deceit.
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Mark Newman was up through the night of the 4th cranking out fresh versions of his now-famous linearly-coloured and cartogram maps of the election results.
Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Plus Ca Change
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In the international pearl market, the demand is for large-sized coloured pearls of black, silvery green and green to deep purple hues.
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Before we had been long on the Barrier he developed mischievous habits and became a rope eater and gnawer of other ponies 'fringes, as we called the coloured tassels we hung over their eyes to ward off snow-blindness.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
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On this occasion the usual stoppages and checks were multiplied by a brisk artillery 'strafe' upon the front, accompanied by all manner of coloured lights and rockets.
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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The planks they were made of had warped and shrunk. Opposite the door hung a dark-coloured icon with a wax candle sticking to it and a bunch of everlastings hanging down from it.
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An old man dressed in flame-coloured robes was standing in the entrance leaning on a staff.
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Some people see cyclists as posers with their skin-tight brightly coloured Lycra jerseys, padded shorts and shaved legs.
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Otherwise, diamanté, marcasite, enamel and coloured faux gems of every kind all look good.
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But the flesh-coloured chiffon was covered in delicate embroidery and the revealing bodice took refuge in an ultra feminine jacket with dainty ruffling on the collar and cuff.
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He had a chubby face, was wearing a black jacket and beige-coloured trousers, and witnesses estimate his age as around 30.
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I would love to know if there is a company that makes flesh-coloured cotton socks.
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A silver mirror, coated with a gold-coloured protective layer.
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A length of coloured or colourless plastic that has been cut in a corkscrew, spiral style meaning you can untwist it and wrap it around your cables keeping them together.
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Brightly coloured violas and begonias peek from every possible spot of dirt.
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Apparently under this name there are several tribes inhabiting lands of various elevations; some are coloured café au lait, as if born in a high and healthy region; others are almost jet black with the hair frightfully "wispy," like a mop.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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There was a man on board this boat, with a light fresh-coloured face, and a pepper-and-salt suit of clothes, who was the most inquisitive fellow that can possibly be imagined.
American Notes for General Circulation
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Asters look fabulous combined with gold variegated trailing ivies and heathers with lime-green or flame coloured foliage.
