How To Use Colours In A Sentence
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Pisonia has large leaves and could be said to look similar to crotons except without the yellow and red colours.
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The image is generally a thing of beauty with colours brightly and faithfully rendered.
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Colours Beyond Colours" opens with a Jamaican-sounding speaker ostensibly describing the supersensory effects of LSD, and then segueing into a cod-'60s-didactic announcement about the electromagnetic spectrum.
PopMatters
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It's all slouchy, casual clothes in light and bright colours.
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I boxed, swam, sailed, rode horses, lived in the open an arrantly healthful life, and passed life insurance examinations with flying colours.
Chapter 29
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It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
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Forming the pivot of the exhibition is a large group of watercolours.
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All the accommodation is decorated in as minimalist fashion as luxury will allow, reflecting the vibrant colours of the region, from warm terracotta to the cool turquoise of the sea.
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No fuss, no frills and great colours.
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The look should be tough, not twinkly, so apply dark colours in a slapdash way.
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Nature notes Autumn colours are now becoming more noticeable, though large swathes of the countryside are still quite green.
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It's still early in the morning; the air is cool and exhilarating, and the low sun softens the landscape and transfigures the dour colours of the hills.
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Inside, the walls were all plastered and painted pale colours with cream carpets - very novel for the early 1970s in Ireland.
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No more fuzzy programmes with muffled sound and colours like confetti in a puddle.
The Sun
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My eyes can discern ten million colours, it seems.
Times, Sunday Times
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I could paint allegories, elegies and epic statements because the imagery was so strong and the colours of life were so rich.
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One designated player is required to play cards from his hand matching the colours shown on the thrown dice.
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If this were not so, everything would look flat, and then one could distinguish nothing save only a chequerwork of colours.
Albert Durer
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It was hard to see the colours under the layer of dust.
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The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
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While streaming one video, the picture broke down after about a minute, and the voice track continued over an indecipherable kaleidoscope of colours.
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A wide range of colours and patterns are available.
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The clothes are available in warm natural colours.
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Most papers are available in up to five colourways each and all are matched by co-ordinating hopsacks in plain colours.
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And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accurse me of theft.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
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Colours were good, if none too subtle, but poor contrast made for murky dark scenes with objects lacking depth.
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Suddenly, some big cannons come rolling past, painted in camouflage colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Young readers will love the bright, bold designs and the luscious colours.
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The colours were an exact match.
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‘They cross-breed them with canaries to get what they call ‘mules’, which create different colours and varieties.’
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Either is a useful addition to the six standard colours.
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She had spent more than she intended on the wetsuit, but couldn't resist its bright fuchsia colours.
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Achan, the head monk, draped in the colours of the dawn, unlatches the door to a large metal cage.
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A track for tough cars and tough drivers, it tests every component and every sinew to the limit and few pass with flying colours.
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a painting, remaining alwaies vnhurt, with their deawie freshnesse, reseruing and holding their colours without interdict of time.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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It is true that this explanation of the bright, conspicuous colours is only a hypothesis, but its foundations -- unpalatableness, and the liability of other butterflies to be eaten, -- are certain, and its consequences -- the existence of mimetic palatable forms -- conform it in the most convincing manner.
Evolution in Modern Thought
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The contrasting textures and colours work really well together.
The Sun
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In warm light colours also warm body colours make themselves felt in a pleasant way, whereas the low proportion of short-wave radiation of these light sources more or less kills cold colours such as bluish green, blue and purple.
2. Elements
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This continues into adulthood, when we wear the colours of our football team and observe the customs of a religious group.
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The mottling does not have the classic red and grey colours of gley soils, typically formed in waterlogged soils.
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After several weeks of argument; the trade union leaders had to haul down their colours and accepted the government's earlier offer.
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Several thousand supporters of Lesotho political parties, waving the multiple colours of party flags, on Monday participated in a demonstration against the "usurped" government of Prime
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Also outstanding are the eye shadows, in an array of flattering colours that really stay put.
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The colours were an exact match.
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Single crystals of two or more different colours are not uncommon, making unusual multicoloured faceted stones.
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Autumn has arrived with its frosty build-up of colours of russet and orange trees.
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White, metallics and other washed out colours, (such as grey and khaki) dominated the collection.
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The lines have been scratched out using a needle, on a canvas smeared with oil colours.
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David Gorwood explained that the Rugby Football League had introduced a new rule which stated that clubs had to have two distinctive kits in different colours for home and away games.
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There is also a swifter motion of a different sort of fire which strikes and dilates the ray of sight until it reaches the eyes, forcing a way through their passages and melting them, and eliciting from them a union of fire and water which we call tears, being itself an opposite fire which comes to them from an opposite direction — the inner fire flashes forth like lightning, and the outer finds a way in and is extinguished in the moisture, and all sorts of colours are generated by the mixture.
Timaeus
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The tiny arachnid, found in Australia, shows off a rainbow of colours to impress nearby females.
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The colours are vibrant and bright, although coloured lighting is overused in many areas.
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Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies.
Our Village
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You can see the natural colours of the green and the perpetual moss growth that shows up from space.
Times, Sunday Times
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The same applies to the meridian programmes and to the specific environmental stresses, colours and trauma.
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Several powders or dry colours use a base of asbestos, chalk powder or silica.
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The pair then picked off the colours and gained four points from a foul to win the game 50-41.
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It will come as no surprise to their fans that the film is a phantasmagoria of sickly colours, psychedelic flourishes and jarring optical tics, all reflecting the state of mind of a character way out on the edge.
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After the semi-final, more than half a million people gathered in the Champs-Elysées, waving French tricolours alongside Algerian and other African flags.
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Fairweather painted mainly in earth colours used by the artists of South-East Asia and the Pacific and he was one of the first artists to assimilate aboriginal art into his own work.
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The useful products of the field are themselves beautiful; the sainfoin, the blue lucerne, the blood-red trifolium, the clear yellow of the mustard, give more definite colours, and all these are the merely useful, and, in that sense, the plainest of growths.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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Later we can use CONTROL to remove colours and SHIFT to add them.
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A flaring sunset touches the trees with colours of flame and molten copper; reddens even the bullrushes and the ropes of ivy which drift, among their own reflections, in the river.
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Their garden includes an impressive display of petunias, orange marigolds and lilies, and hundreds of eye-catching colours are on display.
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Results show that teams with red kits consistently outperform teams in other colours.
The Sun
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The Windows.l. 6. 'anneal', i.e. fix the colours by heating the glass.
Notes: Divine Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C
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It was a marvellous feat of organisation and the reward was to see the young people from five years of age to eight togged out in their individual club colours.
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He'd swapped that for a floppy sunhat in camouflage colours.
SNOWLINE
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In consequence the autumn colours are muted, just soft dusty yellows for the most part.
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The floors were mosaic, the gleaming walls all intricate inlaid wooden marquetry, the deep upholstered chairs in rich jewel colours.
TICKLED PINK
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Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
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The finial for all ground force colours is the crest of Canada (a lion statant guardant royally crowned and holding a maple leaf in his right forepaw) cast in gilt brass.
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She started with representational works, painting some of the lovely scenes that can be seen from the island, and the colours and styles that abound there.
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Henry Spencer Ashbee was a senior partner in a silk mercers, a collector of watercolours and a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Madrid.
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Paracelsus directs us, in the indagation of colours, to have an eye principally upon salts.
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With each inward breath feel your body warming as you draw in colours of red or orange.
Repetitive Strain Injury
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-- Having prepared the gum water for the colours, add a little coloquintida.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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The tiles come in a huge range of colours and designs.
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And at winter dusk, sky and snow are bathed in delicate colours which linger for hours.
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But the traditional colours used for the art remain ochre red and yellow, shades of blue and white and black.
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White's allegorical space is a vacant sprawling composition, slanting and inclined in a rigid fixture devoid of primary colours or people.
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With a curvy frame and bright rainbow colours, this bike folds in seconds and is small enough to fit in a shopping bag.
The Sun
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Also the pleasures of the eye consist in a certain equality of colour: for light, the most glorious of all colours, is made by equal operation of the object; whereas colour is (perturbed, that is to say) unequal light, as hath been said chap. II, sect.
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
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Try to catch matching colours - the first one to collect them all wins.
The Sun
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Red and yellow help to throw up the other colours in the design.
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The numerous space and controlled organisations of poetic colours lend subtlety to his part collage-part paintings.
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_drops of water_ -- colours vary with size of drops, the smaller the drop the lighter the colours and nearer to the violet end of the spectrum -- hence white rainbow as seen on the Barrier, very small drops.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
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Most men covered their heads with flat wool caps or skullcaps or turbans in a variety of sizes and colours.
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Experiencing the rich legacy of Ingmar Bergman is every bit as exciting as the chance to view the Turner watercolours or hear Tony Bennett perform the great American songbook, and the retrospective is simply unmissable.
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This comes in seven colours and is crease-resistant.
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Many had very recently struggled from chrysalids in cocoons bivouacked on grass stems, and so their colours were vivid and their flights strong.
Country diary
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He wore their red and white colours with pride, enjoyed their success with shouts and cheers.
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The vibrant colours and contrasting textures look and taste wonderful.
Times, Sunday Times
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His pastels reflect hours of layering colour over colour and read with the intimacy of a book; they are sensual pieces as compared to his more temporal watercolours.
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These colours can be speckled or spiced up with added sparkle and are available in perfectly smooth or textured options.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fabrics he used were predominantly tweeds and wools in countryside colours: moss green, rust brown and autumnal red.
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The tulips bloomed a brilliant symphony of colours and rivalled the loveliness of the birds who frequented the yard.
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Lavishness of decoration, mastery of execution, expansion of palettes with mixed colours are some of the characteristics of Assam's manuscript paintings.
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Certainly, Theotimus, beauty is without effect, unprofitable and dead, if light and splendour do not make it lively and effective, whence we term colours lively when they have light and lustre.
Treatise on the Love of God
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The painter believes that he is going beyond shapes, contours and colours.
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My makeup had taken Claire the longest because she was not accustomed to working on someone with such pale skin, and kept overestimating the colours.
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This year, ancient Italian men are wearing generously cut worsted suits, either with waistcoat or cardigan, in natural earth colours with muted checks.
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Monumental Art Deco and this riot of materials and colours led nowhere, however.
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While neutral tones are popular on walls, dark colours can be effective in a hallway or powder room.
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On the other hand, if large amounts of well-preserved authentic paint are obscured, it is usually worthwhile revealing them and regaining the tonality of the original colours.
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Inexpensive measures can potentially enhance conspicuity - for example, adding a light source and the use of light, bright, reflective, or fluorescent colours.
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Not at all; paprika and buttermilk are the two gorgeous colours used to give the Clubhouse at Oldgrange a makeover recently!
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The kimonos and yukatas are for sale in heaps of colours and styles.
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Householders will not be expected to sort their aluminium and steel cans or different colours of glass.
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Attached over your baby's cot, a mobile's moving shapes and bright colours will attract your baby's gaze.
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He has composed a series of townships scenes in flat planes of bright and bold colours that clamour for attention.
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I get the feeling that yellow and lilac are your favourite colours.
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So, too, we should whenever practicable lay on our colours in washes; if we begin with stippling our drawings they will be "niggling," and will be sure to look poor and "spotty.
Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young
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In a range of funky colours, including lime green, hot pink and light blue.
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These are best deployed as fun colours with a slightly chalky texture so that they appear positive, but not eye-popping.
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Its timeless elegance is taking on new character with vibrant colours and tailored cuts.
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Pink is said to be one of the best camouflage colours for the desert.
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All colours and creeds are here, drawn by the slow slink of the sun.
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Here I've got a pretty standard three-pot set-up, meaning I can have three colours at a time. Each pot, sitting in the water below, like a double boiler or bain-marie, contains up to 2kg of wax and 2 tablespoons of sterin.
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He was famed for his meticulous preparation, producing his own racecard detailing the jockeys' colours and other key details.
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These colours can be speckled or spiced up with added sparkle and are available in perfectly smooth or textured options.
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Natural colours such as sienna, coffee, verdure, burgundy, metal and champagne are chosen as ambient colours.
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It comes in a range of colours from russet to beige, and prices start at £895.
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The honour and glory of the colours were now fore-most in the players mind.
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Bright-eyed, Johannes quickly gathered a sackful of colours and brushes, and a large rolled drawing which had been lying in wait.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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This silkscreen is from a series that takes the same outlines and prints them in different colours.
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These are the colours of lines on Beck's map and also sometimes of station trims and new station bucket seats.
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Along with the gusty winds, torrential rains and the punishing power shutdowns, it rained snakes of all sizes and colours on the city.
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She could play upon the harp and paint in water-colours, and her needlework was a picture, but not half so pretty a picture as her face.
Merry-Garden and Other Stories
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On a fine day the colours and scent from the lavender and herb beds that extend over 12 acres would make for a pleasant stroll.
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Club colours and banners bristled from every corner as bunting and flags adorned the spectators and the ground alike.
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Soft colours such as lilac, rosy pink, light green and silver create a light-hearted effect.
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She looks best in bright, vibrant colours, like red and pink.
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Forming the pivot of the exhibition is a large group of watercolours.
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But you have a sombre, morose side which can mean you going for darker colours and shades.
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On printed fabrics, choose a thread that matches one of the main colours in the fabric.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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I was very pleased with my eye make-up, and I only used two colours this time - black and gold.
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It was set up a decade ago for left-wingers branded trouble-makers by conventional agencies which are more used to delving into hobbies, hair colours and horoscopes.
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The speciality of these pieces is that the gemstones are powdered and used as base colours, which reflects the imagination of the artist.
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It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
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As early as 9am, the streets of East London were alive with people - clad in the black and gold colours of both teams - blowing their noisy vuvuzelas.
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Plus, they come in a range of poppy colours and punchy prints.
The Sun
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Knowing and wearing the correct colours is supposed to make us look healthier, younger and boost our confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her colours are luminous, with multiple layers of pigment, painted quickly but with great care and attention.
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Most buildings had a flagpole with the national colours flying.
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Simons takes a lead in the frame but Callow fights back and the pair tussle over the colours.
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The man who wore it had his heraldic device embroidered in vivid colours on his breasta chevron and a stag passant, the scutcheon supported by a branch of olive dexter and a stags horn sinister.
V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X
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Several times I've been down there I go "down" the main part of my flower garden and I've heard that unmistakeable squeak like a bushtit on steroids and it's come and posed and flashed its colours at me and of course I haven't had my camera with me.
Photographing birds
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A focal point of her final collection is a woollen skirt, blouse and long coat - all in neutral colours - with a cream silk organza overcoat on top.
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At 20, he graduated with flying colours and returned his motherland to dedicate his talents.
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The other side of the palace looks onto the city's lifeblood, the Neva, at this point a wide and polluted river which catches and reflects the colours of the sky unlike any other.
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There is a choice of four different colours.
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Chadha seems to think that as long as you pile on the songs, splatter the screen in bright colours and have lots of men with fluorescent white teeth gyrating with pretty women, that will do.
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Since the caterpillars have very bright distinctive colours, the birds quickly recognise that they are inedible and leave them alone.
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Their colours are his pigments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then there are the body colours, chili red, liquid yellow, cool blue, hot orange and for the Cooper S only, hyper blue.
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Her work is abstract, using geometrical shapes subtly arranged and typically painted in soft colours.
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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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She reckons you can get away with virtually anything, particularly acid colours.
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The baby UV suits (sunsuits) have long sleeves and long legs in a range of colours and designs.
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A: ALCOHOLIC MANICUREThe beauty of a manicurist getting you pissed is that you're more likely to go a bit "wacky" with the colours, and veer into the realms of tangerines and taupes.
The beauty bible
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Let me emphasize, straight away, that he isn't what I would call a friend, but I know him enough to say that he did purposely design himself: single, modest dresser in receding colours, mathematics teacher, sponsor of the chess club, mild-mannered acquaintance to all rather than a friend to any, a person anxious to become invisible.
Excerpt: Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
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But Kirsteen, quite unused to beautiful manufactured things, admired them all, and found a pleasure in heaping together and contrasting with each other the soft silken stuffs, many of them with a sheen of two blended colours called "shot" in those days.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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In his essay ‘How Culture Conditions the Colours We See,’ Umberto Eco claims that chromatic perception is determined by language.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about colour is here: from complementary colours, colour combinations, shades, tints and contrasts - the list goes on.
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Moreover, in whiteness are many excellences; for instance, the snow falleth white from heaven, and it is traditional-that the beautifullest of a colours white.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The training ground has been repainted, the traditional claret replaced with brighter and more cheerful colours.
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The pastel colours, the detail in every scene, the crisp dialogue, are all a joy.
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[Banjarmassen] one of the towns of this island, is the chief trade for these articles; and at this place the following commodities are in principal request: Coromandel cloths of all kinds, China silks, damasks, taffetas, velvets of all colours but black, stammel broad-cloths, and Spanish dollars.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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Equally good at the campsite, on the beach or in a festival field, it comes in six colours and folds away into a neat little carry bag.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's no excuse for wearing this many styles and clashing colours at once.
The Sun
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At the Festival Games he cleared 3.80 metres and was awarded his school colours.
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The rule for colouring in a map is that any two regions which share a border must be filled in using different colours.
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The pleasure of being able to walk home each day through oak and birch woods, with the trees changing colours in the autumn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mixing prints, colours and fabrics gives it a beachy, bohemian vibe.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result is a fascinating array of delicate instrumental colours.
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Newton applied the Method of Analysis to induce the explanatory principle that sunlight comprises rays of differing colours, and that each colour is refracted by the prism through a characteristic angle.
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Yet the colours of the five stones of the inukshuk differ.
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If garish colours had been in my mindset, then it has my kind of whimsey.
MX42 / Illustration Friday: Frozen
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It may also be the last time they have an opportunity to watch the Spaniard in their team's colours, for there is mounting speculation he will be sold in the summer.
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Fortunately, like the other tests, the 31-year-old convent-educated beauty passed with flying colours.
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At daybreak a slight haze hangs over the city, throwing all the colours into sharper relief.
YELLOW BIRD
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Picasso's liberated shapes and excitingly applied and inventively combined colours
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Sister Casualty off duty invariably wore a trouser suit, white shirt, and silk cravat in assorted colours.
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In the tents one could see artists painting with watercolours, acrylics pastels, or demonstrating encaustic painting.
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Cornelius mashes sounds together like a child shaking a kaleidoscope mashes colours, but with a deliberation and precision that refute chaos.
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Red, maroon, yellow, blue are good colours for neckties, patterned or solid.
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His drawings are generally in pen outline, with a wash of bistre, or other warm colour; sometimes he makes use of black and red chalk; they are seldom finished with colours, but have often portions rendered lighter and broader by means of a wash of white.
Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.
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This is the contrast between warm and cold colours.
Improve Your Landscape Painting
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Agincourt.] [Footnote IV. 16: _Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose, _] By their _ragged curtains_, are meant their colours.]
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
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The tabernacle's veils, composed of 4 colours were related to the 4 elements.
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She was awarded her colours for hockey/her hockey colours at the end of term.
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Tubes of paint lay neatly lined up in their boxes, oils here, acrylics there, watercolours to the side.
GRACE
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Instead we saw colonial buildings in pastel colours faded by dust and neglect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Slick suits and stand out colours are becoming a cool signature style.
The Sun
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Together we're leafing through the final proof copy, and I'm mesmerised by the rich colours, those magical prints, the way Rhodes has channelled inspiration gleaned from world travel.
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One was of pretty pink glazed calico and of some other shiny stuff called 'chintz' -- white, with tiny lines of different colours; she also bought some red cotton velvet and neat-looking white spotted muslin, and several yards of very narrow lace of a very small and dainty pattern, and other things, all of which interested Alie very much indeed, though after a while Biddy got tired of looking on, and went and stood at the doorway of the shop.
The Rectory Children
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When she painted in Belgium the colours were sombre with a lot of browns and ochres.
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I like two-tone colours because they look good on the bookshelf and help it to sell.
The Sun
