How To Use Snow-white In A Sentence
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He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
CHAPTER XV
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The fact that I first met it as part of a pavlova didn't help: the deep clouds of snow-white sugar-cake need a fruit with a sting in its tail (the Antipodeans are bang on with their inclusion of passion fruit) if the dessert isn't to cloy.
Tender delights
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It chiefly differs in the croup being blue instead of snow-white; but as Mr. Blyth informs me, the tint varies, being sometimes albescent.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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I can still remember biting through the coconut-studded chocolate shell into the gloriously sticky, snow-white goo within.
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The mountain's snow-white peak was incandescent against the blue sky.
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Imagine a snow-white bowl of yoghurt topped with this glistening, exotic conserve.
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Harry's hair and moustache were snow-white but the lean, fissured face, the pipe and alert manner were distinctive.
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White robes draped across her slender form, snow-white and simple in design.
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Looking down at her, I admire the black rosettes of her spots against the snow-white beauty of her fur.
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The mountain's snow-white peak was incandescent against the blue sky.
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There, among the white waxy flowers, she saw a small, snow-white moth with grayish hind wings.
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Her beautiful new sofa - snow-white and expensive - had just arrived, and all she wanted at the end of the day was to go home and sit on it.
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The little English stoat, which is destroyed by the gamekeepers, becomes the beautiful snow-white ermine in Russia and other cold countries.
Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
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From the fact that each was attired in a new, snow-white lava-lava, Sheldon knew that they were recruits.
Chapter 18
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Unweathered specimens are snow-white and constitute exquisite specimens when associated with contrasting minerals.
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They clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold, and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc and precious gold, and adorned her with golden necklaces over her soft neck and snow-white breasts, jewels which the gold-filleted Hours wear themselves whenever they go to their father's house to join the lovely dances of the gods.
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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There, among the white waxy flowers, she saw a small, snow-white moth with grayish hind wings.
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One woman was tall and attractive, with snow-white hair.
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Snow-white peonies come into bloom in May, and pale daylilies, white liatris, and white Japanese anemones take turns through the summer and fall.
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In one place, this superb basin was lined with quays, where stately dromonds and argosies unloaded their wealth, while, by the shore of the haven, galleys, feluccas, and other small craft, idly flapped the singularly shaped and snow-white pinions which served them for sails.
Count Robert of Paris
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The only thing out of the ordinary was her hair, held in pigtails, and snow-white; and her eyes, pure white, iris-free and like untouched snow.
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Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial color the same imperial hue; and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; and though, besides, all this, whiteness has been even made significant of gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
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Porpoises, snow-white terns sitting on drifting wood, sea-eagles, ospreys, sea-snakes, sails, the smudge of steamer-smoke and its ten-mile plume, sunlit isles and speckless sky, with no sound save the purring of the engine and the prattle of the water against the bows — a catalogue of the commonplace, and yet stimulative of entertainment and content.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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Face and pectus silvery; antennæ black, arista longer than the thorax; thorax with three broad reddish cupreous stripes; abdomen with broad cupreous purple bands; femora lutescent, tibiæ piceous, fore femora blackish towards the tips, tarsi black; wings black, tips snow-white, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein much curved outward; halteres tawny, with black tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Abillowy frock of mauve and pink tulle, with a tiny jewelled bodice, is completedby a tinted wig in the same primula shade, while glittering bracelets, caught withwisps of tulle, show up the fairylike wrists manipulating a great fan of snow-whiteplumes.
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I had hardly remembered the most obvious and striking spectacle of the myriad snow-white flowers now staring me in the face.
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The stuff I use to make my legs look a little less translucent does wonders for my snow-white legs, but makes my cousin look like she ate a few too many carrots.
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I look at fang and suddenly see his snow-white fur.
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The white sands themselves are snow-white, powdery, and gypsum-based, surrounded by mountains on three sides.
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He walked over to the demilune table and set down the Filofax, pulling a snow-white handkerchief out of the pocket of his shorts.
The Merlot Murders
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Seated on a green-and-white striped chair he watched a _revue_, of which from start to finish he understood but one word -- 'out', to wit -- absorbed in the doings of a red-moustached gentleman in blue who wrangled in rapid French with a black-moustached gentleman in yellow, while a snow-white _commere_ and a _compere_ in a mauve flannel suit looked on at the brawl.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
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A Talbot hound was a snow-white hunting dog that was often used to deter highwaymen from attacking passing coaches.
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First call for dinner in the dining-car, " a Pullman servitor was announcing, as he hastened through the aisle in snow-white apron and jacket.
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An elderly lady with snow-white hair answered the door.
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She was carrying very carefully a little tray covered with a snow-white doyley, and on it were a glass of milk and a plate of mulberries.
Seven Little Australians
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So she stepped around briskly, and spread her snow-white table-cloth, and put on her cups and saucers, and plates, and the castor -- (yes, the _castor_ on the _tea_ table! for they didn't care a pin for fashion); and when she had cooked her supper, she looked at the clock.
Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends
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The quaint three-lobed leaves, shaped like a grebe's foot, were still small, and the flowerstocks, thick as corn in a field, were crowned with pyramids of buds, cream and rosy-red like the opening dropwort clusters, and at the lower end of the spikes were the full-blown singular, snow-white, cottony flowers -- our strange and beautiful water edelweiss.
A Traveller in Little Things
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Head blue in front, sides of the face cupreous-purple; mouth, antennæ, and tarsi black; arista snow-white; thorax with two almost contiguous darker stripes; abdomen æneous green, with the exception of the petiole, which is very thick; wings slightly greyish, costal half black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The very last fluorite to crystallize left a dusting of microcrystalline snow-white material occupying most of the tight junctures where quartz crystals come together.
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Head blue in front, sides of the face cupreous-purple; mouth, antennæ, and tarsi black; arista snow-white; thorax with two almost contiguous darker stripes; abdomen æneous green, with the exception of the petiole, which is very thick; wings slightly greyish, costal half black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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He was of no more than middle years, though snow-white streaks shone like burnished silver in his thick brown hair and neatly trimmed beard.
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Dumps and outcrops in the vicinity have produced hand specimens of antigorite, chrysotile, and impressive crystals of grass-green talc with snow-white dolomite.
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Face with snow-white tomentum on each side; thorax with four hoary stripes; pectus with a cinereous disk; scutellum pale luteous; abdomen pale luteous at the base, and with a broad interrupted pale luteous band on the second segment, third and fourth segments somewhat chalybeous, the former livid along the fore border, under side with two lateral abbreviated pale luteous stripes; hind femora thick; wings grey, veins towards the base, and halteres, tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Some were, as usual, in snow-white smock-frocks of Russia duck, and some in whitey-brown ones of drabbet -- marked on the wrists, breasts, backs, and sleeves with honeycomb-work.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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And the human voice, the voice of a god, issuing from the throat of the tiny, snow-white bird, had made Michael go back on his haunches, while, with eyes and nostrils, he quested the steerage for the human who had spoken.
CHAPTER XI
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Head pale yellow, black hindward, white beneath; antennæ pale luteous, third joint very short, arista bare; scutellum white; pectus with a white spot on each side; abdomen white at the tip; middle legs with testaceous tibiæ and tarsi; hind wings blackish, cinereous hindward; halteres snow-white.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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He had to rise to a considerable height, and was for some moments troubled by the masses of snow-white cumulose clouds that lay beneath him, cutting off all view of the ground.
Round the World in Seven Days
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Outside was a snow-white kitten they called Freezer.
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(Also, in the pale cockcrow hours of the morning, the image of a snow-white tiger with a blood-splattered coat proved a nice and almost fashionable juxtaposition to paint-splattered stoles and my imagination just started to run with it.)
Verena von Pfetten: Dear Fashion Industry, Please Stop Showing Boring Clothes At Boring Shows
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A little white plate, a tiny snow-white cheese and a handful of berries - could there be a more charming way to end a July garden lunch?
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The tiny pair of black shoes resting on a snow-white coffin said it all: black for the colour of mourning, white for the colour of innocence.
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Some were, as usual, in snow-white smock-frocks of Russia duck, and some in whitey-brown ones of drabbet — marked on the wrists, breasts, backs, and sleeves with honeycomb-work.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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Tetrao lagopus, L. Feathers of the feet snow-white; tail of eighteen feathers, the lateral black; bill moderate, compressed at the point; nails black, subulate, arcuated.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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One wild cry or another was in the lift -- of the hawk, or the glead, or the raven, or the eagle -- or when those fiends slept, of the peaceful heron, and sea-bird by wandering boys pursued in its easy flight, till the snow-white child of ocean wavered away far inland, as if in search of a steadfast happiness unknown on the restless waves.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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It was true she had a new set, warm and serviceable, but -- well, a short-haired, dark-brown collarette hasn't the allure of a fluffy, snow-white boa.
Missy
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Antennæ ferruginous, third joint short, conical, arista bare; pectus slightly covered with cinereous tomentum; legs testaceous, with a few very indistinct blackish marks; fore femora black, testaceous towards the base; fore tibiæ black; fore tarsi snow-white, black at the base; hind tarsi whitish; wings greyish, with two almost obsolete brownish bands; discal transverse vein parted by less than its length from the border and by about four times its length from the præbrachial transverse.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Yet once, during a night that was refreshingly cold, young priest awoke to adjust Ins blankets that had slipped off, and happened to look through a clearing in the trees toward the sky, where a gigantic peak, snow-white and perfect in its coni beauty, rose serenely in the heavens.
Mexico
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The building was designed by an American architect and features an ultramodern, snow-white exterior embedded with thin strips of multicolored lights.
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The once snow-white stones were now blackened by a combination of being burnt out and years of built-up dirt and dust, casting a midnight shadow over the landscape.
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Their snow-white brilliance, often coupled with blue, green, golden, or "odd" eyes makes them stand out among multi-colored cats, such as tabbies, calicoes, and tortoiseshells.
About.com Cats
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.
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But she with piercing screams brought down her snow-white arm upon her bosom and loudly smote on her poor head; then turned her steps in flight, shod in her golden shoon; but Orestes, outstripping her slippered feet, clutched his fingers in her hair and bending back her neck on to her left shoulder was on the point of driving the grim steel into her throat.
Orestes
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My hair was longer, my skin was still its snow-white colour, however I saw many new scars on my arms and chest upon looking myself over.
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Her hair was snow-white and brushed back into a neat bun.
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Abillowy frock of mauve and pink tulle, with a tiny jewelled bodice, is completedby a tinted wig in the same primula shade, while glittering bracelets, caught withwisps of tulle, show up the fairylike wrists manipulating a great fan of snow-whiteplumes.
Further Pavlova
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However, I am not happy to choose Colin (aka pollack) over delicious, snow-white, firm-flaked cod.
BlogCymru.com
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Kelsie Harder The State University College at Potsdam Caryl Johnston Boston, Massachusetts Notes from the Compound World According to the famed mytho-grammarian Maxim Mütter, compounds (snow-white, rose-red, upsy-daisy, shaggy-dog, etc.) are the harbingers of a new epoch of consciousness.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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There was no sparkling ice and snow-white tutus here.
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The mountain's snow-white peak was incandescent against the blue sky.
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The doors of this secret apartment, and the adjacent antechamber, were guarded by six deformed Nubian slaves, whose writhen and withered countenances formed a hideous contrast with their snow-white dresses and splendid equipment.
Count Robert of Paris
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These deciduous shrubs display snow-white flowers around the first week of May, and the leaves turn an interesting mixture of red and orange in the fall.
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The basmati rice was served separately: a perfectly cooked snow-white mountain of rice.
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Glacialis, or fulmer, is most beautiful when brought on board: I cannot enough admire the delicate beauty of the snow-white plumage, unwet and unsoiled, amid the salt waves.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
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In the morning when the golden sunshine touches the snow-white peaks, thin smoke begins to rise over the tents by the lakeside.
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They clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold, and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc and precious gold, and adorned her with golden necklaces over her soft neck and snow-white breasts, jewels which the gold-filleted
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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His brown eyes were locked on the mysterious old lady as she pulled out another grayish sack, put her bony hand inside of it, and pulled out a handful of pure, snow-white powder.
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The area created for the polar bears is a snow-white glass room with a model of an iceberg and cool lake, while the panda area is a glass room surrounded with bamboo.
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As the fragrant incense rose from the censer and the holy water sprinkled the snow-white pall that bore the Red Cross, one dreadful word lurked sinister in every thought:
The Dop Doctor
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I like cambrige blue, salmon pink, peak green, lilac, snow-white and etc.
