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Sentences starting with color

Color comes and goes easily. [6]

Sentences ending with color

About this time you notice, in protected, sunny spots, that the grass has a little color. [4]
We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver--we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color. [5]
The building is wholly of wood, reddish brown in tint, a very pleasing color. [5]
The little sketch which I have made of this gem cannot and does not do it justice, since I have been obliged to leave out the color. [5]
But before they went the artist must make one more trial at a sketch-must get the local color. [4]
Close by them we saw the intense blue of the skies, through rents in the cloud-rack, and away off in another quarter were drifting clouds of a delicate pink color. [5]
Undeniably it is very effective, especially in masses of gorgeous color. [4]
It remained quite vacant while he muttered to himself-- "Technique-- technique--polytechnique--pyro-technique; that's it, likely--fireworks too much color. [5]
The walls were unpainted, but turned by the slow action of sun and air and rain to a quiet dove or slate color. [6]
I have been told to get as near the shade as I could; and so I compare and contrast, till the whole thing seems to me about of one color. [4]

Short sentences using color

What color are your carriage-horses? [6]
So also as regards color. [5]
With Nature, color is life. [4]
It is gray in color. [5]
Heart color, Jane! [13]

Sentences containing color two or more times

Here were ranks of guards in shining armor and with polished halberds; two sides of the hall were like flower-gardens for variety of color and the magnificence of the costumes; light streamed upon these masses of color from two hundred and fifty flambeaux. [5]
As to that dragon, I always held the belief that its color was gold and without blue, for that has always been the color of dragons. [5]
In morals, conduct, and beliefs we take the color of our environment and associations, and it is a color that can safely be warranted to wash. [5]
And all harmonious, all in perfect taste; never a discordant note; never a color on any person swearing at another color on him or failing to harmonize faultlessly with the colors of any group the wearer might join. [5]

More example sentences with the word color in them

Coello called the youth to the easel, and pointing to the sketches in color, containing numerous figures, on which he was painting, said: "Look here, my son. [10]
Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
Huck Finn, did you reckon the States was the same color out-of-doors as they are on the map? [5]
She did not write a mournful poem; indeed, she was a silent person, and perhaps hardly said a word about it; but she quietly turned of a deep orange color with jaundice. [6]
And the device would take on color, red-bronze like the sumach in the autumn and streaks of vermilion, and two glowing coals that were eyes, and above them eagles' feathers, and the cracks became bramble bushes. [9]
The little houses with their sloping roofs and wide porches, the gardens ablaze with color, the neat palings,--all were a restful sight for our weary eyes. [9]
Some came back with their color gone and their red cheeks sallow and bearded and sunken. [9]
Bent-Anat's face glowed with scarlet color, while her, brother went on to explain. [10]
And they said, with great excitement, while their hearts beat high, and the color in their faces came and went, Where is my father? [5]
Breathing rapidly and with a heightened color, Melissa at last entered the room of Seleukus's wife. [10]
At once the whole horizon line of water became a bright crimson, which deepened as evening advanced, glowing with more intense fire, and holding a broad band of what seemed solid color for more than three quarters of an hour. [4]
By the roadside, where the snow has just melted, the grass is of the color of emerald. [4]
They change color when a person comes along and hangs up an immortelle; but that is nothing: any right-feeling reptile would do that. [5]
But I thought what a different color the locks these brushes smooth show from those that knew their predecessors in the earlier decade! [6]
Here to the westward was the light and color and beauty. [13]
The silky mountains were clothed in soft, rich splendors of melting color, and some of the cliffs were veiled in slanting mists. [5]
His honest eyes were alight with an admiration that was unmistakable to the painter--perhaps to Cynthia also, for a glow that might have been of annoyance or anger, and yet was like the color of the mountain sunrise, answered in her cheek. [9]
But as the weeks wore away, Conrad's color came back to his cheeks and his old-time vivacity to his eye, and he administered the government with a clear and steadily ripening wisdom. [5]
The color thereof was white and sapphire-blue, and so likewise were the velvet cap and finely-rounded ostrich feather, which was fastened into it with a brooch of sparkling precious stones. [10]
No color that was visible anywhere was quite natural--all tints were charged with a leaden tinge from the solid cloud-bank overhead. [5]
What a contrast was this rich country, warm with color and suggestive of abundance, to the pale and scrimped coast land of Maine denuded of its trees! [4]
And her hair was red, burning red, the very color of Typhon. [10]
This March-meeting day was mild, the grass showing a green color on the south slopes where the snow had melted, and the outlying farmers drove through mud-holes up to the axles. [9]
Every man's color was known, and it was against the rules to be present and fail to vote. [9]
The old captain was a flaming son of Mars, whose nose militia, war, general training, and New England rum had painted with the color of glory and disaster. [4]
A bold headland--precipitous wall, 150 feet high, very strong, red color, stretching a mile or so. [5]
Cynthia loved these walks, for she sadly missed the country air,--and they had kept the color in her cheeks and the courage in her heart that winter. [9]
At rare intervals--but very rare--there were clouds in our skies, and then the setting sun would gild and flush and glorify this mighty expanse of scenery with a bewildering pomp of color that held the eye like a spell and moved the spirit like music. [5]
These events, to Venters's color of mind, had a dark relationship. [13]
When the insolent uproar went up from the "Greens," whose color he himself wore, he had found it difficult to refrain from rushing on the cowardly crew and knocking some of them down. [10]
All the way up we have found wild flowers in the greatest profusion; and the higher we ascend, the more exquisite is their color and the more perfect their form. [4]
At noon, looking up to it from the street, above the gray houses, the color and depth are marvelous. [4]
It would be unworthy of her even to repeat such slander, and the color surged again into her face for very shame of her anger. [9]
It is when two shades of the same color are brought side by side that comparison makes them odious to each other. [6]
Thompson's face was turning gray; I knew mine hadn't any color left in it. [5]
Miss Sophia she turned pale, but the color come back when she found the man warn't hurt. [5]
There was a trifle more color in her cheeks, and her head was raised a little, and her eyes were fixed upon him gravely. [9]
The color holds, too, toward sundown, and seems to be poured, like something solid, into the streets of the city. [4]
I had been told that twilights are short here, and that, when the sun disappeared, color vanished from the sky. [4]
Then Polykarp began to speak and declared that the granite of the Holy Mountain was finer in color and in larger blocks than that from Syene. [10]
My hand went to my left breast,--the color faded from my cheeks,--I was again the cold marble image so like death that it had well-nigh been mistaken for it. [6]
This cry pierced to my heart, even mine; and it brought the color to Ann's face, which had long ceased to be pale. [10]
He introduced us to many white caps, but to none of another color. [5]
I drew aside to let a stately train of beauty and of fashion descend, and saw it sweep through the hall, and enter the drawing-rooms, until it was lost in a sea of shifting color. [4]
Another sticks close to its own line of thought and follows it as far as it goes, with no heed for others' opinions, as the bishop sweeps the board in the line of his own color. [6]
One must try to imagine those solid masses of splendid color, one above another, up and up, against the blue sky, and the Indian sun turning them all to beds of fire and flame. [5]
Petya soon came to himself, the color returned to his face, the pain had passed, and at the cost of that temporary unpleasantness he had obtained a place by the cannon from where he hoped to see the Emperor who would be returning that way. [2]
The color rushed to her own cheeks, and shortly saying: "No--after all, I think not," she turned her back on the old man and threw herself on the cushions close to where the wine-jug was standing. [10]
I suppose this to have been a fancy of hers, or a kind of magnetic power she could give out;--at any rate, I cannot help thinking she wills her strength away from herself, for she has lost vigor and color from that day. [6]
The color began to ebb out of his face. [5]
The foliage seemed to consist of big bunches of pine-spines, the lower half of each bunch a rich brown or old-gold color, the upper half a most vivid and strenuous and shouting green. [5]
Orion was accustomed to be treated in his own country as the heir of the greatest man in it; the color mounted to his brow and his Egyptian heart revolted at having to bend his pride and swallow his wrath before an Arab. [10]
All I desired to ask Mr. Bixby was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all plantations were exactly alike and all the same color. [5]
Permit your maidens to adorn your cheeks with a color that shall look like the excitement of joy. [10]
She was not tired of being good, but something in the jauntiness of the hat and the color pleased her. [4]
It was not till long after that I learned with surprise that he is a rodent mammal, of the species Arctomys monax, is called at the West a ground-hog, and is eaten by people of color with great relish. [4]
Unwillingly her hand tightened under his, and her blood beat faster and her color came and went as they two moved as one. [9]
It was high tide, and all the bay was silvery with a tinge of color from the glowing sky. [4]
The path led through a dense thicket which became a casino hedge, and suddenly I found myself peering over his shoulder into a little garden bewildering in color. [9]
The most curious thing is that when anything is the matter with them you turn of the color of bronze. [6]
For two hours they had followed the shore of the glistening, blue-green sea, [The Red Sea--in Hebrew and Coptic the reedy sea--is of a lovely blue green color. [10]
In former times they had been lavish in their finery, and even now earrings still gleamed and color broke out irrepressibly. [9]
Tropical by organization, they cannot fight for life with our eastern and northwestern breezes without losing the color and fragrance into which their lives would have blossomed in the latitude of myrtles and oranges. [6]
Here and there they burst out in sudden conflagrations of vivid yellow against a background of sober or sombre color, with a so startling effect as to make a body catch his breath with the happy surprise of it. [5]
I like, on these sunny days, to look into the Luxembourg Garden: nowhere else is the eye more delighted with life and color. [4]
On one of these occasions, "suddenly there hovered around the top of the rock a brightness of unequaled clearness and color, which, in increasingly smaller circles thickened, was the enchanting figure of the beautiful Lore. [5]
Thus they avail themselves of the art of the orator--or indeed of the painter--who brings a light color into juxtaposition with a dark one, in order to increase its luminous effect. [10]
Others would succeed them rapidly, coming up the center while their predecessors filed down the sides; so that the whole field was a moving mass of splendid color and glancing steel. [4]
I have tried them a couple of times on the family, and pages 212 and 216 are qualified to fetch any house of any country, caste or color, endowed with those riches which are denied to no nation on the planet--humor and feeling. [5]
The Boy blubbered, the Young Girl changed color, and looked as if she would cry, and that was the last of these interruptions. [6]
The monotony of the yellow walls broke in change of color and smooth surface, and the rugged outline of rims grew craggy. [13]
I can remember the time when I thought more about the shade of color in a ribbon, whether it matched my complexion or not, than I did about my spiritual interests in this world or the next. [6]
The one in the Senate changed color, and got sour. [4]
The color is the royal, dirty yellow. [4]
The songs of the rowers, the plashing strokes of their oars and the cries of the birds, all contributed to enliven the watery landscape of the Nile valley, which, though varied in color, was somewhat monotonous. [10]
When Cynthia turned, the points of color still high in her cheeks and the light still ablaze in her eyes, she surprised Jethro gazing at her from the porch, and some sorrow she felt rather than beheld stopped the confession on her lips. [9]
One must have the mordant in his own personality or he will not take the color of his subject. [6]
The walls of the men's apartment were painted of a reddish-brown color, against which the outlines of some white marble carvings, the gift of a Chian sculptor, stood out in sharp relief. [10]
He saw through the hypocrisy of the London Company, "making religion their color, when all their aim was nothing but present profit. [4]
The sky and the horizon were both the color of muddy water. [2]
Napoleon rode up the high ground at Semenovsk, and through the smoke saw ranks of men in uniforms of a color unfamiliar to him. [2]
In the rain the grass does not brighten as you think it ought to, and it is only when the rain turns to snow that you see any decided green color by contrast with the white. [4]
Within, there was the glow of warmth and color that Carmen liked to create for herself. [4]
The rugs on the floor were of her own devising and sewing together, and rivaled in color and ingenuity those of Bokhara. [4]
By and by the earth was a ball--just a round ball, of a dull color, with shiny stripes wriggling and winding around over it, which was rivers. [5]
The words stir the dead heart of me, and throw a glow of color into a life which sometimes seems to have grown wholly wan. [5]
She must know the day and hour when he had cast anchor there, wherefor he had chosen to lodge in the Genoa Fondaco, when I last had seen him, nay, and of what stuff and color his garments were made. [10]
The presence of the colored brother in force distinguished this from provincial resorts at the North, even those that employ this color as servants. [4]
She would take the color out of a career. [4]
You can see the color of his hair--faded, somewhat--by this thin shred that clings still to the temple. [5]
White must be the color of civilization; it has so many natural disadvantages. [4]
His coat is the color of ashes: and ashes are the symbol of hopes that have perished, of aspirations that came to nought, of loves that are buried. [5]
Without more ado the Colonel broke the skim of ice, and, taking some of the water in his hand, poured powder from his flask into it and rubbed it on his face until he was the color of an Indian. [9]
In the marshes the cat-tails and the faint flush of color on the alders and soft maples gave a character to the low shore, and the gentle rise of the hills from the water's edge combined to make a sweet and peaceful landscape. [4]
The interior of the building is simple--severely so; but there is no occasion for color and decoration, since the people sit in the dark. [5]
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. [6]
It was thought that this dragon was of a brilliant blue color, with gold mottlings, but no one had ever seen it, therefore this was not known to be so, it was only an opinion. [5]
It is possible that there are tricks of chemistry, ingenious processes, secrets of color, of which we are ignorant; but I do not believe there was ever an ancient alchemist who could not be taught something in a modern laboratory. [4]
It was observable that the young gentlemen neither bowed to nor spoke with students whose caps differed in color from their own. [5]
Next, some article that does look a little shabby beside the new piece of furniture is sent to the garret, and its place is supplied by something that will match in color and effect. [4]

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