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Sentences ending with colored

The rock seems to be a clay formation, rotten and colored. [4]
Its inhabitants numbered perhaps two hundred and fifty, a few of them colored. [4]
We were sitting on the porch of the farmhouse, on the summit of the hill, and "Aunt Rachel" was sitting respectfully below our level, on the steps-for she was our Servant, and colored. [5]
Of course the number is not to include the free colored. [7]
What his soul dreamed, what his mental vision beheld was colored. [10]
He muttered something and colored. [2]
Number Five colored. [6]

Short sentences using colored

They are colored folk. [5]
The fire colored everything. [9]

Sentences containing colored two or more times

They comb their wool up to a peak and keep it in position by stiffening it with brown-red clay--half of this tower colored, denotes engagement; the whole of it colored denotes marriage. [5]
We do not to-day know that a colored soldier, or white officer commanding colored soldiers, has been massacred by the rebels when made a prisoner. [7]
Lamps of colored papyrus hung against the walls and threw a strange light on the scene, something like that when the sun's rays strike through colored glass. [10]
The District has more than one free colored to six whites, and yet in its frequent petitions to Congress I believe it has never presented the presence of free colored persons as one of its grievances. [7]
The colored waiter knew his business, and the colored cook was a finished artist. [5]

More example sentences with the word colored in them

They represented the young god Dionysius, the Hyades surrounding him, and in colored groups all the gifts of the divinities who watch over fields and gardens, as well as those of the Nysian god. [10]
This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those "relief maps" which reproduce nature precisely, with the heights and depressions and other details graduated to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes, etc., colored after nature. [5]
The colored divisions will smartly show to the eye the difference in the length of the reigns and impress the proportions on the memory and the understanding. [5]
Soldiers and merchants, whose various ranks in society were betokened by the length of their white garments, bordered with colored fringes, were interspersed among the crowd of half-naked, sinewy men, whose only clothing consisted of an apron, the costume of the lower classes. [10]
The colored people, who are a conspicuous part of the establishment, are a source of never-failing interest and amusement. [4]
And these colleges, which you think above the colored people, will stimulate them and gradually raise the whole mass. [4]
Herring's colored portrait, which I have always kept, shows him as a great, powerful chestnut horse, well deserving the name of "bullock," which one of the jockeys applied to him. [6]
One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first colored regiment, "If he accepts it I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot. [7]
Fifteen of us were of the great city families, and this day, being the first day of the school-term, we were all neatly clad in fine woollen stuffs of Florence or of Flanders make, and colored knitted hose. [10]
It might be well to consider, too, whether the free colored people already in the United States could not, so far as individuals may desire, be included in such colonization. [7]
Now she might wear none but white dresses and the least scrap of colored ornament to dress her hair or smarten her robe was strictly forbidden. [10]
She welcomed him very cordially, but colored as she did so,--his visit was a surprise. [6]
So in one vast space--say a third of a mile wide and two miles long--were collected two thousand gondolas, and every one of them had from two to ten, twenty and even thirty colored lanterns suspended about it, and from four to a dozen occupants. [5]
We call them vascular glands, and we believe that they elaborate colored and uncolored blood-cells; but just what changes they effect, and just how they effect them, it has proved a very difficult matter to determine. [3]
There is an unwillingness on the part of our people, harsh as it may be, for you free colored people to remain with us. [7]
The lid was turned back, and upon it was put a cluster of richly colored pansies and a small bouquet of roses. [6]
She was horrified to think how near she had come to being guilty herself; she had been saved in the nick of time by a revival in the colored Methodist Church, a fortnight before, at which time and place she "got religion. [5]
The passage leading to the auditorium was full of perfume, and Arsinoe, who had already visited this theatre two or three times, hardly recognized it, it was so gaily decorated with colored scarfs. [10]
Heretofore colored people to some extent have fled North from bondage, and now, perhaps, from both bondage and destitution. [7]
Sellers was anxious to report his discoveries to Hawkins; so he took his leave, saying that if the two "young devotees of the colored Muse" thought they could manage without him, he would go and look after his affairs. [5]
Allow no one to enlist colored troops, except upon orders from you, or from here through you. [7]
He now wants to be a lieutenant in one of the colored regiments. [7]
A Philadelphia paper thus speaks of the sad occurrence: At Macon, Ga., last week, a colored man named George, who was the favorite body-servant of General Washington, died at the advanced age of 95 years. [5]
Seems to me, though, that you are educating the colored brother all on top. [4]
The "George" of this letter was Mark Twain's colored butler, a valued and even beloved member of the household--a most picturesque character, who "one day came to wash windows," as Clemens used to say, "and remained eighteen years. [5]
I remember to this day the colored wax statue which represented Pertinax so exactly that it might have been himself risen from the grave. [10]
To one of them, I know, the colored landscape, the dreamy atmosphere, the unique glory that comes in October days, were only ecstatic suggestions of the life that opened before her. [4]
Nearly all of them wore colored caps; there were white caps, green caps, blue caps, red caps, and bright-yellow ones; so, all the five corps were present in strong force. [5]
Equally distributed among the whites of the whole country, and there would be but one colored to seven whites. [7]
The front of the temple, rising from the earth in the form of an obtuse angle, had somewhat the appearance of a fortress, and was covered with colored pictures and inscriptions. [10]
I am telling the story honestly, as I remember it, but I may have colored it unconsciously, and the legendary pane may be broken before this for aught I know. [6]
In some of the States, as we have seen, colored persons were among those qualified by law to act on the subject. [7]
He colored at the recollection of that last scene, when he came into her presence; but she smiled with perfect tranquillity. [6]
One portion of the platz is now a lively and picturesque forest of evergreens, an extensive thicket of large and small trees, many of them trimmed with colored and gilt strips of paper. [4]
When they returned the moon was coming up, rising and struggling and making its way slowly through ragged masses of colored clouds. [4]
A month later the final proclamation came, including the announcement that colored men of suitable condition would be received into the war service. [7]
Now and then the figure of the Roman rose before her mind's eye, and every time that this occurred she colored to her very forehead. [10]
To whatever extent the enlistment and drafting, one or both, of colored troops may be found necessary within the State, it may be conducted within the law of Congress; and, so far as practicable, free from collateral embarrassments, disorders, and provocations. [7]
But Myrtle tore the eagle's feathers from her hair, and stripped off her colored beads, and threw off her painted robe. [6]
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]
The worldlings and the camp-meeting gatherings vie with each other in the display of colored lights and fireworks. [4]
Forbes had heard that while the colored people of the South had suspended several of the ten commandments, the eighth was especially regarded as nonapplicable in the present state of society. [4]
We contribute with thankful avidity to the new Methodist church, and are happy to think how lucky it was that those little colored Sunday-school scholars did not seize upon everything we had with violence, before we recovered from our momentary helpless condition. [5]
Senator Dilworthy lived sumptuously, and Washington's quarters were charming --gas; running water, hot and cold; bath-room, coal-fires, rich carpets, beautiful pictures on the walls; books on religion, temperance, public charities and financial schemes; trim colored servants, dainty food --everything a body could wish for. [5]
It was a stately room, surrounded by marble columns, which bore witness to the owner's wealth, for the floor was beautifully adorned with bright-hued pictures, mosaic work executed in colored stones by an artist from Syracuse. [10]
His rear was so marvelously bepatched with colored squares and triangles that one was half persuaded he had got it out of an atlas. [5]
The walls are so loosely laid up that it seems as if a colored prisoner might butt his head through. [4]
The prefect colored slightly, but he obeyed the desire of Caesar's wife and went on with his story, pitching his voice in a somewhat lower key than before: "Well, it was about the procession, that the first breach of the peace arose. [10]
There was a singing in her ears, and flashes of colored light seemed to dance before her closed eyes. [10]
Susan Cullum, colored servant at Senator Dilworthy's, was sworn. [5]
If it be said that the only legitimate object of acquiring territory is to furnish homes for white men, this measure effects that object, for emigration of colored men leaves additional room for white men remaining or coming here. [7]
At the head rode a grey-headed old man; his robes were brown, and rent, in token of mourning, the mane and tail of his horse had been shorn off and the creature colored blue.--It was Hystaspes, coming to entreat mercy for his son. [10]
I do not refer to the specials of various journals which are good, bad, or indifferent, as the case may be, and commonly colored by partisan considerations, but the regular synopsis sent to the country at large. [4]
King was always raving about the White Sulphur after he came North, and one never could tell how much his judgment was colored by his peculiar experiences there. [4]
This afternoon the President of the United States gave an audience to a committee of colored men at the White House. [7]
We buy their potatoes (retail) at fifteen dollars a barrel; and those colored farmers buy ours for a song, and live on them. [5]
The young colored population of New Orleans were much given to flirting, at twilight, on the banquettes of the back streets. [5]
The walls and pillars, the galleries and colonnades, even the roofs, blazed in many colored paints, and at every gate stood tall masts, from which red and blue flags fluttered when the king was residing there. [10]
These little colored patches are stains upon the windows of a human soul; stand on the outside, they are but dull and meaningless spots of color; seen from within, they are glorified shapes with empurpled wings and sunbright aureoles. [6]
Among others Clemens paid the way of two colored students, one through a Southern institution and another through the Yale law school. [5]
She colored once or twice when the young poet's name was mentioned. [6]
She came at once upon a handsomely engraved and colored frontispiece--a human figure, stark naked. [5]
Here and there, on the walls, appeared the names of American students, and in one place the American arms and motto were displayed in colored chalks. [5]
When they perform on the stage of a theater, in the blaze of colored fires, it must be a fine and fascinating spectacle. [5]
In the mass of white globes and colored lanterns of paper the eye was deceived as to distances. [4]
A good many of them wore colored caps of the corps. [5]
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought I will not now take time to explain. [7]
I suppose one of the principal difficulties in the way of colonization is that the free colored man cannot see that his comfort would be advanced by it. [7]
On the walls of the living room were hung highly colored advertising chromos of steamships and palaces of industry, and on the bureau Edith noticed two illustrated newspapers of the last year, a patent-medicine almanac, and a volume of Schiller. [4]
It is worthy of note, too, that among the free States those which make the colored man the nearest equal to the white have proportionably the fewest mulattoes, the least of amalgamation. [7]
It may be of interest to the reader to know that John T. Lewis, the colored man mentioned, lived to a good old age--a pensioner of the Clemens family and, in the course of time, of H. H. Rogers. [5]
Not a tuft of grass or a bunch of sage colored the dull rust-yellow. [13]
There was an occasional alligator swimming comfortably along in the canal, and an occasional picturesque colored person on the bank, flinging his statue-rigid reflection upon the still water and watching for a bite. [5]
We had often noticed that many of the students wore a colored silk band or ribbon diagonally across their breasts. [5]
The war has not changed the Southern habit of sitting out-of-doors, but has added a new element of street picturesqueness in groups of colored people lounging about the corners. [4]
Probably he had never seen a colored person before, and did not know whether she would agree with him: at any rate, after watching her a few moments, he turned about, and went into the forest. [4]
That background of mystery, without which life is a poor mechanical arrangement, is shaped and colored, so far as it can have outline, or any hue but shadow, on a vast canvas, the contemplation of which enlarges and enriches the sphere of consciousness. [6]
Going out that morning she had seen some fence up the road that needed mending, and she told Mr. Devault that she didn't like such shiftlessness; she didn't know as white folks was much better than colored folks. [4]
If intelligent colored men, such as are before me, would move in this matter, much might be accomplished. [7]
And the colored man replied "Humph, he ain't got no license. [5]
They were terrible looking fellows, clad in broad-skirted gaberdines, of that curious colored cloth called thunder and lightning, and bore as a standard three devil's darning-needles, volant, in a flame-colored field. [4]
Rows of colored lamps were set thickly along the shore, and disposed everywhere among the rocks on which the Crossman House stands; lights glistened from all the islands, from a thousand row-boats, and in all the windows. [4]
All kinds of lamps had been put in requisition, and even colored wax-candles figured on the mantel-pieces. [6]
He had various kinds of colored and colorless wines and brandies, with unpronouncable names, imported from China in little crockery jugs, and which he offered to us in dainty little miniature wash-basins of porcelain. [5]
It colored everything; it was always, whatever she was doing or saying, present, like an air that one unconsciously hums for days after it has caught his fancy. [4]
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization; and yet I wish to say there is an objection urged against free colored persons remaining in the country which is largely imaginary, if not sometimes malicious. [7]
The colored population is the great available and yet unavailed of force for restoring the Union. [7]
All our territory is mapped out as to its sanitary conditions; why not have it colored as to its effect upon the spirits and the enjoyment of life? [4]
Have you made irrevocable arrangements with the colored man, or would you prefer to have Patrick, if he thinks he would like to try? [5]
Balaam'a got the Injun to himself, and I suppose that Senator Dilworthy feels that there is nothing left him but the colored man. [5]
There are now in the service of the United States nearly one hundred and fifty thousand able-bodied colored men, most of them under arms, defending and acquiring Union territory. [7]
Music is heard in the distance, and a procession with colored banners is seen approaching from the city. [4]
These mansions stand in the center of large grounds, and rise, garlanded with roses, out of the midst of swelling masses of shining green foliage and many- colored blossoms. [5]
At one time in our domestic history we had a colored butler who had a failing. [5]
The question is, if the colored people are persuaded to go anywhere, why not there? [7]
His lights--I mean his rearing--often colored his decisions. [5]
You spoke of hiring a colored man as engineer and helper in the packing room. [5]
There was a high wind blowing, and the sage tossed and waved and colored beautifully from light to dark. [13]
In obedience to her motherly adviser, the convalescent remained quiet for a while; but joy seemed to have doubled her strength, for she desired to see Agatha, Alexander, and Andreas, and--she colored, and a beseeching glance met Euryale's eyes--and Diodoros. [10]
I told Mrs. Henderson that we had gone long on the colored brother a good while. [4]

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