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Sentences starting with colors

Colors and shades changed in slow, wondrous transformation. [13]

Sentences ending with colors

No hospital physician would have pictured the straggle in such colors. [6]
And in it we are able to study the origin of the present English taste for the juxtaposition of striking and uncomplementary colors. [4]
But perhaps it was something quite different, for the images that passed before her heavy eyes began to mingle confusedly, to repeat themselves, and be surrounded by a ring of rainbow colors. [10]
Jinny, it's all very well to be brave, and to stand by your colors. [9]
And of course this virtuous beauty knew full well that nothing became her better than dark colors! [10]
The front of the upright piano had what March called a short-skirted portiere on it, and the top was covered with vases, with dragon candlesticks and with Jap fans, which also expanded themselves bat wise on the walls between the etchings and the water colors. [8]
The walls of the ditch were brilliant with yellow banks of sulphur and with lava and pumice-stone of many colors. [5]
It seemed unreal that there could be so much paint in the world and so many swearing colors. [4]
You know, I suppose,--he said,--what is meant by complementary colors? [6]
He who paints such Madonnas should drop his colors! [10]

Short sentences using colors

Do people have favorite colors? [8]
They're my racing colors. [9]
Twenty stands of colors! [9]

Sentences containing colors two or more times

And such stunning colors, such intensely vivid colors, such rich and exquisite minglings and fusings of rainbows and lightnings! [5]
It was noticed by the friends of nature that when the peculiar coal-tar colors were discovered, the same faded, aesthetic, and sometimes sickly colors began to appear in the ornamental flower-beds and masses of foliage plants. [4]
Colors, colors, canvas, a model like Sophonisba, and success in the realm of Art! [10]

More example sentences with the word colors in them

In the stern Xavier stood immovable against the tiller, his short pipe clutched between his teeth, the colors of his new worsted belt made gorgeous by the rising sun. [9]
For he still wore unconsciously the colors of the army of the American Republic. [9]
It was a wondrous great vehicle, the bright colors of its body flashing in the morning light. [9]
The great cliffs with their clinging, gnarled trees, the vast mountains clothed in the motley colors of the autumn, the sweet and smoky smell of the Indian summer,--all were dear to me. [9]
Sketching the outlines with a few hasty strokes, he seized the brush, and while hurriedly guiding it and mixing the colors, he saw in fancy Costa standing before him, asking him to paint his portrait. [10]
You no doubt wished to see the progress of the fire from a spot near it, and in fact the colors down there are magnificent. [10]
The little woman who sat retiringly at one end of the seat was all in brilliant colors from bonnet to flounce, like a paroquet, red and green predominating. [9]
Sparkling on their white-robed breasts or shoulders were the colors of their favorite knights, and were it not for the fact that the doughty heroes appeared on unromantic mules, it would have been easy to imagine one of King Arthur's gala-days. [5]
The cheerfulness, with which she had met the dwarf, was insincere, and had resembled the brilliant colors of the rainbow, which gleam over the stagnant waters of a bog. [10]
She well knew what was passing in the father's mind, for the day before he had brought all sorts of artist's materials, and told her to arrange the little gable-room, with the large window facing towards the north, and put the easel and colors there. [10]
The great galleries were still thronged--though only with men, now; the bright colors that had made them look like hanging gardens were gone, with the ladies. [5]
By and by we perceived what those super-delicate colors, and their continuous play and movement, reminded us of; it is what one sees in a soap-bubble that is drifting along, catching changes of tint from the objects it passes. [5]
A small panel was soon found, he had plenty of brushes and colors to choose from, and in a few minutes, a burning heart, transfixed by an arrow, was completed. [10]
A lame clothes-horse was saddled with an old rug fringed with a ragged border, out of which all the colors had been completely trodden. [6]
And he turned upon me like a fighting-cock and--and he gave me a box on the ear; such a slap, it is burning now--and all sorts of colors danced before my eyes. [10]
The banners go up on the royal stand, and group themselves picturesquely; the heralds disappear at the other end of the list; and almost immediately the horses, ridden by young jockeys in stunning colors, come flying past in a general scramble. [4]
You must then untie the sack, and spread out before you my paints of all colors, my war-eagle feathers, my tufts of dried hair, and whatever else it contains. [5]
She should walk under the frescoed vaults of palaces, until her colors deepened to those of Venetian beauties, and her forms were perfected into rivalry with the Greek marbles, and the east wind was out of her soil. [6]
But its essential truthfulness has been illustrated every month or two, since my story has been in the course of publication, by a fresh example from real life, stamped in darker colors than any with which I should have thought of staining my pages. [6]
The sunny South, too, in more colors than one, also lent a helping hand. [7]
The outlines are tolerably good, the colors fairly shriek. [10]
It was interesting to watch the groups under the locusts, to see the management of the ferry, the mounting and dismounting of the riding-parties, and to study the colors on the steep hill opposite, halfway up which was a neat cottage and flower-garden. [4]
I had much to think of, and for the rest the weird beauty of the place, with its changing colors as the sun fell, held me in fascination. [9]
Next he passed to the head, and described in vivid colors, its various pains. [10]
I have listened to the guns of Five Forks, where Sheridan and Warren bore their own colors in the front of the charge, I was with Mr. Lincoln while the battle of Petersburg was raging, and there were tears in his eyes. [9]
You only seem to see rout, retreat, and dishonored colors dragging in the dirt--whereas none of these things exist. [5]
He stood face to face with the mighty monarch of colors, listened to gracious words from his lips, and saw the nonogenarian, whose tall figure was scarcely bowed, receive the king's gifts. [10]
For the first time she observed the shabby colors on the walls, the damage the pillars had sustained in the course of years, and the loose slabs in the pavement. [10]
One might account thus for the prismatic colors I have often seen on the horizon at noon, when the sun was pouring down floods of clear golden light. [4]
And then the thought grew even as the light grows, tinged by prismatic colors, until at length a memory struck into my soul like a shaft of light. [9]
The finest of these were certain hangings of fine tissue and of many colors, which hung over the wide opening between the great guest chamber and that next to it. [10]
The tint of the shingled front is brown, and all the colors are low and blended. [4]
He cannot explain the sensations which these obnoxious colors produce except by saying that it is like the deadly feeling from a blow on the epigastrium (pit of the stomach). [6]
I drew with the red chalk, and mixed the colors with the grinder, and all the while I could not feel the painful sense of painting a corpse. [10]
That was England, the English power, the English civilization, the modern civilization--with the quiet elegancies and quiet colors and quiet tastes and quiet dignity that are the outcome of the modern cultivation. [5]
I am sure that the pictures painted by the imagination,--the faded frescos on the walls of memory,--come out in clearer and brighter colors than belonged to them many years earlier. [6]
The difficulty is, that the alcoholic virtues don't wash; but until the water takes their colors out, the tints are very much like those of the true celestial stuff. [6]
Larrey was still strong and sturdy as I saw him, and few portraits remain printed in livelier colors on the tablet of my memory. [6]
While we were still on very high ground, and before the descent toward Argentie`re began, we looked up toward a neighboring mountain-top, and saw exquisite prismatic colors playing about some white clouds which were so delicate as to almost resemble gossamer webs. [5]
It would be so easy to paint Stephen in shining colors, and to make him a first-class prig (the horror of all novelists), that we must begin with the drawbacks. [9]
There were certain signs, certain facades, certain audacities of the prevailing hideousness that always amused him in that uproar to the eye which the strident forms and colors made. [8]
She had caught sight of her new Sunday gown--a cheap curtain-calico thing, a conflagration of gaudy colors and fantastic figures. [5]
They may have sighed secretly when I painted it in its true colors, but they loved peace, these planters. [9]
There I am shown a heap of stuff, with more colors and shades than I had supposed existed in all the world. [4]
For ugliness of shapes, and for miracles of ugly colors inharmoniously associated, they were a record. [5]
And beyond that river rises beautiful Farewell Mountain of many colors, now sapphire, now amethyst, its crest rimmed about at evening with saffron flame; and, beyond Farewell, the emerald billows of the western peaks catching the level light. [9]
The autumn sunlight, reddened somewhat by the slight haze of smoke, poured in at the high windows of the dining-room, glinted on the silver, and was split into bewildering colors by the prisms of the chandelier. [9]
The atmosphere is really something more than a medium: it is a drapery, woven, one could affirm, with colors, or dipped in oriental dyes. [4]
But then the Professor has one of his burrows in that region, and puts everything in high colors relating to it. [6]
Generally speaking, he prefers bright tints to darker ones, but his likes and dislikes are capricious, and with regard to some colors his antipathy amounts to positive horror. [6]
There is no politician of a certain age in the state who does not remember her walking, clad in dragon-fly colors, through the streets of the capital on Jethro's arm, or descending the stairs of the Pelican House to supper. [9]
The sun peeped over the bank of dense green forest and spread rainbow colors on the still waters of the river. [9]
I think we ought to try it in three or four colors, if we are going to observe the day at all. [8]
If we could only find out whether he has any of those feelings with reference to certain colors, we might guess with more chance of guessing right than we have at present. [6]
It seemed like one solid stone, and yet all the colors of the rainbow were contained in it. [4]
And then, forming once more, we filed away on the road leading northward to the ferry, our colors flying, leaving the weeping, cheering crowd behind. [9]
The colors, meantime, on the level water, never were on painter's palette, and never were counterfeited by the changeable silks of eastern looms; and this gorgeous spectacle continued till the stars came out, crowding the sky with silver points. [4]
The clouds took on gorgeous colors, at length, and soon the snow caught the hue, and whole fields were rosy pink, while uplifted peaks glowed red, as with internal fire. [4]
Window shades, of oil stuff, with milk-maids and ruined castles stenciled on them in fierce colors. [5]
But Mrs. Rowens often said she should never look well in colors. [6]
Trembling young ladies of Union sympathies presented colors to regiments on the Arsenal Green, or at Jefferson Barracks, or at Camp Benton to the northwest near the Fair Grounds. [9]
On a platform of rocks and mighty masonry rose a structure of wonderful magnificence and beauty, so brilliantly illuminated by the morning sun that its noble proportions and gorgeous colors showed in dazzling splendor and relief. [10]
An upper garment of rich white and gold brocade reaching just below the knees, was fastened round the waist with a girdle of blue and white, the royal colors of Persia. [10]
Didn't the clamor of Minerva's apprentices harmonize with your organ-playing, or did--but by all the colors of Iris, that's surely Nico Matanesse, young Wibisma! [10]
All the materials of his dress were rich, and all the colors brilliant. [5]
Within was abundance of brilliancy--flames, costumes, colors, decorations, mirrors--it was another Aladdin show. [5]
In the twinkling of an eye you will be revelling in colors again, while the yoke, the iron yoke, weighs me down. [10]
At the end of a short half hour we descended into Gold Hill with drums beating and colors flying, and enveloped in imposing clouds of dust. [5]
It has the obvious advantages of being cool and comfortable, and in addition it is almost always made up in pleasing colors which cheer and do not depress. [5]
The sun was now low, and its level beams gave added lustre to the colors of the flowers and to the sheen of the thick, metallic foliage of the south, which the drought and scorching heat had still spared. [10]
The atmosphere was not too clear on the horizon for dreamy effects; all the headlands were softened and tinged with opalescent colors. [4]
You may struggle nobly for twenty-four hours, maybe, if you are an adamantine sort of person, but in the mean time you will have been so wretchedly served, and so insolently, that you will haul down your colors, and go to impoverishing yourself with fees. [5]
It is true my relation, Monsieur le Marquis de St. Gre, bought me a pair of colors in the King's gardes du corps. [9]
It contains all my medicines, and my war-plumes, and my paints of all colors. [5]
I hauled down my colors and surrendered. [5]
The morning you must spend as before; after dinner you shall be rewarded by using colors. [10]
Unquestionably it was much rarer then than in these days: indeed I confess to having sketched my pair of lovers in somewhat bright colors. [10]
Hand me the mirror, the maul-stick, and the colors. [10]
Now we can march into Congress with drums beating and colors flying! [5]
The young man made an explanation in which he said something about complementary colors. [6]
He described his love in glowing colors. [10]
And while she listened, the strange light of the leaves irradiated the youthful figure of Myrtle, as when the stained window let in its colors on Madeline, the rose-bloom and the amethyst and the glory. [6]
You see a lean horse, neck and tail, flash by you, with a jockey in colors on his back; and that is the whole of it. [4]
It was as large as a circus ring; and around it sat a great company of men dressed in such various and splendid colors that it hurt one's eyes to look at them. [5]
There is a kind of harmony between boldly contrasted beliefs like that between complementary colors. [6]
But Lurida believes it was the ribbon, or something in the combination of colors. [6]
A stone falls into the pool, the colors vanish, dim mists rise up, and it becomes foul and clouded. [10]
Had the artist intended to depict some oppressive anxiety, or was what she saw only dust, that had settled on the colors? [10]
Above are balconies, in which, upon red cushions, sit the daughters of Berne, reading and sewing, and watching their neighbors; and in nearly every window are quantities of flowers of the most brilliant colors. [4]
Paris was bathed in sunshine, wrapped in delicious weather, adorned with all the delicate colors of blushing spring. [4]
I tried all in my power to dislodge this burdensome brood of all ages and colors, but in vain; every night my sleep was disturbed by horrible choruses of four-footed animals, and feline war-cries and songs. [10]
Clothed for peace, in costly stuffs and rich colors, the Paladin was a tower dyed with the glories of the sunset; plumed and sashed and iron-clad for war, he was a still statelier thing to look at. [5]
For my part, I have ever been, and remain to the end, one of those least fitted for the Carthusian habit, notwithstanding that Sister Margaret would paint the beatitudes and the purifying power of her Order in fair and tempting colors. [10]
She has dressed herself in brighter colors than she has hitherto worn, so they tell me, within the last few days. [6]
Decorators can learn here how Nature dares to put blue and green in juxtaposition: she has evidently the secret of harmonizing all the colors. [4]
He must win her over, and his romantic fancy helped him to paint feelings he had never had, in glowing colors. [10]
Nine-tenths of the Heidelberg students wore no badge or uniform; the other tenth wore caps of various colors, and belonged to social organizations called "corps. [5]
In flaming colors he painted to her the good she might do in such a position, and the tears she might wipe away. [10]
For whereas they have but one color, we use many more than are in the rainbow, all the most light, garish, and unseemly colors that are in the world. [4]
The travelers scarcely had time indeed to get accustomed to the splendors of the great saloon where the tables were spread for meals, a marvel of paint and gilding, its ceiling hung with fancifully cut tissue-paper of many colors, festooned and arranged in endless patterns. [5]

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