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Sentences starting with colour

Colour came back to her face. [11]
Colour seems to be advantageous to another animal, the skunk, in a manner of which we have had many instances in other classes. [1]

Sentences ending with colour

After all these years, Mr. Daaken stands before me a prominent figure of the past in an ill-fitting suit of snuff colour. [9]
He even disputed with his uncle on the tints of her skin, on seeing him paint it in, showing a fine eye for colour. [11]
Ebers was born under a lucky star, and the pictures of his early home life, his restless student days at that romantic old seat of learning, Gottingen, are bright, vivacious, and full of colour. [10]
His whim had suddenly taken on a new colour. [11]
Some were autobiographical, such as those of a trained nurse, a stenographer, a hardware clerk who had sat up late Sunday night to summarize what that sermon had meant to him, how a gray and hopeless existence had taken on a new colour. [9]
Every Sunday morning she spent a long time in washing, curling, and brushing her hair, and every night she tended it lovingly, so that it was a splendid rich brown like her eye, coiling nobly above her plain, strong face with its good colour. [11]
And then I saw the world in truer colour. [9]
It was a perfect day of early summer, the gorse was in full bloom, and the may and the hawthorn were alive with colour. [11]
Virtue had not often been so triumphant, and never so dramatic as to produce at the critical instant so emblematic a defender as this matronly lady in dove colour. [9]
Quadrupeds manifestly take notice of colour. [1]

Short sentences using colour

Her colour was high. [9]
Cluny's colour was all gone. [11]
Her colour rose a little. [9]
Her colour heightened. [9]
But her colour? [10]

Sentences containing colour two or more times

The colour of the skin and hair are plainly correlated, as is the texture of the hair with its colour in the Mandans of North America. [1]
The organs of sight and hearing, the teeth and hair, the colour of the skin and of the hair, colour and constitution, are more or less correlated. [1]
Although I do not know that this tendency to change the colour of the coat during different seasons is transmitted, yet it probably is so, as all shades of colour are strongly inherited by the horse. [1]
A certain definite colour massed here, another definite colour there, and so forth. [9]

More example sentences with the word colour in them

I merely wished you to know, Mr. Flint, that there is no use in attempting to deceive me in regard to the true colour of those practices. [9]
Now--what colour would you paint it? [9]
Rosy-fingered morn touched with magic colour the masts and scattered sails of the ships upon the great river, and spires and towers quivered with rainbow light. [11]
There a workman with long hair and shag trousers painted the prevailing two-storied house the prevailing colour, white and green. [11]
Ruth had listened with an occasional change of colour, but also with an outward pride to which she seemed suddenly to have grown. [11]
That opening morn, which used to salute him with the whispers of zephyrs, the carol of skylarks, may breathe, as its first accents, from the dear lips which colour and heat have quitted,--'Oh! [14]
The manner in which she intended to mention the colour should show him the nature of the bond which united them. [10]
I can't tell what they said, though, nor what was the colour of the lady's pegnoir, for I am neither Nancy nor Polly nor the cook--nor Rigby. [11]
Yet the features were there, too, regular and fine; and her brown hair waving away from her broad, white forehead over eyes a greyish violet in colour gave her a classic distinction. [11]
Besides these there were several newly-picked leaves and young shoots of a pinkish colour, the whole showing a decided taste for the beautiful. [1]
These young birds were not albinos, as shewn by the colour of their beaks and legs, which nearly resembled the same parts in the adults. [1]
The eyes, however, were malignantly intelligent, the hands, ill-cared for, were long, well-shaped and capable, but of a hateful yellow colour like the face. [11]
If their cheekbones were a little too high, their Delft blue eyes a little too small, their colour was of the proverbial rose-leaves and cream. [9]
It fitted me well, and with a wig the colour of her hair, brought quickly from her boxes, and use of paints which actors use, I was transformed. [11]
And as he watched her, in silence, the colour that flowed and ebbed in her cheeks registered the coming and going of memories; of incidents in her life hidden from him, arousing in the man the torture of jealousy. [9]
Her usual dress was a green gown, in colour not unlike the curtain of the office window, made tight to the figure, and terminating at the throat, where it was fastened behind by a peculiarly large and massive button. [12]
His face was warm with colour even in the night air, warmer than she had ever seen it. [11]
Sky-blue, the Holy Virgin's colour, should be hers, and thus his also, and every victory gained by the knight with the sky-blue on his helmet, under St. Clare's protection, would then be hers. [10]
Out upon the vast sea of sand, where the descending sun was spreading a note of incandescent colour, there floated the grateful words: "He remembering His mercy hath holpen His servant Israel; as He promised to our forefathers, Abraham, and his seed for ever. [11]
As I look upon it now, I say that no whit of its colour is overcharged. [9]
The common Yellow Under-wings (Triphaena) often fly about during the day or early evening, and are then conspicuous from the colour of their hind-wings. [1]
Nature, and perhaps unconscious art, have provided him with a protective exterior; he is the colour of his jungle. [9]
His body appeared to stiffen, his face became rigid, he stared at the Governor blankly, appalled, the colour left his face, and his mouth opened with a curious and revolting grimace. [11]
A colour came to her face, as though from strong flush of feeling, then she turned to him again, and answered steadily: "Yes, he is happy now. [11]
The mountains seemed to have stripped themselves of snow, and the vivid sun began at once to colour the foothills with green. [11]
It is impossible to doubt that colour has been gained by many fishes as a protection: no one can examine the speckled upper surface of a flounder, and overlook its resemblance to the sandy bed of the sea on which it lives. [1]
To liken him to a clothing store model of a well-built, broad-shouldered man with a firm neck, a handsome, rather square face not lacking in colour and a conventional, drooping moustache would be slanderous; yet he did suggest it. [9]
Changes of colour thus caused may last for a longer or shorter time. [1]
It was as though there was a golden fire behind vast hills of mauve and pink, purple and saffron; but the glow was so soft as to suggest a flame which did not burn; which only shed radiance, colour and an ethereal mist. [11]
If you make this colour yours and fight for it, I shall rejoice, and am willing to name it mine. [10]
Only old Mother Thibadeau, who had a heart that sees, caught a look in Fleda's eyes, a warm deepening of colour, a sudden embarrassment, which she knew how to interpret. [11]
For an hour they sat there, and the Seigneur talked gaily with a colour to his face, and his great eyes glowing. [11]
So that with these nudibranch molluscs, colour apparently does not stand in any close relation to the nature of the places which they inhabit. [1]
Honora had told them so, and colour was lent to her assertions by the fact that their mother, when they repeated this to her, only smiled sadly, and brushed her eyes with her handkerchief. [9]
The Jurats in their red robes, the officers, sailors, and marines, added colour to the pageant. [11]
But Dorothy led the way upstairs, a spot of colour burning each of her cheeks. [9]
Victoria sat across the table from Austen, and several times the consciousness of his grave look upon her as she talked heightened the colour in her cheek. [9]
Mechanically she took the seat which Rudyard had occupied, and looked at him across the table with a dread conviction stealing over her face, robbing it of every vestige of its heavenly colour, giving her eyes a staring and solicitous look. [11]
As he left the rose there, his eyes wandered slowly over this retreat of rest and sleep: white robe-de-nuit, blue silk canopy, blue slippers, blue dressing-gown--all blue, the colour in which he had first seen her. [11]
He could see the raw colour of her scarf. [11]
From a distance the prevailing colour of the steep slope is ochre; it gives the effect of having been scraped bare in preparation for some gigantic enterprise. [9]
And then, as the full meaning of the question came to her; the colour flooded into her face, and she would have fled, if she could, bud Euphrasia's words came in a torrent. [9]
Crew perceived that the exercise had heightened her colour, and the transition appealed to his sense of beauty. [9]
Now with birds the evidence stands thus: they have acute powers of observation, and they seem to have some taste for the beautiful both in colour and sound. [1]
The crab is the colour of the seaweed, and the deer of the thicket. [9]
Her hair was the colour of the russet maple leaves. [9]
But blue is the colour of the pure heaven and its noble queen, the gracious Virgin. [10]
Master Chipchase turned the colour of his meat, and his wit failed him. [9]
In both classes the change of colour is sometimes seasonal, and the tints of the naked parts sometimes become more vivid during the act of courtship. [1]
With respect to the cause or purpose of the differences in colour between the summer and winter plumage, this may in some instances, as with the ptarmigan (79. [1]
The young of the Ardea asha are white, the adults being dark slate-coloured; and not only the young, but the adults in their winter plumage, of the allied Buphus coromandus are white, this colour changing into a rich golden-buff during the breeding-season. [1]
The form was that of an old man, his white head akin in colour to the mouldering embers upon which he gazed. [12]
The form was that of a man, miserably clad and begrimed with smoke, which, perhaps by its contrast with the natural colour of his skin, made him look paler than he really was. [12]
The Nubian replied that everything had been considered; but, to gain time, she must beg Barine to let her colour her skin and curl her hair while she was talking. [10]
And the sister's sweet withered face was reminiscent of a missal, one bright with colour, and still shining faintly. [9]
Pierre had a sweet voice, of a peculiarly penetrating quality; still it was low and well- modulated, like the colour in his cheeks, which gave him his name. [11]
Thanks to a strong pigment in my skin, derived probably from Scotch-Irish ancestors, my colour was fresh. [9]
I had been stripped of my clothes, and put into some coarse and rough material, the colour and condition of which I could not see for want of light. [9]
When he had stilled this fervent longing he could ride with her colour on helm and shield from tourney to tourney, and break a lance for her in every land through which he passed with the Emperor. [10]
The trees were still in full leaf, the fields green, though the crops had been gathered, and the crystal air gave vivid value to every colour in the landscape. [9]
By what further steps the more complex ocelli, which are surrounded by many successive zones of colour, have been generated, I will not pretend to say. [1]
My soul was steeped in unimagined colour, and in the memory of one rapturous instant is gathered what I was soon to see of Greece, is focussed the meaning of history, poetry and art. [9]
Her voice was steady, but the colour had left her face. [9]
I raised mine steadily to hers with an impersonal glance, and saw that she had not changed colour in the least. [11]
In very many species, the beard, whiskers, and crests of hair round the face are of a different colour from the rest of the head, and when different, are always of a lighter tint (45. [1]
Even through her soft colour a hardness appeared. [11]
Her colour, always so near the surface, rose a little as she regarded him. [9]
They told him so much more than he cared to hear, that his face flushed a deep red--the bronze of it most like the colour of Laura Sloly's hair; then he turned pale. [11]
In regions where snow never lies for long, a white coat would be injurious; consequently, species of this colour are extremely rare in the hotter parts of the world. [1]
Come shabby or smart, neither the colour nor the condition signifies; provided only the dress contain E----, all will be right. [14]
Was it no sin to hope and plead that he would wear their common colour, not in honour of the Queen of Heaven, but of the lowly Eva, in whom nothing was strong save the desire for good? [10]
There was a sick colour in his face. [11]
Spots of colour shot into the Seigneur's cheeks. [11]
Sheila felt if she were normal she ought to feel abhorrence against Dyck; yet she felt none at all, and his saving them had given a new colour to their relations. [11]
For a moment she seemed to glow, and then the colour slowly faded and left her face rather grey and very quiet. [11]
As long as she lived she remembered that lizard, its colour changing in the sun. [11]
More than once she drew in her breath with a quick, sibilant sound, as though some thought wounded her; and she flushed suddenly, then turned pale, then came to her natural colour again. [11]
Our faces are set toward strange worlds presently to rise out of the sea and take on form and colour and substance--worlds of new aspirations, of new ideas and new values. [9]
Her colour, so sensitive, rose again, but less perceptibly this time. [9]
Come, let me see the colour of your eyes. [11]
But now I see it; it returns: it is the impression of colour in the senses, left from the night that lady-bug Mathilde flashed out on the Heights! [11]
At this same season the beak and naked skin about the head frequently change colour, as with some herons, ibises, gulls, one of the bell-birds just noticed, etc. [1]
She was calm, save for those shining yet steady eyes; they were like furnaces, burning up the colour of her cheeks. [11]
Even in that sandy plain, covered with sickly, stunted pines and burned patches, stretching westward from the Merrimac, Silas saw beauty and colour, life in the once prosperous houses not yet abandoned.... [9]
It has been said that, apart from the colour, form, and setting, the incidents of these Pierre stories might have occurred anywhere. [11]
Her sensitive colour responded as she thanked him, and she pinned them deftly at her waist. [9]
Her features were regular, her eyes of a greyish violet, her chin strong, yet not too strong--the chin of a singer; her hands had that charming quiet certainty of movement possessed by so few; and her colour was of the most delightful health. [11]
Its colour was purple, on three sides were massed drooping lilac feathers, but over the left ear the wide brim was caught up and held by a crescent of brilliant paste stones. [9]
The dim light prevents your distinguishing the colour of his robe, but I know it, for I saw it in the glare of day. [10]
My, what a pretty colour you've got to-day. [9]
In April her praise became still warmer, only she regretted that Kuni's pretty face was losing its fresh colour and her well-formed figure its roundness. [10]
A godly knight played no base game with the chosen lady of, his heart, and that, yes, that she certainly was, since she had named her colour to him. [10]
She was more phlegmatic than an Indian; but the tails of the sheep on the Town Hill did not better show the quarter of the wind than the changing colour of Aimable's face indicated Jean's coming or going. [11]
This border in P. chinquis shades into brown, edged with cream colour, so that the ocellus is here surrounded with variously shaded, though not bright, concentric zones. [1]
Her face was oval, her features not quite regular,--giving them a certain charm; her colour was fresh, her eyes blue, the lighter blue one sees on Chinese ware: not a poetic comparison, but so I thought of them. [9]
Instead of clothing our admirals and generals, for courts-martial and other public functions, in superb dress uniforms blazing with colour and gold, the Government would put them in swallow-tails and white cravats, and make them look like ambassadors and lackeys. [5]
If you could only see for yourself what a beautiful colour the pure air has given your cheeks! [10]
Grey was her only concession to colour, and her gowns and bonnets were of a primness which belonged to the past. [9]
Her colour at once betrayed her understanding. [9]
He had never on any occasion seen her face change colour, or her manner show chagrin or emotion. [11]

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