Use coloured in a sentence
Sentences ending with coloured
- The head is sometimes covered with velvety down, as with the pheasant; or is naked and vividly coloured. [1]
- The beak and naked skin about the head, and the feathers, are often gorgeously coloured. [1]
- The few who knew and despised him did not matter, for they were able and learned and obscure, and, in the world where he moves, most people are superficial, mediocre, and 'tuppence coloured. [11]
- Most of these insects are large and splendidly coloured. [1]
- Mr. Reeks has given me a curious instance of an animal profiting by being peculiarly coloured. [1]
- They give us but little insight into the plumage of their progenitors, excepting in so far that, when the young and the old are coloured in the same general manner throughout a whole group of species, it is probable that their progenitors were similarly coloured. [1]
- It deserves especial attention that Von Fischer has never seen any species purposely exhibit the hinder part of its body, if not at all coloured. [1]
- Dr. Nicholson, of Antigua, after having attended to this subject, writes to me that dark- coloured Europeans escape the yellow fever more than those that are light- coloured. [1]
- Victoria coloured. [9]
- She coloured. [9]
Short sentences using coloured
- Honora coloured again. [9]
- Honora coloured. [9]
- Alison coloured. [9]
More example sentences with the word coloured in them
- Gunther in 'Proceedings, Zoological Society,' 1870, p. 778, with a coloured figure. [1]
- Some apes, however, would probably declare that they could and did admire the beauty of the coloured skin and fur of their partners in marriage. [1]
- A richly coloured watering-place slid into view, as in a moving-picture show. [9]
- He had insisted upon gazing at the universe through the coloured glasses of an outworn theology, instead of using his own eyes. [9]
- Two humming-birds belonging to the genus Eustephanus, both beautifully coloured, inhabit the small island of Juan Fernandez, and have always been ranked as specifically distinct. [1]
- He was nowhere to be seen in the groups which sang and gestured in the light of the many coloured fires, though once or twice Fleda's quickened ear detected his voice, exulting, in the chorus of song. [11]
- A shudder ran through her frame, and a deep pity for the sweet creature whose coloured likeness she held in her hand seized upon her. [10]
- Many birds, especially those which live much on the ground, have undoubtedly been obscurely coloured for the sake of protection. [1]
- Hence it is this side which is often coloured so as to imitate the objects on which these insects commonly rest. [1]
- Snakes coloured in this peculiar manner, as Mr. Wallace states on the authority of Dr. Gunther (62. [1]
- Are partridges, as they are now coloured, better protected than if they had resembled quails? [1]
- Iberville coloured, but the flush passed quickly and left him unembarrassed. [11]
- We knew how the eggs of all the feathered guests of Germany were coloured and marked, and the chest of drawers containing our collection stood for years in my mother's attic. [10]
- It appears, therefore, that we must attribute the fact that they do not pair to their rejection by their normally coloured comrades. [1]
- To be told that he is light- coloured, or like a white man, would be deemed a very poor compliment by a Kaffir. [1]
- My mother often spent the day in the scrolled suburban cottage with the coloured glass front door where he lived with the Kinleys and Helen.... [9]
- In some tropical species the lower surface is even more brilliantly coloured than the upper. [1]
- There are twenty-six species belonging to fifteen genera, which manifestly have their plumage coloured in a protective manner; and this colouring is all the more striking, as with most of these birds it differs from that of their congeners. [1]
- All round the side of the room were set coloured lights, shaded and dim. [11]
- Surrounding Victoria were several clean-looking, freckled, and tanned young men of undergraduate age wearing straw hats with coloured ribbons, who showed every eagerness to obey and even anticipate the orders she did not hesitate to give them. [9]
- He had never seen it with his eyes, but if he had seen it he would have realized how like herself it was--adorably fresh, happily coloured, sumptuous and fine. [11]
- As we shall see later, the nests of humming-birds, and the playing passages of bower-birds are tastefully ornamented with gaily- coloured objects; and this shews that they must receive some kind of pleasure from the sight of such things. [1]
- A tinge of scorn coloured her remarks concerning him at that time, but here also her heart had its share. [10]
- The foregoing remarks relate to the secondary wing-feathers, but the primary wing-feathers, which in most gallinaceous birds are uniformly coloured, are in the Argus pheasant equally wonderful. [1]
- Local customs were pronounced and crude in outline; language was often highly coloured, and action was occasionally accentuated by a pistol shot. [11]
- Besides these cases, pigeons which are sometimes brightly, and almost always conspicuously coloured, and which are notoriously liable to the attacks of birds of prey, offer a serious exception to the rule, for they almost always build open and exposed nests. [1]
- Magnificent coloured mosaic pictures covered the floor and many flat spaces above door and windows, but gold and silver had been sparingly used. [10]
- In our British Phasgonura viridissima it appeared to me that the serrated nervure is rubbed against the rounded hind-corner of the opposite wing, the edge of which is thickened, coloured brown, and very sharp. [1]
- As the central part alone is confluent, an indentation is left at both the upper and lower ends; and the surrounding coloured zones are likewise indented. [1]
- The light streamed on it through the coloured window--a window, where the boughs of trees were ever rustling in the summer, and where the birds sang sweetly all day long. [12]
- But the breast of the Polyplectron is obscurely coloured, and the ocelli are not confined to the tail-feathers. [1]
- Thus the young of some members of the kingfisher family are not only less vividly coloured than the adults, but many of the feathers on the lower surface are edged with brown (27. [1]
- Even the colour of our beards seems to have been inherited from an ape-like progenitor; for when there is any difference in tint between the hair of the head and the beard, the latter is lighter coloured in all monkeys and in man. [1]
- But the moths of certain families, such as the Zygaenidae, several Sphingidae, Uraniidae, some Arctiidae and Saturniidae, fly about during the day or early evening, and many of these are extremely beautiful, being far brighter coloured than the strictly nocturnal kinds. [1]
- In many groups of birds the plumage is differently coloured in the several species, yet certain spots, marks, or stripes are retained by all. [1]
- Most Moths rest motionless during the whole or greater part of the day with their wings depressed; and the whole upper surface is often shaded and coloured in an admirable manner, as Mr. Wallace has remarked, for escaping detection. [1]
- The comb of many gallinaceous birds is highly ornamental, and assumes vivid colours during the act of courtship; but what are we to think of the dull- coloured comb of the condor, which does not appear to us in the least ornamental? [1]
- Honora coloured a little, and said "yes. [9]
- He coloured a little under his tan. [9]
- At that moment little coloured lights suddenly showed in the darkness of the root-house, and there was the tinkling of a bell. [11]
- This white shade itself is not as yet much concentrated; and beneath it the surface is brighter coloured than in a perfect ball-and-socket ocellus. [1]
- The city, with its throng of steeples, was surrounded by a damp vapour which the reflection of the sun coloured with a faint, scarcely perceptible roseate hue. [10]
- Another remarkable peculiarity is that when the great canine teeth are fully developed, immense protuberances of bone are formed on each cheek, which are deeply furrowed longitudinally, and the naked skin over them is brilliantly- coloured, as just-described. [1]
- This inner part is coloured of a lighter chestnut, and is thickly dotted with minute white points. [1]
- Hence we may infer that these nine species, and probably all the others of the genus, are descended from an ancestral form which was coloured in nearly the same manner. [1]
- She was wont, indeed, to pause outside for a moment, her quick eye encompassing the coloured prints of red and yellow jellies cast in rounded moulds, decked with slices of orange, the gaudy boxes of cereals and buckwheat flour, the "Brookfield" eggs in packages. [9]
- The walls were hung with Flanders Gobelin tapestry, whose coloured pictures represented woodland landscapes and hunters. [10]
- The naked parts, however, of certain Quadrumana must be excepted; for such parts, often oddly situated, are brilliantly coloured in some species. [1]
- Detricand put down his knife and fork in amazement, and Guida coloured, for the words sounded almost profane upon the chevalier's lips. [11]
- Shorter, cheerfully finishing his chartreuse, and fixing his eye on one of the coloured lithographs of lean horses on Cecil Grainger's wall. [9]
- The persistent rains had ceased, a dazzling sunlight made that beautiful countryside as bright as a coloured picture post-card, but a riotous cold gale was blowing; yet all wore cotton trousers that left their knees as bare as Highlanders' kilts. [9]
- Nevertheless, as a general rule, the upper surface, which is probably more fully exposed, is coloured more brightly and diversely than the lower. [1]
- Now came twelve French gentlemen, in splendid habiliments, consisting of pourpoints of white damask barred with gold, short mantles of crimson velvet lined with violet taffeta, and carnation coloured hauts-de-chausses, and took their way down the steps. [5]
- He raised from fifty to sixty white and brown piebald rabbits in a large walled orchard; and he had at the same time some similarly coloured cats in his house. [1]
- I observed this fact in the Zoological Gardens; and many cases may be seen in the coloured plates in Geoffroy St.-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 'Histoire Nat. [1]
- We have in England instances in the kingfisher, some woodpeckers, the jay, magpie, crow, and many small dull- coloured birds, such as the hedge-warbler or kitty-wren. [1]
- I always looked, during these excruciating and personal moments, at the coloured glass bottle. [9]
- As I started down on them, the coloured fire flew up, making the room all blue and scarlet for a moment, in which I must have looked devilish indeed, with staring eyes, and outstretched chalky hands, and wailing cries coming from my robe. [11]
- Over her fell dim, coloured lights from the stained- glass windows; and shadowy ancestors looked silently down from the armour-hung walls. [11]
- These species are described with coloured figures, by M. F. Pollen, in 'Ibis,' 1866, p. [1]
- Unwittingly she over- coloured the picture, and he knew she did. [11]
- Many beetles are coloured so as to resemble the surfaces which they habitually frequent, and they thus escape detection by their enemies. [1]
- Yet what viciously coloured reports might reach him from the Eysvogels! [10]
- Was it the coloured rays from the ruby eyes of the dragon in the fireplace which shed the roseate glow on Cleopatra's cheeks? [10]
- A bit of coloured glass which one could buy in the street for a trifle, and a few brown drops of some stuff which no one knows the use of, now that the directions are burned. [10]
- Many species are coloured either in so extraordinary or so beautiful a manner, and are furnished with such curious and elegant crests of hair, that we can hardly avoid looking at these characters as having been gained for the sake of ornament. [1]
- The sky was coloured a vivid scarlet in two places, but the glow was brightest towards the southeastern part of the city, where St. Klarengasse must be. [10]
- The Satin bower-bird collects gaily- coloured articles, such as the blue tail-feathers of parrakeets, bleached bones and shells, which it sticks between the twigs or arranges at the entrance. [1]
- As her voice came forth she coloured, her cheeks expanded, and the words sallied out in puffs: "Nannin, Jean, you smell shark when it is but herring. [11]
- In regard to birds which live on the ground, every one admits that they are coloured so as to imitate the surrounding surface. [1]
- The offer had been made when Louise was standing in the doorway; but the old man did not notice that Louise coloured in sympathy with the flush in Orlando's face. [11]
- Certain ornamental appendages become enlarged, turgid, and brightly coloured during the act of courtship. [1]
- It would naturally be thought that this would be a source of danger; but Mr. J. Jenner Weir believes that it actually serves them as a means of escape, for birds strike at these brightly coloured and fragile surfaces, instead of at the body. [1]
- I may specify, as instances of dull- coloured birds building concealed nests, the species belonging to eight Australian genera described in Gould's 'Handbook of the Birds of Australia,' vol. [1]
- Some species, which are manifestly coloured for the sake of protection, such as the jack-snipe, woodcock, and night-jar, are likewise marked and shaded, according to our standard of taste, with extreme elegance. [1]
- As the Heliconidae are coloured in their usual manner, whilst the others depart from the usual colouring of the groups to which they belong, it is clear that the latter are the imitators, and the Heliconidae the imitated. [1]
- The young of Ardea rufescens and A. caerulea of the United States are likewise white, the adults being coloured in accordance with their specific names. [1]
- See Dr. Murie's account with coloured figures in 'Proceedings, Zoological Society,' 1872, p. [1]
- And she recalled a picture in the window of Hartmann's book-store, a coloured print before which she used to stop on her way to and from the office, the copy of a landscape by a California artist. [9]
- So he grew a beard, put on coloured glasses, disguised himself a little in other ways, then took a fictitious name, and went off to wander about the earth in peace. [5]
- I went to a ball at Lord Stanley's, a mixture of French horns and clarionets and coloured glass lanthorns and candles in gilt vases, and young ladies pouring tea in white, and musicians in red, and draperies and flowers ad libitum. [9]
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