Dyed

Examples

• The red ball is dyed after seasoning, and at the time of final turning called finishing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When yarn is dyed, the coloring matter penetrates to every part of the fiber, and hence the patterns formed by the weaving together of well-dyed yarns are very fast to light and water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As if his whole career and character were not being dyed one colour! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If magenta is replaced by other artificial dyes,--for example, scarlets,--the result is similar; in general, wool material absorbs dye readily, and uniting with it is permanently dyed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Rawdon himself trembled, and his face grew purple behind his dyed mustachios. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My notions are dyed in faster colours than yours, Joe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Colours dyed in this way become fixed, and no soap or lye will ever wash them out. Plato. The Republic.
• One horse, a purplish black, Crowell swore was dyed that color. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• A little walnut bark has made my yellow skin a genteel brown, and I've dyed my hair black; so you see I don't answer to the advertisement at all. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But the varied uses to which dyed articles are put make fastness of color absolutely necessary. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The bed was adorned with the same rich tapestry, and surrounded with curtains dyed with purple. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She pointed to a wide arch corresponding to the window, and hung like it with a Tyrian-dyed curtain, now looped up. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His face turned black, the gore rushed from his mouth and nose, and dyed the grass a deep, dark red, as he staggered and fell. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The river was dyed, he says, with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He now stood, a most sinister phantom, half his person being dyed of the deepest tint of indigo, leaning on the desk. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And that feather I know she got dyed a pale lavender on purpose to be consistent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Others, dyed in another manner, cost a thousand denarii the pound weight, or ?33:6s:8d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And you will hardly see them in any public place without a shabby companion in a dyed silk, sitting somewhere in the shade close behind them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Editor: Sidney