Coloured

Examples

• Miss Bart coloured slowly. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She reproached herself, coloured, and looked fearfully towards her father and mother. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He had a broad straw hat on, with a violet-coloured ribbon round it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It presently dawned upon Mr. Briggs as a richly coloured and creditable fact he had hitherto not observed, that the sun never set on his dominions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is evident the idea of darkness is no positive idea, but merely the negation of light, or more properly speaking, of coloured and visible objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A fine full-coloured young woman, Mr Clennam, with very dark hair and very dark eyes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• With heart drawn fine, Gerald stepped into the hall, whose floor was of coloured tiles, went quickly and looked into the large, pleasant room. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As she sat down, her eyes once again encountered those of the gallant beadle; she coloured, and applied herself to the task of making his tea. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She recovered herself instantly, coloured for a moment--and then, with a charming frankness, offered me her hand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The brush being dipped into the coloured matter, the comb is passed over the brush in such manner as to cause the paint to spatter the object with fine drops or particles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was a modern building, without distinctive character, but many-windowed, and pleasantly balconied up its wide cream-coloured front. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It was a wax-coloured model of my friend, so admirably done that it was a perfect facsimile. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is beneath a human being's dignity to dress himself in parti-coloured garments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Typist: Sam