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Example sentences for "bright colours"

  • Wooden houses of all ages cluster about it, the wood of some painted in bright colours, pink or ochre, or others left to be coloured by time and climate, ranging from warm purple greys to the strongest burnt Sienna.

  • This is a Bohemian settlement, where you may see women unveiled and dressed in tattered garments of bright colours, and little brown children wearing nothing but a coat of dust acquired in their researches on the road.

  • There are open spaces too, where groups of people, gay patches of bright colours, disport themselves: a game of football is no unusual sight here.

  • A loose calico jacket of bright colours (cherry and pink being preferred) is worn over it, open at the throat and waist.

  • The natives were lying about the street, wrapped in their striped blankets, or in plaids and tartans of bright colours, which covered them from head to foot.

  • We passed through two gateways, and then were beneath the castellated walls, where under the protection of each battlement is a row of glazed tiles of bright colours, in blue and green.

  • They are built of small panels of wood arranged in more or less ornamental patterns, and are usually painted in bright colours, and have, also, a big hood which can be put up as a protection from the rain.

  • Around their big clumsy wooden collars, which are usually painted in bright colours, was draped a dark blue sheepskin blanket.

  • Huge columns of prodigious height upbore the blue ceiling studded with stars like the heavens; innumerable lines of hieroglyphs ascended and descended along the walls between the panels of symbolic frescoes painted in bright colours.

  • In the midst of green fields whence rose the aigrettes of the dôm palms, showed in bright colours houses of pleasaunce, palaces, and summer homes surrounded by sycamores and mimosas.

  • A head-band of bright colours in the shape of a crown, and from which hangs a veil passing under the chin, forms their head-dress.

  • Their head-dress consists of a handkerchief in bright colours, rolled around the head and rising to a point: strongly reminding the observer of the turban worn by Eastern nations.

  • Many adorned their arms or breasts with heavy chains of gold, or clothed themselves in tissues of bright colours, analogous to the Scotch tartan.

  • As bright colours are of service to the males in their rivalry with other males, such colours would be selected whether or not they were transmitted exclusively to the same sex.

  • I have sometimes speculated whether the prevailing dull tints of the scenery in the above named countries may not have affected the appreciation of bright colours by the birds inhabiting them.

  • As bright colours are of service to the males in their rivalry with other males, such colours would be selected, whether or not they were transmitted exclusively to the same sex.

  • Men accustomed to a nearly oval face, to straight and regular features, and to bright colours, admire, as we Europeans know, these points when strongly developed.

  • They do not go about in bright colours by any means.

  • In the shop windows of the Boulevards, and along the Avenue of the Opera are no bright colours--excepting for men's uniforms.

  • Bright colours in the war distinguish the men.

  • Seats had not been forgotten, and the high-backed chairs and broad benches were supplied with comfortable cushions of bright colours.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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