The beautiful face within the framing scarf was colorless with a great fear, save only the crimson lips, of which the bow was bent tremulously as she spoke her prayer.
The blood in fishes is thin and pale red (colorless in the lancelet) and with elliptical blood-corpuscles.
Others have colorless oil which may be of various consistencies.
And slowly up into his colorless face crept a blighted look, a look which brought a vague yet vast unhappiness to me as I sat contemplating it.
The sight of his colorless and unhappy face with that indescribable homeless-dog look in his eyes was too much for me.
This was the colorless beginning of a friendship that was destined speedily to be full of tender lights and shadows, and to flow on with unsuspected depth.
The Master of Stair leaned back in his chair; above his red gown his colorless face showed of a ghastly pallor.
The door slipped from Delia’s fingers; she moved back and lifted a colorless face.
The pale cheeks, languid eyes, and almost colorless lips which we more often see, indicate weakly constitutions and delicate health, and prophesy a short and suffering life to many.
Unnatural paleness and colorless lips, unless they can be otherwise accounted for, may be attributed to secret sin.
In its most general sense, the term microbe designates certain colorless algæ belonging to the family Bacteriaceæ, the principal forms of which are known under the name of Micrococcus.
She could reign on any throne in Europe and stand out as conspicuous in brilliant contrast to that colorless royalty as a torch flaming among candles.
Oxford after this assembly of frank opinions and incarnate enthusiasms seemed a colorless shelter for unfledged reactionaries, a nursery of callow men in the street.
Only the cheerful and charitable soul sees through a clear and colorless medium, whose transparency shows the world as it is.
A colorless character is as unsatisfactory as a colorless landscape.
His colorless face betrayed no sign; his black eyes, quietly observant, glanced indifferently past the legal gentleman, and rested on the much more pleasing features of his neighbor.
But, for the first time in his life, he staggered to his feet, utterly unnerved and abashed, and for the first time in his life the hot blood crimsoned his colorless cheeks to his forehead.
When he tilted his head a little to one side he could see Bill Grey's heavy colorless face and the dark bristles of his unshaven chin and his mouth a little twisted to the left, from which a cigarette dangled unlighted.
III Chrisfield's eyes were fixed on the leaves at the tops of the walnut trees, etched like metal against the bright colorless sky, edged with flicks and fringes of gold where the sunlight struck them.
The colorless hypothecium is composed of very densely and compactly interwoven hyphæ.
But not for mine," she said in the same colorless tone.
She made no outward demonstration or complaint; but her colorless face, contracted brow, and the wild look in her eyes betrayed but too plainly that her suffering was excruciating.
He startled back appalled, when, as he entered her parlor, she turned her wan, colorless face toward him.
A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having and odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.
It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide.
A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; Ð formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.
A colorlesscrystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc.
A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet.
This it converts into the comparatively colorless peroxide.
Potash alum is obtained tolerably pure in commerce in colorless transparent crystalline masses, having an acid, sweetish, astringent taste.
Jenny debated for a moment whether to bury an old wax doll with colorless face and fragile baby-robes of lawn--a valuable old doll, the plaything in childhood of the wife of Frederick Horner, the chemist.
These negotiations with domesticity drove her headlong into a more passionate pursuit of folly, so that, with the colorless shadow of mere matrimony filling her soul, her clutch upon the sweet present became more feverish.
As Jenny faded into the mist, the boy hammered his farewells upon the window-pane; and for awhile in the colorless air she saw his rosy cheeks burning like lamps, or like the love for him in her own heart.
It will be more to my present humor to call back a little glimpse of the simple and colorless good times we used to have in our village homes in those peaceful daysespecially in the winter.
