While on the plant the fruit is not appreciated, but after the bunch has been hung for a week or so and the first fruits are changing colour the bird is enthusiastic.
The activities of the mantle, a blending of enticingcolour and poetic motion, were slow, free, and light-attracting.
About half a mile away we saw one of them, who appeared to be a bit lighter in colour than the rest, stand up in the bow and wave a kind of message.
The verge of a lagoon was crowded with active and lusty creatures, belonging, ifcolour was to be accepted as evidence, to different species, in fairly equal numbers.
The clean-cut shadow crept up the rock, and with it the colour splash receded.
In the prime of life the wood of the bin-gum is of pale straw colour with a faint pinkish tinge, and tough though light.
When cold, take them out of the moulds, brush over with egg and bread crumbs, and fry in boiling oil until a nice golden colour (about three minutes).
The colour also is good, which is not the case when they are boiled in their skins, and the taste is delicious.
Place them in a saucepan with the stock and simmer five minutes; by this time the browncolour will have boiled off the potatoes into the soup.
Paper of a light colour and a large flowing arabesque pattern with a broad frieze covered the walls.
In colour it should be of a beautiful white: that which is inclinable to blue or yellow is worth nothing; its taste should be sweet, without any bitterness or sourness.
There are also wild cows of a dark chesnut colour in many parts of Barbary, and in the deserts of Numidia; they are small, run fast, and frequently keep in flocks of one or two hundred together.
In coupling horses the colour and height should be attended to; the shapes should be contrasted, the race should be mixed with opposite climates, and horses and mares bred in the same stud should never be coupled together.
All which seem in their colour as if they were washed or ill-coloured should be banished from the breed, as well as those which have white extremities.
What appears to favour this idea is, that horses vary much more than asses in their colour; they have consequently been longer domestic, since all domestic animals vary much more in their colour than wild ones of the same species.
A cathedral must either be plain or coloured, and Chichester comes short of both ideals; it has no colour and no purity.
Thus may ye change the colour and taste of any Apple.
First ye shall take water and mingle yourcolour therewith, then stop it up again with a short pin made of the same wood or tree, then wax it round about.
Ye may mingle with the said colour what spice ye list, to make them taste thereafter.
They have strong mouths, and eyes identical in shape and colour with those of the Yezo Ainu.
Thus weather has toned down the light yellow colour of the new wood, which is so offensive to the eye in a landscape, and is so common in all Japanese villages of Yezo.
The skin and eyes are the same colouras with the Yezo Ainu.
It does not keep so well, and in colouris much lighter than our salmon.
Owing to its light colour it is visible even at night.
Colour of skin (in parts not exposed to air)--light reddish slightly tending towards brown, but almost as light as with Europeans.
The cold bluish colour of the rocks became gradually warmer; and, as the light grew stronger, the tops of the cliffs turned into a mass of brilliant colours.
In the sheltered water, which was as smooth as a mirror, the dark rich colour of the overhanging rocks, caressed by the last warm rays of the dying sun, was reflected with absolute fidelity and almost increased loveliness.
The high cliffs varied from a very rich burnt sienna colour to a nice warm grey, and in some places they are perfectly white, like the cliffs at Dover.
The natural colour of the elm-fibre thread is dark yellow, and the black lines are composed of the same thread stained.
The vins de Bar have long been reckoned a delicacy, more particularly the clairet--a variety having a colour half-way between red and white.
Beer lends itscolour to the faces of the inhabitants, to their hair, to their clothes; to the soil and the houses; and the very women seem nothing but "walking chopes.
Thus Sally; and her mother sees, or thinks she sees, a little new colour in the girl's cheeks.
Conrad could manage such a colour as that; I thought he was pallid and studious.
And, further, that Sally was at every point of the compass--that she was in the phosphorescence of the sea, and the still golden colour of the rising moon.
Unity is just as intrinsic a quality of a first husband as the colour of his eyes or hair.
Can ye take off the sweetness from the flower, The colour and the sweetness from the rose, And place them by themselves?
His face was deeper sunk in the lines than I have yet seen it, but the colour was better than I expected--a dark brown, instead of the dead, tallowy colour which I have sometimes seen.
Then she let her hands fall, and her hat blew backward, and she stood quite still and quite speechless, her colour coming and going, all a woman's softest witchery beaming in her eyes.
She stood listening to him with wide-open eyes, and lips dropping a little apart, every particle of colour fled from them.
The hope and the object gave a new colour to her life.
A fine open-air colour was in their faces; they had that confident manner which great physical strength imparts, and that air of conscious pride which is born in lords of the soil.
But the weirdly coloured blotches that made it a pinto were unlike any colour of living hide; and the pinto seemed to feel it.
Patches of darkness already filled the forest, but a late sun filtered through the tree tops in the thinner spaces and wove a pattern of colour on the brown leaves and dead green moss, the slender spruce needles and straight-standing trunks.
Tag ends of clothing hung to him, and from head to foot he was the colour of earth.
In colour it was of a sombre violet-blue, tinged in places with a ruddy hue.
In shape it was cylindrical, and of a colour that could not be discovered in the fitful moonlight.
That different races intermingled in the fighting is indubitable; but the difference consists in dress and other details; not in the colour of their skins.
But Leonard noticed it not to-day; his heart beat fast, and his colour came and went, for something in Monella's manner told him that he was about to hear a statement of moment on the subject that was always uppermost in his thoughts.
Gradually her head sank until it rested on her hand; her colour deepened, she made no reply, but still gazed pensively into the water.
The colour in the girl's cheek grew deeper; and now she turned her glance again upon the landscape that lay sleeping in the morning sunlight.
His royal colour was red, as the king's to-day is blue; and these red tunics are for his soldiers.
And behold there sprung up on the face of the earth a new race of people called Adullamites, who were like unto their namesakes of old, a dissatisfied and two-faced people, and like the camelon could change their colour at will.
He was an artist, and used to go out to sell his water-colour drawings.
The old fellow was wiping his brow with a large handkerchief, whose brilliant colour supplied a sudden festive tinge to the proceedings.
It spoke of that "diligent and agreeable painter whose work we have come to look on as typical of the best late-Victorian water-colour art.
The colour had deepened in her thin, oval face, with its straight brows, and large, grey eyes.
The colour in old Jolyon's eyes deepened; he paid his guinea.
In rude health and small omnibuses, with considerable colour in their cheeks, they arrived daily from the various termini.
But the Goya copy answered not, brilliant in colour just beginning to tone down.
His cab stopped in front of a small house of that peculiar buff colour which implies a long immunity from paint.
A little brighter in the eye, with rather more colourthan usual in his cheeks, he took his seat in the drawing-room to wait for the sound of the front-door bell.
Its colour was not the colour of convention, was hardly colour at all; its shapes were brooding yet distinct; its silence stunning; it had no scent.
Her hair, brushed in fine, high curves back from her forehead, was going grey, like his own, and this greyness made the sudden vivid colour in her cheeks painfully pathetic.
The one in front, habited entirely in red, had large, settled patches of the samecolour in her cheeks, and a hard, dashing eye.
Neither the course of the world, nor the appearance of colour is in real being, but is owing to the relative combination of things).
It exhibits the ash colour in ashes, and shows the particles in the dust of the earth; it shows the sableness of all swarthy things, and flashes in the whiteness of the glittering blade.
As a piece of crystal does not receive or emit any other colour in its reflexion, excepting that of its pure whiteness; so the spiritualist is not imbued with the tinge of the effects of his actions.
The soul is not soiled by impurity, as a pure gold is not spoiled by dirt; and though it may sometimes appear to be tarnished as copper, yet it soon resumes its colour after its dirt is cleansed or burnt away.
They were quite undisturbed by the scarcely complimentary remarks of the Burghers, who compared them in number and colour and appetite to a swarm of locusts!
Even thecolour of the darkness in east and west gave him unspoken hints of designs nefarious--secrets or prophetic warnings of movements to be.
Then came the foreign attaches, some war-correspondents, and Lord Roberts' Indian servants, who contributed a warm note of colour to the sombre files of kharki.
He wore a cloak of green that reached down almost to his heels, and its colour blended with the silvery surface of the desert's dark sea-tint.
She looked well and had country colour in her cheeks.
He recognised, too, that the elements themselves, with all their chaos of might and terror, were after all but servants of the Vastness which dips the butterflies in colour and puts down upon the breasts of little robins.
The boy's cheeks flushed, so that thecolour and the fire in his eyes made him positively splendid.
She looked uncomfortable and ashamed; the colour came and went a moment in her cheeks, making me think of a child detected in some secret naughtiness.
An Arab on his donkey tripped in colour across the mind, melting off into tiny perspective, strangely vivid.
There was a change in him, a lack; a note was missing in his enthusiasm, a colour in the voice, a quality in his manner.
And even this skilful touch is made subordinate to the warm red colour of the tablecloth, which lends the picture an additional depth.
He knew that the play of light and shade on the colour would help him out.
Although Frans Hals impressed me more than any other painter with the power with which he wielded the brush, even he was put in the shade by Rembrandt's unsurpassable colour effects.
The slaughter of the unfortunate Allan Breack had given a different colour to Hamish's offence; for the deceased was much beloved, and besides belonged to a numerous and powerful clan, of whom there were many in the ranks.
A silk or satin gown of some colour becoming her age, and of a form which, though complying to a certain degree with the present fashion, had always a reference to some more distant period, was garnished with triple ruffles.
You cannot tell by the colour the difference betwixt the blood of a black bullock and a white one, and you speak of knowing Saxon from Gaelic blood.
But it was a calumny; for when telling or listening to an interesting and affecting story, I have seen her colour come and go as if it played on the cheek of eighteen.
It is not a large bird, and its colourvaries with the season of the year.
They often assume the colour of blood, and make a most dreadful appearance.
It is covered with short coarse thick hair, which varies in itscolour with the different ages of the animal.
The colour of the whale varies with its age; the back of some being black, of others black and white, and some are all white; under jaw and belly generally white, whatever may be their age.
The window was not forty years old, and the colour was but a ghost of what colour might be.
The winter air has set a colour in the girls' cheeks, to be heightened presently by the instructed ardour with which they follow the doings of their cousins and brothers, or cousins' and brothers' friends.
Nor could one turn from the subject, and find consolation in its colour or history.
And so there's plenty of water, is there, and the colour has been just right?
Then the breeze stirred rather more briskly overhead and the colour was flashed into the air above, into the eyes of the men and women who walk in Kew Gardens in July.
Many of the ships of Phoenicia and Egypt displayed an Eastern profusion of colour in their painted upper works, their gilded bows, and their bright flags and streamers.
The ships were painted a dull black, but had a large amount of gilding and colour on their bows, upper works, and deck-houses, and they were all dressed with flags.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
