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Example sentences for "coloure"

Lexicographically close words:
colour; colourable; colourably; colouration; colourd; coloured; colourful; colouring; colourings; colourist
  1. Frenshe partie undre the umbre and coloure of trewis late taken betwyxt youre antecessoure king Harry the sext then named king, and youre grete adversarie of Fraunce Charles the vij^{the}.

  2. An euill spirite cloaketh his erroures vnder the coloure of diuine seruice, and vnder the pretence of religiƍ, he endeuoureth to ouerthrow religion.

  3. But I saye that the olde heathens myghte wyth more coloure of truithe / excuse and defende their sacrifices by that maner / then these men maye do their masse.

  4. The executioner attendinge for commaundement to do his office, and lifting vp his sworde to do the fact, the king desired to see the countenaunce of Ariobarzanes, who neuer chaunged coloure for all that terrour of death.

  5. Lo howe you be deceiued Gentlewoman" (quod Gracian) "for vnder coloure of dissymulate seruice, he and sutch as he is doe abuse the simplicity of young Gentlewomen.

  6. And therefore not able to revoke the words hee had spoken of the fall, nor by any meanes coulde coloure the same, hee thought to saue the good name of another by his owne hurt.

  7. But if mishap will haue it so, and that some ill lucke doe discouer our dealinges, I haue shift of wayes to coloure it, and power to stop the mouthes of them that dare presume to clatter and haue to do with our priuate conference.

  8. Right as the fressh[e] rodi rose nwe Of hir coloure to wexin she bigan'; T.

  9. Kyndely heven, whan mery +weder is a-lofte, apereth in mannes 45 eye of coloure in blewe, stedfastnesse in pees betokening within and without.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    coloured clothes; coloured coat; coloured flowers; coloured frontispiece; coloured glass; coloured hair; coloured paper; coloured people; coloured silk; coloured silks; coloured velvet