Neither she nor the Queen had the least doubt that the stranger was Cuthbert Langston, who had been employed as an agent of hers for many years past; his insignificant stature and colourless features eminently fitting him for it.
His small stature, colourless complexion, and insignificant features, rendered him almost a blank block, capable of assuming any variety of disguise.
All that life was ended; and he bore it no more ill-will or good-will than a man bears to a colourless dream of the night.
Her doubts were soon set at rest by the sight of his thin face and almost colourless beard, in the distance, as the servant opened the door of the drawing-room.
I afterwards scraped some off the paper, and found that it consisted of groups of little spheres in colourless cases, each of the thousandth part of an inch in diameter.
If the voltaic experiment be continued for one or two months, the crystals, from beingcolourless and limpid, become violet, and ultimately acquire an emerald green hue, still remaining transparent.
The tentacles are conical, almost colourless and transparent, with the exception of the deep-brown warts scattered irregularly over them, and are tipped by rounded white heads.
The upper branches are plumed, and their tips bear very fine colourless filaments.
Before raising the upper mantle lobe we observe the heart, on the dorsal margin of the body, near the hinge of the shell, situated in a transparent cavity (the pericardium) containing a colourless fluid.
We have figured one marine species, belonging to the genus Evadne, which has a colourless body, and a single conspicuous black eye, and is interesting as being the food of the herring.
It is a colourless liquid, and should be considerably diluted for use, a two per cent.
Nitrogen forms a transparent colourless liquid, having a density of 0.
Sullen, colourless veldt, radiant in a few short hours with the first outposts of its coming spring glory.
The best variety of double transfer paper only differs from the finest form of single transfer paper in having on its surface a rather thicker and softer coating of colourless gelatine.
We regard the sunlight as colourlessbecause it forms, as it were, the background on which all other colours are depicted.
The fact is, that white is so far from being colourless that it contains every known hue blended together in certain proportions.
I afterwards scraped some off the paper, and found that it consisted of groups of little spheres in colourless cases, each the thousandth part of an inch in diameter.
Thus a coloured ion which gets in front of the advancing boundary finds itself acted on by a smaller force and falls back into line, while a straggling colourless ion is pushed forward again.
The coloured ions are specifically slower than the colourless ions which they follow, and in this case it follows that the coloured solution has a higher resistance than the colourless.
Steele has shown that with these sharp boundaries the use of coloured ions is unnecessary, the junction line being visible owing to the difference in the optical refractive indices of twocolourless solutions.
For the same current, therefore, the potential gradient is higher in the coloured solution and lower in the colourless one.
The Mudir licked his dry, colourless lips, and gasped, for he might make an outcry, but he saw that Dicky would be quicker.
In contrast with Eve's colourless composure, his appearance was decidedly bacchanalian; but the thought merely amused him.
A ray of yellow sunset touched the height and its crowning ruin; at the zenith shone a space of pure pale blue save for these points of relief the picture was colourless and uniformly sombre.
Many of these are colourless bodies containing the Amidogen group NH{2}, which imparts to them basic properties enabling them to combine with solids to form salts, and these salts have a strong colouring power.
Him in their hands four of his barons took, He looked to the earth, saw lying his nephew; All colourless his lusty body grew, He turned his eyes, were very shadowful.
With this he took out first a spoonful of the violet powder, which he dropped into the end of one of the cigars which he had purposely left open, the thin end; then a spoonful of the colourless liquid, which he dropped on to the powder.
In one division was a colourless liquid, in the other a powder of a vivid violet hue.
Although she did not yet open her eyes, a faint smile dawned upon the colourless lips, and her cold, trembling, little fingers feebly returned the tender pressure of de Sigognac's warm hands.
Beside her June's young peach-bloom prettiness faded into something colourless and insignificant.
All the above colourless glaze masses may be coloured with combinations of the various metallic oxides, or from 3 to 7 or even 10 per cent of glaze stains or under-glaze colours.
A hard, colourless crystalline element; found pure, as in quartz, or in combination with alumina and alkalies, as in all clays.
The colour mass or stain is ground fine and lawned, and from about 2 to 7 per cent mixed with the colourless glaze mass, according to the depth of colour required.
Even in the midst of the emotional crisis, Angelica's manner had not lost a trace of its charming self-possession, its rather colourless sweetness.
In one vivid instant, with a single piercing flash of insight, the other woman seemed to look straight through that soft feminine body to Mrs. Blackburn's thin and colourless soul.
She was not in her room," began Angelica in her clear, colourless voice.
There was no chance of sleep, for the sense of isolation, which had attacked him like physical pain while he drove home with Angelica, seemed to make his chaotic memories the only living things in a chill and colourless universe.
She spoke in a flat, colourless voice, as if she had passed beyond the sphere of life in which either surprises or disappointments are possible.
It had never occurred to him before, accustomed as he was to the formal loveliness of Angelica, that the same woman could be both plain and beautiful, both colourless and vivid.
In Caroline's narrow and colourless life, so rich in character, so barren of incident, this sympathy was unfolding like some rare and exquisite blossom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colourless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
