Nobody carried a flag, unless you would except the colour bearers, who bore their colours furled about the staffs and protected inside of tarpaulin holsterings.
Every three years the fancy repeats itself in the same sequence and the same cycle, so that the trinity of the national colours may be preserved.
He pointed his pencil toward a thatched cottage over whose crooked lines and mottled colours a painter would rave.
And their steady blue ranks, and those of the four white regiments beside them, with bayonets fixed and colours flying, did indeed look fit and ready for the fray.
But after a gallant fight the Echo had to haul down her colours to the Juno and the Sutherland.
He cast a glance at his brother, standing straight and proudly with the regimental colours that he himself had carried past the king at Blackheath the year before.
We may be sure that Wolfe thought little enough of such mean people as he stepped out with the coloursflying above his head.
Either she or Quebec, or both, might have false colours flying.
Little did anybody think that the tall, eager ensign carrying the colours of the 12th past His Majesty was the man who was to play the foremost part in winning Canada for the British crown.
There was a thrilling scene at Louisbourg as regiment after regiment marched down to the shore, with drums beating, bugles sounding, and colours flying.
The redcoats were in dense columns, their bayonets flashing and their colours waving defiance.
Now here they were, the pick of the Army and Navy, off with Wolfe to raise thosecolours over Quebec, the most important military point on the whole continent.
Gum tragacanth is used in calico-printing as a thickener of colours and mordants; in medicine as a demulcent and vehicle for insoluble powders, and as an excipient in pills; and for setting and mending beetles and other insect specimens.
This formidable vessel had subsequently to haul down her colours before the Monitor--in a figurative sense, that is, for she did not actually surrender, but retreated after a contest of some hours.
Already they could see the line of carriages and the brilliant colours of the crowd assembled to meet the boat.
Some smaller craft had left the town landing and gone forward to salute the new boat, waving colours and blowing their whistles with royal welcome.
But to describe the infinite (as I may so say) variety of the colours of the flowers and to give each his true distinction and denomination it passeth my ability I confesse, and I thinke would grauell the best experienced in Europe.
The Colours of every part are minutely described; for Utility it must be esteemed to any Hortus Siccus extant.
I looked out of the windows on to the square which four months before I had seen crowded with people bedecked with the Allies' colours and eagerly buying the latest editions containing the communiqués of hollow optimism.
Of course we could not take our colours into action," said Niven.
One, a big sergeant-major, towered over the others; he had the colours of the South African campaign on the breast of his worn khaki blouse and stood very straight as if on parade.
It begins on the platform at Victoria Station, with the khaki of officers and men, returning from leave, relieved by the warmer colours of women who have come to say good-bye to those they love.
So he looked at their beauty and loveliness and the contrast of their colours and praised Almighty Allah and glorified Him.
Who filled his dish, With flaky form in varying colours spread On the round pastry cake of household bread!
Moreover, in whiteness are many excellences; for instance, the snow falleth white from heaven, and it is traditional-that the beautifullest of a colours white.
I had never, of course, seen so many collected before, and it was a pretty sight to watch them and to note their different colours and characteristics.
One morning a party of soldiers showing Red colours galloped up unexpectedly and took Severo prisoner, with a view to making him serve in the Government forces.
It occurs in varying colours and forms--sickly green and grey, bronze and yellow, brown and pink.
The colours differ, and they also vary in intensity in individuals.
Conspicuous, daring colours here are as common as on the lawn of a race course.
Picture a moss-rose with the "moss" all the colours of the rainbow, on which the light plays and sparkles, and you have an idea of the effect of the jewellery of this lustrous crustacean.
The colours flaunted are true, perfect and pure, however cunningly, however boldly by their means admiration is challenged.
When the fish is drawn from the water the colours live, the play of lights being marvellously lovely.
He is a handsome fellow, the ruling colours being glossy black, brown and reddish chestnut.
Our blacks are exceedingly fond of dress; the more glaring and clashing the colours the greater the joy of possession.
White and other quick-drying opaque colours may be put on thickly.
If too much gall is used the colours spread; when they keep their place on the surface of the trough, on being moved with a quill, they are fit for use.
Excess of light, particularly the direct rays of the sun, also acts injuriously on paintings, since it bleaches some colours and darkens others.
The covers may be marbled in the same way, only the liquid colours must be allowed to run over them.
The crude colours contain some undecomposed aniline, mostly in the form of salts.
All the ordinary liquid colours that do not contain strong acids or alkalies may be used, either alone or thickened with a little gum, for marbling or sprinkling books.
For gelatine wafers, transparent colours only can be used.
A light, delicate touch must be adopted, especially for the first coat, lest the ink or colours be started, or smothered.
When dry the paper is rendered transparent by a varnish, and the colours will then appear through it with all the delicacy and effect of a miniature on ivory.
In its strictest and modern sense, 'water-colour painting' means the painting on paper with colours diluted with water.
The colours of the blossoms were faintly visible in the downward gleam of the light spreading in a small circle through the mist.
His art was untouched by the strange, suggestive colours of modern harmony; it was pure, unemotional, and serene.
He acts the character of a buffoon; he talks the language of drollery; he even mints a coinage of his own, to deepen the colours of his extravagance--and all this was for the people!
We might be curious to learn, with all these notions of the suitable, the weighty, the order of enditing, and the colours often awry, whether these versifiers had really any settled principles of criticism.
They stand in a car, "shadowed with white and carnation silk, being the colours of Desire.
At the foot of an isolated tree, instead of the little bindweed with its white flower, may sometimes be found the beautifully climbing convolvulus major, of all the lovely coloursthat can be imagined.
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
Of their all closing about Dora, when at last she begins to say good-bye, looking, with their bright colours and ribbons, like a bed of flowers.
He was for any description of policy, in the compass of a week; and nailed all sorts of colours to every denomination of mast.
They walked on, and they came to a grey portal with colours in it like those of a fading rainbow, and a voice bade them enter.
And there was something warm in it which gladdened you, and something soft and lovely like the tendercolours of summer dawn.
Their colours and their sash he wore, And in the fatal dress was found; And now he must that death endure, Which gives the brave the keenest wound.
Hard upon the heels of the fugitive troops, amid an outburst of wildest excitement, came the advance guard of the victorious army, with bands playing and colours waving.
As, bit by bit, this grey died out, its place was taken by a faint tint of salmon-pink, which in its turn again surrendered to all manner of other colours as the darkness drew off the remainder of the sky.
One curious fact is that his coloursdry very quickly about two shades lighter than when they are wet.
The real interest begins when the crew has been settled, and the men have had theircolours given them, and are looking forward shortly to leaving the home waters.
Du Chambon's one successful stipulation was that his troops should march out with the honours of war, drums beating, bayonets fixed, and colours flying.
Here's to British colours on every French fort, port, and garrison in America!
Pepperrell, who answered every reasonable test, went through the campaign with flying coloursand came out of it as the first and only baronet of Massachusetts.
I will tell you about the sunset--the colours of it, at least.
I know she took her box of water-colours out with her this morning, just before you came home.
She could see something of the colours on the water, but not much more.
Steve's eyes were on the rapidly softening colours of the sunset.
The subdued colours of his horizon had been completely overwhelmed by the new radiance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
