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Example sentences for "dark colour"

  • Below the line of demarcation, the extremity is of a dark colour, resembling the skin of a negro, and completely deprived of the power of motion and sensation; but she complains of a disagreeable tingling, referred to the fingers.

  • The excrescence is generally of a dark colour, resembling a mass of coagulated blood, but of more soft consistence, and its extremity has often a sloughy appearance.

  • Nicæa, which never acquire a dark colour; and in D.

  • There will always be a precipitate of a dark colour; the precipitate will contain earthy phosphates, iron and, in some cases, manganese.

  • If it contain any of these impurities, it acquires a dark colour, but if pure, remains bright and colourless.

  • A dark colour of the urine has also been noticed.

  • Over this, sprinkle finely-chopped parsley and fine raspings of a dark colour.

  • The jelly should be made of rather a dark colour, to contrast nicely with the cream.

  • The body was round and of a dark colour, and seemed to be several ells[258] in thickness.

  • In his travels, King Muh rode in a chariot drawn by eight splendid horses; the right-hand horses were of a dark colour, while those on the left hand were greenish.

  • Those that live in marshes and fens are of a dark colour, approaching to a black, move slowly, have no crest, or any rising upon their heads.

  • A gray "ticking" will most likely appear between the dark colour, as it does between the black bars of the tabby.

  • The bridegroom was also of dark colour; he wore a coat of brown cloth, a waistcoat of brocaded silk, and nankeen pantaloons; he had on shoes with large buckles, and a cocked hat.

  • Whilst we were talking at the door, a young man of dark colour came up, mounted a horse which was standing there without a saddle, and rode off, seemingly avoiding to observe that there were any strangers present.

  • The Orgyias comprise a great number of small species, of a dark colour, which do a great deal of damage to our forest trees.

  • Their bodies and abdomens are slender, their wings large, thin, fragile, often of a dark colour, with brilliant markings.

  • Their upper wings are of a dark colour, with spots in the middle of a particular shape.

  • Set with little horney prejections which give to those edges a Serrate figure, the eye is Small and of a dark colour.

  • Species of party coloured Pheasant is of a dark colour, and with the means we had of cooking them were only tolerably flavoured tho these birds would be fine well cooked.

  • Short, and as well as the legs of a dark Colour.

  • If boiled too long, they will lose their flavour, and become of a dark colour.

  • If sweetmeats are boiled too long, they lose their flavour and become of a dark colour.

  • If boiled too long, they will look dull, and be of a dark colour.

  • The pearl-ash will give it a dark colour.

  • Dark colours, in general, he often mistook for black; but never imagined white to be a dark colour, nor dark to be a white colour.

  • It is branchy; the wood is of dark colour, and being prettily marked, would form an ornamental veneering for the cabinet-maker.

  • The inferior lobe of the left lung was of a dark colour, and soft in texture.

  • In one case, the blood is generally found of a dark colour, with firm, and sometimes adherent coagula in the vessels; in the other, it is thin and fluid.

  • The lungs were of a dark colour, with some black patches, but still crepitant.

  • They are all of a dark colour, with handles attached, generally below the rim, and flat bases.

  • Only rude stone axes, a few weights, and flints of a dark colour, are recorded.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dark colour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another person; dark and; dark and bloody ground; dark bluish; dark brown; dark cloud; dark clouds; dark crimson; dark eyes; dark face; dark figure; dark green; dark grey; dark ground; dark lane; dark lantern; dark line; dark olive; darker shade; good match; immense majority; kept silence; many stamens; pretty large; world power; yerba mate