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Example sentences for "discolouring"

Lexicographically close words:
discolored; discolors; discolour; discolouration; discoloured; discomfit; discomfited; discomfiting; discomfiture; discomfort
  1. It is highly discolouring to flour, and must be carefully eliminated.

  2. Table of the discolouring powers of different charcoals.

  3. None of the substances present, except the charcoal, possesses separately any discolouring power.

  4. Even when combined with carbonic acid, the first three alkalis exercise this discolouring power, which the alkaline earths, lime and barytes, do not.

  5. Other animal substances yield a charcoal, possessed of very considerable discolouring properties.

  6. In reference to the quality of the black, experience has shown that it is so much more powerful as a discolouring agent, as the bones from which it was made have been freer from adhering fatty, fleshy, and tendinous matters.

  7. The organic matter is usually peaty, is sometimes very small, but is liable to considerable variations with the season, and is occasionally present in excessive quantities, discolouring the water and rendering it unpalatable.

  8. Evidently, again, a large calamary raising its caudal extremity and fin above the surface, and discolouring the water by discharging its ink.

  9. But the interest of the earliest Church unmixed with the world, its principles fresh, its inspirations strong, its native hue free from discolouring elements, preoccupies us with a fascination which is unrivalled.

  10. Notwithstanding the nearness of the land there were no signs of such proximity: no discolouring in the water, no sea weed, no new birds, and but few of the species before seen.


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