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Example sentences for "divers colors"

  • And this Quetzalcoatl had all the riches of the world, of gold and silver, of green stones called chalchiuites, and of other precious things, and a great abundance of cocoa-nut trees of divers colors.

  • His face was painted white and black; upon his head was a paper crown surrounded by a long and broad fillet of divers colors, knotted up at the back of the head; and again round and over the fillet, was wound a string of chalchiuite beads.

  • Cloth to be dyed of divers colors.

  • Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.

  • A damsel, two damsels to every man; To Sisera a spoil of divers colors, A spoil of divers colors of embroidery, Of divers colors of embroidery on both sides, on the necks of the spoil!

  • As he spake, they came upon a tower as white as snow, with mighty battlements, and double moats round it, and over the tower-gate hung fifty shields of divers colors.

  • The most important grains are barley, red wheat, and corn, with short ears, and elongated kernels of divers colors.

  • The poncho, so peculiar to the West Coast and to the Gauchos of Buenos Ayres, is a piece of cloth of divers colors, with a slit in the centre, through which the head is passed.

  • And as he went through this meadow he saw before him a long bridge, and at the farther side of the bridge were three pavilions of silk of divers colors, which pavilions had been cast in the shade of a grove of beech-trees.

  • These were covered over with tapestries and hangings of divers colors--some of figured and some of plain weaving--so that the green and level meadow-land was hung all about with these gay and gaudy colors.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    commissioned officers and men; dense thicket; divers colours; divers kinds; divers manners; divers parts; divers places; divers sorts; diverse forms; diverse kinds; during the present session; first mate; government would; indispensably necessary; intestinal tract; its own; linseed meal; make use; papal infallibility; plutonic rocks; pretty maiden; rendered more; right lines; social system; water springing; will not hang myself