Thus magenta, which is the salt of the base known as Rosaniline, belonging to the basic colouring matters, a group of dyes which do not possess the fastness of colour peculiar to acid dyes, has a limited application.
He had with little difficulty taken Charlemont, the last important fastnesswhich the Irish occupied in Ulster.
No Papist was suffered to be at large in the town; and the friar who was accused of exerting his eloquence against the Englishry was thrown into prison, [129] The other great fastness of Protestantism was a place of more importance.
In the twilight even the wild red deer stray down from their fastness to the very precincts of the garden.
A crow was flying leisurely up to his fastnessin the clump of old Scotch firs on the low hill-top.
I shall even go to the fastness of Tibet, where the lamas spend their lives in the search for truth.
The bell tinkled vigorously in some fastness of the house, but nothing else happened.
As we entered the hall there arose from some fastness in the house a shrill clamour that resolved itself into the first line of a hymn.
Let them but hear that she is lost in the fastness of Dynevor, and the royal Edward will march in person to her rescue.
This was a thought buried in the deepest fastness of her soul, a thought that she would have perished in order not to expose; but it existed.
And in the incredibly small and incredibly dirty fastness of the stationmaster, they indeed found a Bradshaw.
Edwin had to brace himself again, for an assault upon the fastness of the stationmaster.
Well, for once, not even the fastness of the grave will be proof against some additional remembrances of the Paleologi.
The Monkslayer hath his fastness in a wide cavern at the head of yonder gully.
Now, it would be disastrous to attack thefastness openly; but it may be that with two score of swordsmen, creeping on them just before the dawn, we can take them by surprise.
I have a thought of the whereabouts of this fastnessthat the robber speaks of in his letter.
Then out of the mysterious fastness came the dull glow of what looked like a distant planet.
She must read them high in her white fastness at the top of the house.
She looked back to her own white fastness and began to wonder if she had left the candle burning there; it seemed to her that she had, and that perhaps presently, perhaps even now, somebody was coming to see why it was burning.
Pauline had never thought her own white fastness offered such relief and shelter as to-night; and yet, she assured herself, nobody had really been criticizing her.
The fiery palisade around their fastnesscasts a faint glow upon the night.
In a far land," his words fall measured and sweet, "unapproachable to footsteps of yours, a fastness there stands called Monsalvat.
It was the haunt and fastness of Irish outlawry and rebellion in the South, which so long sheltered Desmond and his followers.
John Brown, as gloomy scene of an encounter between persecuting dragoons and the armed Covenanters, who had many a fastness in this hill-country.
Dumfries, originally the fastness of Frisian pirates whose stock would “go far,” is set among famous sites and relics.
There was a time when the Sabbath could be said not to come above the Pass of Killiecrankie; but now the northern Highlands are the fastness of a Sabbatarianism that dies hard all over rural Scotland.
Euphrates and established itself in a fastness among the swamps.
The tribe, after a stout resistance, had made good its retreat across the Euphrates, to a fastness in the swamps.
The situation of the fastness is described as a long march south of the tell of--what is the name, major?
The fastness in question is described as an island in the marshes, and has ruins of some kind, giving good cover.
If this idea of my companion's be right, fastnessmay be said to consist mainly in peculiarity.
There is certainly only one step from the sublimity of fastness to the ridiculousness of snobbery, and it is not always easy to say where the one ends and the other begins.
In a fastness among the rocks the prince found a fairly comfortable retreat, and preparations were made for a temporary sojourn in it.
Hualcoyotl would find us though we were hidden in the fastness of the farthest mountain.
He shuts himself up in a fastness in Fleet Street, and the door thereof is guarded with dragons with lying tongues.
The dragon who guarded the fastness inquired of her if she had an appointment, and, unsoftened by the charm of her appearance, volunteered the information that Mr Elgood would see no stray callers.
Meanwhile the stoats who had quitted their fastness were heading for the moor, tempted by the presence of some wading birds which they had disturbed the previous night on their return journey.
The ancient more slowly followed, and then from behind the fastness of his rocky shield, he spoke spears and boomerangs to us, though he used none.
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