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Example sentences for "gamboge"

Lexicographically close words:
gambled; gambler; gamblers; gambles; gambling; gambol; gamboled; gamboling; gambolled; gambolling
  1. Gamboge Gamboge is a powerful drastic and anthelmintic.

  2. Compound gamboge pill, and a pill of assafoetida and aloes, of each half a drachm: make twelve pills; two twice or three times a week.

  3. Tint the whole with weak blue; then the nearer ones with indigo and lake; add a little gamboge to the next, keeping one subordinate to the other; the most distant being lost in the aerial tints.

  4. Dissolve gamboge in a solution of gum-arabic.

  5. A thin wash of gamboge shaded with bistre; or carmine and sap-green blended together.

  6. Inside of the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre.

  7. Dissolve gamboge in water; or French berries steeped in water the liquor strained, and gum arabic added.

  8. The gamboge is the juice of the tree obtained by incisions in the bark.

  9. The gamboge tree is commonly known in Ceylon as the "ghorka.

  10. Ochre, umber, sienna, gamboge are on Nature's palette; soon she will replace these with crimson and scarlet.

  11. Perhaps in dyeing, the lead and gamboge solutions might be worth a trial.

  12. Durable pigments are admissible in any form; but semi-stable pigments (gamboge excepted) should only be employed in body.

  13. In these respects, aureolin and ultramarine, gamboge and Prussian blue, Indian yellow and indigo, are all judicious mixtures, although not all to be recommended.

  14. As a pigment it is deep, transparent, of an imperfect citrine colour, inclining to dark green, and diffusible in water without grinding, like gamboge and sap green.

  15. The gamboge tree (Stalagmitis Cambogioides) grows luxuriantly in Siam, and also in Ceylon.

  16. Even the stem has a yellow bark, like the gamboge it produces.

  17. A solution of gamboge in water, writes a full yellow, but comes far short of turmeric in brightness.

  18. Gamboge is a resin, orange red in color, but yellow when in powder form.

  19. The gamboge was said to be in perfect condition, in spite of its long immersion in the sea water.

  20. Gamboge is a powerful drastic, hydragogue cathartic, which is apt to produce nausea and vomiting.

  21. The man was a small, cadaverous-appearing individual, a compound of gamboge and chalk, the gamboge predominating.

  22. Gamboge is used as a pigment, and as a colouring matter for varnishes.

  23. Gamboge (Cambogia) is a drastic hydragogue cathartic, causing much griping and irritation of the intestine.

  24. Gamboge occurs in commerce in cylindrical pieces, known as pipe or roll gamboge, and also, usually of inferior quality, in cakes or amorphous masses.

  25. The cavity of the throat, orange, changes to gamboge as it widens; encircling this is a stain of tawny crimson.

  26. The gamboge stain does not spread beyond the throat, and it fades to white as the crimson lip spreads.

  27. The lip also has pink lobes above a gamboge throat, and a bright crimson-purple disc.

  28. The great spreading lip has a gamboge throat fading to chrome-yellow, intersected with lines of bright crimson.

  29. But this rare variety is lovelier still--its broad, rosy-crimson sepals and petals and its superb crimson lip all outlined with white.

  30. These Cattleyas only flower once in a year--that is, from March to the end of July, and both kinds together.

  31. Hooker's green is a mixed colour, put in the box merely to save you loss of time in mixing gamboge and Prussian blue.

  32. The gamboge can be used instead, when a transparent colour is preferable, and it will, in combination with prussian blue, form beautiful greens for foliage.

  33. Hooker's green is a mixed color, put in the box merely to save you loss of time in mixing gamboge and Prussian blue.

  34. Gamboge is best for drapery; Ochre for the face.

  35. She used to run down then to the famous gamboge door and open it and greet him and his face used to light up in the old way, but it was not the same face, and the effect of its radiation therefore not the same.

  36. Thus, an obsolete drug like gamboge painted on the chest in incipient tuberculosis will effect a symptomatic cure within a few weeks.

  37. Of the resins, Jalap is comparatively mild, and may be given to children without risk; while Scammony, Colocynth, and Gamboge are more drastic.

  38. Gamboge and Euphorbium are irritant in an extreme degree, and are therefore too dangerous for general use.

  39. Put four ounces of the best gum gamboge into 32 ozs.

  40. Dissolve gamboge in water; or French berries steeped in water, the liquor strained, and gum arabic added.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gamboge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    color; pigment; yellow