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Example sentences for "grey colour"

  • This Salt converted it into a glass of a dark-grey colour: and, as there appeared a little verdegris on the surface of this glass after keeping it in a moist place, he thereby found that the Sulphur he had used contained a little Copper.

  • It will turn first of a blue-grey colour, afterwards of a blue-green, and at last reddish.

  • The Arsenic sublimed by this method is not white, but of a grey colour; owing to the inflammable matter of the wood and charcoal with which the ore is torrefied.

  • A very small quantity of phlogiston is sufficient to deprive much Arsenic of its whiteness, and to give it a grey colour.

  • Obsidian is of a black or ash-grey colour, and though opaque in mass is transparent in thin edges.

  • This clay is more than forty feet thick, of a dark bluish-grey colour, and, like that of Rupelmonde, contains septaria.

  • The granite (Quincy granite) employed in it is found in the neighbourhood, and is of a grey colour.

  • These nests or holes contained a substance of a grey colour, which bore the appearance of thick cobwebs pressed closely together; and on being squeezed in the hand it had a liquid feel, that is, the skin was moistened by it.

  • Both are of a grey colour above, and yellow underneath.

  • This basalt is of a grey colour, and contains many crystals of glassy albite, which become much more numerous in the lower, scoriaceous part.

  • The spikes are about 1-1/2 inch in length, with an indented surface, and are of a dark-grey colour.

  • Rub together in a porcelain mortar until the globules cease to be visible and the mixture acquires a uniform, grey colour.

  • In this bath they rapidly lose their black, brown, or grey colour, and become almost white.

  • The main root sends out many long tendrils, all of like thickness, covered with a brownish bark, or sometimes of a dark-grey colour.

  • It is of a silvery, or whitish-grey colour-- which adapts it to the hue of the artemisia bushes on the stalks and berries of which it feeds.

  • In its natural state it is of a yellowish-grey colour; but, when hardened before the fire, it assumes a tinge of red, owing to the oxide of iron which is in it.

  • The skin is covered in summer with a short fur of an ashy-grey colour, and in winter with much longer yellowish-brown hair concealing a dense fur beneath.

  • It is covered with long harsh fur of a tawny-grey colour, darker on the head and along the middle of the back, its legs reddish and its feet and tail black.

  • Egyptian animal, with fur of a pale-grey colour, the hairs being largely white-ringed, while the cheeks and throat are more or less reddish.

  • When the splint is removed the skin pressed upon is found to be of a pale yellow or grey colour, and is surrounded by a ring of hyperæmia.

  • It has been very generally applied to any trap rock of a black, bluish, or leaden-grey colour, having a uniform and compact texture.

  • The foliage is of a distinct and somewhat conglomerate character, besides being of a silvery-grey colour.

  • The foliage is of a slate-grey colour, prominently veined on the under side, the upper surface being somewhat wrinkled; the leaves are 3in.

  • It is about the bigness of a duck-egg, and somewhat of an oval shape; and is of a grey colour.

  • They have here also the amphisbaena, or two-headed snake, of a grey colour, mixed with blackish stripes, whose bite is reckoned to be incurable.

  • The land-snake is of a grey colour, and about 18 or 20 foot long: not very venomous, but ravenous.

  • The eggs number from four to six, and are of a grey colour, speckled with light umber-brown.

  • It appears larger than it really is, as it is covered with a great many feathers of a grey colour.

  • When gathered it is of a grey colour, but when it is dry its bark falls off, and discovers black filaments as long and as strong as the hairs of a horse's tail.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute monarchy; anxious desire; deserves notice; direct relation; everlasting happiness; flashed upon; fore long; great moment; grey colour; grey eyes; grey granite; grey hair; grey hairs; grey stone; grey wolf; greyish brown; greyish white; help being; high position; intensely bitter; poor wife; rural free; sharp glance; sincere desire; take measures for the; well adapted