The third favorite, Poinsetta, is a leaf of richmagenta color.
At Magenta I was in Espinasse's division, of Marshal MacMahon's corps.
The zouaves at Magenta could not have done so well on another kind of ground.
This division was on the extreme left of the troops that had passed the Ticino at Turbigo and was moving on Magenta by the left bank.
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The Battle of Magenta Extract from the correspondence of Colonel Ardant du Picq.
She had left her mother kneeling beside them, looking with adoration into the large, round, innocent faces, white and purple, mauve and magenta and amethyst and pink.
Victor Emmanuel, however, wisely stood firm to his alliance, and the war ended in the complete discomfiture of Austria, and Sadowa must rank with Magenta and Solferino as one of the decisive battles in the Liberation of Italy.
The successes of Magenta and Solferino, as far as Northern Italy was concerned, gave Lombardy to Piedmont, but left Austria in the possession of Venice.
He gradually lost the prestige he had gained at Magenta and Solferino.
The animals, as the years pass, become more rather than less wary, and the days of the magenta string tying a chunk of fat to a nice new shiny trap are long past.
Farther south the rhododendron is gorgeously displayed--magenta verging on damson.
Ironweed of royal purple, maroon-shot, mingles in illogical harmony with the blue vervain and magenta trumpet-weeds.
From the Boulevard Magenta and the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonniere, came bands of people, rendered breathless by their uphill walk.
She was standing where the outer Boulevard meets the Boulevards Magenta and Ornano, thinking of lying down on the ground, when suddenly she heard a footfall.
The Boulevard Magenta and the Boulevard Ornano were being pierced; they were doing away with the old Barriere Poissonniere and cutting right through the outer Boulevard.
The one which completed her collection, of a pleasant magenta colour, had only just been acquired.
Evie was there in vivid green with a purple border, the Padre had a knitted magenta waistcoat, and Mrs. Poppit that great sable coat which almost prevented movement.
There was a German stove in the corner made of pink porcelain, the rafters and roof were painted scarlet, the walls were of magenta distemper and the floor was blue.
The floor of the hall was of highly polished wood, and the everlasting divans of disagreeable magenta satin, so dear to the modern Turkish woman, lined the walls on three sides.
I even think I see a nauseous tint of magenta in the velvet.
In passing it may be noted that this was the great magentaperiod for cloth bindings.
A great tree covered with glorious magenta flowers stands on one side.
You remember that in Burma there was practically no blue; the people wore red and pink and magenta and orange, but they seemed one and all to avoid blue.
His cap, lying on the table, caught her eye, and she picked it up and turned it round and round on her hand, reading the black letters on the magenta ribbon.
They have lost part of their old love for Aunt Maria's magenta curtains--the home idea has become less significant to them.
This could have been avoided by the use of silver stockings or magenta slippers with magenta stockings.
In fact they obtained rosolic acid from magenta by the action of nitrous acid on the latter.
The chemical investigation of magenta was commenced by Hofmann, whose name is inseparably connected with the scientific development of the coal-tar colour industry.
Methyl-violet is obtained by the oxidation of dimethylaniline by means of a gentle oxidizer; a mixture of bases is not necessary as in the case of the magenta formation.
Arsenic acid process for magenta discovered; leading to manufacture of arsenic acid.
In 1878 Graessler found that by the action of very strong sulphuric acid this azo-compound could be converted into a sulpho-acid in just the same way that magenta can be converted into acid magenta.
The close analogy between magenta and rosolic acid was further shown by Caro in 1866.
The introduction of magentainto commerce marks an epoch in the history of the coal-tar colour industry--pure chemistry and chemical technology both profited by the discovery.
The arsenious acid resulting from the reduction of this arsenic acid is generally obtained in the form of a lime salt after the removal of the magenta by the purifying processes to which the crude product is submitted.
Perkin's mauve prepared the way for the manufacture of aniline, and the discovery of a good process for the production of magentaincreased this branch of manufacture to a remarkable extent.
I used to wear a magentafrock and a white pinafore.
Mother, the little girl in my story wears a magenta frock and a white pinafore.
The group stood for a moment, a miniature Vesuvius erupting lava and ashes, while Moses wrung the offending liquid from Betty’s yellow drape and the magenta antimacassar.
An antimacassar bearing wide magenta and red crocheted stripes covered his back causing him to strut with peacock pride.
Thus thought the future prisoner of Wilhelmshoehe on the eve of Magenta and Solferino, and "his excellency the lieutenant" certainly found no objections in such a magnificent programme.
Lombardy; Austria was vanquished at Magentaand Solferino, and Russia could enjoy its first revenge on the ungrateful Hapsburg, who had "betrayed" it before Sebastopol.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "magenta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amethystine; color; lavender; livid; magenta; mauve; pigment; plum; purple; violet
