The sky shines, it has been said, even on a dull day (see an appreciation of Mauve by Frank Rutter in the Studio, vol.
When we reached our room, the window was wide open as we had left it and the room seemed full of soft violet gloom, heavy with fragrance of the lilac that shewed its pale mauve stars through the shadows.
It was all embroidered round the edge of the little jacket and the wide falling sleeves in mauve and silver, and she had twisted some mauve flowers and heavy silver ornaments into her shining hair.
This, like the one in front, was hedged round with lilac laden with glorious blossom of all shades, from deepest purple through all the degrees of mauveto white.
The diamonds in her ears winked in the firelight and the paste buckles of her red silk shoes shone beneath her skirt; round her neck hung a broad mauve ribbon, the end of which was tucked into the gold lace of her bodice.
One of the women brought her some milk, and came and kissed her hand and blessed her; she took no notice of either; she was picturing a finely-dressed lady, who held out a miniature from the end of a mauve ribbon.
She was dressed with the restraint of a prolonged and attenuated widowhood, in a rich and complicatedly quiet dress of mauve and grey.
Upstairs, from a room walled and ceiled with cedar, and decorated with the bold rose-pink embroideries of Salé and the intricate old needlework of Fez, I looked out over the upper city toward the mauve and tawny mountains.
Mr. Manning, in an earnest voice, and waved his hand to the alley of mauve and purple.
Ann Veronica wiped a scalpel, put a card over a watch-glass containing thin shreds of embryonic guinea-pig swimming inmauve stain, and dismantled her microscope.
The lace of themauve dressing-gown exaggerated the difficulty of her breathing.
The youthful fluency of her body in the mauvedressing gown must have impressed itself upon the excited man by the door.
The narrow sepals and petals, almost white, have a mottling of rosy mauve along the edges, which looks unwholesome, as if caused by disease.
Upon the mauve sepals and petals, much larger than usual and more lively in colour, the great labellum, primrose and gamboge, withmauve tip, stands out superbly.
The great dorsal bears a purple mauve cloud within its broad white margin, changing to dusky green at the base and scored with branching lines of somewhat darker mauve.
The pale-green petals, narrow and rectangular, bear a few large dun blotches outlined with chocolate; their tips reverse, showing a faint mauve tint.
The petals are remarkably wide and graceful in shape, pale mauve of colour.
A hybrid of the last-named with Veitchii, orange-yellow, with mauve spots and two 'tails.
The sepals have a large irregular patch of darkest mauve in the centre, the petals a spot or two of the same colour and a streak at the base.
Sepals brown, petals white, marbled with yellow and mauve at the base, spotted with purple above, and streaked with yellow.
Jones was about fifty years old, gray-haired, of a mauve complexion, jovial among his friends, and perhaps even more jovial with chance acquaintances.
He was a man about fifty years old, gray-haired, of a mauve complexion, and his general appearance suggested joviality.
It was hung in silvery blue with curtains of softly figured shadow-cloth having a misty design of mauve and pink hydrangeas.
But now there's nothing more for you to do this morning, so skip along home and get a good rest; then be back here promptly at three o'clock this afternoon with all your mauve millinery on.
And Mother bought me a mauve sash and hair-ribbon and silk stockings, all to match.
I have a beautiful mauve costume, but I suppose you haven't.
But at last the time came for Marjorie to start, and very sweet and dainty she looked in hermauve and white costume.
Mauve was the first aniline dye which was produced on a large scale, this being accomplished by Perkin in 1856.
Mauve forms with acids a series of well-defined salts and is capable of expelling ammonia from its combinations.
Magenta was the next dye to make its appearance, and in the fickle history of fashion, probably no colours have had such extraordinary runs of popularity as those of mauve and magenta.
Upstairs, from a room walled and ceiled with cedar, and decorated with the bold rose-pink embroideries of Sale and the intricate old needlework of Fez, I looked out over the upper city toward the mauve and tawny mountains.
She was young--hardly older than I--and beautiful, dressed in soft mauve cloth.
On his desk lay the mauve envelope, and in it was a hundred-dollar bill.
Mauve orchids and maidenhair--a bouquet for a queen.
On Saturday a mauve envelope containing twenty dollars was placed on the top of his papers; and on a slip of paper was written: "Come at six.
On a small console-table was one immense basket of mauve orchids.
Darling Felicity, be a perfect angel and let my maid see your mauve tea-gown.
She held up to show him some wonderfulmauve and blue hyacinths that she carried, and then passed on.
Had anything been required to decide the question of her looking grotesque, I should mention that she wore long mauve suède gloves.
Juve showed this sheet ofmauve letter paper to his listeners.
I used two lamps, dull green jars with mauve silk shades, a dark green leather rack for paper and envelopes, and a great blotter pad that will save the damask from ink-spots.
The mauve chintz is used for the curtains, and for the huge armchair and one or two painted chairs.
The design of the paper was made up of quaint little figures and parasols and birds and twisty trees, all in soft tones of green and blue and mauve on a deep cream ground.
The mattress and springs are covered with a most delightful mauve chintz, on which birds and flowers are patterned.
They were the oddest things, of a sort of blue-green and mauve and mulberry, with flecks of black, on a cream porcelain ground.
There is a large day bed of painted wood, with mattress, springs and cushions covered with a chintz of mauve ground and gay birds.
The large rug was of pinky-mauve-gray, and the coverings of the day bed and chairs were of a mauve and gray striped stuff, the stripes so small that they had the effect of being threads of color.
The mattress and springs were covered with a bird chintz on a mauve ground, and the pillows were all covered with the same stuff.
We had a delightful time decorating the furniture with blue and mauve lines, and we painted parasols and birds and flowers on chair backs and drawer-knobs and so forth.
Everyone likes the color plan of soft greens, mauve and lavender.
Far away, the undulating hills lifted to a half soft mauve sky.
She had dressed for that morning's encounter in a very becoming and intimate wrap of soft mauve and white silk, and she had washed and dried her dark hair so that it was a vapour about her face.
Through the trees he saw towering up a great mauve thing like the back of a monster,--but that was nonsense, it was the crest of a steep hillside covered with woods of teak.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mauve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
