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Example sentences for "ultramarine"

Lexicographically close words:
ultimo; ultimum; ultimus; ultra; ultraism; ultramontane; ultramontanes; ultramontanism; ultras; ultraviolet
  1. All ceilings and shells are ultramarine blue, with two exceptions.

  2. The portal is the color of cork, illuminated here and there with niche walls of pink, and touches of ultramarine blue.

  3. Others were decorated with tender and brilliant frescoes, in which the transparent plaster seemed to hold in its depths the tones of gold, of ultramarine and vermilion, in fabulous scenes.

  4. Love, indeed, is an ultramarine and ultramontane joy!

  5. We look at the sky; mellow grey at the horizon, going through gentle gradations towards the deepest ultramarine overhead, and science tells us that this is formed by miles of atmosphere, and behind the ether belt spreads the black vacuum.

  6. In depth this blue should be about half-way between the ultramarine and white.

  7. Use for red either vermilion or carmine; for blue, ultramarine either pure or with white; for yellow, middle chrome much diluted with white.

  8. The ceiling colour to be pure French ultramarine, or this ultramarine mixed with white and a touch of raw umber (the cornice blues to be made in the same way).

  9. According to Scoresby, the Polar seas are of brilliant ultramarine blue.

  10. Why did Hugh the Great, duke of France, in spite of favorable opportunities and very palpable temptations, abstain perseveringly from taking the crown, and leave it tottering upon the heads of Louis the Ultramarine and Lothaire?

  11. Those who delight in the sunny skies of Italy, or tropical climates, represent the distance by the purest blue that Ultramarine affords.

  12. Pure ultramarine blue is the nearest approach to the spectrum standard of blue of any of the permanent pigments, but even this is a trifle too violet.

  13. But I never saw crimson or scarlet smoke, nor ultramarine smoke.

  14. The space at A was deep, purest ultramarine blue, traversed by streaks of absolutely pure and perfect rose-color.

  15. Light red with cobalt or ultramarine give greys somewhat less aerial for middle distance, mountains, &c.

  16. Thus a pattern of ultramarine blue will have to be represented by a darker tint of grey than a pattern of yellow.

  17. Sometimes I have really thought her miserliness intolerable: in a gentian, for instance, the way she economises her ultramarine down in the bell is a little too bad.

  18. Formerly ultramarine was improperly called a precipitate or magisterium.

  19. The following is the method of making ultramarine from lapis lazuli.

  20. Those also who assert that the colour of ultramarine fades in the fire, must not have been acquainted with the genuine sort.

  21. At Hamburg, Gleditsch sold fine real Oriental ultramarine for a ducat per ounce, and warranted it to stand proof by fire; but whether it would stand proof by acids also, I do not know.

  22. The ultramarine thus prepared contains a little sulphur, which can be separated by means of water.

  23. Good ultramarine must be of a beautiful dark colour, and free from sand as well as every other mixture.

  24. The ancients therefore were acquainted with our lapis lazuli; but the question whether they used it as a paint, or prepared ultramarine from it, I cannot answer with sufficient certainty.

  25. We must therefore allow that the ancients used either ultramarine or cobalt.

  26. An artificial method of making ultramarine was discovered in 1828 by M.

  27. He states that the materials required in the preparation of ultramarine are alumina, sulphate of soda, sulphur, charcoal and a salt of iron, the common sulphate or green vitriol being the best.

  28. The ultramarine is that made of the stone known by the name of lapis lazuli, which is the proper matrix of gold ore.

  29. The shellac is melted in an iron vessel, and the ultramarine added and stirred to incorporate the parts.

  30. The original cement, made and patented by James Bottum for his cement chuck, was made up of a rather complicated mixture; but all the substances really demanded in such cement are ultramarine blue and a good quality of shellac.

  31. For red ink substitute Venetian Red for Lamp Black; for blue Ultramarine; and for green a mixture of Ultramarine and Chrome Yellow.

  32. It was a room that spoke with eloquence of the wealth and refinement of Montefeltro, from the gilding and ultramarine of the vaulted ceiling with its carved frieze of delicately inlaid woodwork, to the priceless tapestries beneath it.

  33. The sky, with the smallest cloud that flits across it, is reflected in its clear depths, and the ultramarine colors, more vivid than the sea, are greatly heightened by the constant gentle vibrations.

  34. Its waters are of a deep ultramarine color, clear and beautiful.

  35. Its dimensions are twenty-five feet by forty, and its water so perfectly transparent that one can look down into the beautiful ultramarine depth to the very bottom of the basin.

  36. Male with the upper parts ultramarine blue, the lower parts light chestnut-red, excepting the abdomen, which is white.

  37. Intimately allied in colour to the Ultramarine Jay, but distinguishable by its smaller size, and more rounded tail, and by its having a band of whitish across the forehead, and extended over the eye, where it is not in dots as in that species.

  38. The old man brought him into one of the parlours, which was variegated with many-coloured marbles, the ceiling thereof being decorated with ultramarine and glowing gold; and the floor bespread with silken carpets.

  39. The French-process zinc oxide produced in America by the sublimation and oxidation of spelter is the purest made, and superior to imported grades which often contain ultramarine blue as a whitening agent.

  40. The stencilling material was made of ultramarine blue.

  41. Absolute deep ultramarine probably marks the highest level of all.

  42. Spain was most vulnerable in her ultramarine possessions.

  43. Intensity of rays reflected from vermilion, emerald green, and French ultramarine 92 16.


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    Other words:
    blue; color; overseas; pigment