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Example sentences for "various colours"

  • Dividing these four panels are four small reserves, containing flowers in various colours on a seeded yellow ground.

  • The dragon is often found as a design, in various colours and in gold.

  • These are decorated with garden landscapes with figures, and official emblems in various colours such as green, yellow, grey, red, and even other blue enamel colours.

  • From thence he proceeded to a hall adorned with silken stuffs of various colours, in which the King was seated on the chair just presented to him under a white canopy, handsomely worked and covering the whole room.

  • He wore on his head a round skull-cap, made of silk of various colours, sewn with gold thread, and small rings in his ears.

  • They all had their faces painted, some with white, others black, and others of various colours, each man carrying in his hand a gift of some sort.

  • Here they encountered a number of women of large and powerful form, their long hair flowing loose upon their shoulders, and their heads decorated with plumes of various colours.

  • On one side six banners of cloth of various colours, each about half a yard square, were set up on high poles fixed in the ground; and on the other side five dead horses stuffed with straw and supported, on stakes.

  • In this town likewise they found leather made of goats skins, some white, and some of various colours, and other skins of different kinds well dressed, and many mantles.

  • The sultan himself awaited their arrival on a small eminence, seated in an arm chair, ornamented with cloth of various colours, and forming a species of throne.

  • The horses were of a superior breed, most skilfully managed, and covered with cloths of various colours, as well as with skins of the leopard and tiger-cat.

  • They wore silk shirts composed of ribbons sewed together, in stripes of various colours, which hung down over silk trousers.

  • The whole of these people were almost naked, having targets of various colours, and made a very gallant appearance.

  • King, inform me respecting the lake, and its fish of various colours, and respecting this palace, and the reason of thy being alone in it, and of thy lamentation.

  • By foxes of various colours, Hearne refers to the different colour-phases of the red fox, Vulpes fulvus (Desmarest).

  • My experiment was this: I took a number of little square pieces of broad cloth from a tailor's pattern-card, of various colours.

  • In this apartment there was a library, a bath with three great coppers, and a bathing vessel made of one single stone, of various colours, containing two hundred and fifty quarts.

  • Many of them are very beautiful, of various colours, and are ornamented with gold and silver patterns.

  • It consists of a shirt worn outside a pair of pantaloons; but the shirt is sometimes of considerable value, woven of the pina, handsomely embroidered, and of various colours, bright red being predominant.

  • He himself, sitting on a throne or couch adorned with plumes of various colours, and almost covered with plates of gold and silver enriched with precious stones, was carried on the shoulders of his principal attendants.

  • These were followed by a company of higher rank, in their most showy apparel, in the midst of whom was Montezuma, in a chair or litter richly ornamented with gold and feathers of various colours.

  • Behind the Ambassador there march'd a Company of Spahis, that carry'd Pikes, with small Standards at the End of various Colours.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blue ruin; but she did not; fugitive from; little bunch; mie des; shaped base; then rinse; thou tell; various animals; various classes; various colours; various forms; various left; various localities; various modes; various occasions; various parts; various periods; various persons; various proportions; various shapes; various species; various stages; various subjects; various times; various writers