The pointed door is enclosed in a square frame by a band of narrow dark and light tiles with white squares between, arranged in checks, while in the spandrels is a very beautiful arabesque pattern in black on a white ground.
The pattern of Alvito is one of the finest, and is found again at Santarem in the church of the Marvilla, where the lower tiles are all of singular beauty and splendid colouring, blue and yellow on a white ground.
The Royal Standard, the personal flag of the King, has the arms of Savoy in the centre, on a white ground, the whole having a broad bordering of blue.
It can be made transparent with wax or vaseline, and prints obtained from it giving a dark image on a white ground.
It is as if the designer had set out to glaze up a pattern in white upon a white ground, cross-hatched.
At Augsburg the figures, equally rude in drawing, equally splay-footed, are in white and colour upon a white ground.
The drawing is made to appear in black on a white ground, by cutting away the white skin enough to show the black undercoat.
Printed in black on a white ground, flowers roughly colored vermillion.
The room that I have seen is wainscoted, as is the one at Charlestown, and has above the wainscoting a tapestry paper also in shades of brown on a white ground.
The dorsal has a rosy-white ground, very heavily clouded with dark crimson below, and almost hidden by strong lines of crimson and maroon.
The green patch at the base of the dorsal is promptly swallowed up by a crimson cloud, which again fades into a delicious mottling of crimson on a white ground.
The petals, slightly greenish at the base, have a dotting of crimson on their rosy-white ground.
It is commonly supposed that the introduction to western Europe of the cross of St George (the red cross on white ground) dates from this first crusade, yet it does not appear at that time to have been associated with him.
In 1800, St. Patrick's red cross, on a white ground, was added.
As cut, gold traced blue flower decoration on white ground, gold foot, top and handles.
Several specimens proceeding from Toledo, at the South Kensington Museum, painted blue on a white ground, in the style of Savona and Japan, belong to this period.
A pair of tall vases, with gilt serpent handles, the necks fluted with gold, the upper part of the body painted with classic groups, and with coloured scroll foliage in relief, the lower part painted with leaves and scrolls on white ground.
The technical proceedings and effect produced by the metallic lustre on a white ground, with touches here and there of blue, are exactly the same in both cases.
After the pure white, the most common variety is an egg with a white ground, densely and uniformly spotted or blotched with red.
The eggs are slightly oval, and densely marked with dark brown spots or stripes on a white or brownish-white ground.
It contains five long, pointed eggs, with a white or bluish-white ground-colour, and thickly spotted with brown.
The eggs are four, pointed, and spotted at the larger end with dull brown and black on a white ground.
It will be remembered that the Russians have transposed the colours of the banner of St. George from a red cross on a white ground, as on the English Jack, to be on theirs a white cross on a red ground.
This was a red flag, having in the fly a yellow Irish harp, and in the upper corner next the staff the St. George cross upon a white ground.
So also they have transposed the colours on their St. Andrew's flag to be a blue cross on a white ground instead of a white cross on a blue ground as on the Scottish flag.
All the lines of the drawing will then appear in black on a white ground.
Of course, any other coloring material in a state of powder may be used instead of soot, and then a colored drawing on a white ground is obtained.
Very pretty variations of the process may be made by using gold or silver paper, and dusting-on with different colors; or a picture may be taken in gold bronze powder on a white ground.
By this process, therefore, we get a positive copy of a positive original in black lines on a white ground.
Ornament painted in gold lustre on white ground, the pattern in parts almost obliterated.
They are distributed into seven squares in each of which medallions and divers designs have been drawn: their compartments are of blue on a white ground.
If the lower parts of the coin be roughened with the acid, and the raised parts be polished, the effect will be reversed, and the figure and inscription will appear dark, or black upon a light or white ground.
Paint the same letters of the same size precisely on two boards, the one white on a black ground, and the other a black on a white ground; the white letters will appear larger, and be read at a greater distance than the black.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white ground" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
