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307 examples of Colour in a sentence

All three are beautifully shot with great camera-work and excellent use of colour.
The only elements of colour and light in his life are those in which his wife 'Shalini is a part of (that is, in the song and... actually in the film itself!
For me, that shade of brown remains the colour of safety.
However, where differences cannot easily be blurred - those of religion, ethnic and cultural origin, colour - common citizenship has not achieved the unity of diversity so many have dreamed about.
Each of those faces that with so much searching, so many faults and corrections, he had evolved with its own character, each representing so much pain and pleasure, and all of them so often placed and replaced to obtain harmony; all the shades of colour and tone elaborated with such effort all this, regarded as a whole from those others' point of view, now seemed trivialities a thousand times repeated.
The quickness of Varenka's movements, the colour suffusing her animated face, all showed that something unusual was taking place within her.
'How do you do, Constantine Dmitrich?...Especially shapely, plastic, and rich in colour, if one may say so, is the passage where you feel the approach of Cordelia, the woman, das ewige Weibliche, [The eternal feminine.]
"Blow out the candle: I don't need to see the colour of my thoughts."
She had large lips of a pale rose colour, made vivid by the coal, which tormented him with increasing desire.
Maheu had to prevent his son from descending to see, as he said, the colour of this carcass's skin.
In the misty sky, of a dirty grey colour, rusty clouds were slowly passing by.
Meanwhile he grew like an oak; he was strong on hand, fresh of colour.
The sunshade of silk of the colour of pigeons' breasts, through which the sun shone, lighted up with shifting hues the white skin of her face.
The water, flowing by the grass, divides with a white line the colour of the roads and of the plains, and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.
Before us, on the verge of the horizon, lie the oaks of the forest of Argueil, with the steeps of the Saint-Jean hills scarred from top to bottom with red irregular lines; they are rain tracks, and these brick-tones standing out in narrow streaks against the grey colour of the mountain are due to the quantity of iron springs that flow beyond in the neighboring country.
The wooden roof is beginning to rot from the top, and here and there has black hollows in its blue colour.
In the evening especially its argand lamp is lit up and the red and green jars that embellish his shop-front throw far across the street their two streams of colour; then across them as if in Bengal lights is seen the shadow of the chemist leaning over his desk.
From her turned-up hair a dark colour fell over her back, and growing gradually paler, lost itself little by little in the shade.
Their fair flabby faces, somewhat tanned by the sun, were the colour of sweet cider, and their puffy whiskers emerged from stiff collars, kept up by white cravats with broad bows.
Charles, without noticing his wife's colour, had them brought to him, took one, and bit into it.
The smoke of the tar rose up between the trees; there were large fatty drops on the water, undulating in the purple colour of the sun, like floating plaques of Florentine bronze.
The curtains were in red levantine, that hung from the ceiling and bulged out too much towards the bell-shaped bedside; and nothing in the world was so lovely as her brown head and white skin standing out against this purple colour, when, with a movement of shame, she crossed her bare arms, hiding her face in her hands.
Day was breaking, and a great stain of purple colour broadened out in the pale horizon over the St. Catherine hills.
Having acquired some adroitness since she had fallen in love, she accounted for her colour by complaining of a splitting headache.
Julien changed colour; he looked at Madame de Renal in an odd manner, and presently drew her apart, so to speak, by increasing his pace.
Her customary pallor had given place to the most glowing colour.
Julien changed colour when Fouque said to him:'Have you heard, by the way?
I have not an income of twenty louis, and I have found myself rubbing shoulders with a man who has an income of twenty louis an hour, and they laughed at him ...A sight like that cures one of envy.'CHAPTER 5 Sensibility and a Pious LadyThe smallest living idea seems an outrage, so accustomed are people there to words without colour.
Although our hero did everything in the world to banish any suggestion of common sense from his conversation, it had still an anti-monarchical and impious colour which did not escape the notice of Madame de Fervaques.
She changed colour.
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