"Color in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... say nothing. But if it had not been so we would have lost most of the beauty of rocks and trees and human beings. For the leaves and the flowers would all be white, and all the men and women would look like walking corpses. Without color in the flower what would the bees and painters do? If all the grass and trees were white, it would be like winter all the year round. If we had white blood in our veins like some of the insects it would be hard ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson
... the Half-Mile walk did they speak, and then Clelia broke forth throbbingly to the accompaniment of a sudden color in her cheeks. ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... shall not lose my color in exile; it will not cure me of my crime of loyalty to my people—I cannot change my ...
— The Royal Pawn of Venice - A Romance of Cyprus • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
... schmidtorum in color pattern and body proportions, but the ground color of schmidtorum is chocolate brown and not green as in chamulae. Also, in schmidtorum the webbing and posterior surfaces of the thighs are pale cream-color in preserved specimens as contrasted with tan in chamulae. In living schmidtorum the iris is bright red, not reddish bronze as in chamulae. The ventrolateral glands in schmidtorum more closely approximate ...
— Descriptions of Two Species of Frogs, Genus Ptychohyla - Studies of American Hylid Frogs, V • William E. Duellman
... yard. Her blue dress, lashing around her feet, changed color in the ghastly light of the storm. Some flying leaves struck her in the face. At the gate a cloud of dust from the road nearly blinded her. She realized in a bewildered fashion that there were three women on the other side struggling frantically ...
— Jane Field - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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