| 单词 | colourless |
| 例句 | But Corkers, an eccentric old bachelor, was neither dull nor colourless. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z There were about thirty or more masters at Repton and most of them were amazingly dull and totally colourless and completely uninterested in boys. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He held out a small bottle of colourless fluid. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Octavian’s face looked almost ghoulish under his white mantle - his eyes too piercing, his cheeks too gaunt, his lips too thin and colourless. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Every few seconds a drop fell, dark, almost colourless in the dead light. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless world, fading slowly into a featureless, colourless gloom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z His whole face was colourless rock: his eye was both spark and flint. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When the guzzling was over, those who were considered old enough were given small glasses of home-made liqueur, a colourless but fiery drink that smelled of mulberries. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z His tongue lolled out between his sharp yellow teeth, licking his colourless lips. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Frank Crawley,” said Maxim, and I turned to the agent, a colourless, rather thin man with a prominent Adam’s apple, in whose eyes I read relief as he looked upon me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Only an hour, but the world had melted down and sprung up in a new and colourless form. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dim light, her face was ghostly pale, her eyes colourless. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Compare her to, say, Fergie, submerged under digital trickery or colourlessly emoting when not; Holloway is a woman whom you suspect would never meet you halfway on anything. Loleatta Holloway: more than a voice 2011-03-22T18:54:13Z Scrape some moss from the side of a fjord and blanche until colourless. Digested read: Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine by Rene Redzepi 2010-11-22T21:00:00Z It can be found in powder form, but more usually an odourless, colourless, slightly salty liquid that prompts a brief, powerful euphoria. It melts plastic and can kill – so why is club drug GHB on the rise? 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Now 36, Tazaki is looking back on his empty, colourless life. Haruki Murakami fans queue overnight for latest novel 2013-04-12T14:01:13Z But the overall colour was a colourless all-colour of stained whiteness, deathly pale. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z The well, by contrast, is colourless; sinister and still. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z Hitherto most modern British architecture had been dour, colourless and rectangular. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z It comes in the form of a colourless crystalline solid that can easily be dissolved in water. A new TikTok trend has people drinking toxic borax. An expert explains the risks 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The streets are dilapidated, paint peeling from every surface, colourless skies looming over featureless landscapes. My streaming gem: why you should watch River of Grass 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The real impediment to identification and credibility is the cast of characters, rather than the plot; thin and self-interested, they made for a colourless scene. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-25T08:01:30Z Except when she manages to catch jaundice and turn yellow late on in the book, she is singularly colourless. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Shirley Hazzard 2010-04-23T08:00:00Z His eyes behind spectacles were sandy and his voice was pale and colourless to match. From the Observer archive, 21 July 1968: The Kray twins on trial 2012-07-21T23:05:34Z It is joy, the colourless eyelashes, green eyes flecked with hazel. Extract: February by Lisa Moore 2010-08-06T08:53:00Z She'd loved Damascus and then Sudan, but couldn't warm to Switzerland which seemed colourless in comparison: "It was like walking into a bag of flour". Radio review: Parting Shots 2010-09-30T07:00:00Z Their husbands may be blinkered and colourless, their children relentlessly self-absorbed, but they abide. Profile: Anne Tyler 2011-03-30T14:12:34Z Ben Arnold Tonight, Stone casts his eye over the cold war from 1945 to 1950, and it feels like five years of colourless mooing over sequential monochrome archive. TV highlights 17/05/2013 2013-05-17T06:00:06Z Nitrous oxide is a colourless gas that is inhaled and is commonly used as a painkiller in medicine and dentistry. What is nitrous oxide and why is it being banned? 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The drug, which comes in small metal canisters, is a colourless gas commonly used as a painkiller in medicine and dentistry, and for producing whipped cream in cooking. Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession to be illegal in three weeks 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Odourless, tasteless and colourless, it does not alter the smell, taste or look of products. 'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' - research team 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Moutai, known as the national liquor of China, is a potent, colourless spirit that is usually served at banquets. China's Moutai launches boozy chocolates with Dove in diversification drive 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Moutai, known as the national liquor of China, is a potent, colourless spirit that is usually served at banquets in China. China's Luckin sells 5.4 mln Moutai alcohol-infused lattes in a day 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Nitrous oxide is a colourless gas often sold in metal canisters. Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas ban could harm users, experts warn 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Hydrogen is colourless, odourless, and highly combustible and "it cannot be photographed". Masks, fighters and witches: Student photographers on show 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Nitrous oxide is a colourless gas commonly used as an analgesic - a painkiller - in medicine and dentistry, and for producing whipped cream in cooking. Nitrous oxide: What is it and how dangerous is it? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Until she reached her eighth month of pregnancy, Ms Zaragoza remained in a regular prison unit, sleeping in a colourless room with a rotating cast of cellmates. The prison mum experience Elizabeth Holmes is desperate to avoid 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Its cars were carrying, among other substances, vinyl chloride, a colourless, hazardous gas that is used to make PVC plastic and vinyl products. Ohio train crash leaves small town in fear of toxic fallout 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Odourless, tasteless and colourless, it doesn't alter the smell, taste or look of products. Lab-grown alternatives aim to cut palm oil dependence 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z However, when ozone in the atmosphere reacts with brown carbon, it can transform it into new colourless molecules that do not warm the earth. Wildfire smoke may warm the Earth for longer than we thought 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Widely sold in small metal canisters, nitrous oxide is a colourless gas used as a propellant - for example, in whipped-cream dispensers. Laughing-gas makers call for sales ban to stop misuse 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Carbon monoxide is an odourless, colourless gas produced by the incomplete burning of carbon-based fuels such as oil, wood and coal. Dozens in hospital after gas leak at Pennsylvania childcare centre 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Both are colourless, odourless and dissolve into liquids. Rapist Luiz Da Silva Neto jailed for spiking men and sex attacks 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Pyridine is a smelly colourless liquid used as an anti-corrosion treatment in marine infrastructure and is also released as an industrial waste product. Expert disputes North East coast shellfish deaths findings 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z The Explain study uses xenon, an odourless, colourless, tasteless and chemically non-reactive gas, to investigate possible lung damage in the patients who have not been admitted to hospital, but continue to experience the symptom. Covid live: lung abnormalities in long Covid patients; 36 new Winter Olympics cases 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Like many subterranean animals, the millipede has no eyes and is colourless. Millipede with more legs than any known animal discovered in Australia 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z What he had been told is that a quiet, rather colourless, middle-aged couple from London, Christopher and Susan Edwards, had killed two people and buried their bodies. Landscapers: The surreal suburban murders behind a TV drama 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Hydrogen is colourless, but each form of it has been categorised by a colour that reflects its carbon footprint: The ultimate is green hydrogen, extracted using power from renewable energy such as wind or solar. Factbox: Hydrogen's many colours 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The colourless and odourless gas leaks from waste dumps, oil and gas infrastructure and the digestive systems of cattle and sheep. Ireland looks to seaweed in quest to curb methane from cows 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z At room temperature, carbon dioxide is a colourless, odourless gas. Why is there a CO2 shortage and how will it hit food supplies? 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z GBL, a colourless liquid that is sold as an industrial cleaner, is only classed as a controlled narcotic when knowingly intended for human consumption. GHB: Killer drug to be made a Class B substance 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z It is closely related to GBL, a colourless liquid that is sold as an industrial cleaner and converts to GHB in the body. Killer drug GHB 'should be reclassified', says official report 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Carbon monoxide is an odourless and colourless gas produced when carbon-based fuels such as oil, gas, coal or wood are not completely burned. Oslo bunker rave puts 25 in hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z It manufactures and distributes a unique brand of baijiu, a clear and colourless liquor which is considered China's national spirit. 'Elite' alcohol brand is China's most valuable firm 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z By the time I had aliquoted the third tube of colourless liquid, I realized that it wasn’t the lab work that I missed while working from home — it was the people. Coronavirus diaries: We’ll meet again 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z These minuscule lengths of DNA were sent back to Cambridge suspended in vials of colourless, viscous fluid. 'It’s a razor’s edge we’re walking': inside the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The invisible, colourless, scentless, soundless abyss that our generation has chosen to ignore. Malena Ernman on daughter Greta Thunberg: ‘She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness’ 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z This strengthens suspicions that fossil fuel companies are not fully accounting for their impact on the climate, particularly with regard to methane – a colourless, odourless gas that many plants routinely vent into the atmosphere. Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought' 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Like corals, anemones form symbiotic relationships with algae that are disrupted when oceans get too warm, causing the anemone to expel the algae and become colourless. The best science images of the year: 2019 in pictures 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z However, aflatoxin is colourless, odourless and invisible, and there is often no sign of contamination. How safe is Kenya's staple food? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The colourless, odourless gas is produced in high concentrations in piston engine planes, but should be extracted by the exhaust system. Emiliano Sala and crash pilot 'probably poisoned by fumes' 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Originally produced for medical purposes, GHB is a Class C prohibited drug that comes as a colourless and odourless liquid or a powder that is usually dissolved in water. The link between a Grindr murderer and a serial killer 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Fire and rescue officials identified at least 15 different types of chemicals, including the colourless and extremely poisonous hydrogen cyanide. Malaysia schools shut after children fall sick 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Hunt is a colourless, small businessman turned identikit Tory politician. Hunt and Johnson are wildly different, but it’s the latter who can deliver Brexit | Simon Jenkins 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z They traced it to a pool heating system, which runs on natural gas, identifying it as the likely source of the odourless, colourless but potentially fatal gas. Seven taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after gas leak in Sydney home 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z “We didn’t think they’d be dumping an odorless, colourless, toxic chemical into our drinking water that would remain in our bodies for five or 10 years at a minimum.” A trail of toxicity: the US military bases making people sick 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z On a frigid, colourless day in October, Yellowbird-Chase waited on a bench on the fourth floor of a nearly silent federal courthouse in downtown Fargo. The amateur sleuth who searched for a body - and found one 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Fire and rescue officials also identified at least 15 different types of chemicals - which included the colourless and extremely poisonous hydrogen cyanide. How one quiet lorry sparked a toxic waste crisis 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z This was surprising because the droplets were inherently colourless. Colour from colourless droplets 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z There are two bottles of what appear to be spirits - one colourless, one dark red. Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Odourless and colourless thallium is a chemical element that can be lethal for humans. Chinese student 'slowly poisoned' roommate 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The colourless substance used for the contamination, which is an ingredient used in antifreeze, has a sweet taste and is known to attract children and animals. German who poisoned baby food is jailed 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z The city had been informed that its water violated the federal limit for total trihalomethanes, or TTHMs – four colourless, odourless chemical compounds that are a byproduct of the chlorine disinfection process. ‘Nothing to worry about. The water is fine’: how Flint poisoned its people 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z It is the presence of formaldehyde - a colourless gas that is naturally released by vegetation but also from a number of polluting activities. Why India's air looks different from space 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Ozone is a colourless gas that can be created when pollutants react to sunlight. U.S. judge orders EPA to limit pollution into New York, Connecticut 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z There is nothing colourless or dry about Dear Madam President. PR boss Jennifer Palmieri: ‘We reduced Hillary to a female facsimile of a male president’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z All pure nerve agents are colourless organophosphorus liquids which, after they were discovered to be highly poisonous in the 1930s, became the dominant chemical weapons of the second world war. Russian spy: police officer left ill by attack named as Sergeant Nick Bailey 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The first three agents are clear, colourless, tasteless liquids. What are nerve agents and what do they do? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Most condensates are also colourless and generate a toxic underwater slick that is almost invisible from the surface. Four oil slicks seen around sunken tanker 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z They forced him to kneel, his hands tied in front of him with a piece of cloth ripped from his colourless shirt. After the liberation of Mosul, an orgy of killing 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z The colourless diamond was taken from a 404-carat stone found in Angola. Diamond fetches £25.5m at auction 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z It was loose and packaged in paper, but when I unwrapped it I saw a tiny, colourless plastic sticker beneath the price tag, declaring the vase was handmade. My week without plastic: 'I found a toothbrush made of pig hair' 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Life on the frontline begins at 5am with a breakfast of tinned chicken, a curiously colourless substance with the texture of tripe. 'Hundreds of us will die in Raqqa’: the women fighting Isis 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z An umbrella that could easily belong to the prime minister Neville Chamberlain hangs impotently in the ether, fading away – as colourless as the bleak landscape with which Dalí holds a mirror to his age. Dali's enigma, Picasso's protest: the most important artworks of the 1930s 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Yet this often reinforces the dynamic: voters become frustrated by the colourless centrism of such governments, and drift further to the extremes. Europeans are splitting their votes among ever more parties 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z However, with four or more mainstream parties forming a coalition, Wilders’s message that the political establishment is colourless and all the same might become even more popular. Simply studying populism is no longer enough 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Remind me: what part of this are we supposed to find drab and colourless, or dismiss as just a company man on the rise? Gareth Southgate: no star power, no magic bullet, but a man for the times | Barney Ronay 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The carefully calibrated, almost colourless reaction represented an implicit defence of one of Obama’s chief foreign affairs legacies, the opening to Cuba culminating in the president’s visit to Havana in March this year. Trump and Obama offer divergent responses to death of Fidel Castro 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z The one time I flipped through a client’s diary, it turned out to contain a series of cheery, colourless entries written by a father-to-be. What the cleaner saw | Lizzie Feidelson 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z He said what he saw in other reefs around the world took his breath away: “Not a fish in site, colourless, ghost-like coral, a complete graveyard.” Leonardo DiCaprio given rival invitations to visit Great Barrier Reef 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The voice is as colourless as the room. Try catch throw : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z While the Satanic-red horns of chillies seem to hint at their throat-scorching potential, extracted capsaicin is an odourless and colourless substance. Is the chilli pepper friend or foe? - BBC News 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z United have been a colourless side so far this season, although an efficient one. Who desperately needs to strengthen? 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The factory produces adiponitrile, a colourless liquid that releases poisonous gases when it reacts with fire, the People’s Daily said, citing the state-run Beijing Times. Nine injured after explosion at eastern China chemical plant 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z The laughing colourless boy turned into a shocked watchful black man who felt more “human” than ever before. Malcolm X’s autobiography didn’t change me, it saved me | Lemn Sissay 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas that is produced when carbon-based fuels are burned. Father and seven children found dead at home 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Methane, a colourless, odourless gas, is made of one carbon and four hydrogen atoms. Curiosity Finds Little Green ... 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Cosby was never a political comedian, but soon consciously set about becoming apolitical or, perhaps more significantly, colourless. Bill Cosby: a dark cloud now hangs over ‘America’s Dad’ 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Mr Marshall said the lethal gas given off by slurry is colourless and odourless. School help after boy's slurry death 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z And yet this colourless, odourless gas, making up 78% of the atmosphere, has a highly explosive nature. The bringer of life and death 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z A previously colourless campaign this month descended into scandal. Ballots and bullets 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But what Rey says about French bookshops is true - many are cramped and colourless. Why don't French books sell abroad? 2013-12-09T00:03:03Z Carrick was reduced to complete anonymity in a colourless United midfield. The stuff of nightmares for David Moyes 2013-09-23T08:53:47Z Sarin is a clear, colourless and tasteless liquid which quickly turns to vapour. Q&A: Sarin nerve agent 2013-09-02T09:07:32Z In Australia, the Galileo Movement pushes numerous references to Co2 as colourless and invisible. Tony Abbott caught wolf-whistling to climate change denialists 2013-07-16T01:01:59Z Sarin is considered 20 times as deadly as cyanide and is impossible to detect due to its odourless, tasteless and colourless properties. Syria rebels accused of sarin use 2013-07-09T18:31:42Z Eichmann was a bland colourless figure, but he was also one of the architects of the Holocaust. How Israel keeps Holocaust memories alive 2013-06-18T23:43:30Z I saw vapour streaming off the right-hand engine and a colourless liquid streaming from the exposed pipes. Air safety officials deny claim that BA jet was close to catastrophe 2013-05-30T19:12:42Z The colourless, odourless gas is classed as a weapon of mass destruction and is banned under international law. Russia and US to hold Syria talks 2013-05-07T04:12:36Z The depiction of Co2 as colourless and odourless, and by association also harmless, is a favourite of such blogs. Tony Abbott caught wolf-whistling to climate change denialists 2013-07-16T01:01:59Z What startled him were the arrestingly beautiful, honey-coloured face of the figure that had suddenly appeared - and the look of disbelief in its almost colourless eyes. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z It is a colourless, odourless liquid that easily evaporates as a vapour. Syria chemical weapons: Q&A 2013-04-26T14:03:31Z Sarin is a colourless and highly toxic nerve agent that can cause convulsions, paralysis and death within minutes if it is absorbed through inhalation, ingestion, or contact with skin or eyes. UK concern on Syria chemical weapons 2013-04-26T07:27:14Z Now imagine a colourless liquid that contains the very essence of you. Why Luis Suárez's bite led to the perfect storm of evil 2013-04-22T14:23:29Z Chamberlain seems to have been delighted by the sneak preview, but whether Soros and the colourless Bush feel better for having been granted that privilege is doubtful. Buried alive: the premature obituaries 2013-04-19T13:53:58Z "It's a refined mineral oil, which is a colourless and odourless substance, and it's related to petroleum jelly," he said. Winds could doom many more birds 2013-02-03T10:34:19Z It was a match so inert and colourless that it belonged on the periodic table. Dempsey, Bradley and Altidore look good in absence from USA-Canada 2013-01-30T14:25:03Z "It is a world record for a Golconda diamond and a world record price per carat for a colourless diamond," Francois Curiel, director of the international jewellery department at Christie's, told reporters. 'Perfect' diamond sells for $21m 2012-11-13T22:58:59Z For laboratory personnel in particular, there is also the risk of asphyxiation if liquid nitrogen - which is colourless, odourless and tasteless - is used or spilled in a confined space. Who What Why? How dangerous is liquid nitrogen? 2012-10-09T17:03:19Z It described him as a "colourless politician" whose image only improved when his son became president. Buried alive: the premature obituaries 2013-04-19T13:53:58Z He also introduced the drink to top Soviet general, Georgy Zhukov, who asked if a special, colourless version - one that looked like vodka - could be made, and Coca-Cola duly obliged for a while, says Standage. Who, What Why: In which countries is Coca-Cola not sold? 2012-09-11T09:48:56Z Though living in different parts of the world the cave fish shared important features: they were small - under 10 cm in length - eyeless, colourless and lived in freshwater, limestone caves. Blind fish share common ancestor 2012-08-31T16:20:11Z Colorimetric assays were used to identify artesunate, which turned yellow, from the fakes, which were colourless. Counterfeit Drugs: a Deadly Problem 2012-08-20T20:45:04.993Z Business people like to meet informally, as well as in colourless offices. RBS puts the champagne back on ice as corporate hospitality feels the pinch 2012-06-27T16:23:39Z But why are so many different types of the colourless, flavourless spirit on sale in the US and UK? Why are so many brands of vodka on sale? 2012-06-08T02:26:27Z There are few objects to which colour may not be applied, and many articles which are now colourless might be coloured with advantage. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z His own step was not brisk as he left the hall for the parlour, and his face, always colourless, looked thin and haggard. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Crystals are usually colourless, sometimes yellowish or greenish, and transparent; they have vitreous lustre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z There is a white mist upon the mountain and a sea fog enshrouds the shipping in the harbour: everywhere it is cold, colourless and damp. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z The mineral is usually colourless or white, sometimes brick-red, and varies from transparent to translucent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z They were so colourless and frail, it seemed to her that they were just fit to be emptied out over somebody's grave. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Was her mind really as colourless as her voice? Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z The body is black in both the male and female, the wings in the male are almost colourless, while the wings of the female are dark. Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies 2012-04-02T02:00:23.697Z Grey daylight also affords brownish shadows, but from the greater quantity and diffusion of comparatively colourless light, the local colours of objects become more visible, while the shadows are more varied by reflection and refraction. Colour as a Means of Art Being an Adaption of the Experience of Professors to the Practice of Amatures 2012-03-30T02:00:20.700Z When that cheering beam is withdrawn, how colourless and scentless, how devoid of beauty, do their drooping blossoms become! Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Barbara looked down at the two colourless blossoms which she had fastened among the folds of her black lace. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z He turned and picked up a large pale blue bowl in which he had stirred a quantity of opium, mixing it with a colourless fluid contained in a bottle. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Crouch examined these, and at last laid hands upon one containing a colourless fluid, like water, and handed it to the patient to drink. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z Shells there were, it is true, but they were very small, very fragile, and almost colourless; most, indeed, were pure white and nearly transparent. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z One very young but bright pupil promptly replied: "A colourless fluid that turns black when you wash your hands." Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z The removal of temptation will accomplish little, unless higher tastes are formed and springs of purer pleasure opened to the masses for whom our civilization makes life so drab and colourless. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Usually a bright talker, he was now colourless and floundering. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z De Costa remained silent for a while, his weak, almost colourless eyes staring at the water of the river. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z The child's eyes were vague and fluid, like blue water spilt beneath her lashes; her colourless lips were open. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z She looked at him, her face colourless, but her eyes undaunted. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Mademoiselle grasped the sundial and leant against it, her face colourless, and, for an instant, I thought that she was fainting. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z To André Villard, his friend and one of his translators, the new Russian novelist told something of his life, a life colourless, dreary, bare of dramatic events. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z There were not any pictures in frames in the rooms; but there were paintings on the wall panels, so faded now and colourless that the learning of an antiquary were needed to describe them. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z She raised a clenched hand above the wine-glass before her, and Carthew could have sworn that he saw some colourless drops splash down on the bubbling champagne. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Their life was a hard and colourless one, and they would for this reason cling desperately to the old occasions of merriment. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z Below us, close up against the background of the colourless hills, drearily situated in the bleakest spot of the austere landscape, the straight spires and severely simple buildings of the monastery were clustered together. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z As to the instrumentation I do not believe Chopin had much to do with it; it is the average colourless scoring of his day. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The determination of the luminosity of a coloured object, as compared with a colourless surface illuminated by the same light, is the determination of the second colour constant. Colour Measurement and Mixture 2012-02-27T03:00:13.987Z With certain metallic oxides, silica forms coloured silicates or glasses; and these, when fused with colourless glasses, impart to them the colour of the silicate. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z On his colourless, wasted face a senile smile flickered; he laid his withered hand on his breast and bowed to us, advancing to the threshold. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Hunter was the first to discover that the blood of the embryos of red-blooded animals is at first colourless, resembling that of invertebrates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The brilliant diamond-drops that fringe the edge of the blade are all placed at the points where the nearly colourless veins of the blade come to the outer edge. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Those who live a life of pleasure can only give us colourless falsehoods when they try to depict sincerity of feeling. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z One sheet of glass, colourless and transparent, or it may have its surface ground, is usually employed. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z "Add our Mohawks to the militia," observed Walter Butler, in a colourless voice. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z A shuffling of feet was heard at the door, and a colourless, feeble, old man was assisted into the room. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Now why that brilliancy of the east, when the west was colourless? Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The protector of the marquise was gone--her only protector--for Madame la Mar�chale was a colourless, somewhat weak-minded lady, who need not be considered at all. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z There is the same uncompromising mouth and pinched nostril, colourless face and haughty brow. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z "You know me, sir?" replied Butler, without the faintest trace of surprise in his colourless voice. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z On the contrary, by the light of my lady's confession, he saw Terence from such an aspect, that his hitherto colourless dislike was turned, at once to fiercest hate. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z And even, if that were the case, would not the space be quite colourless? Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z A drizzling veil was settling on the earth, which looked, as far as ken might reach, dun-toned and colourless. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Wearily the snow glares, Through the grey silence, day after day, Mocking the colourless cloudless sky With the reflection of death. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z He always looked rather delicate, tall and slight and colourless, but I hope his youth will pull him through. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Rude, primitive, colourless, its dwellings like the poorest cowsheds, its church like a Canadian ice-house, clinging to mountain sides and spires of rock, so long as I remember anything I shall remember Marbishu. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Even Sir Robert Christison concluded, after years of experimenting on Highland streams, that water was colourless. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Datolite is white or colourless, often with a greenish tinge; it is transparent or opaque. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z I have seen within my heart Crocuses, purple and gold, Drop cold and dull and colourless Beneath the snow. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z Stepan Mihailovitch, though he could not have explained why, was fond of the faint colourless light that follows the glow of sunset. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z It was natural that he should care nothing for any abstract speculation or inquiry; he was an artist throughout, desiring only the refracted light of human imperfection, never the purity of colourless reason. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z That hectic flush—slight, yet well marked—which was deepening in the western heavens, had no counterpart in the east, except the colourless light which marked the wintry sun’s near approach. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Crystals are transparent to translucent, and colourless to pale yellow; hardness 7; specific gravity 3.0. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z In an emergency she would even cook me a dinner which, in its colourless English way, was admirable. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z Cyanogen is a colourless gas, possessing a peculiar characteristic smell, and is very poisonous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Most of our names are rather colourless—collez-lui dessus, therefore, a little patch of brightness—and don't call him after any one—give him a name quite to himself. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Mr. Chase had the high narrow forehead of an ascetic, the loose mouth of a sensualist, and a thin crop of pale and almost colourless hair. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z Grace Coulthurst's face grew a trifle colourless with anger, though she did not quite believe him. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Cryolite occurs in colourless or snow-white cleavable masses, often tinted brown or red with iron oxide, and occasionally passing into a black variety. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z He made another attempt to convert me while at Madras by lending me copies of a rather colourless magazine—always assuring me that his Society was in no sense anti-Christian. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z It was not true, that sad, colourless face with grey beard, wavering in the yellow candle-light. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z He went away to keep your married life and his from fading away into the colourless, dull, ordinary thing it so frequently becomes. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z He stopped, for there was a red spot of anger in Grace Coulthurst's cheek, which was otherwise curiously colourless. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Hypoder′ma, the layer of colourless cells immediately beneath the epidermis of a leaf. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The glass for pressed ware must be colourless, and, when molten, must be sufficiently fluid to adapt itself readily to the intricacies of the moulds, which are often exceedingly complex. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Lola, however, secured an engagement at the Walnut Street Theatre, at Philadelphia, that dull, colourless city, which formed the most incongruous of all possible settings for her personality. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z In fact, the capital of Japan is one of the most colourless and prosaic places on the globe. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Dr. Thorne tore the wrapper off the phial, and began pouring its colourless contents into a bottle already two-thirds full, which he had prepared. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Photographs are the colourless phantoms from which these glowing life-like beauties start. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z At ordinary temperatures it crystallizes from aqueous solutions in large colourless monoclinic prisms, which effloresce in dry air, and at 35�C. melt in their water of crystallization. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z On closer examination this phenomenon appeared to arise from a mass consisting of myriads of minute animalcul�, which had a yellow opaque kernel, the gelatinous covering of which was transparent and colourless. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Platforms, booking offices, waiting rooms, are perfect copies of all that the Western mind has produced to be useful, but from an artistic point of view featureless and colourless. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z The emerging rays are parallel to their original direction and form a colourless image on the parhelic circle opposite the sun. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z But even she, though colourless, seems not to have been wholly devoid of the Pitt temperament, though she seems to have always been on intimate terms with her family. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The latter are made by dipping a small mass of molten colourless glass into an iron cup around the inner wall of which short lengths of white cane have been arranged at 92 regular intervals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Here in the sphere of quiet deliberation, what completely possessed him and moved him intensely before, appears to him cold, colourless, and for the moment external to him; he is merely the spectator, the observer. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z For those who are in search of Swiss scenery and Alpine grandeur, it may seem flat and colourless. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z If these vertical faces become very numerous, the eye will perceive a colourless horizontal circle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z He was an Asturian, tall and bony, with a colourless, hard-featured face, enormously long arms and legs, and large hands and feet. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z They, moreover, suggested the introduction for the manufacture of table-glass of a material similar in texture to that used by the Venetians, both colourless and tinted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The many-sided view of life as a whole which man, as distinguished from the lower animals, possesses through reason, may be compared to a geometrical, colourless, abstract, reduced plan of his actual life. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The train winds through colourless and uninteresting suburbs for some time. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Pure gypsum is colourless or white, but it is often tinted, especially in the alabaster variety, grey, yellow or pink. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z His eyes were dull, his face colourless, his cheeks pendant and flabby. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z For the highest quality of bottles, which 95 are practically colourless, sand, limestone and sulphate and carbonate of soda are used. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z To wander down it with a companion to whom its flowers, its butterflies, its shadows brought no full message, must turn it chill, dark, lonely, colourless.... The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z It is a colourless crystalline solid, readily soluble in water and alcohol; it deliquesces on exposure to air. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Jessie Horsfield was about his own age; tall and slight of figure, with regular features, a rather colourless face, and eyes of a cold, light blue. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Clementina stood petrified, colourless, staring at them with a look of terror rather than anger. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z The invention of colourless Bohemian glass brought in its train the practice of cutting glass, a method of ornamentation for which Venetian glass, from its thinness, was ill adapted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The baptism of sorrow had lifted her on to a higher plane, and had fitted her for better things than a colourless life of inert misery. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z The colour mass or stain is ground fine and lawned, and from about 2 to 7 per cent mixed with the colourless glaze mass, according to the depth of colour required. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z When sulphur is heated, the yellow odourless solid, seizing upon oxygen in the air, combines with it to produce a colourless strongly smelling gas. Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z His admiration showed in his eyes, and suddenly a beautiful flush spread over her somewhat colourless cheeks. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z This colourless potash-lime glass has always been known as Bohemian glass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The tourmaline in section is brown, green, blue or colourless, and often the same crystal shows many different tints. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Her world was like a world without sunshine, flat and colourless, a place of neutral tints and drab impressions. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z Metals, as a class, are lustrous, heavy, malleable substances; hydrogen is a colourless, inodourless, invisible, very light gas: how then can hydrogen be said to be metallic? Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z You never rest—you never have rested, from seeking to make my life colourless and dull. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z It is the most brilliant and the most colourless of all glasses, and was undoubtedly first perfected in England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Apatite and topaz are both colourless and of irregular form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z He was colourless and wretchedly thin in face, but the improvement in his appearance was already very marked. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z But as soon as the majority became aware that some of the more colourless Bishops of the middle party were working for the prorogation of the Council, they resolved to be beforehand with them. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z "What will we do now, sir?" said Michael to me, presenting the conundrum with colourless calm, and ignoring the coat-tail trailed for his benefit, "we'll hardly get them out of that island to-night." Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Thus five distinct colours will be given, by the addition of one colourless solution. A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense. 2011-11-22T03:00:11.870Z Thanks to him, she insists, American novels are pale and colourless productions, and are known the world over for their tameness and insipidity. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Lawless got upon his feet, and stood stiffly upright, his face grim, and colourless under the sunburn, like the face of a man whose blood is at white heat with hardly repressed passion. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z Our petals are like rich velvet, not pale and colourless like yours. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Then, rising, she took out of a small cupboard in an ormolu cabinet a decanter containing some colourless liquid. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z These liquid solutions may all be diluted so as to be colourless. A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense. 2011-11-22T03:00:11.870Z Sunlight, by which photographs are usually taken, appears to the eye white and colourless. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z She was exceedingly plain and colourless, and had a large turned-up nose. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z The hornblende of granites is usually pale green in section, the augite and enstatite nearly colourless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z At best, it is as chill, as colourless and meticulously mechanical as the interminable tickings of a world of clockwork. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z When he is upset, his colourless, dull eyes often twitch. He Who Gets Slapped A Play in Four Acts 2011-11-11T03:00:27.467Z So far from being white and colourless, it consists of the most lovely colours. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z She was a well-mannered, commonplace Frenchwoman, rather colourless and uninteresting. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Certainly Rome needs sunshine, everything looked forlorn and colourless and everybody so depressed. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z It differs from the others in being a novel of society, and has been stigmatised, rather unjustly, as weak and colourless, although at the time of its publication it had a great success. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z The colourless or amber-coloured filtrate is concentrated to 27� to 28� B., when it forms the “heavy liquor,” just mentioned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z There are not so many of these among fishing vessels—brown or red is more likely, or sheer colourless dirt over paint unrecognisable. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z Secondly, deep-sea faunas, though as much exposed as the cave-faunas, to the condition of darkness, are not by any means invariably colourless. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z As thus found, two molecules are united together, usually called diamyl, being a colourless liquid with an agreeable smell and burning taste.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z This acid is perfectly colourless, and when exposed to heat loses all its water, and becomes a glassy substance, not liable to be dissipated by fire, and readily uniting with earths. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z This is filtered through fresh bone-char filters, from which it is discharged as a practically colourless liquid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z How grim the woods, the tower how pale; The landscape colourless and cold, While all the hovel foul and frail, The ragged thatch and battered sail, Are gorgeous in the sunset gold! A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z “So very delightful, mamma,” the girl went on with her colourless calm. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Beryl, bėr′il, n. a precious stone resembling the emerald, but colourless, yellowish, greenish yellow or blue—its finer varieties are called precious beryl, and sometimes aquamarine. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z It is considerably lighter than water, colourless, and transparent, has a peculiar smell and taste, and the property of inebriating. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z The solution is filtered and allowed to cool, when colourless rhombic pyramids of the aurocyanide separate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z So these colourless food-taking plants prey upon their neighbours, while they take their oxygen for breathing from air. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z It was as if they studied, for convenience, to be superficially colourless; their colour was all in their talk. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z There was another, A—tchoukooski, quite a colourless person; one more I must mention, B—in, a man well on in years, who impressed us all very unfavourably indeed. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z With the volatile alkali a blue liquor is formed, but in some cases it becomes colourless. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z It forms colourless, monoclinic prisms, which turn brown on exposure to air. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z By heating the metal with chlorine, germanic chloride, GeCl4, is obtained as a colourless fuming liquid boiling at 86-87� C., it is decomposed by water forming a hydrated germanium dioxide. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z As form, when colourless, Is nothing to the eye,—that pine-tree there, Without its black and green, being all a blank,— So, without love, is beauty undiscerned In man or angel. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z The Skipjack found quite stiff and colourless this morning, in the water-jug! Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show 2011-09-19T02:00:13.900Z A colourless liquor comes over first, and then a thick white fume, which condenses into the transparent liquor above mentioned. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z In one vivid instant, with a single piercing flash of insight, the other woman seemed to look straight through that soft feminine body to Mrs. Blackburn's thin and colourless soul. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z She entered the chamber precipitately, her face colourless, and her eyes starting from her head. The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z Harold is not in the least bad: it contains nothing ridiculous, unreasonable, or disagreeable; it is only decidedly weak, decidedly colourless, and tame. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Suddenly reduced to an existence with a narrow horizon, women found it colourless and mean. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Crude vinegar, however, contains some ingredient from the vegetable substances from which it was procured: but distillation separates them, and makes the vinegar colourless; though some of the acid is lost in the process. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z Even in the midst of the emotional crisis, Angelica's manner had not lost a trace of its charming self-possession, its rather colourless sweetness. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z At his side stood his wife, a colourless reflection of himself, as the wife was of the husband in the Semitic family on earth. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z This is generally mild and colourless, and the passages that arrest us, relatively, owe their relief to juxtaposition rather than to any especial possession of the old Tennysonian energy. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Another example of a coloured water is given in Table XI, whilst Table XII shows the results obtained with a colourless water. Chlorination of Water 2011-09-13T02:00:32.243Z To make glass perfectly colourless, and at the same time more dense, commonly called flint glass, manufacturers use a certain proportion of calx of lead and manganese. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z "He ought to have been a writer or a statesman," she thought, while she looked at his roughened hair, which would never lie flat, at his smoky grey eyes, and his thin, almost colourless lips. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z One met beauty as well as brains; wealth as well as wit; and quite as many colourless nonentities as notorieties of every hue. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z He addressed to a newspaper a letter of which it is but a colourless account to say that it embodied the very hysterics of gross vituperation. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z HCl and 1 c.cm. of starch solution and titrate with N/1000 sodium thiosulphate until colourless. Chlorination of Water 2011-09-13T02:00:32.243Z "Are you well, my lord?" she asked in a colourless voice, which chilled me again for its seeming lack of warmth. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z In Caroline's narrow and colourless life, so rich in character, so barren of incident, this sympathy was unfolding like some rare and exquisite blossom. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Through the glasses of captivity the world was colourless and distorted. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z To casual or jaded readers who crave the word-embroidery, the heightened note, of the romanticist in style, the result may seem colourless. John Woolman's Journal 2011-09-06T02:00:09.260Z It is sometimes met with colourless, and such are its refractive powers and brilliancy that it has been mistaken for diamond. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z The man’s face, soft and gentle as a woman’s a moment before, grew hard and colourless; his mouth was set, and his eyes had a bright and wicked gleam in them. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z She spoke in a flat, colourless voice, as if she had passed beyond the sphere of life in which either surprises or disappointments are possible. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z And when freedom seemed remote, the world was very colourless. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z With the help of certain colourless and odourless drops, he relieved the oppression which was troubling him. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z The precious residue on microscopic examination shows many pieces of black diamond, and other colourless transparent pieces, some amorphous, others crystalline. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Her face was colourless, and her hands clasped tightly together. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z It had never occurred to him before, accustomed as he was to the formal loveliness of Angelica, that the same woman could be both plain and beautiful, both colourless and vivid. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z But she had a fine pair of grey eyes in her little colourless face, and her slim, ungloved hands, which Char immediately noticed, were unusually beautiful. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z She was gazing on me with eyes from which all fire, all meaning had flown, and a face colourless and apathetic. In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3 2011-08-25T02:00:28.717Z Clear, colourless crystals are known as white sapphire, and are very valuable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Gallium forms colourless salts, which in neutral dilute aqueous solutions are converted on heating into basic salts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Lady Roden was a colourless woman who had sunk to a secondary position in the household. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Pale rays of colourless and pure fire spread like a fan along the eastern sky; they deepened into momentary purple, throbbed as with a pulse, and suddenly were quickened with a flood of scarlet. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z No tinge was rising in his colourless face, no warming tingle in his veins. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Flexible colourless sheets resembling animal gelatin are thus obtained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z The colour is typically red, but may be brown, yellow, green or even black, while some garnets are colourless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z The gospel finds men plunged in monotony, in the routine of callings which machinery and the subdivision of labour make ever more colourless, spiritless, and dull. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The words were colourless in themselves, but to one ear in that room they rang like a clash of swords. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z A thin glassy crust, resembling a coat of varnish, is formed; its thickness is usually not more than one-eighth of an inch, and it may be colourless, white or yellow. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Gelsemine has the formula C11H19NO2, and is a colourless, odourless, intensely bitter solid, which is insoluble in water, but readily forms a soluble hydrochloride. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z The augite is usually brown, but greenish, violet and colourless varieties may occur. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Strange, colourless flowers bloomed in the garden, and the paths were heavy and wet. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z The foreman was an agitated, colourless man, and he spoke in a low tone. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z It is a colourless liquid which boils at 162� C., and is moderately soluble in water; it turns brown on exposure to air and has a characteristic aromatic smell. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Thus, corundum when pure is colourless, but the presence of traces of certain mineral substances imparts to it not only the red of ruby and the blue of sapphire, but almost every other colour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z The olivine is colourless in itself, but in most cases is altered to green or yellow serpentine, often with bands of dark magnetite granules along its cleavages and cracks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Must she remain alone in this weird place, and walk continually in this garden of colourless flowers? The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z His powerful frame was emaciated; the sunny hair showed colourless streaks; the furrow between the brows had grown deeper still, and the eyes looked hollow in the haggard face. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z At the other extreme the cell-walls of many lichen-fungi are soft and colourless, but turn blue in iodine, as does starch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z It is the adrectal gland, and in the genera Murex and Purpura secretes a colourless liquid which turns purple upon exposure to the atmosphere, and was used by the ancients as a dye. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Don't let it be flat and colourless and tepid for pages at a stretch. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z The maiden stooped to pluck one of the colourless flowers that bloomed in the garden. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z Her face was white as death; she opened her colourless lips once, twice, as though to speak, but sound there was none. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z This did not please me: partly from a dislike to all trickery in art; partly because, to my taste, the pale colourless purity of the marble is one of the beauties of a fine statue. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z This was followed at evening by the first aurora display, in the form of a delicate convoluted ribbon of colourless light. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z Common sense tells us that since something must be left out, it is well to omit the colourless, unimportant data that never will be missed! The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Coldly criticised by the mind alone, they will lie like the gathered field-poppy, inert and colourless. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z The man had lived long before and had lived long after, but the sight of Shelley and the words he spoke made just that hand-breadth of his life something different from all the colourless remainder. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z But then, unhappily, you and your friends have not confined yourselves to colourless readings, when silently up and down every part of the N. T. you have introduced innovations. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z There was a gleam in her dark eyes, and the red spot showed in her otherwise colourless cheeks again. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z With the other hand she was leading away the little boy from over the way,--she longed for some coral to adorn her colourless robes, for a few drops of warm human blood. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z You will at once see how full of colour and individuality were the former lives; how colourless, unlovely, and deprived of all initiative are the latter. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Mrs. B. The white rays of the sun, are composed of rays, which, when separated, produce all these colours, although when blended together, they appear colourless or white. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z A year ago I would have set against Henry Peacock's name the words "colourless" and "neutral." Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Her face grew almost colourless with anger, and she closed one hand at her side. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z He opened a small, iron-clamped box, and brought from it a small packet, carefully sealed, and a phial of clear, colourless fluid. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z To his calm and carefully worded statements, studiously colourless, but little exception could be taken. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Confound him for a contemptible, colourless bit of canvas—or, no, I ought to say brass, for the fellow has the impudence of a hundred. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z The sun had nearly sunk; already the dark chasms were full of almost opaque gloom, above which the rarefied air quivered around each sun-scorched mountain head, seeming to cap it with thin, colourless flame. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z Her cheeks were almost colourless, but she met Eveline Annersly's eyes steadily, and her voice had a bitter ring in it. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z Had the other been of the colourless and inane order she could have tolerated her—bore as she might be. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z His voice, usually so full and sonorous, sounded muffled, and his face was still more changed: it was colourless, and looked pinched and wan upon the pillow. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z His eyes, wide and blazing, met hers with a look of inflexible hostility and rage; his mouth was set like a trap, his lips, like his face, were almost colourless. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z The spongin that binds the skeleton-spicules together takes the form of a colourless or yellowish transparent membrane, which is often practically invisible. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z The girl's face was colourless, and her lips were trembling, but her eyes were hard, for her contempt was growing stronger now. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z I think she’s too colourless—washed-out looking,”—a fault the speaker herself could in no wise plead guilty to. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z But, save only in the case of white feathers, beneath this colourless, glazed outer coat there is always a layer of pigment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z She was a pale, ashen blonde, with a skin as colourless as snow, level dark brows, sharp blue eyes set close to the bridge of her pointed nose, and a thin-lipped, violent mouth. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z When pigment is produced it takes the form of minute granules lying in the cells of the parenchyma, the dermal membrane being as a rule colourless. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z His features were of the lowest Hebrew type—his lips were full and shapeless, his nose large and prominent, his eyes small and colourless, but exceedingly bright and glittering. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The way in front of us was grey and colourless by comparison. A Canterbury Pilgrimage 2011-06-13T02:00:24.520Z Pure felspar is colourless, but the mineral is usually white, yellow, red or green. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Mr. Dumphy, with colourless cheeks, tried to laugh a reckless scornful laugh. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z It is apparently the latter, however, that give many otherwise colourless sponges a slight pinkish or yellowish tinge directly due to the presence in cells of the parenchyma of minute liquid globules. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z They are not in the least like that sombre personage, but just colourless young men. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z His face was quite expressionless, quite colourless, now. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Yet poetry, like music, would be colourless, scentless, if it sounded no dissonances. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z "Her what?" asked Mr. Hamlin, feeling the blood fast rushing to his colourless face. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z As they exist in the cells of Spongilla the corpuscles are minute oval bodies of a bright green colour and each containing a highly refractile colourless granule. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z The man who is free from all temptation to take a side, if not from political affinity then from moral sympathy, must run some risk of being dull and colourless. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z After a moment's silence she said in a colourless voice: "I wish you'd lie down on the bed." The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z It was really a beautiful view, especially in the spring, when the land was not so colourless as at other times. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z The viceroyalty of the Earl of Haddington was as colourless as it was brief. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z This liquid is colourless in its natural condition, but if the sponge is plunged into alcohol the liquid turns of a dark brown colour which stains both the alcohol and the sponge almost instantaneously. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z All critics have been struck with Thackeray’s tendency to make his good women weak and colourless, or else sermons incarnate. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The pale and colourless shades flickered away to nothingness, as frosty fog dissolves before warm breath, and all grew void. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z There were no traces of agitation in her face—scarcely even in her manner; but her lips were perfectly colourless, and her eyes were dimmed and sunken. Amy Herbert 2011-05-20T02:00:31.467Z Her glowing loveliness had the effect of making the other women in the verandah seem colourless. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The endoderm consists mainly of comparatively large cells with polygonal bases which can be seen from the external surface of the column in colourless individuals. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z A spell of colourless humidity was broken by bright skies and a keen wind; the latter grew bitter with the day; the former darkened before it was time. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The new president’s first prime minister was M. Tirard, a senator who had held office in six of Gr�vy’s ministries, and he formed a cabinet of politicians as colourless as himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Tram-cars glide past, a cab or two rolls by, along the pavement stroll a few residents, colourless folk, passers-by, the public—“people.” Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z It is widely distributed, but to find transparent colourless sheets of large size is difficult. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z In young zoaria they are almost colourless but in older ones there is a band of not very dense pigment round the base of the vertical limb. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z Purely kinetic speech is prose, not good prose, not literature, but colourless prose, prose without atmosphere, the sort of prose that M. Jourdain discovered he had been speaking all his life. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z If it be a weak and colourless individuality, then so much the worse for the home, which must be its reflex. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z The neutral tints, the colourless conditions, neither light nor dark, even the faint wrapping mist that came like a cloud from the sea, harmonised with Mildred's feelings as she quoted the text softly. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z "There is much obscurity about the whole matter," he wrote from Sorrento on March 21, 1888, "but I flatter myself that my paper will at least be a triumph of impartiality, of absolutely colourless neutrality." John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z Complete digestion, at any rate in the Calcutta form, takes several days to accomplish, and after the process is finished a flocculent mass of colourless excreta is emitted from the mouth. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless and tasteless poisonous gas which is produced when fuel does not burn properly. CO poison deaths 'underestimated' 2011-04-16T23:04:03Z His voice seemed strained and hollow, and as Burton’s eyes accustomed themselves to the store’s comparative darkness after the bright light outside, he saw that his employer’s face was as colourless as death. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z A colourless weary face and eyes, with an odd shine and light in them, were reflected between the dimly-burning candles. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Her face and lips were colourless, and she seemed like a spirit waiting for a departing soul. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z If the polyp is starved or exposed to a high temperature, these particles disappear and it becomes practically colourless. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z They are all monobasic acids; the lower members are colourless liquids, and the higher members from C7H15COOH upwards are colourless solids. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The bases themselves are colourless and too insoluble in water to be of use, hence they are employed in the form of their soluble coloured salts, usually the hydrochlorides of the colour-bases. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Samas, the sun, has become a goddess; the moon-god has taken the foremost place in the pantheon, and the sun has accordingly been transformed into his colourless reflection. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The countenance, this moment like a summer heaven, with every hue of loveliness flying across it in rich succession, was the next colourless. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z On two occasions, one in January and the other at the beginning of February, I have seen a minute colourless flagellate on the tentacles of the Calcutta polyp. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z It is a colourless gas with a faint odour, and burns with a bright luminous flame. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The finest diamonds are colourless, perfectly clear, and pellucid. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The goddesses owed their existence to a grammatical necessity, and their unsubstantial and colourless character justified their origin. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z She was looking woefully wan and ill, her face almost as colourless as the linen on which she lay. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z The minute organism was colourless, transparent, considerably larger than the spermatozoa of Hydra, slightly constricted in the middle and rounded at each end. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z They are sonnets, very unlike the glittering rosy gimcracks of the preceding generation, but stiff with stately compliment and colourless art. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z She clasped her hands over her forehead and stared in his face with a wild glare—her colourless lips parted with horror—and her whole frame shivering. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z By the side of the god, the goddess was little more than a colourless abstraction which owed its origin to the necessities of grammar. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The eyes were colourless, and owed all the brilliancy they possessed to an inflammation of the lids, which never forsook them. Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-04-06T02:00:04.340Z Possibly this flagellate was a parasite rather than a commensal, as the individual on which it swarmed was unusually emaciated and colourless, and bore neither gonads nor buds. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z In consequence of its low refractive and dispersive power, colourless pellucid fluor-spar is valuable in the construction of apochromatic lenses, but this variety is rare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Alcala's pale features showed the sufferings which he had lately undergone: he looked like one newly risen from a sick-bed, with sunken cheek, colourless lip, and languid eye. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z Like the feminine of the noun, she is the colourless reflection of her husband, though without the reflection there can be no husband. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Had her face been seen at that moment, it would have appeared pale—that is, paler than its wont: for the cheeks of Marion Wade could never have shown colourless. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The ectocyst is colourless or faintly tinted with brown; as a rule it is not quite hyaline and the external surface is minutely roughened or tuberculate. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z The heather looked lifeless, colourless; the green fronds peeping between had lost their sparkle; the red-brown of the undulating belt of road was the brightest tint in the landscape up there. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z They were dancing in the house opposite; like colourless phantoms the different couples glided across the lowered shades of the windows. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The side which is turned towards the bottom, and in some kinds is the right, in others the left, is generally colourless, and called “blind,” from the absence of an eye on this side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z No sentiment, no expression of opinion were ever to be allowed; all description was to be reduced to its barest bones, dusty, dead, and colourless. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Their ectocyst is soft, colourless and transparent but minutely roughened on the surface. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z Is it—is it—— 'I suppose,' continues Lady Betty, in the same level, even, absolutely colourless voice as before, 'that you thought we met by appointment? Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Tears filled her eyes, and the quivering of her colourless lips showed how violent was the effort by which she avoided shedding them. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z The wines until after the dessert were American; but as luncheon was concluding a servant brought a great tray covered with small glasses containing a colourless liquid. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z The qualities sold were generally colourless, and were probably the result of acetic fermentation of rice. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z The cutting is careful and painstaking, but hardly ever succeeds in making the picture stand out boldly on the page, so that the general effect is grey and colourless. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z The tears were slowly pouring down her colourless cheeks. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z It is a colourless highly volatile and inflammable liquid, having at 20� C. a specific gravity of 0.65. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Now follow a couple of very colourless years. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z The fungus in its earlier and colourless stage may have been present from the time the latex entered the cup. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z Dorothy's face was rather too thin and colourless for childhood; but her features were regular, and her large, blue eyes, shaded by dark lashes, were really beautiful. A Flight with the Swallows Little Dorothy's Dream 2011-03-04T03:00:54.547Z That time did come back to her as she spoke: a grey colourless pause in her life, in which she had been—not happy, perhaps, but contented. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z It is a colourless gas of somewhat sweetish taste; it is slightly soluble in water, but more so in alcohol and ether. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The moon was high in the colourless sky; along the eastern horizon there was a faint gleam of yellow light. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z She answered so faintly that he had to strain his ear to hear her, and her colourless lips trembled as the lips tremble of a person trying to keep back tears. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z All other vocations were tame and colourless in comparison. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z "It was thoroughly colourless stuff," the Guardian reported at the time. One club and one desire: keep winning 2011-02-28T22:15:04Z The colour is generally pale-blue or green, though sometimes the mineral is colourless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The esters of the aliphatic and aromatic acids are colourless neutral liquids, which are generally insoluble in water, but readily dissolve in alcohol and ether. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z When the war is over, we shall hear stories of aviators and of the crews of submarines which will make the wildest inventions of writers of adventure seem tame and colourless. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Every week the further scheme she had in her mind took deeper root: the more she saw of working-men, of their hard life and colourless existence, the more she pitied them. The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z Minerals curator Alan Hart explained how compared to standard diamonds - "small carat stones, colourless, white - this one is exceptional". VIDEO: Huge yellow diamond on display 2011-02-24T12:07:08Z It is a colourless liquid with a sweetish burning taste and an agreeable odour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z It is a colourless oily liquid of strongly acid reaction; its aqueous solution decomposes on standing and on heating it forms diethyl sulphate and sulphuric acid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Most diamonds are small and colourless - those in jewellery are typically less than five carats. Record yellow diamond on display 2011-02-24T12:23:55Z "She is alive," the Marquis acquiesced, in a colourless tone. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z A narrow lane opened through the ice, an ink-black passage in the colourless plain, but beyond stretched a long white field before the jagged edge where the snow wave curled in a monstrous lip. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z It is a colourless oil boiling at 247� C., and having a spicy odour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z In fairness, after Wednesday night's enthralling Arsenal–Barcelona match, all the other football on TV last week seemed a little colourless. Liverpool's European Losers Cup outing is enough to make ad men mad 2011-02-21T00:05:05Z No one thought anything of that colourless oval face, those dove-like eyes, that intelligent brow shaded by heavy curls. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z It was as light as day but there were stars already in the sky, and a pale, colourless moon was there, waiting for the slowly moving mantle of twilight. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Biotite, if present, is brown; epidote is yellow or colourless; rutile, apatite and quartz all occur with some frequency. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Its first chill rays of early light played on the broad surface of the sea, but colourless as yet, and conveying no warmth. Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:37.767Z Standing in the centre of the floor was a woman, barefooted, bareheaded, with hair streaming wildly over her shoulders, with hungry set look on her colourless face. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The word marriage, suburban and colourless in its connotations, in fact hides a welter of intensity and depth that puts to shame the most passionate works of literature. Read and weep 2011-02-11T17:35:14Z "I don't know why I was sent away," she said in a colourless voice. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Her health seemed to be more firmly established, but there was not a gleam of the freshness or enthusiasm of youth in her colourless face. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z During these days of festival, the rest of the cemetery is also very full of flowers, but it looks dull and colourless compared with that corner sacred to our soldiers. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z For the first time since that fatal night of desertion, emotion awoke in her colourless face, while a strange moisture started into her eyes. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z His cheeks are colourless; his jaws have dropped till the lips are agape, displaying his white teeth; his eyes protrude as if about to start forth from their sockets. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z If a woman is so colourless as to respond merely to love in the abstract, she is worth nothing better, nothing higher, than what she has evoked. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z But something of the chill seemed to linger here,--everything looked dreary and colourless,--it was, after all, but a lifeless image of the reality. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z He opened a corner cupboard and took down an ordinary glass stopper bottle, unlabelled and containing a colourless liquid. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z The young man's face was colourless and heavy; his eyes dull and deeply marked with black lines; his appearance thinner and older. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The base of enamel is a clear, colourless, transparent vitreous compound called flux, which is composed of silica, minium and potash. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z There are nice men here, odious men, harmless men, colourless men, worthy men, and the ever-present fool. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z He was deadly pale; at short intervals a faint red flush came and went like a stain upon his colourless cheek. Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z Yet his indifference to things was not so colourless as it appeared; but was due, perhaps, to the transference of his interests elsewhere. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z He was himself so colourless, so commonplace, that a true picture must have been uninteresting, while a fictitious drawing would have been unsatisfactory and out of place with the plan of this story. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Her soft brown hair had lost its lustre; her cheeks were drawn and absolutely colourless. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z She was a thin colourless woman, with whatever good looks she may have had in her youth washed out of her by ill-health and an anxious life. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z In neutral, and still more in acid solutions, the dissociation of the indicator is practically nothing, and the liquid is colourless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z If Dolly were of a less naturally serene temperament she would go under beneath the weight, she would be, after five years of it, a colourless, meek thing. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z The young man smiled, though his lips were still colourless. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z The full light of midday fell upon them from the tall window on their right—the pale, grey, colourless light of December. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z "Yes," returned the nun, without any show of surprise or indeed, any emotion at all, in her carefully colourless voice. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Thus para-nitrophenol has colourless molecules, but an intensely yellow negative ion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Instead of one volume, it dragged out to four, of which the first appeared in 1835, and the last in 1846; and the work is wholly devoid of any original merit, bald and colourless. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z His face had grown colourless and his lips quivered. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z Her face had the colour of yellow parchment, her skin was stretched tightly over her high cheekbones—her lips were colourless and her eyes large, wide-open, were pale in hue and circled with red. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Queenie's fair, opaque face was as colourless as ever, her eyes were cast down. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z It forms colourless scales which have a bitter taste, but it is highly inadvisable to taste either this substance or elaterium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z They stand out prominently and look uncouth, or they sprawl out along the sides of the head; they are either as colourless as if they had just been boiled, or as red as boiled lobsters. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z And the girl looked at the great cup, now dull and colourless like a dead thing. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Her escort was a pliable, colourless youth, who, I assumed, was her son. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Queenie did not need to depend upon her looks, which seldom or never varied from soft, colourless opacity and opulence of contour. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z She was dreadfully pale, her lips colourless and slightly parted, the eyes half-closed. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z As it was, those great colourless eyes, resting on her face, were putting her to the proof. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z I could perceive now that he was a man of sixty, wrinkled, bent, and feeble, with sparse, grizzled hair, and long, colourless face. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z The rose in the north transept is of the wheel type, and is too pale, because of the excessive use of colourless glass, especially in the radiating arms. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z In the free state the bases are colourless and insoluble, but in combination with acids they form salts which are coloured and for the most part soluble in water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z It was just a pale and colourless transcript of the old familiar teleological Lamarckism. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z His life is one long round of colourless routine, tempered by hair-bleaching emergencies. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z McTaggart stared at him; at the lean, colourless face under its untidy thatch of coarse, gray hair; at the spare figure, the long, steady hands and the loose, unconventional clothes that he wore. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z A parish of dead uniformity would be comfortable but not educative, quiet but colourless and insipid. With God in the World A Series of Papers 2010-12-20T17:12:19.523Z The physicist says the former are bodies which reflect all the coloured Theory of dyeing. rays of the spectrum composing white light—if opaque, they appear white; if transparent, they are colourless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z The light of an oil lamp on the table between them showed his yellow, eager eyes, the scheming intensity of the brain behind them, the lurking half-smile of triumph about his writhing, colourless lips. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z He stood up, his face quite colourless, his knees quaking. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z The first half was as colourless as the Falcons' grey shirts with the entertainment limited to who of the dead-eyed kickers, Nick Evans and his New Zealand compatriot Jimmy Gopperth, would land their penalties. Harlequins 23-12 Newcastle 2010-10-02T17:01:00Z The scandal was greeted with amazement in the financial community, where Hurd was known as an effective but colourless manager with a cost-cutting ethos and an obsessive head for numbers. HP boss Mark Hurd admits integrity shortcomings over claims relating to former porn actor Jodie Fisher 2010-08-09T20:08:00Z The start of the election in Northern Ireland has been subdued, and almost completely colourless. UK election 2010-04-12T16:12:00Z He scarcely knew her—this wild, white-faced creature with burning eyes and colourless lips. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z The milk is colourless; that is, its blueness is not due to absorption, but to a separation of the light by the particles suspended in the liquid. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. She was a tall slip of a girl, with a thin, colourless face, and very large, impressive eyes. Capricious Caroline On distillation of equal parts of dry potassium acetate and arsenious oxide, a colourless liquid of unbearable smell passes over, which is spontaneously inflammable and excessively poisonous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" At last there was a faint sigh; and a cold—so to speak, colourless—voice said: “Is Gertrude there?” A Double Knot Next to this comes the 'white' of the egg, which is really colourless while liquid, but turns white and more or less solid in the cooking. Butterflies and Moths (British) To this purport we have the following authoritative testimony— "Just as crystal, that colourless substance, when severally joined with blue, red, or yellow objects, is seen as possessing that colour." The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy Colourless to brownish, the colourless massive examples being in great demand as a substitute for white lead in paint and for other purposes. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis It is a colourless gas of unpleasant smell, excessively poisonous, very slightly soluble in water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" When pure it forms colourless crystalline scales melting at 216� C., and having a violet fluorescence. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Pure alcohol is a colourless poisonous liquid boiling at 78� C., possessing a strong odour and a burning taste. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The crystals are usually transparent and colourless, sometimes with a greenish or rose-red tint. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The benzene layer on evaporation deposits the anti-pyrine as a colourless crystalline solid which melts at 113� C. and is soluble in water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" "Yes," he agreed, though in a colourless voice, "one would indeed like to think so." The Spy in Black It is colourless, odourless, and tasteless, and may be liquefied and solidified. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The common ester—ethyl acetate—is a volatile colourless liquid, manufactured by distilling a mixture of alcohol, oil of vitriol, and acetic acid, and used for flavouring purposes. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The mineral is colourless, white or yellowish, transparent or translucent, has a vitreous lustre, and, in fact, is not unlike calcite in general appearance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" It is a colourless liquid, slightly soluble in water, and is spontaneously inflammable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" To me the word 'natural' means all that is middle class, all that is of the essence of Jingoism, all that is colourless and without form and void. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man It is a colourless pungent gas, composed of nitrogen and hydrogen; formula, NH3. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Acetylene is a colourless gas slightly soluble in water and very sparingly soluble in brine. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Have three different solutions of rosin in rectified alcohol, making them of various degrees of strength, but always thin enough to be quite fluid, the weakest solution being almost colourless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" |
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