| 单词 | colourlessness |
| 例句 | The 15th century was the period of white glass, which approached at last to colourlessness, and was employed in great profusion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z On the one side, at the colourlessness, the shabbiness, the squalid monotony of virtue; on the other, at the enervating and degrading effects of vice. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The rare blue cord on her brow told how fiercely the lava-flood surged under its icy bands, and the blanched lip matched her cheek in colourlessness; save these tokens of anguish, no other was visible. Macaria I gave myself up wholly to this vague dreaming, call it home-sickness, or what you will, it enlivened the oppressive colourlessness of the days and the loneliness of the nights. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The contrast is perhaps unique as regards the dead colourlessness of the beginning, and the splendid colour of the end. A History of Elizabethan Literature The sky was clear as a bell, of a deep, rich, ultramarine tint in the zenith; shading off by imperceptible gradations to a soft, warm colourlessness at the horizon. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise The years slipped by, one by one, so like each other in their colourlessness that I forgot to take account of them. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Save the scarlet lines which marked her lips, her face was of that clear colourlessness which can be likened only to the purest ivory. Macaria In the cold colourlessness they were delicate and feeble as the faces of children, rosy and soft under the splattering of mud and the shagginess of unshaven beards. One Man's Initiation—1917 Indeed, the choice ultimately fell upon the one that had the least distinctive personality of all, his disguise being kept up by a kind of protective colourlessness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 For true patriotism, although like all passionate emotion it involves a certain mental distortion, a slight disturbance of the rational orbit, is yet one of those happy diseases which relieve the colourlessness of strict normality. The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade I thought of her face as I had seen it in the half light—a faint impression of delicate colourlessness, and for the life of me I could not help a little shiver. The Betrayal At the breakfast table Mr. Clifton noticed the colourlessness of his pupil's face, but kindly abstained from any allusion to it. Macaria From this time the correspondence is marked by an increasing bitterness on my side and a level colourlessness on his. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 The colourlessness of his own mind took on for the time the colour of the other's. What Necessity Knows There was something about its very colourlessness which made it sound oracular. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 With all the achromatic clearness, the unromantic colourlessness of the early morning…. Love and Mr. Lewisham The brown flecks in the eyes seemed to spread and engulf the surrounding colourlessness. Cheerful—By Request Odo suspected a certain colourlessness in the life she depicted. The Valley of Decision He had a steely colourlessness, and a steely pliability, and a steely strength. Eminent Victorians She gave him altogether an impression of colourlessness, and he had been living in a land where colour and vitality meant much. The Vanished Messenger |
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