| 单词 | lead-coloured |
| 例句 | I love the river’s daily transformation – from lead-coloured to brown, now calm, now rushing noisily, its effortless tidal rise of 20-odd feet. Ten years living on a boat: 'It's a fun life – I'm not a watery hobo' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z It was a 21-day slog across saturated uplands, most of it in a blur of lead-coloured mist. Simon Armitage: a poetic pilgrimage around Devon and Cornwall 2013-03-29T16:00:04Z The shore to the southward was composed of fragments of granite, lying at the base of a lead-coloured clay cliff, at least three hundred feet in height. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Everlasting vapours obscure the sun, and mingle with the exhalation of the steaming24 marshes of the lead-coloured, land-locked cove that forms the harbour. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z The plumage is jet black, with a very rich metallic lustre; large ear-lobe of pure white; bright red face, unusually free from feathers; and bright lead-coloured legs, with hard, firm scales. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z Upper plumage, neck and head, dark brown; lower, greyish brown, mottled with darker brown; tail marked with twelve dark transverse bands; beak lead-coloured; cere, iris, and feet yellow. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The mirror-surface of the moorland tarn lies lead-coloured and dull, wrinkled by the night-breeze, and its icy waters trickle in tiny rills over the bare plain and down to the valley. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z One o'clock came before I was relieved, and then I had hardly enough vitality left to get forrard, my two garments being stiff upon my lead-coloured flesh. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z It was a dull, lowering October day, sky and sea alike lead-coloured, when the boat that bore Grenfell rounded the southern point of Arran, and opened a view of the island in all its extent. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z But coldly and unsympathetically the moonlit, lead-coloured sky looked down on him. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers This young Lama was a tall, broad-shouldered fellow of twenty-four, whose dull, lead-coloured, fat face convicted him of effecting in his small abode a very considerable consumption of butter. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Around the reef, around the doomed schooner, the lead-coloured fog hung thick, impenetrable at half a ship's length. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The waters of the Gulf lay like a sheet of planished steel beneath a canopy of lead-coloured clouds. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Insipid milk, and lead-coloured butter, from equisetum fluviatile. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 To the superstitious it is a creature of evil omen in its fulvous, black and lead-coloured livery of death. Barbarians On either hand they were shut in by straight lead-coloured walls of rock; and at the bottom of the ravine, the forbidding, mist-gray wall of the main gorge cut off the view. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest They had also head-dresses of white or lead-coloured cloth, shaped like a small turban; and some wore the feathers of the native birds round their heads. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries The moment, however, his black bill was opened, and his lead-coloured throat became expanded in a song, you forgot all about the dull hue of his plumage. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Opposite the student was a middle-aged fat "Assessor," with a small girl in long frilled drawers and short petticoats; and on the other side of the gangway were two homely-looking women in lead-coloured garments. A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes It was already closing down, and gave promise of favouring us: a layer of lead-coloured clouds covered the sky, and we knew there could be no moon before midnight. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse All are equally obscured—from a thick veil of lead-coloured cloud, at the sun’s setting, drawn over the canopy of the sky. The Death Shot A Story Retold It was a lead-coloured beast, and ate nought but grass and hay and such-like; it would not touch meat nor bones. Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago In the bed of the river, near the sea, is a mine of silver; the ore is in very small particles, like lead-coloured sand, intermixed with mud. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa At length daylight broke, but when we looked out over the tumbling, lead-coloured ocean, not a sail could we discern. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor The lead-coloured ocean, heaving with foam-topped waves, was around us bounded by the horizon. Peter the Whaler The sky, which had been clear all day, became overspread with a canopy of dirty lead-coloured vapour, between which and ourselves soon appeared small ragged patches of fast-flying scud. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War The chill, lead-coloured dawn was faintly struggling on the horizon with the black, gloomy night, when Le Bossu rose. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 Melancholy persons are distinguished by their pale or lead-coloured nails; and choleric martial men, delighting in war, have red and spotted nails. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The tyres were new, and white, and a pair of spare ones were tied onto the motor's bonnet, which looked quite jaunty now in its clean lead-coloured paint. My Friend the Chauffeur He followed it to the edge of the water, and gazed out over the dim lead-coloured sea. Alec Forbes of Howglen Mrs. Armine stood by the head of the bed looking down upon the thin, almost lead-coloured face that was turned towards her. Bella Donna A Novel The children used to climb about these cannons, and Taffy had picked out his first letters from the words Sevastopol and Russian Trophy, painted in white on their lead-coloured carriages. The Ship of Stars It was snowing intermittently and the sky, seen from the high window, was lead-coloured. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement "Look yonder!" cried Carleton, and he pointed to the line of the horizon, which had hitherto been of grey, lead-coloured vapour. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 The river was not yet frozen, and its lead-coloured waves looked almost black contrasted with its banks white with snow. The Daughter of the Commandant The thin, lead-coloured face drooped forward, and the eyes that were full of a horrible malaise held for a moment the fires of hope. Bella Donna A Novel The penguin of these islands is of the kind denominated little; the back and upper parts are of a lead-coloured blue; the fore and under parts, white. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 The skin, lead-coloured and dirty, looked thick, and was crossed by heavy wrinkles. The Man Who Laughs The autumn evening was drawing in, and the far-off horizon of hills, with the rim of the sea already visible beyond it, was dark and lead-coloured under the darkening sky. Dawn of All The Captain had one of his great, skinny yellow hands upon the Marshal's throat, and already his face was lead-coloured, and his eyes were starting from their sockets. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard The swollen lead-coloured under lip trembled with a shameful whine. Our Mutual Friend A solid roof of cloud, lead-coloured and without a ripple on it, lay over the sky, almost to the horizon. The Blue Lagoon: a romance A lead-coloured sky hung heavily over the fields, and in the forest the motionless air was stifling; but she pushed on, impatient to reach the road which was the shortest way to the Mountain. Summer A smear of decisive lead-coloured paint had been laid on to obliterate Henchard's name, though its letters dimly loomed through like ships in a fog. The Mayor of Casterbridge Then, without a word he held out the watch and chain to his friend, and lifted the fingers which had fumbled with the watch-case to his lead-coloured lips. Mrs. Day's Daughters But now as they drew nearer the hills the weather grew colder, snow was spoken of, and when they got into Westmoreland the mountain-peaks gleamed whitely against a lead-coloured sky. Phantom Fortune, a Novel "I want you to promise never to name it again, even to me," said Johnnie solemnly, as they came to the steps of the big lead-coloured house. The Power and the Glory Her father sat beside the fire, in a sort of doze, his long, lean hands idly locked, his glasses pushed up on his lead-coloured forehead. Martie, the Unconquered But over the end of the street the lead-coloured sky was rifted a little. The Pit His lips were lead-coloured and trembling; he was indeed trembling all over. Mrs. Day's Daughters For several miles before they reached Milton, they saw a deep lead-coloured cloud hanging over the horizon in the direction in which it lay. North and South Outside, sombre masses of lead-coloured clouds gathered ominously in the tempestuous sky. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters. Moby Dick, or, the whale From the bridge they looked up at the white chalk hills, the tops a blur of intense green under the low, lead-coloured sky. One of Ours The view from my Lady Dedlock's own windows is alternately a lead-coloured view and a view in Indian ink. Bleak House Claude stood by watching until the sailors shot one sack, longer by half a foot than the other four, into a lead-coloured chasm in the sea. One of Ours |
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