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...receiving in exchange a white slip withpunchmarks in it, to wear in his hatband. Nextcame the train butcher bearing chewing gum,purple plums in paper cornucopias, examples ofthe light literature of the day, oranges whichwere overgreen, and bananas which were...
...witha face shaped like a hog's, but much richerin color, being purple and pimply: so foula visage Staines had rarely seen...you because youhave written your trash in it."The purple, pig-faced beak went instantlyout of the record...
...generally fine, but withoccasionally coarser grains; in color, deep purple mottled with a lighter tint— must be very beautiful...coarse sand withsubangular flinty pebbles; general color buff; cement calcareous.Seil Wády DhaghU...
...over the hills covered with snow, jumpedover fences and brooks. The evening clouds were splendid,too, leaden color and purple in the west with a streak or twoof orange where the light broke thro', and overhead whiteand lilac with broad patches...
...a sky of mingled amber, pearl, rose,and deep purple, as the fairy-like little fishing-boats glidedout...luxuriant country close to the sea, and an intensityof color in the purple sea and emerald verdure quite Italian."Sea-bathing...
credibly dirty, with mustaches and beard of a moth-eatentow-color, and a purple flush on his cheeks. His uniformwas clotted with mud. When the others crowded roundhim and tried to dissuade him, he said...
...following with counterindentations the in-and-out windings of the other's shore-line.The mass and color of the purple distance is Scotland at her best--Scotland, too, in the slow drift of a slant-woofed raincloudin among the...
...will that struggles so about trifles,makes no effort. But as we sat hour after hour watching thealternations of color in her purple face and listening to that terrible gasping, rattling sound, I said to myself "A few morenights like...
...in Minnesota. The flowersin these plants stand in umbels and the fruits mature as berriesof a red or blue color, shading towards purple or black. Thestems, which twine or climb upon the vegetation near them,arise from large swollen underground...
...andmore dearly esteemed than you are. That is just, for indeed she adorns the season with her color, more delicatethan purple and crimson, and with her sweet fragrance.She lasts much longer in her beauty than do you, Violet;and...
......known use of the symbolism of color is in the liturgical colors of...Church, according to which the color of the vestments varies through...ecclesiastical calendar; e.g., purple (i.e., violet) is the color of Advent and Lent; white......
......became a vice president at Mercury, breaking the executive color barrier there. He also began to compose for films and...and The Wiz (1978). He coproduced the film The ColorPurple (1985) and was responsible for several TV sitcoms......
......a strong focus on feminist issues within African-American culture. Walker won wide recognition with her novel The ColorPurple (1982; Pulitzer Prize; film, 1985), a dark but sometimes joyous saga of a poor black Southern woman's painful......
......and ended only in 2011. Also a talented actress, Winfrey made her motion-picture debut in Steven Spielberg's The ColorPurple (1985), and a variety of other movie and television roles followed. Winfrey subsequently built a media empire......
......serial-inspired trilogy of movies featuring Indiana Jones. Other films, many based on literary works, include The ColorPurple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), and the widely acclaimed Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993), for which......
......it is traditionally considered a season of penitence and fasting, to prepare for the holy day, and its liturgical color is purple. However, the Roman observance has always contained an element of joyful anticipation of Christmas, a feeling that......
......regions. The common American gallinule, Gallinula chloropus, and the similar Eurasian moorhen are drab in color; the gaudier purple gallinule, Porphyrula martinica, found from Texas to Ecuador, has blue-green plumage and yellow legs. Fifteen......
......sulfates. Potassium permanganate, KMnO4, a purple-black, crystalline compound that forms deep purple, aqueous solutions, is used in the chemical...Substances containing potassium impart a purplecolor to a flame. Potassium does not occur uncombined......
......It is also used in the dry cell and to remove the green color caused by iron impurities in glass. Potassium permanganate...amounts by many plants and animals and by humans. The purplecolor of amethyst is due to manganese. The element was first......
......2.5 cm) to the 11-ft (330-cm) giant worms of the tropics. Some earthworms are pallid in color, many are reddish brown to purple, and one Philippino species is bright blue. Earthworms burrow in the ground, swallowing soil from which......
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