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1. I have no other alternative but run all the way to Vouliagmenis Avenue together with her, wait for the bus to Glyfada and finally end up in a colourless cafeteria of the common run
2. Filth and grime littered the clothes and colourless face, the face that once rested on my pillow
3. with the distant colourless boundary of the Plate until they waned
4. She had began to feel quieter souls speaking in voices that had been silent to her when she entered this colourless world that only belonged to moods and sensations
5. colourless and limitless, it is called the Supreme
6. and began moving, turning from what could be described as an almost colourless
7. that had been bleached colourless by the sun
8. Luke’s colourless eye did nothing to improve
9. As I have explained at length in Man Visible and Invisible, the causal body of a savage is almost colourless
10. What did the old hag with those colourless, watery eyes want?
11. They had prisms incorporated into their construction that refracted the sunlight and projected brilliant rainbows at seemingly random directions onto an otherwise colourless environment
12. It grinned at the shouts of “Waargh!” from the colourless fauna above them
13. By the light of the small bedside lamp, I could see her dear head, almost as colourless as the linen on which it lay
14. It is almost colourless
15. colourless, ”Turn and face the window, Lady, tonight we begin your instruction
16. The use of DMSO, a colourless, oily liquid primarily used as an industrial solvent, for therapeutic applications is controversial
17. Didn't he know Muriel for a completely colourless personality, as unemotional, because as empty of wishes or initiative, as a machine? Only a trouble-maker like Fanny could possibly stir her up to such a pitch
18. The skin of his face was deeply furrowed and colourless
19. The gaunt man looked at Tom contemptfully with colourless eyes, spurred his horse and disappeared at a full gallop, just as he had come
20. The lips were colourless and the mouth just a narrow slit
21. The well- groomed, black moustaches above his colourless, paper-thin lips seemed to monitor whatever he said, filtering out any possible emotions in his voice
22. Also, the highest lights in nature are never without colour, and this will lower the tone; neither are the deepest darks colourless, and this will raise their tone
23. Zossimov was a tall, fat man with a puffy, colourless, clean-shaven face and straight flaxen hair
24. Singly, and in small companies of two and three, they emerged from the dull, colourless, sunless distances ahead as if the supply of rather roughly finished mechanical toys were inexhaustible in some mysterious cheap store away there, below the grey curve of the earth
25. I remember also a couple of Finns, both carpenters, of course, and very good craftsmen; a Swede, the most scientific sailmaker I ever met; another Swede, a steward, who really might have been called a British seaman since he had sailed out of London for over thirty years, a rather superior person; one Italian, an everlastingly smiling but a pugnacious character; one Frenchman, a most excellent sailor, tireless and indomitable under very difficult circumstances; one Hollander, whose placid manner of looking at the ship going to pieces under our feet I shall never forget, and one young, colourless, muscularly very strong German, of no particular character
26. As to her companion, while raising himself with one hand, he had taken her arm with the other; and so inadequate was his stock of gentleness to the requirements of her condition, that on his letting go I saw four distinct impressions left blue in the colourless skin
27. Having rid his stomach of this unnatural burden, the unfortunate baby began to cry afresh, his face very pale, his lips colourless, and his eyes red-rimmed and running with water
28. I had often heard of the beauty of the youngest daughter of the Duke of Belminster, but no description of it, and no contemplation of colourless photographs, had prepared me for the subtle, delicate charm and the beautiful colouring of that exquisite head
29. Dogs barked behind the walls of the gardens; and with the colourless light the chill of the snows seemed to fall from the mountains upon the disjointed pavements and the shuttered houses with broken cornices and the plaster peeling in patches between the flat pilasters of the fronts
30. Instead of the colourless air of the uplands, the atmosphere down there was a deep blue
31. The colourless walls echoed the man's regular breathing
32. ” My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth,—all energy, decision, will,—were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me,—that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his
33. This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage
34. His eyes were large and blue, with brown lashes; his high forehead, colourless as ivory, was partially streaked over by careless locks of fair hair
35. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as in feature
36. From the colourless state of the ventral surface of most fishes and of many other animals, we may reasonably suppose that the absence of colour in flat-fish on the side, whether it be the right or left, which is under-most, is due to the exclusion of light
37. But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage
38. Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a colour as the visible absence of colour; and at the same time the concrete of all colours; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows—a colourless, all-colour of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues—every stately or lovely emblazoning—the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colourless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge—pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him
39. 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
40. They died in the presence of everybody, colourless, haggard and gloomy, like trees withering on rocky ground
41. The first portions of alcohol were tinged of a green colour, but the last portions remained colourless
42. Is it possible the liquid is naptha? This oil is sometimes colourless, and does not congeal at zero, and that which I distilled from the Seneca oil, does congeal at some degrees below zero
43. The mass, when lixiviated, gave only a greenish solution, becoming colourless by nitric acid, and again greenish by an alkali; this was supposed to be owing to iron and manganese