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wore bright colours, drove a rag-top and wanted for nothing, until, that is, Eva came
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the shape of the ceiling light in his bedroom while the vivid colours and sensations of
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Colours splashed across the walls
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The pink sand was studded with shell-shaped rocks of various sizes and colours
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qualified with flying colours
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’ She said, as the sky slowly lost its sunset colours and turned the deeper blue of twilight
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The only difference was that at Abery, the shelves held books and here they held containers of varying sizes and colours
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that burns retinas, imprinting images and colours
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I had imagined that Nepal would be just snow-capped mountains – but that says more about my lack of geographical knowledge than anything, I feel! Your description of the fauna and flora found in the tropical savanna and the forests was most interesting and the watercolours you enclosed are extremely good
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Colours mix and merge in these late days,
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The valley between this ridge and the next is wooded and deep; in the distance, I can see rolling hills, green for the most part although some of the trees are now showing autumn colours very clearly
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will be the new coat of many colours
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I’d be lying if I didn’t say that it colours our friendship a little, but I desperately hope that Gilla doesn’t notice
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colours flying in hearts and on sleeves,
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these fragile colours, as timid and as bold as you were
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to any other colours that might fly
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spill the colours of the rainbow from their knives,
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The Fruit and Vegetable market is an orchestra of colours and smells of big, fat sacks showing shiny black and green olives
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I saw nothing of the colours
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and colours as they were
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to fade the colours that they dream, wait
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Porcelain fruit leaves scattered in the basket with careless abandon served to highlight the rich and vulgar colours
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I remember the late summer clouds and us sitting on the shoreline picking out the best ones when he drew my attention to the water, 'See how the light from the sky colours the sea? The clouds are making the water grey, like slate
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It's the light that controls all the colours that we see
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What a conglomeration of colours, textures, and flavours
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Unfortunately, Cyberia’s appreciation of art and craft was based on the experience gained at her finishing school, where she had spent relaxed Wednesday afternoons fiddling with watercolours and making decoupage kittens out of old socks and yoghurt pot lids
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The Gottesmen are easy to spot – all wearing a variant of Berndt’s attire, though the colours vary
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I see some women, dressed in similar colours … the first Gotteswomen I have seen so far
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colours of the Indian flag
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He came to see the women that he met in pastel shades, as if the strong and vibrant colours that had once filled their lives had been bleached by the time they’d spent being weathered and beaten down by life
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Along the length of his left leg the great artists wove images and colours in a collage, in a riot of tone and line, just as if the contestant were a kaleidoscope
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Some believe it is named after the crazy colours you see when the dying sun strikes
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Wave after wave of flickering colours entertained me on the wheel of half-asleep with echoes of some dream
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Her own face was streaked with strange colours but she was calm
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turning his once bright colours to shades of grey and black, and that
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spent relaxed Wednesday afternoons fiddling with watercolours
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that he met in pastel shades, as if the strong and vibrant colours that
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wit and charm, painted pictures in sublime colours, formed living
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colours in a collage, in a riot of tone and line, just as if the
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Billy loves the primary colours that teenagers use when daubing the world with their opinions
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A beam of sunlight broke through the cloud, lighting the colours on the feathers for a brief moment before disappearing again
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surface revealing the many colours within
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colours seemed alive, they swirled and changed
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Every room is the same, a place where colours fade to a bland shade of blue
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discourage rust, and painted in olive drab camouflage colours
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The demons lift away on red skinned wings and Billy is aware of external sounds and colours for the first time since seeing Leona's body
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The villas were once substantial residences, a world or parlours and roast meat, of the girl in service and the rustle of long skirts, but now they host the two-ring lives of students and people like Ted, people screaming silently, inwardly, as splinters drive under their fingernails as they claw their way up or slide their way down life's serpentine ladders
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A Transit painted in the lurid colours of the God Squad
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Colours don't register at speed
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Colours begin to merge, a ragged paint job, primary bright and flecked with rust at the wheel arches
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sparkling with all the colours of the rainbow and
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his clothes are the colours of the Romanian
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Never are the colours of the trees and mud so
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almost all colours, the most of them in shades of
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His colours, by which I allude to the colour of
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The colours returned to their previous muted mahogany hues
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It was a mass of whirling colours
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The image of the house was bathed from above in light of different colours
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The colours and detail seemed impossibly intense
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Inside the waiting room the impression had starkly altered; calmness created by colours and textures – something Deanna could lecture on, and it made him realise just how deliberate it was: the vast deep blue of the carpet, covering the entire area up to the reception desk, plants arranged neatly and
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Her life, the whole past, writ large in lurid colours; the voices of everyone intimate or even pressing when she brought them to mind
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Then it all became a confused mess of shapes and colours, much like before
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He would then prepare the canvas for oil paints and mix different colours of paint in different ratios to obtain the colours he wants and only then commence painting a scene with the various levels of detail
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Rosemary was wearing a long velvet skirt in green and gold mottled colours and a dark green knitted jumper
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On its polished surface sat a crystal glass vase filled with roses of all colours, from the nun's own garden
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We have four sacred objects and four sacred colours
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But how could she? But later in his house, when they had dozed by the fire, he hadn't slept as much as Rosemary - he was used to cat-naps - and had spent most of the time awake, just looking at her, sleeping, sitting back straight on the big old couch with the knitted shawl around her; the last thing his Mother had knitted, for she was renowned for her knitting, before she finally took to her bed; the wools, in the muted colours of bog earth and heather with light touches of soft blue, like the morning sky reflecting on pale cornflowers
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She was wearing a bolero style jacket and a long skirt of heavy royal blue velvet with a bright buttercup yellow blouse underneath and a long knitted scarf of angora wool in muted colours of brown and red and gold
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For some reason, the dark colours reminded him too much of the taint
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Raven found it beautiful; all of the colours clashing with no apparent theme or pattern
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It was originally two plain planks of wood, though while Carl prayed, Adem saw light of changing colours spreading along the timber, carving smaller crosses, and shaping the wood to look ornamental
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The wood became dark as if stained and the colours remained when Carl finished his prayer
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The warm colours of the carpets and curtains drifted to grey, and cold stone walls lined the corridors
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Colours: the muted blue of the walls, the equipment surrounding him, they all lacked the clarity, the sharp presence of what had been
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Watching through his eyes was the oddest experience: there was a dream-like unfocused quality; when he passed through a wall, her eyes were assaulted by chaotic crosshatching patterns in all colours
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Halon had seen many colours behind the globe’s facade but this seemed a violent, intense anger and directed at the hermit, or what was once the hermit
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He stared into the Globe and its spinning, myriad of colours and seeming pulse deep within it
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On the 13th the flag ship “Seguranca” signalled the start; and with colours flying and bands playing, the vessels glided out to mid-stream and dropped down toward the sea
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The bright flash of colours under Jimmy's hat-brim dazzled his eyes,
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The first man to reach the fort and tear down the colours was James Creelman, the war correspondent
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When they saw their colours had fallen, the enemy opened heavily on the fort from the town
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calculated to ornament the front parlours of the flatters
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not to educate, and glass vases of strange colours and extraordinary
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We also learned about various smoke grenades which came in wonderful colours for signalling purposes and to cover our advance (we never learned how to retreat)
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I literally had to do nothing but approve colours and designs
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It was not a success, and soon replaced with the Njala which is still in use even if now in white colours
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He fought harder still, grunting in triumph when the cloak covering his eyes lifted, allowing the bright colours of the world to come flooding back in
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His blood, powered by a powerful heart, thrummed through his veins with a vibrancy not felt since cubhood, and his eyes flicked here and there with renewed pleasure, picking out colours he'd forgotten existed
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I’d passed with flying colours
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It seems they had all known I would pass with flying colours; it was only I that had been doubtful
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Soffen's eyes widened and the short bristles on her snout tingled as she watched the colours swirl through each other with such speed that they appeared solid
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He studied the pool intently, his attention caught by the colours swirling across its surface
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He'd seen such colours only once before– in a bright sunlit sky, following a heavy storm
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Beneath these colours, deep down in the water, a movement caught his eye, and he stared hard, trying to make it out
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The only sign now that it had existed was the swirling kaleidoscope of colours left floating on the water
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Thesa looked over the edge of the narrow ledge, staring at the colours far below him, his mind and body fused rigid with terror, trying to convince himself that it had just been a dream, an hallucination, the results of the bang on his head from the falling rock
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They came in differing colours and languages and included the New Testament and Psalms only
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The colours were spectacular
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Leaves of brilliant yellow, russet, apple red, brown, orange, purplish colours, floated upon the meandering river
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Hard, smooth, shiny, colours unseen before in the weird half-light of the flares
