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    1. Jorma thought he might have asked with a shade of accusation, though his look was friendly when Jorma turned to him


    2. sitting in the shade under its corrugated tin roof because it was one of those early


    3. John and Dave are asleep under the sail, which they have rigged up as a shade


    4. The little man raised the stake a shade higher and gave a throaty, smoke congested cackle


    5. Betsy's face went a shade paler than its usual battleship grey


    6. Under the broad limbs of an oak, in a deep hollow that provided both shade


    7. As he left the shade and headed


    8. take refuge in the shade of a large tree


    9. Deciding that, as it is my day off, I shall wear something different, I trawl through the wardrobe, digging out a flattering, mid-calf length woollen skirt in a pretty shade of deep blue that Nick hasn’t seen yet … with a pretty light blue top and my best gold necklace (a present from the school when I left) it would look smart and it would make me feel partyish


    10. I have already admired it – a shade of wool to match her name … there are a few grey hairs showing round the back of his ears, I think to myself then I suddenly realise that he’s watching me in the rear view mirror with a faint smile on his face and blush violently … the smile becomes a wicked grin as he replies to something Wally is saying

    11. Under the broad limbs of an oak, in a deep hollow that provided both shade and yet was open to the breeze that continually blew in from the sea, the old man lay down at midday, mopped his brow with a red, paisley handkerchief, and reached into his bag for the hard, round goats cheese and the hunk of heavy bread that he had picked up this morning when leaving his hut at first light


    12. Converted from a small house at some stage in its history, the ground floor front rooms had been knocked into one characterless space painted a boring shade of blue


    13. As he left the shade and headed down the mountain he said to himself, “That is why I cannot die


    14. Waving up to the palm fringes of coffee shade


    15. beneath the shade of a sapling cedar


    16. The deck was made of oak, and there was an overhang from the house to give shade, it was screened in to keep out mosquitoes


    17. She went back to deeper shade where there was less brush and followed that abandoned road toward what she believed was the southeast according to Kortrax's height and direction


    18. There were the shells of larorlie vines draped over the lower limbs of these trees, the vines long dead in the deep shade


    19. When you’re finished, shade in the centre with a highlighter as in the examples above


    20. Fenced crops extended about five hundred yards from the village and quite a few kedas lounged about in the shade

    21. A purple bougainvillea drooped from sunlight into shade, dead blossoms on the ground


    22. I sat a couple of feet away in the shade of an awning


    23. I can't wait to get out of their way and down to the town where I can sit in the shade with good old Irene Valeska before I leave for Cornwall


    24. Him in his bathing shorts, scratching his belly, engrossed in his book and me stretched out on a towel in the shade


    25. ' She scraped a chair across the tiles and sat near me in the shade


    26. Karen’s sitting in the shade of a potted palm, leafing through one of the multi-coloured brochures which litter the low tables in our reception area


    27. Terry's cheeks went a very bright shade of red and he came to an abrupt and ball-less halt


    28. The old river course was nothing more than a deep and arid notch in the landside giving no shade at all but on we crunched, stumbling over tricky stones and gradually it grew less steep but with more boulders


    29. “Don’t just stand there”, she screamed at him as the world turned a brilliant shade of gloss white in a storm of paparazzi shouts and exploding flash bulbs


    30. Oh Anna, you’re going to love it here! The sky is an unbelievable shade of blue and the sea really is as blue as the postcards depict

    31. some cool lemonade and rest her weary legs under the shade of a


    32. being a shade of grey, is typically indefinable sexually


    33. Equate the amount of shade with the


    34. Terry's cheeks went a very bright shade of red and he came to an


    35. There was plenty of landscaping, most shade was provided by olive and grape


    36. answered his inevitable question in every shade of grey imaginable,


    37. turned a brilliant shade of gloss white in a storm of paparazzi


    38. It’s shade was so thick that it even sheltered them from the rain that was early and heavy this week


    39. and out of the shade of the trees


    40. the sun on their faces, pulling down their hats to shade their eyes, and

    41. The shade of the trees above were of little help against the rays that burned through the parched leaves and attacked him in many spots


    42. If so, how dark would her visions be now if she could still paint them? But he had been with this woman, except for her origin in the deep medical lab, her visions weren’t really that dark, no darker than a mossy bank in the shade of thick old trees


    43. Every room is the same, a place where colours fade to a bland shade of blue


    44. He sat where the homes above cast a bit of shade


    45. Her lips the exact same shade of red as the dress


    46. Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine


    47. was flushed and Roman’s lips were a shade I wasn’t used to seeing


    48. The music is dead, the words a vague shade of grey, the melody a childhood memory


    49. The leaves were completely unfurled by now, with the sun on them they were well above freezing but the ground in the shade was not


    50. This would take halfway til lunch to melt in the shade today














































    1. The courtyard was shaded by the trees above, many people were out on their balconies now that they were getting into the warm part of the week


    2. Some of the floors above that were not as safe as they once were, but thick limbs with thick green fronds fluttering in the gentle breeze shaded most of it


    3. A fountain gurgles quietly in the middle of a shaded courtyard where orange trees blossom and flowers bloom


    4. Morningday evening it was shaded, Afternoonday evening it watched the sunset


    5. Her eyes are huge and a deep reddish violet, shaded dark towards royal blue near the edges


    6. solid and distilled behind honey shaded lashes


    7. Across an ink shaded field I saw the road to Marston,


    8. Agile and talkative she led me through winding streets and alleyways, turning left - then up some steps, then right - and down some more, then a little slope until at last she pointed to a restaurant nestling in the corner of a shaded square and proudly announced, “Restaurant Virrgenia


    9. They were low and swift with thin hulls, each with three to six rowers, shaded by a canopy


    10. just at the end of the lane, between the hedgerows and shaded by a

    11. The speaker was finally at the rail, shaded by the big hornflower growing on this courtyard


    12. looking trees that in summer shaded the neighborhood, but ice-covered now, only


    13. They were at a tranquil pond shaded by willows and populated with graceful swans


    14. A little deck appeared with a wide lounge chair on it, shaded by a colorful umbrella


    15. Some were little more than camps, but there were a few towers eight stories tall with long balcony fronds and awning shaded courts on top


    16. The balcony rails of the beach towers had plenty of leaves, and large fronds shaded the courtyards atop their penthouses


    17. And he stared out at the sea, watching the dark waves shuffle under a shaded and faltering sun


    18. I shaded them and looked toward the groves


    19. Entering the shaded streets was a relief as we hurriedly looked through each street, each shop, each byway


    20. It shaded everything

    21. As dusk and then finally dark fell the Military Police with shaded torches chivvied everyone along like demented sheepdogs


    22. retractable awnings are the perfect partners for decks, easy to use, keeping things shaded and


    23. After finishing we tried to stay in the shaded side of the crater we laid back against it and tried to conserve our energy as the day wore on


    24. Her smile shaded to the cruel, thin-lipped grin of which he was all too familiar


    25. It was a beautiful summer’s day and Mrs Langford insisted on having a feast for lunch outside on the shaded patio in the backyard


    26. I shaded my eyes as he carried on welding a section of steel pipe


    27. ” Lyra shifted position so she could look up into Troy’s eyes, but they were shaded and she could only see a blackness there


    28. into the crotch of a poplar tree and shaded my eyes against the


    29. Lyra squinted and shaded her eyes against the helicopter’s bright light as it flew directly overhead


    30. The rear of the building, shaded from the

    31. She shaded her eyes with her hand to squint across the square


    32. When the borehole was sunk and at last there was an abundance of water to satisfy the growing trees and the luxuriant undergrowth they shaded, my joy was boundless


    33. Angie lived beyond the last train stop on the E line in Queens, followed by a long, twisting bus ride through the streets of Queens Village, and then an endless walk down shaded sidewalks past old brick houses, some looking like they had seen better days


    34. shaded bosom of the dunes as Shinra heligunner scouts buzzed


    35. the shaded region beyond the building, and released a roar that


    36. Just the surprise of coming upon a lone grave anywhere, especially this grave, and especially here in a shaded gully when she had no one for company, spooked Manda to the roots


    37. corridor to the east bore a more ominous facade; shaded and


    38. Soon to be launched, Maxx’s restaurant sits on a beach, shaded by palms and secluded by the surrounding lush country scenery


    39. We walk off the court to rest by the shaded seats


    40. Now I fully realized that through all of the seventeen years I worked for my father, my mother’s picture of me had been shaded by what my father told her

    41. Standing up, she shaded her eyes against the last rays of the sun and gazed at the clouds


    42. of his residence, shaded from the sun by an overhanging


    43. On the shaded side of those same hills, the Egyptian Army, long spears held high, marched at double time in an effort to outdistance their prey


    44. “When I was still young as a god, an elf with almost no magic sought to build a small shrine to me on a remote mountaintop, a shaded and wind-sheltered cupola with a wonderfully comfortable marble chair


    45. And the tenth mountain ] had very large trees and was completely shaded and under the shadow of the trees sheep lay resting and ruminating


    46. Now it shaded my eyes and kept the chill breeze from my head


    47. He indicated for them to sit under one of the silver trees which shaded the area


    48. The knoll was shaded by a huge oak that reached out over the slow moving stream


    49. But the ancient house with its heavily beamed low ceiling, cool shutters, patio shaded by grape vines was doomed


    50. There were dozens of crystal-clear waterways shaded by huge stands of melaleuca, lots of small lakes and pools and more fish than you could throw a hook at











































    1. Jokes of all shades in all languages get prominent place in newspapers and magazines


    2. Smith liked some shades of nothing more than others


    3. away the shades that displeased, and so came the formation of ideas that later we


    4. the shades of dark void rippled in the non-light, Smith found that His tastes changed


    5. difference within the quietude, as with the spectral shades of the void, caused Smith to


    6. Deep within the darkest hours the purple shades of a newly


    7. There is a huge poster of a dragon on the wall – one of the semi-mythical ones set in a rugged landscape … it is all shades of green with the dragon a gorgeous greeny-bronze


    8. Although the towel was thicker and more tightly woven than the hessian sack in my last prison, I could still make out shades and shifts of light


    9. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    10. No matter how hard He tried to order creation, however, he continually discovered unwelcome shades of black within the unlimited spaces of the void, and in so doing He revealed even more of a personality

    11. Smith put away the shades that displeased, and so came the formation of ideas that later we would call Good and Bad


    12. Silence was bliss, was the summation of every force and vitality known to the universal mind, but the inevitably subtle tonal difference within the quietude, as with the spectral shades of the void, caused Smith to vacillate


    13. Deep within the darkest hours the purple shades of a newly rising day would come and with them the rattle-bag voice that ground out the hours of his incarceration


    14. Nihar left for their old haunt- under the shades of the


    15. And the small ones were different colors; deep purple, dark blue, several dark shades of brown


    16. the sweet shades of nervousness as I too grew bold


    17. with seven shades of pill to supplement Yin and Yang,


    18. counting the days until the night shades of skin


    19. He was tanned and wore his shades on top of his head


    20. Two-tiered cake-stands towered over baskets of frigid flowers in limp, pastel shades and even more baskets of lifeless fruit

    21. shades of autumn hearths as she greets those


    22. The dipsticks from the terminus had arrived and moved to a table in the corner, sitting in silence and pretending to watch the view through their shades


    23. He replaced his shades and turned to face me


    24. Once Terry's momentary blindness had cleared and he had put on his airline pilot's shades, he was able to identify the source of this brilliant white light


    25. 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


    26. turning his once bright colours to shades of grey and black, and that


    27. And the shades to the cause are without count


    28. the shades between: an intuitive prophet and an analytical prophet


    29. pilot's shades, he was able to identify the source of this brilliant


    30. of the plant, its fullness and its glorious shades of green rippling in

    31. that he met in pastel shades, as if the strong and vibrant colours that


    32. There are shades


    33. ’ Andy went two shades paler at the thought


    34. To his left he has the drugs, the girls, the glittering spots and gels, all of them wrapped in shades of scarlet, shades that smell of grease paint and stale cigarette smoke


    35. Her eyes remain closed, but she can distinguish shades of light from under her eyelids


    36. shades of orange and yellow


    37. All in vivid shades of green


    38. An hour later, when she was able to lie down again, kinsmen’s shades repeatedly


    39. almost all colours, the most of them in shades of


    40. I couldn’t hear my kinsmen’s shades

    41. As the morning sky broke forth swirled with stunningly deep shades of red, the old legends and schoolyard chants swiftly took on newer and much graver resonance


    42. His teeth presented shades of green and grey, and his breath reeked


    43. Similarly Love and Hate are different shades of Life


    44. She always kept the shades drawn, so this was no problem for her now


    45. “The shades are all drawn,” she told him quickly


    46. The walls showed numerous cracks and a variety of different strata of the planet’s crust, all varying shades of grey


    47. The tall one, Standford, removed his wraparound shades


    48. Trees clung to the sides of the mountains, displaying their different shades of greens


    49. Thin-lipped gals should use pale shades for lip color, which creates the illusion of fuller lips


    50. Sheer fabrics in black are more favorable than eyesore shades










































    1. I barely remember Earth and when I try to picture it in my mind today I notice the fields covered with ribbonleaves and archwoods shading the houses


    2. There are stone benches and many large trees shading the courtyard


    3. He peaked out, shading his eyes from the blinding afternoon sun


    4. in the palm of his shading hand


    5. There were pine trees whose needles hung onto small limbs, shading a part of the boulder


    6. If a person, of whatever shading, hates a person of a different color, that"s racism


    7. Meanwhile he’d made a good living, in part by shading the truth


    8. shading her eyes with her hand, looked out, in hopes of seeing a little


    9. He straightened up as they dismounted, shading his eyes against the sun


    10. Shading her eyes from the glaring hot sun, she peered about

    11. puzzled thoughts, he slowly nudged the door open, shading his


    12. All the parchment and binding roared back in answer, cream shading transmuted to crimson, a destruction of words


    13. What I tell you is this: whilst my father and mother barely remembered me many field-lengths away, I sat alone under the grey cypress tree, its leaves shading me from the worst of the chill


    14. As they approached the last doorway, an old man appeared in it, shading his squinting eyes from the slant of the sun with his hand


    15. As they approached the last doorway, an old man appeared in it, shading his


    16. Bathymetric chart: a chart indicating depths of water by contour lines and shading; a bottom contour chart


    17. She leans back shading you facing outward


    18. Rory stood, swung his arms as if to improve circulation and then squatted down, apparently facing up the coast, shading his eyes against the glare off the sea


    19. It looked as though they were shading away from the strong blue sky and their


    20. He whistled loudly for a while and shading his eyes with his hand looked in all directions but did not sight the dog

    21. it out is up to you, as you can see you could use coloured shading or text for


    22. First the rose (which is a form of red) then the yellow, shading


    23. The governor read what he had written, slowly, with his open hand shading his eyes from the bronze butterlamp, his lips moving


    24. Turning and shading his eyes against the sun, he saw the bird, a big, dark black and white creature, bearing down out of the blue sky at great speed


    25. is something like a smile forming on the corner of her lips, the wave is shading


    26. large trees shading the front of the building


    27. shading her eyes with her hand, squinting reproachfully while he fumbled for his keys


    28. “Ahh,” screamed the man with the scar, as he raised an arm before his eyes, shading them from the painfully bright light that was shining on him


    29. You can help cool your home by shading the windows with awnings


    30. Their path led through more forest, the trees pressed closely in, shading them from the warm red sun

    31. “Portraits,” he answered, a faint smile shading his lips


    32. He was as large as Brander, if not larger, and had silver strands of hair shading his dark blond hair


    33. Jason and Deanna were in the background, shading their eyes as they peered


    34. Here you can see how the metaphor slides from an economic free market tone to farmer's market shading to geographical field solidity; one metaphor, market; three tones: free, farmer's, local; but multiple ethical inferences and emotional responses


    35. spread a canopy of green over them, shading them


    36. opinions, spin, deceptions, or any shading of facts


    37. felt the news was biased, full of spin, deceptive, or a shading of the actual


    38. is nothing but obvious spin, bias, shading of the truth, and outright lies


    39. The glass here had taken on a shading tint against the sunlight


    40. Jack turned to face me, shading his eyes from the glare

    41. As she lay in her nest, clenching the thin, smooth branch of whatever bush was shading her, she wondered again about Stan and how easily he had deceived her, but before she could think too long, a party ascended the mountain from the east—probably the source of the voices she had heard by the stream


    42. Beyond Stresow the road was hilly and charming, with woods drawing sometimes to the edge of it and shading us, and sometimes drawing back to the other side of meadows; and there were the first fields of yellow lupins in flower, and I had the delight to which I look forward each year as July approaches of smelling that peculiarly exquisite scent


    43. ” He said, the dim twilight partly shading his face


    44. Shading should be a subtle blending rather than obvious patches; use pinks, golds, peaches and reds in daytime, and keep the darker browns for use under electric light


    45. Experiment with different ways of shading and highlighting your eyes, and see which shapes and colors suit you best


    46. Out in the garden, for instance, down there beyond the lime-trees at the end, where you could stand in the gap in the lilac hedge and look straight out across the rye-fields, the immense unending rye-fields, dipping and rising, delicate grey, delicate green, shining in sunlight, dark beneath a cloud, restlessly waving, on and on, till over away at the end of things they got to the sky and were only stopped by brushing up against it--out there with one's hand shading one's eyes from the too great brightness, who could find fault with anything, who could do anything but look and see that it was all very good? Oh, but it _was_ good


    47. They had been, he perceived, like a dark blind shading his eyes from the tormenting glare of too much domesticity


    48. I know it will be tricky but leave to the shading to others


    49. The fulmination that had dissipated a little earlier would have blinded him too were it not for said helm shading his eyes from any glare


    50. to be shading his eyes with the other





































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    Synonyms for "shade"

    lamp shade lampshade shade tincture tint tone ghost specter spectre spook wraith nicety nuance refinement subtlety tad shadiness shadowiness fill in shade off shadow apparition spirit phantom revenant darkness blackness dark dimness gloom gloominess suggestion hint hair trace degree amount variation hue cast tinge grain brilliance saturation shutter blind curtain covering screen awning hide conceal obscure cover protect veil shelter cloud

    "shade" definitions

    relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body


    a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color


    protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight


    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude


    a position of relative inferiority


    a slight amount or degree of difference


    a mental representation of some haunting experience


    a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)


    a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view


    cast a shadow over


    represent the effect of shade or shadow on


    protect from light, heat, or view


    vary slightly


    pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree