bright-coloured

I asked Grattan who they were; he thought, from the bright-coloured blankets and the buffalo-scalp cap, that they might be Cumanches, but wasn't sure-I may tell you now, from a fairish experience of Indians, that they're a sight harder to identify by appearance than, say, Zulu regiments or civilised soldiers; they ain't consistent in their dress or ornament.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

In the second, Weeds and Wild Flowers, Oswald has collaborated with the artist Jessica Greenman to produce an outlandish field guide, in which bright-coloured plates are replaced by queerly beautiful etchings and scrupulous descriptions exchanged for visionary poems from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: In brilliant moonlight posted by Rus Bowden at 6:13 PM

Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Their seasons are typically Autumn-Winter, making them the perfect, bright-coloured foil to dim, grey skies.

Beetroot Risotto Shaun 2007

Their seasons are typically Autumn-Winter, making them the perfect, bright-coloured foil to dim, grey skies.

Archive 2007-10-01 Shaun 2007

Fennel had the least tinge of niggardliness in his composition; but the room was far from large, spare chairs were not numerous, and damp companions were not altogether desirable at close quarters for the women and girls in their bright-coloured gowns.

Wessex Tales 2006

She was wearing a white dress with a bright-coloured pattern on it and red shoes with high heels; her thick black hair, held together by a gold fillet, fell like a cloak from her little head over her slender body.

Lieutenant Yergunov's Story 2006

The sofa stood in a different position, nearer the wall; and on the table he saw on a Chinese tray a bright-coloured, round-bellied coffee pot beside a cut glass sugar bowl and two blue China cups.

Lieutenant Yergunov's Story 2006

But when I was there, when I saw those great cheerless rooms, the bright-coloured, upholstered furniture, that courteous and heartless old man in the open silk wadded jacket, in the white jabot and white cravat, with lace ruffles falling over his fingers, with a soupçon of powder (so his valet expressed it) on his combed-back hair, I felt choked by the stifling scent of ambre, and my heart sank.

The Jew and other stories 2006

Communications and insurance companies use bright-coloured jungle frogs, geckoes and chameleons as props.

Dawg's Blawg 2005

Communications and insurance companies use bright-coloured jungle frogs, geckoes and chameleons as props.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005