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That same ability to sustain the smallest thread of pianissimo cast a chilling spell when, in "Die liebe Farbe", he shrouded his voice to sing of death while the superb Helmut Deutsch kept the millwheel turning in his beautifully sensitive, many-coloured accompaniment.
Nigel Kennedy/ Orchestra of Life; Sir Charles Mackerras Memorial Concert; Jonas Kaufmann Stephen Pritchard 2010
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You loved the many-coloured roller, but still you struck and broke his wing.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language many-coloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?
Ah Yes, Now I Remember Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language many-coloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?
Archive 2007-06-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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The carriage was almost hidden by banks of white flowers - camellias, roses, and gardenias - and a brightly jewelled crown of many-coloured flowers adorned the roof.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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The carriage was almost hidden by banks of white flowers - camellias, roses, and gardenias - and a brightly jewelled crown of many-coloured flowers adorned the roof.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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Our cosy cabins had a fairy-like appearance in the subdued light of the many-coloured lamps, and we were all in the Christmas humour at once.
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The carriage was almost hidden by banks of white flowers - camellias, roses, and gardenias - and a brightly jewelled crown of many-coloured flowers adorned the roof.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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The carriage was almost hidden by banks of white flowers - camellias, roses, and gardenias - and a brightly jewelled crown of many-coloured flowers adorned the roof.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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You loved the many-coloured roller, but still you struck and broke his wing.
Sense & Sensuality 2009
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