What is "of colour"

Usage examples of "of colour".

I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hindus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine.

With respect to this last fact, I was so convinced that not even a stripe of colour appears from what would commonly be called an accident, that I was led solely from the occurrence of the face-stripes on this hybrid from the ass and hemionus, to ask Colonel poole whether such face-stripes ever occur in the eininently striped Kattywar breed of horses, and was, as we have seen, answered in the affirmative.

There was a sudden clarity, an intensity of colour, shape, and meaning.

A faint flush of colour came back into her cheeks and the fierce light in her eyes flared up.

When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized.

It is generally believed that we cannot imagine a shade of colour that we have never seen, or a sound that we have never heard.

She had been having mild contractions all morning, but this was strong, and her face drained of colour.

A gleam of colour will catch your eye, and looking up you see a picture or little shrine of exquisite blue-and-white glazed pottery, where the Madonna kneels and worships the Infant Christ lying amongst the lilies at her feet.

Squinting through the mist of colour that hazed the view, he saw the other six competitors were doing the same.

A small bundle of child's clothing was all that remained of the victims' possessions, a small knot of colour ten paces from the smouldering remains of wagons.