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  • One can clearly see, in several places, the uncoloured corpuscles, outlined by the black-coloured blood plasma.

    August Krogh - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • These are a sort of carp, and a black-coloured fish of seven pounds or eight pounds weight, said to be very good eating.

    A Winter Tour in South Africa Frederick Young

  • The partly neutralised substance in aqueous solution tans pelt in twenty-four hours with black colour on the surface only, the intermediary layer being pickled (white colour) only, but the black-coloured tanning matter ultimately penetrates the pelt, which tanned through in seven days.

    Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

  • The weapon passed right through his throat; and when my other workman went to help him, his horse also, a black-coloured animal, slipped towards the lake, and held on by some shrub which offered but a slight support.

    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

  • The weapon passed right through his throat; and when my other workman went to help him, his horse also, a black-coloured animal, slipped towards the lake, and held on by some shrub which offered but a slight support.

    XCVI 1909

  • The reason given for his being unlucky is his practice of harnessing and blindfolding bullocks already mentioned, and also that he presses _urad_ [670] a black-coloured pulse, the oil from which is offered to the unlucky planet Saturn on Saturdays.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

  • He is a boy about three feet in height, black-coloured, with a long black scalp-lock.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

  • The Auchmeddan Stone is a ball of black-coloured flint, mounted with four strips of silver.

    Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

  • Also, Burmese journalists must wear traditional black-coloured jackets and traditional Burmese turbans at the dinner party, said another editor who attended the meeting.

    IFEX - 2010

  • Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Team are appealing for witnesses and would particularly like to hear from anyone who may have witnessed the manner of driving of the black-coloured vehicle before the collision with the tree.

    EDP24 News 2010

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