parti-coloured

I was looking at Ellen-borough, but in his face I could see Ignatieff's hideous parti-coloured eye, and hear that soft icy voice hissing past the long cigarette between his teeth.

Fiancée 2010

Then came a work-room full of girls, sewing, and making little fancy ornaments with beads and parti-coloured strips, and rooms full of children of all ages, in the keeping of female attendants whose pleasant and patient countenances were a strong assurance of their being well selected, except in only one instance where we certainly derived a less agreeable impressioneverybody seemed devoted heart and soul to the good work in hand.18

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Then she threw round her shoulder, baldrick-wise, a rosary as big as a load of firewood, and taking in her hand a flag, made of parti-coloured rags, red and yellow and green, went out, crying, Allah!

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It had windows on all sides commanding an ocean-view; its floor was paved with parti-coloured marbles and its ceiling was painted in the richest pigments and figured with gold and lapis-lazuli.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then came a work-room full of girls, sewing, and making little fancy ornaments with beads and parti-coloured strips, and rooms full of children of all ages, in the keeping of female attendants whose pleasant and patient countenances were a strong assurance of their being well selected, except in only one instance where we certainly derived a less agreeable impressioneverybody seemed devoted heart and soul to the good work in hand.18

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

The ancients say that, in the western Pyramid, are thirty chambers of parti-coloured syenite, full of precious gems and treasures galore and rare images and utensils and costly weapons which are anointed with egromantic unguents, so that they may not rust until the day of

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then came a work-room full of girls, sewing, and making little fancy ornaments with beads and parti-coloured strips, and rooms full of children of all ages, in the keeping of female attendants whose pleasant and patient countenances were a strong assurance of their being well selected, except in only one instance where we certainly derived a less agreeable impressioneverybody seemed devoted heart and soul to the good work in hand.18

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

The guns upon the ramparts of the Castle of St. Angelo proclaimed, next moment, that the benediction was given; drums beat; trumpets sounded; arms clashed; and the great mass below, suddenly breaking into smaller heaps, and scattering here and there in rills, was stirred like parti-coloured sand.

Pictures from Italy 2007

One landsman and two boatmen were seated on the settle, smoking pipes and drinking beer out of thick pint crockery mugs — mugs peculiar to such places, with parti-coloured rings round them, and ornaments between the rings like frayed-out roots.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

English baker; the second like a Russian peasant: for he wore a loose purple camlet robe, with a fur collar, tied round his waist with a parti-coloured worsted sash; grey trousers; light blue gloves: and a cap of bearskin.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007