particoloured

After all, a skilled clothing designer is a sculptor in fabric and, to some extent, in flesh, while this Skut was, to the best of our knowledge, only a dauber of particoloured clays who apparently got his jollies from looking at various beasts.

Mayor Bloomberg, Buy Those Handguns 2007

He glanced around the street, at the particoloured shadows cast by buildings and bushes and cars.

Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

The next morning, he found that the obliging care of his martial friend had decorated his hat with sundry particoloured streamers, which made a very lively appearance; and in company with that officer, and three other military gentlemen newly enrolled, who were under a cloud so dense that it only left three shoes, a boot, and a coat and a half visible among them, repaired to the riverside.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

Lying in a midnight bed the two blocks of curtain glimmer on the left hand, on the right a living Rothko, cyan-black rectangled and haze-edged against the black-black, that painter of tombstones of the opacity of doorways the particoloured cataract, the page, the two blocks of grey shredded edges, merging white smaller rectangle in larger, the page.

Rothko poem Adam Roberts Project 2007

Lying in a midnight bed the two blocks of curtain glimmer on the left hand, on the right a living Rothko, cyan-black rectangled and haze-edged against the black-black, that painter of tombstones of the opacity of doorways the particoloured cataract, the page, the two blocks of grey shredded edges, merging white smaller rectangle in larger, the page.

Archive 2007-10-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

Girt to his side was the steel hilt of an old sword without blade or scabbard; and some particoloured ends of ribands and poor glass toys completed the ornamental portion of his attire.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

All the country papers in England teemed with electioneering addresses; and the country was in a flutter with particoloured ribbons.

The Newcomes 2006

So our dark youth at times spread its particoloured wings for a few moments and for no long flight ....

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

They imbroder their safegards or gowns on the outside, from their feet vnto their knees with particoloured or grey stuffe.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Beyond the wall of the cemetery the blue void of the firmament was pierced with smoky chimneys of oil-mills and soap factories, the roofs of which showed up like particoloured stains against the darker rags and tatters of other buildings; while blinking in the sunlight I could discern clatter-emitting, windows which looked to me like watchful eyes.

Through Russia 2003