variously-coloured

It exhibits patches of sulphur and variously-coloured volcanic products, and emits from several vents continual streams of smoke and vapour.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

It was nevertheless greatly admired by ignorant travellers of all classes; partly on account of its imposing size, and partly on account of the number of variously-coloured marbles which the sculptor had contrived to introduce into his design.

The Haunted Hotel 2003

The Cathedral and the other churches in the old town are in the Italian style, ornamented with gilding and variously-coloured marbles.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

To keep up a mixed stock of even such extremely close varieties as the variously-coloured sweet peas, they must be each year harvested separately, and the seed then mixed in due proportion, otherwise the weaker kinds will steadily decrease in number and disappear.

III. Struggle for Existence. Complex Relations of All Animals and Plants to Each Other in the Struggle for Existence 1909

Within that there is an arrangement of variously-coloured lines moving almost parallel with this outline; and then another somewhat similar arrangement which seems to cross and interpenetrate the first.

Thought-Forms Annie Wood Besant 1890

It was nevertheless greatly admired by ignorant travellers of all classes; partly on account of its imposing size, and partly on account of the number of variously-coloured marbles which the sculptor had contrived to introduce into his design.

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice 1879

It exhibits patches of sulphur and variously-coloured volcanic products, and emits from several vents continual streams of smoke and vapour.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

But are you building on that foundation the gold of self-denial, the silver of white purity, the precious stones of variously-coloured and

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

Suddenly a bright flame burst over the village, and a flight of magnificent rockets shot up into the sky, and burst in a hundred bright and variously-coloured stars, which paled for a few seconds the lights of nature.

Martin Rattler 1859

The scenery was highly interesting: one noble reach succeeded another, alternately varying their courses; the banks thickly scattered with trees, rich in foliage, hung over with creepers bearing variously-coloured and aromatic blossoms.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847