Example sentences of "of many colour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such bookbindery had a Biblical ring to it , particularly with all those oases and goats of many colours , and recalled the building of Solomon 's temple . |
| 2 | Joseph in his much envied coat of many colours , with his brothers , while Pharaoh and the guards look on . |
| 3 | The cattle of Scotland used to be of many colours but predominantly black and of the Highland or Galloway type . |
| 4 | We feel the savage assault and the cold breath of the infinite that causes this frost of many colours and the stilling of the images , with its beauty . |
| 5 | The orchard was a sight to see when the trestles were set out ( for I could put all ready with no fear of rain on such a day ) with the mugs and platters of many colours , and the brown quartern loaves , and the big pats of butter stamped with a swan , and the slabs of honey-comb dough cakes , gingerbread , cheese , jam and jelly , let alone the ham at one end of each trestle and the round of beef at the other . |
| 6 | A blue sky with white lacy clouds , green , blue-dashed moors and grasslands , the hills strewn with wild flowers of many colours and different hues . |
| 7 | In that year they introduced their ‘ New Dwarf Blotched and Striped ’ mixture ‘ producing flowers of many colours , but all beautifully blotched and striped . ’ |
| 8 | With a flourish he pulled out a jersey of many colours . |
| 9 | We did n't get the new name of Unir Corp 's version of Calico , the AT&T object-oriented language , right last week : its actually styling it C+ ( say Cat ) and continuing to call the environment Calico , which of course is a cat of many colours . |
| 10 | No doubt he took his seat in the Dail arrayed in a coat of many colours and of many shreds and patches . |
| 11 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 12 | With the once cool moist forest falling , the maidenhair ferns that had arched on fine black stems in the shade blistered , the bromeliads ' swordpoints discoloured by direct light and the monkeys and the birds of many colours in retreat , she wanted punishment , hers and others ' . |
| 13 | The bad debt problem had its roots in a complicity of fatalistic acceptance and in viewing the debtors ' ledger as a single balance sheet entity which needed to be financed , rather than a composite of unsecured risks of many colours . |
| 14 | She was swathed from neck to knee in what appeared to be a ‘ coat ’ of many colours . |
| 15 | A river of many colours . |
| 16 | His wife appeared at the top of the stairs wearing a dressing-gown of many colours . |
| 17 | And a colourful diversion for the county cricketers , who 've been told their clothes of many colours will remain for Sunday outings even though seven out of ten members said they do n't prefer them . |