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"Colourful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tribes of the air. From the fluttering starling to the giant albatross, all were liberated and each paid homage to him—the master of the sky, before they shot upward and through the oval opening in the rent heaven. It was a grand and colourful ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... habit of not doing this or that particular thing. Well! it is no longer a la mode to talk about God,—yet I must confess to an old-fashioned faith in our Author's existence and even in His amiability. I believe He placed me in this colourful world, and that He is not displeased because I have spent therein some forty-odd years pleasurably. Then too I have not wasted that pleasure, I have philanthropically passed it on. I have bequeathed posterity the chance to spend an enjoyable half-hour or so over one ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al
... been born in Italy and had been warmed by the sunshine of the happy valley of the Arno, I might love many colourful and sunny pictures which now leave me indifferent because I got my first artistic impressions in a country where the rare sun beats down upon the rain-soaked land with almost cruel brutality and throws everything into violent contrasts of dark ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon
... as they have always been, but two parallel bars of steel reaching across the prairies brought change with them, and it was great and sudden. The railroad reached the Rio Grande Valley early in the eighties, and it smashed the colourful barbaric pattern of the old life as the ruthless fist of an infidel might smash a stained glass window. The metropolis of the northern valley in those days was a sleepy little adobe town of a few hundred people, reclining about its dusty plaza near ...
— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson
... Evenings at the Farm of Dikanka (1831) was more successful. It was a series of gay and colourful pictures of Ukraine, the land he knew and loved, and if he is occasionally a little over romantic here and there, he also achieves some beautifully lyrical passages. Then came another even finer series ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol |
Words linked to "Colourful" : picturesque, colour, deep, braw, brave, colorful, flashy, sporty, chromatic, vibrant, fluorescent, iridescent, bright, shrill, color, chatoyant, colourless, vivid, showy, many-sided, noisy, vividness |
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