high-coloured
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The story is brilliantly revealed through many overlapping accounts, tales told from different points of view in the Southern tradition like stories on the porch but all washed in the same, high-coloured prose.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
After travelling on her way still farther, she saw, through the thick snow falling, an old woman, high-coloured and of robust seeming, despite her great age, coming towards her.
From Flemish Legends by Coster, Charles de
It was the attendant from behind the screen who was taking the order, a girl with a fine figure, a sharp-featured, high-coloured, alert face, and wearing the brown uniform of the establishment.
From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.
He is no plain-looking boy: that jet-black hair, white brow, high-coloured cheek, those quick, dark eyes, are good points in their way.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
The urine is scanty and high-coloured, with a copious deposit, consisting chiefly of urates.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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