China ink
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There were a dozen scarlet coffee bins with adventurous words written across the front in black China ink: Brazil!
From Literature
Sepia, sē′pi-a, n. a fine, brown pigment used as a water-colour—from the ink-bag of a few species of cuttle-fish: Indian or China ink: a genus of cuttle-fishes.—n.pl.
From Project Gutenberg
But the 20 Beijing-based journalists interviewed by University of Iowa journalism professor Judy Polumbaum in China Ink fall somewhere in the middle.
From Time Magazine Archive
China Ink instead tells the story of the everyday fight to sidestep propaganda and produce a serviceable publication or program.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was in vain to assure him that I was no draughtsman; he was determined to have the proof of it; and he departed extremely well satisfied in obtaining a very mean performance with the pencil, to copy after or cover with his China ink.
From Project Gutenberg
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