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
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
He was a fresh, high-coloured boy, whose features showed even now a slight forecast of General Bolingbroke's awful redness.
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
On the one side sat the bride, a high-coloured, buxom young girl, serene and erect as Britannia on the halfpennies, and guarded by two stout fellows, masons or slaters apparently, in their working dresses.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
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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