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
She passed small quantities of high-coloured urine; and had an evident fluctuation in the belly.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
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 gentleman, a portly, elderly man, had one of those bluff-looking, high-coloured faces which, even while they try to look cross, cannot hide their evident good nature.
From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Weitemeyer, Thorvald
She came back to Norton with high-coloured cheeks and eyes very bright indeed.
From Trading by Warner, Susan
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