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 laid her head down for a minute, colouring too, even the cheek that was high-coloured before; but she looked up again.
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner
The general Symptoms of an Inflammation of the Throat are, the Shivering, the subsequent Heat, the Fever, the Head-ach, red high-coloured Urine, a considerable Difficulty, and sometimes even an Impossibility, of swallowing any thing whatever.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
In touch with the old, familiar things, but with a high-coloured unnaturalness, Harry Sevier had stood ceaseless guard over his secret, every sense and instinct on the qui vive to minimise the chances of recognition.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
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 Charlotte Brontë
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