Example Sentences

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He has an extraordinary memory for facts and to talk with him is almost like talking to an articulate and well-colored encyclopedia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Department of Air Science and Tactics Boston University Boston Sir: Your well-cropped, well-colored cuts and well-cropped, well-colored story about Nate's Air Force can hardly be found at fault in its facts .

From Time Magazine Archive

He was smoking a small, well-colored meerschaum pipe with evident relish.

From Hearts and Masks by MacGrath, Harold

"I am very much afraid," said the Lieutenant, slowly, interrupted by frequent whiffs at a well-colored meerschaum, "that the Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel will have difficulty to save themselves."

From Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac by Armstrong, William H.

It is in no sense a table-grape but makes a well-colored, pleasant wine.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.