When we finally centred the bird in the telescope you could see that his throat was a glittering emerald, his crown sulphur-yellow. ❋ Mark Cocker (2010)
The lucidity, the clarity of the light that afternoon was sufficient to itself; perfect transparency must be impenetrable, these vertical bars of a brass-coloured distillation of light coming down from the sulphur-yellow interstices in a sky hunkered with grey clouds that bulge with more rain. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Rundown houses gave way to wooded hollows haunted by trickles of sulphur-yellow water. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Then MacCann is a sulphur-yellow liar, said Lynch energetically. — ❋ Unknown (2003)
Zayla is the normal African port, — a strip of sulphur-yellow sand, with a deep blue dome above, and a foreground of the darkest indigo. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Like a hallucination, painfully clear, he saw again their home as he had imagined it; he saw their garden, and Elizabeth feeding Nero and the pigeons on the drive by the sulphur-yellow phloxes that grew as high as her shoulder; and the drawing-room, with the water-colours on the walls, and the balsams in the china bowl mirrored by the table, and the book-shelves, and the black piano. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Of parrots there were more sorts than imagination dreamed existed—huge white ones with striking sulphur-yellow crests, grey ones with cyclamen breasts, black ones, rainbow-hued ones, tiny speckled chartreuse ones, red-and-blue ones, green ones, and dozens more besides. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)
They burn to a sulphur-yellow colour which is quite distinctive. ❋ Various (N/A)
One large fan is made of pale-pink and silver-gray (darned together), and wood-brown; another is made of the garnet and the sulphur-yellow, while the third is made of orange and pale-blue. ❋ The Butterick Publishing Co. (N/A)
Flowers 2 in. to 4 in. in diameter, bright sulphur-yellow, with a reddish tint in the centre; in form they are like a shallow cup, the numerous stamens occupying the middle. ❋ W. Watson (N/A)
Flowers 3 in. to 4 in. across, sulphur-yellow, produced all through the summer. ❋ W. Watson (N/A)
Flowers sulphur-yellow, 2½ in. across, borne on the last-ripened joints in May, and abundant on well-grown plants. ❋ W. Watson (N/A)
But otherwise there is no difficulty in raising plants, and the long spikes of beautiful clear sulphur-yellow flowers are well worth the extra time the seedlings need. ❋ Sutton And Sons (N/A)
The fruit is egg-shaped, varying in length from eight to twelve inches, and weighing from six to eight pounds; skin nearly smooth, of a deep sulphur-yellow; flesh nearly white, extending about half way to its centre, crisp, sugary, and very rich. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)
The colour is sulphur-yellow, and this enables the mineral to be distinguished at a glance from the emerald-green torbernite. ❋ Various (N/A)
One small fan is made of the orange and pale-blue, another of the old-rose with sulphur-yellow, and the third peacock-blue and crimson. ❋ The Butterick Publishing Co. (N/A)
The scrolls meeting at the center are made, one of wood-brown, one of sulphur-yellow and one of garnet, and the rest of the design is made in different shades of dull green. ❋ The Butterick Publishing Co. (N/A)
