Vermilions

Word VERMILIONS
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The word "vermilions" in example sentences

Peak color is a ways off, but the sugar maples have started turning their amazing crimsons, vermilions, and flame oranges. ❋ Matociquala (2009)

(Physcomitrium), immense splashes of what seemed to be the scarlet-crested Cladonia, traceries of huge moss veils, crushings of teeth (peristome) gigantic; spore cases brown and white, saffron and ivory, hot vermilions and cerulean blues, pressed into an astounding mosaic by some titanic force. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In this temple there were more than a hundred idols standing in rows, many of them life-size, some of them trampling devils under their feet, but all hideous, partly from the bright greens, vermilions, and blues with which they are painted. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The flowers, too, were luminous — indeed sparkling — gleaming brilliants of scarlet and vermilions lighter than the flood on which they lay, mauves and odd shades of reddish-blue. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was all greens and vermilions with purple blotches - except where shell fish clung to it - and shaped rather like a horse's, though without ears. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1952)

A somewhat curious name for a metallic colour, was a peculiar preparation of the author, possessing in its time certain advantages over other vermilions, and especially distinguished by a more scarlet hue. ❋ George Field (N/A)

To the orange colours there may be added cadmium red and the orange vermilions, pigments which were classed among the reds, but which contain sufficient yellow to render them adapted for either compound russets or compound citrines. ❋ George Field (N/A)

This opinion, indeed, extends to all metallic sulphides, and our belief is, that if vermilions were made generally by wet processes, they would not be found the permanent pigments they undoubtedly are. ❋ George Field (N/A)

The so-called orange vermilions were, it will be remembered, classed among the reds. ❋ George Field (N/A)

Like other vermilions, however, the colour needs much nicety of management; and it must not be attempted to further enrich it by admixture of cochineal lakes. ❋ George Field (N/A)

With ultramarine, however, red and orange vermilions, yellow and orange chromes, yellow and orange and red cadmiums, aureolin, the ochres, viridian and other oxides of chromium, Indian red &c., they compound with little or no injury. ❋ George Field (N/A)

Before now, vermilions have been taxed with fading in a strong light: supposing them genuine, it would be interesting to know by what mode they were manufactured. ❋ George Field (N/A)

No scratchings, no hatchings, no scumbling nor multiplicity of repetitions -- no ultramarine lakes nor vermilions -- not even a mark of the brush visible; all seemed melted in the fat and glowing mass, solid yet transparent, giving the nearest approach to life that the painter's art has ever yet reached. ❋ Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon (N/A)

Seeing that previous to its introduction the number of bright reds, not being crimson, nor of a crimson cast, was limited to vermilions, pure scarlet, red chrome, and red lead, of which the first alone were permanent, there was room on the palette for a strictly durable and somewhat transparent pigment like cadmium red, with its many distinctive properties. ❋ George Field (N/A)

When the boats have just come in and added their gaudy vermilions, blues, and emerald greens to the picture, the North Landing is worth seeing. ❋ Gordon Home (1923)

Scarlets war with golden oranges, and vermilions fade into palpitating pinks. ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)

All the scarlets and vermilions are gone; a luminous pink bathes the whole scene in its fairy light. ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)

In them I could trace fringe leaf and curly leaf, pressings of enormous bladder caps (Physcomitrium), immense splashes of what seemed to be the scarlet-crested Cladonia, traceries of huge moss veils, crushings of teeth (peristome) gigantic; spore cases brown and white, saffron and ivory, hot vermilions and cerulean blues, pressed into an astounding mosaic by some titanic force. ❋ Unknown (1919)

The flowers, too, were luminous -- indeed sparkling -- gleaming brilliants of scarlet and vermilions lighter than the flood on which they lay, mauves and odd shades of reddish-blue. ❋ Unknown (1919)

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