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... colour brown , chequered with dark Puff - adder ( Clotho arietans ) . brown and white ; a reddish band between the eyes ; the under parts paler than the upper . Its movements are generally slow , but it turns very quickly if approached ...
... colour brown , chequered with dark Puff - adder ( Clotho arietans ) . brown and white ; a reddish band between the eyes ; the under parts paler than the upper . Its movements are generally slow , but it turns very quickly if approached ...
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... colour , more rarely yellow , brown , consists of a cylindrical piece of wood or metal , or black ; and so vesicular , that in mass , it is which fits exactly the barrel in which it moves , lighter than water , and swims in it . The ...
... colour , more rarely yellow , brown , consists of a cylindrical piece of wood or metal , or black ; and so vesicular , that in mass , it is which fits exactly the barrel in which it moves , lighter than water , and swims in it . The ...
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... COLOURS . Painters in oil and water colours produce the various shades of purple by the admixture of pure red and pure blue colours . Dyers obtain this colour from various sources , all of which are curious and interesting . From a very ...
... COLOURS . Painters in oil and water colours produce the various shades of purple by the admixture of pure red and pure blue colours . Dyers obtain this colour from various sources , all of which are curious and interesting . From a very ...
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... colour was very fugitive , and soon ceased to be used by itself ; it , however , was found very useful in combination , and has a remarkable power of brightening up other colours . Many improvements have been lately made in archil ...
... colour was very fugitive , and soon ceased to be used by itself ; it , however , was found very useful in combination , and has a remarkable power of brightening up other colours . Many improvements have been lately made in archil ...
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... colour purple , expressed in engravings by lines in bend sinister . It is of unfrequent occurrence in British heraldry . PU'RPURINE . See MADDER . PURRE . See DUNLIN . PURSE - CRAB ( Birgus ) , a genus of Crustacea , of the order ...
... colour purple , expressed in engravings by lines in bend sinister . It is of unfrequent occurrence in British heraldry . PU'RPURINE . See MADDER . PURRE . See DUNLIN . PURSE - CRAB ( Birgus ) , a genus of Crustacea , of the order ...
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