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Example sentences for "dull white"

  • In winter they are brownish-black, somewhat mottled above; below, dull white.

  • The three or four eggs are a dull white in color, faintly specked with a few spots of brownish (2.

  • A single egg, dull white, the inside of the shell being a pale green when held to the light.

  • The female is a grayish brown, lighter below; also with a spot of dull white in front of the eye and the same in back.

  • Nest and Eggs=--The nests are usually found on the small islands of the salt marshes, and contain eight to ten eggs of a dull white color.

  • The eggs, numbering six to eight, are of a dull white.

  • Investigations of the kind began to assume a new aspect in 1890, when Professor Holden organised them at the Lick Observatory.

  • It was succeeded, in 1837, by a descriptive volume bearing the imposing title, Der Mond; oder allgemeine vergleichende Selenographie.

  • The hen lays five or six eggs, of a dull white colour, mottled with brown.

  • The eggs are longish ovals, rather pointed at one end, a dull white or reddish white, more or less thickly speckled and spotted or clouded with pale yellowish or reddish brown; occasionally the eggs exhibit a few very fine black lines.

  • The forehead, the sides of the head, the throat, and the entire under parts are dull white, tinged with grayish on the flanks and crissum.

  • The ground color varies considerably from dull white to "cream buff" and even to "deep olive buff," but in all sets I have seen the ground color and markings follow the same shades and types in the same set of eggs.

  • The under side of the larva is dull white, with several dull olive spots corresponding to its ventral prolegs.

  • Below, dull white, dusky on the throat, spotted on the breast and sides with dull olive-brown.

  • Below, dull white, washed with pale buff on the throat and sides and obscurely streaked on the breast and sides with black, veiled by whitish edgings.

  • Female dusky brown above, dull white beneath; the wings and tail as in the male, but the black bands on the head and neck wanting.

  • The plasmodium is dull white, of the consistence of cream, and is often met with in quantity on beds of decaying leaves in the woods.

  • The plasmodium, dull white, was observed by Fries at the beginning of the century; "morphoseos clavem inter myxogastres hoc genus primum mihi subministravit.

  • The single egg which they lay is dull white in color, the inside of the shell being a pale green, which color can only be seen by holding the egg to the light.

  • They are three or four in number and have a ground color of dull white, or pale greenish blue and are quite heavily blotched with several shades of brown.

  • The egg is a dull white, generally nest stained and is covered with the usual chalky deposit.

  • The sides are, generally, dripping with the little streams of water formed by the melting of the ice, and glistening in the rays of the sun; but a dull white is the principal colour of the mass.

  • It presents to your notice a dull white mass of untransparent ice--not transparent, with objects to be seen through it on the other side, as I have noticed in more than one picture of the North Pole taken by an artist on the spot!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    although some; best friend; cleared land; dull brown; dull green; dull page; dull reddish; dull sermon; dull voice; dull white; dull yellow; dull yellowish; evident truth; general movement; last reached; maternal impressions; mellow soil; seed should; service rendered; she heard; speaking countries; stage coach; this tale; urged against; well browned; wish thee