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Example sentences for "palest"

Lexicographically close words:
paleontologist; paleontologists; paleontology; paler; pales; palet; paletot; palette; palettes; paleys
  1. It is very beautiful--of palest brown, like coffee ice-cream.

  2. The shell is of the palest brown, like coffee ice-cream.

  3. If shellac be compounded into sealing-wax, immediately after it has been separated by fusion from the palest qualities of stick or seed lac, it then forms a better and less brittle article, than when the shellac is fused a second time.

  4. The best-flavoured and palest hops are packed in sacks of fine canvass, which are called pockets, and weigh about 1-1/2 cwt.

  5. The palest shellac is to be selected for bright-coloured sealing-wax, the dark kind being reserved for black.

  6. It occurs in lumps of various sizes and of various shades of colour, from the palest greenish yellow to darkish brown.

  7. The palest and finest shell-lac is brought from the northern Circar.

  8. Chromate of lead, the chrome-yellow of the painter, is a rich pigment of various shades, from deep orange to the palest canary yellow.

  9. The upper skies are palest blue Mottled with pearl and fretted snow: With tattered fleece of inky hue Close overhead the storm-clouds go.

  10. The sepals are palest green, with a rosy tinge; petals pale mauve.

  11. Sepals palest green, petals almost white, tinged with pink at the edges.

  12. Palest rosy lilac, somewhat more rosy in the centre--the crumpled pink lip is as round and as big as a crown piece.

  13. One of the lovely little 'curiosities' which abound in this genus--palest lilac freckled with purple, and tailed.

  14. And here again is one of palest rose, in which the lip carries only a single slender touch of crimson.

  15. The vast lip, circular, daintily crumpled, is palest pink, with a deep yellow throat, round which the pink darkens to pale crimson.

  16. The fine long petals are greenish above, palest purple below, with the massive spots of Rothschildianum.

  17. The white sepals and petals have a palest tinge of rose.

  18. Another example from the same seed-pod has a palest pink network instead of crimson, and tiny dots of maroon.

  19. White or palest rose of sepal and petal, the latter marked with purplish lines at the base.

  20. The petals might be termed palest primrose, but when compared with the pure yellow slipper a pretty tinge of green declares itself.

  21. The very palest shade of sky blue is never very fast.

  22. Indigo can be dyed from the palest sky blue to black.

  23. Her passion, purified to palest flame, Can it thus kindle?

  24. He stood silent a moment thoughtfully watching the distant figure through the vista of green leaves, white blossoms, and great clusters of fruit hanging like globes of palest gold in the sun.

  25. Five dainty eggs of the palest possible blue rested at the bottom of the cavity on a soft cushion of fine grasses.

  26. The oldest and most valuable specimens of this pottery are those which have the palest and most purely golden lustre, combined with blue or bluish decoration in the form of animals, coats of arms, or foliage.

  27. It is also beyond doubt that the oldest specimens of this pottery extant to-day are those which contain the palest and most pearly lustre, and consequently the largest quantity of the costlier metal.

  28. All colors that are apparently changed in purity of color when even the palest of varnishes are used over them, should have a little of the color used in each varnish coat up to the finishing coat of varnish.

  29. Begin at the top of the letter with the very palest shade of green then continuing with the various gradations down to the deepest shade.

  30. If striping or ornamenting is used do this work upon the last rubbing coat and then finish with the very palest varnish obtainable.

  31. The lower ranges seem as though painted, in films of airiest and palest azure, upon china; and then comes the broad, green champaign, flecked with villages and farms.

  32. Mellow lights, the morning hues of primrose or of palest amber, pervade the whole society.

  33. The darkest specimens of paulus occur in southern Zacatecas, and northern Jalisco, and the palest of the series are in northern Durango and southern Chihuahua.

  34. The variations in color in this subspecies closely correspond to degree of relative humidity; the palest samples are from areas of low relative humidity and the darkest are from areas of high relative humidity.

  35. That wheat is just beginning to turn from green to the palest of yellow.

  36. Then came a riot of orange yellow and ashes of roses and the palest of gold with little islands of azure in it.

  37. The moonbeams, catching her, fold her in floods of palest glory, until he who watches her with remorseful eyes can only liken her to a fragile saint, as she stands there in her white, clinging draperies.

  38. Miss Daphne Wing was standing with her finger-tips joined at her breast--a perfect statue of ebony and palest wax.

  39. Except wings and tail, nearly uniform pale gray, palest on uropygium and crissum, much lighter gray than in A.

  40. She had chosen palest yellow for her gown palest yellow highlighting the deep waves in her golden amber hair and striking little sparks of fire in her deep grey eyes.

  41. A cherry tree on a slope below them throws up a wave of blossom that breaks all creamy white against their feet, and a clump of willows trail their palest green shoots in front of all.

  42. Weathered to every shade of red, orange, and palest lemon, they still showed much of their ancient beauty near the closed Latin gate.

  43. But now over all this solemn prospect was the luminous blue light of evening, fading to violet and palest yellow in the farthest west, where lay the Tyrrhene Sea.

  44. The plain of Pevensey lay like a vision of fairyland, the colouring indescribably delicate, unreal; bands of dark green alternated with the palest and most translucent emeralds.

  45. She was a little, slim girl, with the palest and shortest of gold hair, and a pretty face spoilt with freckles.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.