33 adjectives to describe inks

I have since discovered that all such epistles have their real meaning concealed in some kind of more rarefied sympathetic ink, which betrays itself only under the burning hands of a lover.

Sometimes climbing from floor to floor, a still warm supply of them looped over one arm, Mrs. Kaufman, who wore bombazine, but unspotted and with crisp net frills at the throat, and upon whose soft-looking face the years had written their chirography in invisible ink, would sit suddenly, there in the narrow gloom of her halls, head against the balustrade.

ABSENCE OF MIND marking a box of paper shirt-collars with indelible ink.

Can't you see that there's violet upon it, while we always use the black pad!" I took it in my hand, and there, sure enough, I saw traces of violet ink upon itthe ink of the pad for the date-stamp upon the Consul's table.

It bore, in faded ink, the marks, "Calcutta, 1805."

"A little ink more or less!" He had some pink blotting-paper ready, and was already applying a corner of it to the ink-spot, with the neat skill of a professional scribe.

The idea then struck him of enlarging their application; and, being a man of an ingenious turn, he invented a thicker and more tenacious ink than was in common use, which blotted, and began to print figures from wooden tablets or blocks, to which he added several lines of letters, first solid, and then separate or movable.

She saw that the parchment, about eight inches long by four wide, was covered with writing in brown ink, half-faded, while attached was a formidable oval red seal which bore a coat of arms surmounting the Cardinal's hat.

See, the tiny waves that curl before our boat are like thin ink; a thousand roots and herbs and who knows what mysterious vegetable mixture colors these dark deeps?

BRANCHING LARKSPUR.The petals bruised yield a fine blue pigment, and with alum make a permanent blue ink.

Dr. Goodale says of this experiment,"Let a young seedling of corn be grown on damp paper in the manner described in No. 1, and when the longest root is a few centimetres long let it be marked very carefully by means of India ink, or purple ink, put on with a delicate camel's-hair pencil just one centimetre apart.

The Ink's yet wet, the Spark is near I find.

To him and his scanty literature (what there is of it, sound) have we flown from the metropolis and its cursed annualists, reviewers, authors, and the whole muddy ink press of that stagnant pool.

Charles X. Carlson (A); 10Feb72; R522947. Simplified ink, pen and brush drawing.

Yesit was soin solemn, sober black ink!

To us it is a matter of unmixed rejoicing that this latter necessary of healthful life is independent of theological ink, and that its evolution is insured in the interaction of human souls as certainly as the evolution of science or art, with which, indeed, it is but a twin ray, melting into them with undefinable limits.

This we found to be delicious, but I seemed to be eating transparent red ink with parsley in it.

Her eyes were large and black, having an extreme lustre, like the gleam of undried ink,a lustre at some times uncanny.

"I should think I d-d-d-did," said Elia, "for I paid s-s-s-seven and sixpence for it!" Lamb's postscript is written in extremely small characters, and the letters of the two lines of verse are in alternate red and black inks.

When Cerberus was headlong drawn from hell, He voided a black poison from his mouth, Call'd Aconitum, whereof ink was made: That ink, with reeds first laid on dried barks, Serv'd me awhile to make rude works withal, Till Hermes, secretary to the gods, Or Hermes Trismegistus, as some will, Weary with graving in blind characters And figures of familiar beasts and plants, Invented letters to write lies withal.

" Bottled red ink and cider champagne does not suit the taste of those who have a taste worth owning.

In addition to these, the Journal printed in 1915 200,000 postal cards on good stock with colored ink, especially calculated to win voters.

A multitude of strange blunders and ludicrous incidents followed, upon which much controversial and patriotic ink has been spilt by a succession of French and German biographers.

On their comparative merits a deal of critical ink has been spilt, Arnold's characterisation of Gray is well known"he never spoke out."

It was written in a curious grayish-black ink in a woman's hand, and read: * *

33 adjectives to describe  inks