The conquering race was white, the conquered was dark, though not black; and this difference of color was one of the original causes of Indian caste.

They worked slowly and carefully, and in an hour or two the pictures stood revealed, a little faded in color but beautifully drawn, with almost nothing of any moment missing from the scenes.

"Prithee, poppet, what hast dropped into the dish to-day?" Julia was laughing too much to be wholly intelligible, but read from a scrap in her apron pocket: "'Any fruit in season, cold beans or peas, minced cucumber, English walnuts, a few cubes of cold meat left from dinner, hard boiled eggs in slices, flecks of ripe tomatoes and radishes to perfect the color scheme, a dash of onion juice, dash of paprika, dash of rich cream.'

"How nicely it fits," he said; "who would have imagined that my awkward fingers could have done it?" Redbud sat down with a slight color in her cheek.

Verty did not embrace this tacit permissionhe remained silent; and gazing on Redbud, whose color began slowly to rise, as with heaving bosom and down-cast eyes she felt the young man's lookhe experienced more and more embarrassmenta sentiment which began to give way to distress.

" Fanny suddenly caught, from the laughing eye, the young man's meaning, and began to color.

He was in that stage of feeling toward his people where a man's emotions take the color of religion.

" "A position is a job wid a white color on it," defined the minstrel.

Their faces and clothes were of a uniform dust color.

Hearty and hale was Othere, His cheek had the color of oak; With a kind of laugh in his speech, Like the sea-tide on a beach, As unto the King he spoke.

" Celtic literature shows more exaggeration, more love of color, and a deeper appreciation of nature in her gentler aspects.

V. be probable &c adj.; give color to, lend color to; point to; imply &c (evidence) 467; bid fair &c (promise) 511; stand fair for; stand a good chance, run a good chance. think likely, dare say, flatter oneself; expect &c 507; count upon &c (believe) 484.

out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random. heighten, overcolor^; color highly, color too highly; broder^; flourish; color &c (misrepresent) 544; puff &c (boast) 884.

out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random. heighten, overcolor^; color highly, color too highly; broder^; flourish; color &c (misrepresent) 544; puff &c (boast) 884.

picture gallery, exhibit; studio, atelier; pinacotheca^. V. paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil &c n.; paint in oils &c n.; stencil; depict &c (represent) 554.

printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing^, color printing, lithographic printing; type printing &c 591; three-color process.

Pretext N. pretext, pretense, pretension, plea^; allegation, advocation; ostensible motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason; excuse &c (vindication) 937; subterfuge; color; gloss, guise, cover. loop hole, starting hole; how to creep out of, salvo, come off; way of escape. handle, peg to hang on, room locus standi [Lat.]; stalking-horse, cheval de bataille

V. pretend, plead, allege; shelter oneself under the plea of; excuse &c (vindicate) 937; lend a color to; furnish a handle &c n.; make a pretext of, make a handle of; use as a plea &c n.; take one's stand upon, make capital out of, pretend &c (lie) 544.

ostensibly; under color; under the plea, under the pretense of, under the guise of. 3. Objects of Volition 618.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the color perfectly harmonized; it is true to life.

If you form your own opinion of a man who might spend a livelong morning,an October morning, quivering with color, alive with light, sweet with the breath of dropping pines, soft with the caress of a wind that had filtered through miles of sunshine,and that the morning of the day before his wedding,reading Stuart Mill on Liberty,I cannot help it.

He informed us that whites were not unfrequently brought before him for trial, and, in spite of his color, sometimes even our own countrymen.

They sat together around a circular table, and conversed as freely as though they had been all of one color.

" She glanced around the room at the piles of canvases against the wall, at the tin coffee pot on the wooden table, and then back at his unshorn face and shock of disorderly hair, the color rising slowly to her cheeks.

The ladies were for the most part white, or what passed for such, with an occasional dash of copper color.