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.

Generally speaking, a high development of intellectual life, especially an intimate acquaintance with different religious systems, is not favourable to the continuance of elaborate conceptions of things eternal; it will rather increase the tendency to deprive the idea of the Transcendent of all colour and definiteness.

" "Stop your nonsense, girls," said Marian, who had noticed Patty's rising colour, "and take your places.

" "Nov. 2.Bartram, who, as a traveller, was possessed of a very lively fancy, describes vast plains in the interior of America, where his horse's fetlocks for miles were dyed a perfect blood colour, in the juice of the wild strawberries.

The attraction of their naturally-placed, fine, proverbial bloom, is only wanting to reduce the wandering colour in the 'elbows' and 'ancles' of our belles, back to its native metropolis and palace, the 'cheek.'

Lighter colour.

"Sir, (said I,) what say you to the peacock's tail, which is one of the most beautiful objects in nature, but would have as much utility if its feathers were all of one colour."

The MS. makes the difficulty even greater by reading "Silver colour [sic] on the Medaean fields Not Tiber colour." p. 75, l. 2.

The MS. makes the difficulty even greater by reading "Silver colour [sic] on the Medaean fields Not Tiber colour." p. 75, l. 2.

Some fell down dead or seem'd at least to doe so, Under that colour to be carried forth.

Pleasure heightened her colour; and there was such a mixture of frank, sisterly regard, in every glance of her eye, blended, however, with sensitive feeling, and conscious womanly reserve, as made her a thousand timesmeasuring amounts by the young man's sensationsmore interesting than he had ever seen her.

The fair artist's colour deepened a little; but her smile was quite as sweet as it was saucy, as she replied "Girlish caprice, I suppose.

" "Of mother, Maudyou are beside yourselfit has neither her features, expression, nor the colour of her eyes.

He reads the scriptures and prays in black kid cloves, but he shows the natural colour of his hands when preaching.

The pulpit is a broad, neatly-arranged affairfixed upon a platform at the southern end, and environed with rails of blue and gold colour.

Baatu surveyed us earnestly for some time, and we him; he was of a fresh ruddy colour, and in my opinion had a strong resemblance to the late Lord John de Beaumont.

Under colour of what new phantom her Majesty, the Chancellor, and Pitt will assume the Government, we shall know in two or three days; for I do not suppose they will produce the King instantly, at the risk of oversetting his head again, though they seem half as mad as he, and capable of any violent act to maintain themselves.

CHERUBIM, a character in the "Mariage de Figaro"; also the 11th Hussars, from their trousers being of a cherry colour.

CHINCHILLA, a rodent of S. America, hunted for its fur, which is soft and of a grey colour; found chiefly in the mountainous districts of Peru and Chile.

" CHYLE, a fluid of a milky colour, separated from the chyme by the action of the pancreatic juice and the bile, and which, being absorbed by the lacteal vessels, is gradually assimilated into blood.

COLOUR-BLINDNESS, inability, still unaccounted for, to distinguish between colours, and especially between red and green, more common among men than women; a serious disqualification for several occupations, such as those connected with the study of signals.

COLOUR-SERGEANT, a sergeant whose duty is to guard the colours and those who carry them.

COTIN, THE ABBÉ, a French preacher, born in Paris; a butt of the sarcasm of Molière and Boileau (1604-1682) COTMAN, JOHN SELL, an English painter, born at Norwich; made Turner's acquaintance; produced water-colour landscapes, growing in repute; has been pronounced "the most gifted of the Norwich School" (1782-1842).

SHISHAK, the name of several monarchs of Egypt of the twenty-second dynasty, the first of whom united nearly all Egypt under one government, invaded Judea and plundered the Temple of Jerusalem about 962 B.C. SHITTIM WOOD, a hard, close-grained acacia wood of an orange-brown colour found in the Arabian Desert, and employed in constructing the Jewish Tabernacle.

STENCILLING, a cheap and simple process of printing on various surfaces letters or designs; the characters are cut out in thin plates of metal or card-board, which are then laid on the surface to be imprinted, and the colour, by means of a brush, rubbed through the cut spaces.

SYMBOLISM has been divided into two kinds, symbolism of colour and symbolism of form.