Turmeric, too, was formerly prescribeda plant used for making a yellow dye; and celandine, with its yellow juice, was once equally in repute.

[100] A low-growing tree yielding a black dye, which for a very long time has been used by women to color hemp.

Nor could the chemist's skill suffice To mingle such exquisite dyes, As in the flowers appear; And were all human powers combined, And centred in one single mind, Its best productions, we should find, Stand halting in the rear.

and have I ever detected the secret that gives their brilliant dye to the ruby and the emerald, or the art that enamels the delicate shell?I observe the sagacity of animalsI call it instinct, and speculate upon its various degrees of approximation to the reason of man; but, after all, I know as little of the cogitations of the brute as he does of mine.

That and the Owners name thou didst descry; Onely for that cause, let not my love dye.

Dearest, shall I catch thee wanton fawns, or flies Whose woven wings the summer dyes Of many colours?

I think you can cog a dye, sir.

His intensely susceptible nature took a dye from every scene, city, and society through which he passed; but to the last he bore with him the marks of a descendant of the Sea-Kings, and of the mad Gordons in whose domains he had first learned to listen to the sound of the "two mighty voices" that haunted and inspired him through life.

One is chemicaloxygenationturning the yellowish green dye into a deep intense blue: the other is mechanicala separation of the particles of dye from the water in which it is held in solution.

What if the king of Babylon and his army has trampled them under foot, as slaves trample the shellfish, crushing out the purple dye that lends rich color to a royal robe? "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people." Is the way long and through a desert?

Weaker than Infants legs, your will's in swadling Clouts, A thousand ways my will has found to check ye; A thousand doors to 'scape ye, I dare dye, Sir; As suddenly I dare dye, as you can offer: Nay, say you had your Will, say you had ravish'd me, Perform'd your lust, what had you purchas'd by it?

So from his glassy horns, and pearly eyes, The diamond-beetle darts a thousand dyes; Mounts with enamel'd wings the vesper gale, 240 And wheeling shines in adamantine mail.

He that hathe ech daye to his backe Chandge of gaye suites, whylst wee alacke Have but one coate, that coorse and ould, Yet it defends us from the could; As warme too in an equll eye As they in all theere purple dye; 'Mongst

One thing, good people, witnesse here with me, That I doe dye in perfect charitie, And do forgive, as I would be forgiven First of my God and then of all the world.

Plenty, peace, and pleasure fly; The sprightly green, In woodland walks, no more is seen; The sprightly green has drunk the Tyrian dye.

I emptied out my blue dye and don't know as I shall ever set up another.

The natives cut lines in the faces of the slaves, using a sharp point either of gold or of a thorn; they then fill the wounds with a kind of powder dampened with black or red juice, which forms an indelible dye and never disappears.

'Tis the faintest lends its dye To my roomah, not the sky!

195 As yon gay clouds, which canopy the skies, Change their thin forms, and lose their lucid dyes; So the soft bloom of Beauty's vernal charms Fades in our eyes, and withers in our arms.

"Don't you worry, mum," sez I, "I'm willin' to oblige you every single blessed dye, Bar Sundays, when my young man comes; 'e's such a bloomin' toff, 'E takes me up the river, so I takes the 'ole day off." "That's excellent," the lady sez, "I'll easy do the rest, So if you come, Miss Perkins, you will be our honoured guest, For Mr. Vere de Vere

My crucifixion was merely a painful but necessary incident in my laudable enterprise of obtaining the marvellous purple dye, to which end I was despatched unto these regions by the Emperor Aurelian.

Nor can I, that have powre to perswade men dye, Want living frends to iustifie my Creadit.

All these sovereigns, differing from each other in every other respect, agreed in a common desire to possess the purple dye, and when the philosopher returned not, successively despatched new emissaries in quest of it.

He brought it down to the cage; Rollo went into the house, and brought out an old bowl, and Jonas prepared to pour out the dye into it.

The English birch, which is found also in many parts of Europe, is put to a great many uses; the leaves produce a yellow dye, and the wood, when mixed with copperas, will color red, black and brown.