They burn to a sulphur-yellow colour which is quite distinctive. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Then MacCann is a sulphur-yellow liar, said Lynch energetically. —. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
Flowers 3 in. to 4 in. across, sulphur-yellow, produced all through the summer. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
Rundown houses gave way to wooded hollows haunted by trickles of sulphur-yellow water. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
Flowers sulphur-yellow, 2½ in. across, borne on the last-ripened joints in May, and abundant on well-grown plants. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
The colour is sulphur-yellow, and this enables the mineral to be distinguished at a glance from the emerald-green torbernite. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
When we finally centred the bird in the telescope you could see that his throat was a glittering emerald, his crown sulphur-yellow. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Papua New Guinea] Reference
One small fan is made of the orange and pale-blue, another of the old-rose with sulphur-yellow, and the third peacock-blue and crimson. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Modern Lace Making] Reference
Zayla is the normal African port, — a strip of sulphur-yellow sand, with a deep blue dome above, and a foreground of the darkest indigo. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
But otherwise there is no difficulty in raising plants, and the long spikes of beautiful clear sulphur-yellow flowers are well worth the extra time the seedlings need. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
The colors on them were often very Egyptian-like, -- bright sulphur-yellow, and brown, and sometimes orange and dark red, -- incrustations of lichen and weather-staining. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
The scrolls meeting at the center are made, one of wood-brown, one of sulphur-yellow and one of garnet, and the rest of the design is made in different shades of dull green. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Modern Lace Making] Reference
Flowers 2 in. to 4 in. in diameter, bright sulphur-yellow, with a reddish tint in the centre; in form they are like a shallow cup, the numerous stamens occupying the middle. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
One large fan is made of pale-pink and silver-gray (darned together), and wood-brown; another is made of the garnet and the sulphur-yellow, while the third is made of orange and pale-blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Modern Lace Making] Reference
It was very good and full of life, but I should have forgotten the expressive face and perhaps the whole scene of the visit, if it had not been for the black and sulphur-yellow striped vest, which. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
The sulphur-yellow and orange-colored kinds predominate. From Wordnik.com. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference
Then MacCann is a sulphur-yellow liar, said Lynch energetically. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]
Then MacCann is a sulphur-yellow liar, said Lynch energetically. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
The patch of feathers under the tail is bright sulphur-yellow instead of crimson. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
Among these the sulphur-yellow varieties should be considered in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
A bee flew in and buzzed round the blue-dragon bowl that, filled with sulphur-yellow roses, stood before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
A bee flew in, and buzzed round the blue-dragon bowl that, filled with sulphur-yellow roses, stood before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
A bee flew in, and buzzed round the blue-dragon bowl, filled with sulphur-yellow roses, that stood in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
Amongst the insects was the silk-spider, a large arachnid of sulphur-yellow tint, with three black transverse bars. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
The sulphur-yellow varieties may be adduced as illustrative examples, because in them the single flowers always come white. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
A second brood of Colias Philodice, the common sulphur-yellow butterfly, appears, and Pieris oleracea visits turnip-patches. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Zayla is the normal African port, -- a strip of sulphur-yellow sand, with a deep blue dome above, and a foreground of the darkest indigo. From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
There was in the man a sort of sulphur-yellow flame of passion which would light up in his battered body and give him an almost diabolic look. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
He looked almost Parisian in his carefully-varnished boots, his sulphur-yellow waistcoats, his tight-fitting coats, his handsome silk cravats, his fashionable trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Sons of the Soil] Reference
High up the Rue Peysette, -- up all the precipitous streets that ascend the mornes, -- a far gathering of showy color appears: the massing of maskers in rose and blue and sulphur-yellow attire. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
A misfitting sulphur-yellow suit, and half a week's beard? '. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference
Petals numerous, narrow, toothed at the tips, spreading; colour a deep sulphur-yellow, anthers orange. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
The air is smoky, sulphur-yellow. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley] Reference
2½ in. in diameter, sulphur-yellow, tinged with purple, produced in. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
Spores copious, sulphur-yellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Flowers 2 in. across, pale sulphur-yellow. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
Entirely sulphur-yellow (1/6 natural size). From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Now flashes palpitate and sulphur-yellow truths. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Burlesques] Reference
It comes in white, rosy-purple, red, and sulphur-yellow. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover] Reference
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