E'en as a fresco one sees drawn on a wall, painted in ochre. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
Burnt ochre, which is very serviceable in stucco work, is made as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Such change cannot take place in ochre, which is altogether a mineral substance. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference
For the next five centuries the bodies were finished with red ochre, which is found in abundance near Arica. From Wordnik.com. [Making the Dead Beautiful: Mummies as Art] Reference
Transition of both opal and amber gives ochre which is very resistant to C-T/G-A transition. From Wordnik.com. [ID Research, Look to the Example] Reference
The word 'ochre' is very probaby genuine Umbrian, and means, according to. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
Benton, there was a quarry from which a peculiar and scarce kind of ochre was taken. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference
The foundation of Tuscan style is the use of earthy colors such as ochre, brick and olive and deep green. From Wordnik.com. [Purpleocity.net] Reference
Masticot deepened and mellowed with brown ochre. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Mix white lead, stone-ochre, and a little vermilion. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
To make it lighter, employ a mixture of yellow-ochre. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Thin masticot mixed with verdigris, shaded with brown ochre. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Here and there a salt pond breaks the monotonous ochre of the sand. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
For this colour mix together spruce-ochre, white and a little umber. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Wax will also mix with red ochre, and makes a modelling composition. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The Roman ostrum was a compound of red ochre and blue oxide of copper. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Black and white mixed; or, add a little brown ochre, shaded with black. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
MANN: Already there are dashes of fall color, amber and ochre on the hillsides. From Wordnik.com. [Adirondack Waters Welcome Paddlers Back] Reference
Every day I wrote with him, first in red, and then in ochre to give him a rest. From Wordnik.com. [Droozle] Reference
Brown ochre, red ochre, and black, mixed; shaded with bistre and ivory black. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Thin masticot shaded with brown ochre; the bloom, lake heightened with white. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
He tapped my chest hard with a chapped, deep ochre stained nicotine stained finger. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference
Both men and women paint their faces and bodies with red ochre mixed with fish oil. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
In her right hand she held a harpoon; her cheeks were thickly smeared with red ochre. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Red ochre and black mixed together, shaded with black, heightened with red ochre and white. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Manufactures of ochre, of which there are quarries in the vicinity, and of iron goods are carried on. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Her paintings are ravishing in their high-chrome tangles of peacock, ochre, cobalt and cerulean and in their hazy air of bliss. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell] Reference
Just beyond lies Soru's ochre-colored childhood home, where he still takes refuge on weekends from the hectic life of an Internet mogul. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Would Be King] Reference
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