Then he looked at the third, whereon he found written in ultramarine these two couplets. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"Blue as the veins o'er the Madonna's breast," from which the beautiful pigment called ultramarine is extracted. From Wordnik.com. [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference
Anything "ultramarine" is not usually safe. From Wordnik.com. [Lipstick Making - Day One] Reference
1828 M. Guimet succeeded in making an artificial ultramarine, known now extensively as French ultramarine, which is little, if at all, inferior in beauty to lazurite. From Wordnik.com. [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference
The lower or horizontal clouds are tinged with ultramarine. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
The colour of ultramarine is brought out by successive heatings. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Blue bice and ceruse, or ultramarine and white, shaded with indigo. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
It may be said to hover in tint between a rich ultramarine and cobalt. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
I am very glad to hear that he returned the ultramarine to the prior of the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The Alexandrian was the most valued, as approaching the nearest to ultramarine. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
It was of a light bright hue, but is completely superseded by pale ultramarine. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Nevertheless, ultramarine is not always entitled to the whole of this commendation. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
I light four ultramarine candles — for your brother, your father, for you, for me. From Wordnik.com. [Kai (excerpt)] Reference
In the front rank, pre-eminent among blues as among pigments generally, stands genuine ultramarine. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
And the blues of cobalt, as always tending to greenness and obscurity, cannot rank beside ultramarine. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Your ultramarine which I took with my brush fell to the bottom of my cup, whence I gathered it every day. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With cadmium and orient yellows, sepia, viridian, and many other colours, this ultramarine is of service. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It was also found that the brilliant ultramarine, above referred to, was less readily decolourised than other. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Pure ultramarine varies in shade from light to dark, and in hue from pale warm azure to the deepest cold blue. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Brilliant white summer cumulus touched with shadows of mauve and violet were piling up into an ultramarine sky. From Wordnik.com. [Heron Lake] Reference
Grind in a mortar, adding ultramarine blue and carmine, or a little of any suitable coloring matters, and mix to A. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
Hence permanent blue justifies its name, although that name would be more suited to the brilliant, or French, ultramarine. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
With the absence of these and proper skill, a true and brilliant blue may be produced, almost rivalling the finest ultramarine. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Is a pale ultramarine, with a cobalt hue; and, in spite of its name, less permanence than belongs to the richer and deeper sorts. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Edinburgh is a beautiful town; the city center curls up against an elegant stone fortress that rises high above an ultramarine sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Celtic Alternative] Reference
Egypt after an exposure of three thousand years, consist of ultramarine -- the celebrated Armenian blue, possibly, of the ancients. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It is fitting that the discoverer of a colour should excel in its manufacture, and to this day Guimet's ultramarine is the finest made. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It has been conjectured that ultramarine (lapis lazuli) was known to the ancients under the name of Armenium, from Armenia, whence it was procured. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
We have noticed the subject at some length because if a red ultramarine, brilliant and durable, could be obtained, the colour might prove of value. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Although not to be ranked with ultramarine, the stannic and aluminous blues may be described as durable, or at least as durable rather than semi-stable. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
What is chiefly wanted, however, is a colour combining the wonderful depth, richness, and transparency of Prussian blue with the strict stability of ultramarine. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Several specimens of ultramarine were acted upon, but in no case was a red or anything like a red obtained, the products ranging from a slate-gray to a drab-grey. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
They have this advantage, moreover, that they possess the property of ultramarine of improving in hue by time -- their tendency being to their own specific prismatic red colour. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
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