Some are more markedly different than others, but we have all seen a so-called colourless woman transformed into surprising loveliness when dressed by an artist's instinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman as Decoration] Reference

People used to call colourless zircons Matara diamonds, after a town there.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great California Game]

Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarms and Discursions] Reference

Perhaps the most adequate way of putting the situation would be to image the objective mystery as a kind of colourless screen across which a coloured picture is slowly moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complex Vision] Reference

The other personages in the drama are colourless, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

"You needn't be afraid," she said in a dreary, colourless voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference

But your beautiful wings, how came they so torn and colourless? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables from Flowers] Reference

It is anti-putrescent, so is alcohol, and they are both colourless.    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

Her lips were thin and colourless, her hair straight and dull brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian Lassie] Reference

Both of these gases are colourless and invisible, and are both tasteless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aether and Gravitation] Reference

But for colourless diamonds, the glass requires no such addition to tint it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones] Reference

(Spores should be red, and the rest of the film colourless or a very light pink.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

Most of them are colourless, but a few secrete colouring matters other than chlorophyll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The colouring of a fish's skin, which, when set up and dried, is colourless, as noted, is.    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

Just above the ligule and at the base of the leaf-blade there is a colourless narrow zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

But the leeches, properly so called, have all red blood; that of the snail-leeches is colourless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

The proper glass for receiving these colours should be uniform, colourless, and difficult of fusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Wash with alcohol until no more colour is discharged and the alcohol runs away clear and colourless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

A white-haired, black-eyed man was sitting in a big oak chair, his colourless hands resting on the arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

A precise, erect, parchmentlike person was Nugent Cassis, entirely colourless in himself and his outlook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

The gelatine which yields the strongest and most colourless jelly is that manufactured by Coignet and Co, of.    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

Collar the white or colourless band at the base of the blade of a grass leaf just where it joins the sheath, 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Elizabeth passed from the presence of her one dear friend into a life as colourless as the form she left behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

In its pure state it is a transparent and colourless gas, having a peculiar pungent smell, and highly soluble in water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

As the days passed the purple darkened to black, and shifted upwards, leaving the parts beneath it pale and colourless.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

"A dark, stylish chap, with shifty black eyes and a curled up merstache?" continued Bill, with dry, colourless persistence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

She was not herself, nor looked to be so; she had a face completely colourless, lips like grey mould, and burning black eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Absence of hæmolysis is indicated by a clear or turbid colourless fluid, with a deposit of red cells at the bottom of the test-tubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

"The sky overhead was a colourless pall, gradually deepening to almost black at the horizon, and the ice was a ghastly and chalky white.".    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

Mrs. Selwyn was a slender, colourless woman, possessing the remnants of what must at one time have been an ineffective kind of prettiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Exmoor is not generally heather-covered, but its tors and hillsides are clothed with a wiry colourless grass and the hardy, prickly furze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

When I plunge my hand into a bin of nearly colourless buttons, letting them run through my fingers, his pale eyes reproach me with a hint of tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obituary] Reference