There was something about its very colourlessness which made it sound oracular.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

Some vision, yes; of shapelessness, of colourlessness, of the unlit, and therefore of the sizeless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

Such was the colour - or perhaps colourlessness - of her eyes that they made her seem at once blind and all-seeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh] Reference

From this time the correspondence is marked by an increasing bitterness on my side and a level colourlessness on his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25] Reference

Even after adjusting for education, people of colour are still less likely to be hired or later promoted than people of colourlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Post-racial" US and Canada, Part 2] Reference

Even when adjusting for education, coloured people are still less likely to be hired than people of colourlessness, and less likely to be promoted.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Post-racial" US and Canada, Part 1] Reference

It was her first communication since they parted, and in spite of its colourlessness it seemed to lay strong eager hands upon him, turning his shoulder that way, upon the world, bending his head over the page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of a Star] Reference

It was her first communication since they parted, and in spite of its colourlessness, it seemed to lay strong, eager hands upon him, turning his shoulder that way, upon the world, bending his head over the page.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

To their eyes, too, quickened by emotion, it was left to descry the colours in the apparent colourlessness: the upturned earth that showed red, white, puce, gamboge; the blue in the grey of the new leafage; the geranium red of young scrub; the purple-blue depths of the shadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

Dick's lips closed in a familiar way, and their colourlessness indicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy] Reference

Libera in B.C. 493, and the absolute colourlessness and pointlessness of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome] Reference

He had a steely colourlessness, and a steely pliability, and a steely strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of General Gordon: Paras. 67-99] Reference

The colourlessness of his own mind took on for the time the colour of the other's.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Necessity Knows] Reference

The brown flecks in the eyes seemed to spread and engulf the surrounding colourlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheerful—By Request] Reference

With all the achromatic clearness, the unromantic colourlessness of the early morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr. Lewisham] Reference

The years slipped by, one by one, so like each other in their colourlessness that I forgot to take account of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922] Reference

The contrast is perhaps unique as regards the dead colourlessness of the beginning, and the splendid colour of the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

Compared with this tawny colourlessness, this evil brow, this shut mouth, Laura, even on the battle-field, looked harmless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

She gave him altogether an impression of colourlessness, and he had been living in a land where colour and vitality meant much.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vanished Messenger] Reference

At the breakfast table Mr. Clifton noticed the colourlessness of his pupil's face, but kindly abstained from any allusion to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macaria] Reference

The reason you cannot imagin colourlessness is that you have not experienced it, your brain cannot create this without seeing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

She could not doubt that she was beloved, in spite of the colourlessness and tonelessness of a love that appealed to her intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

Save the scarlet lines which marked her lips, her face was of that clear colourlessness which can be likened only to the purest ivory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macaria] Reference

Unnoticed because its buses are the most battered, with the paintwork in various shades of colourlessness and the interiors dark with grime.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It is indeed 'raceless racism', which chimes well with the colourlessness demand of non-racialism based on a proclaimed equality before the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

I thought of her face as I had seen it in the half light -- a faint impression of delicate colourlessness, and for the life of me I could not help a little shiver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrayal] Reference

In the cold colourlessness they were delicate and feeble as the faces of children, rosy and soft under the splattering of mud and the shagginess of unshaven beards.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Man's Initiation—1917] Reference

The sky was clear as a bell, of a deep, rich, ultramarine tint in the zenith; shading off by imperceptible gradations to a soft, warm colourlessness at the horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise] Reference

Indeed, the choice ultimately fell upon the one that had the least distinctive personality of all, his disguise being kept up by a kind of protective colourlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916] Reference

I gave myself up wholly to this vague dreaming, call it home-sickness, or what you will, it enlivened the oppressive colourlessness of the days and the loneliness of the nights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference

The rare blue cord on her brow told how fiercely the lava-flood surged under its icy bands, and the blanched lip matched her cheek in colourlessness; save these tokens of anguish, no other was visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macaria] Reference

The colourlessness of her features helped to it, and the odd little close-fitting white linen cap which she wore to conceal the stubborn-twisting clipped curls of her shorn head, made her unlike women of our world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference

She had been called upon in her time to make the most of hair offering much less assistance to her skill than was supplied by the fine, fair colourlessness she had found dragged back from her new mistress's forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shuttle] Reference

She was grey, and her apron, and her dress, and her kerchief, and her hands and her face were all sun-bleached and sun-stained, greyey, bluey, browny, like stones and half-coloured leaves, sunny in their colourlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight in Italy] Reference

The first thing that strikes you as you enter the eastern end is the colourlessness of this field of 100 million seeds - this vast, grey rectangle which picks up on the industrial severity of Tate Modern's architecture, like a huge abstract painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

This face was originally painted flesh-tint, and the robes of the image pale blue; but now the whole is uniformly grey with age and dust, and its colourlessness harmonises so well with the senility of the figure that one is almost ready to believe one's self gazing at a living mendicant pilgrim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference

Fresh from the morning basin, her cheeks displayed that peculiar colourlessness which results from the habitual use of paints and powders; her pale pink lips, thin and sullen, were curiously wrinkled; she had eyes of slate colour, with lids so elevated that she always seemed to be staring in silly wonder.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference