The gamboge is the juice of the tree obtained by incisions in the bark. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
I found it next to "gamboge," and I can now tell you all about it. From Wordnik.com. [If I May] Reference
Nearer trees a wash of burnt sienna, indigo, and gamboge. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
They were coated with earth, clay-clad in ochre and gamboge. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
If the seeds are seen lay on gamboge, shaded with gall-stone. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Payne's gray, gamboge, and Roman ochre, this brown is useful. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The middle trees have a thin wash of burnt sienna and gamboge. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Buildings are sometimes tinted with a mixture of lake and gamboge. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Perhaps in dyeing, the lead and gamboge solutions might be worth a trial. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Inside of the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Employed in water, a thick glaze of gum-arabic or gamboge adds to its stability. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Ultramarine, with a wash of indigo, gamboge, and burnt sienna, tinted with gray. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
It stood on the crown of a wooded hill, its log walls a dark gamboge, its roof green. From Wordnik.com. [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]
A thin wash of gamboge shaded with bistre; or carmine and sap-green blended together. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
In water it exceeds gamboge in brightness, and compounded therewith improves its beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Another gamboge tree has recently been found inhabiting the western Burmese territories. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Siam gamboge, 639 pepper produced in, 422 indigo found wild in, 476 exports of cardamoms, 419. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Grass and bushes may be brought out by a tint of gamboge; distances may be heightened by lake. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
From the wounded leaves and young shoots the gamboge is collected in a liquid state and dried. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Grass is washed with a mixture of burnt sienna, indigo, and gamboge; that in shadow has more indigo. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
It seems to possess more coloring matter, more resin and less gum than the ordinary gamboge of commerce. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Dissolve gamboge in water; or French berries steeped in water, the liquor strained, and gum arabic added. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Bagh is visible a long way off from its being ornamented with a gamboge, or ochre-wash, otherwise its aspect is poor and muddy. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Once Kuri had decided the effect he wanted, he worked quickly, tapping out crescents of citrine and gamboge from the solar orb. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The common gamboge of Ceylon is produced by a plant which Dr. Graham was led to view as a species of a new genus under the name of. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The unripe fruit is dipped in boiling water to preserve its gamboge colour, strung upon a thick thread and hung out in the air to dry. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The odor of the Cape aloes is stronger and more disagreeable than that of the Socotrine or Barbados, and the color is more like gamboge. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Take Socotrine aloes, gamboge, and castile soap, of each one dram; ipecac and scammony, of each thirty grains; oil of anise, thirty drops. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
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