colour

• Before her, but so far in the distance that their colour was the blackish-blue of slate, rose a mountain range, peak behind peak. —  Winking at the Brim - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 48: 1974
• These little polishes do withstand a lot of "hash bashing" as the colour is almost glued to your nail. —  The Daily Record - Home
• They cannot distinguish features, so high up But they could complexion Exactly so; and it might get abroad that some one of your colour was here And if it should get abroad, and some one of my sons, or my wife should come, your answer would be that you remember nothing--that you cannot charge your memory with persons and things that are gone by--that you have had prisoners of all complexions--that some have lived and some have died--and that you have something else to do than to remember what became of each. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
• I would not recommend staring white for a chalk stream, but otherwise the colour is a thing of small consequence. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
• No doubt this colour has been adopted in order better to distinguish it from the 3 cents, which it has hitherto too nearly approached From the above extract it would seem that the orange colored stamps were in use at least as early as February and though it has been asserted that the change took place on January 1st, 1869, we believe there are no official documents or early dated specimens in existence that would substantiate this statement These 1c stamps may be found in both orange and yellow shades as well as a combination of both. —  The Stamps of Canada

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