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  • But, that a manycoloured coat and similar trifles inflamed them to devise a scheme of slaughter, is a proof of their detestable cruelty.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • There were cascades and grottoes, a spacious orangery, and an aviary which furnished Hondekoeter with numerous specimens of manycoloured plumage.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • The crowd of princely equipages, attended by manycoloured guards and lacqueys, looked well among the lime trees of the Voorhout.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • In the old undergraduate days he had wrapped himself up in the manycoloured blanket of St. Mark’s, but something more precious than mosaics and marbles was offered to him now: the harmony between the works of man and the earth that upholds them, the civilization that has escaped muddle, the spirit in a reasonable form, with flesh and blood subsisting.

    A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

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