ternes

Le blanc est sur la palette du peintre, comme la matière de la lumière qu'il distribue avec intelligence pour rapprocher les objets, pour leur donner du relief, & qui fait la magie de ses tableaux: à mesure que cette lumière s'affoiblit ou s'teint, les apparences changent, le prestige cesse, & la toile ne présente enfin que des plans chargés de couleurs ternes & sans expression.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

A Valvins, la Seine coule silencieusement tout le long des berges plates et graciles, avec des peupliers alignés; comme ils sont tristes au printemps, ces peupliers, surtout avant qu'ils ne deviennent verts, quand ils sont rougeâtres, posés contre un ciel gris, des ombres immobiles et ternes dans les eaux, dix fois tristes quand les hirondelles volent bas!

The Lake 1892

Paris had eighteen or twenty ternes, and although they were small they increased the reputation of the lottery, and it was easy to see that the receipts at the next drawing would be doubled.

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

Paris had eighteen or twenty ternes, and although they were small they increased the reputation of the lottery, and it was easy to see that the receipts at the next drawing would be doubled.

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

Paris had eighteen or twenty ternes, and although they were small they increased the reputation of the lottery, and it was easy to see that the receipts at the next drawing would be doubled.

Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 10: under the Leads Giacomo Casanova 1761

Limited regis - tration of hospital in - ternes, etc.Chap. 152 An Act relative to the practice of medicine by HOSPITAL INTERNES OR MEDICAL OFFICERS.

Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663