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Meanings of highly coloured in English

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Usage of highly coloured in English
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These illustrious men are highly coloured in fighting trim, and fighting attitude.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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This is not merely a picture from the imagination, and highly coloured.
The Home Mission
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If not, you will deem the introduction of this one highly coloured.
Verner's Pride
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Some of them were highly coloured and very rare on that account.
Old Rose and Silver
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And the interruptions, the clamour, the apostrophising, more highly coloured than courteous!
Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
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Place the most highly coloured part between the light and shadow.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
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And so on, with an account of the conflagration, highly coloured.
Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
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They are highly coloured, fantastic, horribly human and yet, somehow, grotesque.
The Upton Letters
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Its humour is less boisterous; its pathos less highly coloured.
Idle Ideas in 1905
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The former gave the Mayor false, or highly coloured intelligence.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men / First Series
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Many looked anæmic and consumptive, but the majority were highly coloured and frankly drunk.
The Californians
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Krsto had already given the police a highly coloured account.
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
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He grew deeply thoughtful over the delightful possibilities unfolding to his highly coloured imagination.
The Short Cut
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The old dances were stiff, ceremonial, highly coloured but silent.
Manalive
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Her dresses were always highly coloured, while her hats were bedecked with big feathers.
Tommy
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Why should one try to read highly coloured suggestions into a life like that?
The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories
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