Meanings of variegated hues in English

The Egyptian artists imitated, with marvellous success, the variegated hues of insects and stones.

Its variegated hues give symbolic expression to the truth that 'behind the clouds the sun is still shining.'

A rainbow shimmered in variegated hues above the roofs, but to-day the musician had no eyes for the beautiful spectacle.

Whole ranges of bushes are there painted with many variegated hues, not of the brightest tint, but of a sober cheerfulness.

The fastness was yet imperfect; he disliked the variegated hues of the buildings-theyreminded him of the garish brilliance in the lower town.

She had a passion for achievement; she attempted the most difficult things, close racemes, the tiniest corollas, heaths, nectaries of the most variegated hues.

In the kingdom of the plant and vegetable, distinct and variegated hues exist but the fruit and flowers are not in conflict for that reason.

They were marble, red or green, or shot with variegated hues, with many a soft gray, mottled or wavy-lined; and the sea had polished them.