Then Rector, attired in his best blue serge suit, sat in a chair out on the lawn, in the shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette and waiting.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

In this thought-experiment, he asks us to imagine a man who has experienced every shade of blue except for one ( see Fig.

He predicts that this man will be able to divine the color of this particular shade of blue, despite the fact that he has never experienced it.

The 2004 series Superman: Birthright also explained that Superman's eyes are an inhumanly vivid shade of blue, which Clark's glasses diffuse to make his eyes appear more human.

* In 1980 the blue jersey was rendered in a slightly darker shade than the 1964 – 79 version ; from 1981 – 1994 the dark jerseys sported numbers that were gray with white borders and a blue pinstripe.

The shade was chosen by Cy Huston, the Lions first vice president and general manager, and of the choice, he said: " They had me looking at so many blues I am blue in the face ," Huston said about the selection.

What was navy blue was now orange and what was orange was now a lighter shade of blue.

Harry's cypher is similar to his brother's, but displays an H in a shade of blue similar to that used by his mother.

Lead is a bright and silvery metal with a very slight shade of blue in a dry atmosphere.

* In 1975, the logo was simplified in a shade of blue, adopting the modified design of the 1968 print logo, which was in use for many decades afterward.

Pink, blue, champagne, green, black and even purple saltwater pearls can be encountered, but to collect enough of these rare colors to form a complete string of the same size and same shade can take years.

It featured an even darker shade of navy blue.

The blue is of a lighter shade than the currently mandated royal blue, the sun has eight points as currently but many more rays and it has a mythical face.

For this reason some commentators, including Isaac Asimov, have suggested that indigo should not be regarded as a color in its own right but merely as a shade of blue or violet.

Metal Rhythms sales were arguably confounded by the lack of strong promotion and IRS's inappropriate choices of singles ( the record label also changed the album's title to New Anger, changed the album colour shade from black to blue, and remixed several of its tracks for its American release against Numan's wishes ).

French Blue, yet another historic name for ultramarine, was adopted by the textile and apparel industry as a color name in the 1990s, and was applied to a shade of blue that has nothing in common with the historic pigment ultramarine.

Tropaeolum azureum is a tender species from Chile which, unusually for this genus, has flowers in an intense shade of blue.

In order to distinguish the troops from the officers, the color of the officer's jacket was a blue gray shade with a darker blue for the other ranks.

If the voice is just a shade less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beautiful instrument, controlled and flexible.

However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Paul Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team.

Elaborate ornamental gardens existed since ancient Egypt, when wealthy people used them for shade.

Denim is a tone of indigo Crayola which resembles the shade of indigo used in Denim.

The exact shade which is used is a matter of artistic freedom and will vary from one fabric mill to another as well as in dye lot to another within the same mill.

Black, along with old gold and white, has always been one of the team colors, but it wasn't the first choice of original majority owner John W. Mecom, Jr. His preference was for Mecom Blue, a medium shade which was used by all of his other investments.

The wings are used in mating displays and to shade chicks.

Engrained in the craftsmanship of Hoysala sculptors was their knowledge of the effect of light and shade on carved walls, which they used to maximum effect in their sculptures in the numerous projections and recesses.

In India and tropical countries where the Indian diaspora has reached, it is very common to see neem trees used for shade lining the streets, around temples, schools & other such public buildings or in most people's back yards.

There are some colors that are never used, and Bruna can be picky about a certain shade of color, brown and grey for example, and will search for it until he is happy.

* Brunswick Green, a dark shade of the color green, commonly used on 19th century railings

A safe processing method used by the pre-Columbian indigenous people of the Americas is to mix the cassava flour with water into a thick paste and then let it stand in the shade for five hours in a thin layer spread over a basket.

In ' 11 –' 12, the team wore the a variation of the current uniform design, but in the classic shade of blue used from 1987 – 94.

In years past, the American elm was used widely as a shade tree and as a street tree, because of its graceful, arching, vase-like growth form, and its tolerance of most stress factors These trees ' rapid growth and longevity, leading to great size within decades, also favor its horticultural use.

By visual analogy, the Capuchin monkey and the cappuccino style of coffee are both named after the shade of brown used for their habit.

Ken Fern had the idea that for a successful temperate forest garden a wider range of edible shade tolerant plants would need to be used.

* FD & C Red No. 3 – Erythrosine, E127 ( pink shade, commonly used in glacé cherries )

As already implied, the Phong reflection model is often used together with Phong shading to shade surfaces in 3D computer graphics software.

New greenhouse methods, hydroponics, fertilizers, R / O Water Processors, hybrid crops, fast-growing hybrid trees for quick shade, interior temperature control, greenhouse or tent insulation, autonomous building gardens, sun lamps, mylar, fans, and other cheap tech can be used to grow crops on previously unarable land, such as rocky, mountainous, desert, and even Arctic lands.

Throughout the history of fabric production natural dyes have been used to apply a form of colour, with dyes from plants, including indigo from Woad, having dozens of compounds whose proportions may vary according to soil type and climate ; therefore giving rise to variations in shade.

Nyssa sylvatica is cultivated as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, where it is often used as a specimen or shade tree.

Fill flash or " fill-in flash " describes flash used to supplement ambient light in order to illuminate a subject close to the camera that would otherwise be in shade relative to the rest of the scene.

The shade of blue used in the flag has varied throughout its history, from light blue to dark blue, the latter being increasingly used since the late 1960s.