"Pinkish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so fragile, that even the sound of its breaking was thin and evanescent like a note blown, not struck. Now as it lay on the floor, it seemed dwindled to nothing more than the fine gilt stem that had been its handle, and irregular pinkish fragments ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... but, instead of making him more restrained, it only excited him the more. He paid no heed to the amused attention of his auditors, but went and sat in a corner of the room from which he could follow Lucien Levy-Coeur's movements. His neighbor, an old general, with a pinkish, sleepy face, light-blue eyes, and a childish expression, thought it incumbent on him to compliment him on the originality of his music. Christophe bowed irritably, and growled out a few inarticulate sounds. The general went ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... apple trees. But they are more often serious pests on young trees where they should be carefully watched. Their presence is determined by the curled and distorted condition of the terminal leaves on the under side of which the green or pinkish lice will be found. Eggs deposited in autumn pass the winter in this condition, hatching in the spring about the time of the beginning of the growth of vegetation. From these winter eggs females are hatched which ...
— Apple Growing • M. C. Burritt
... hazel, or green in various shades according to the amount of pigment present. In albino animals the pigment is entirely absent, and as the little blood-vessels are not obscured the iris takes on its characteristic pinkish-red appearance. The condition in which pigment is present in front of the iris is dominant to that in which it is absent. Greens, browns, or hazels mated together may, if heterozygous, give the recessive blue, but no individuals of the brown class are to be looked for among the offspring of ...
— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett
... little grayish, pinkish light to be observed over the edge of the eastern hill. It grew slowly, and daylight came, though it was some time before the sun itself was seen, so deep were the ...
— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker
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