At Wissett Lodge, her rented home in Suffolk, she and Duncan distempered the walls a brilliant blue, and dyed the chair-covers with coloured ink. |
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The bedroom walls were distempered a dark, shiny green, the curtains were green with spots on and the bedspread an uninspiring khaki. |
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I cannot but admire, that any should go with their distempered friends and relations to the afflicted children, to know what their distempered friends ail. |
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But the idea of climbing 8000 meters on a distempered weather with below-zero temperatures meant pure suicide. |
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The second group, mainly a distempered and impassioned crew that just so happens to include myself, extols 10,000 Hz Legend as the band's true high-water mark. |
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Figures were distempered on sheets of paper glued to supports which were then nailed into the panels, resorting to a technique close to illuminating. |
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The everyday slovenliness of Johannes Schütz's set suggests the chaos of a distempered mind, though Franz Peter David's lighting casts a lurid glow on an upstage set of crystalware. |
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An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all. |
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The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. |
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