A cloth manufacturer, according to Lieutenant Colonel Vere Painter, reached olive drab through "a pinch of orange, a dash of canary yellow, a drop of old rose, the same of Alice blue, a jigger of brown, and a bit of lavender".
She also wore a white painter's smock, the sleeves stiff with dripping colors, her pudgy, pretty hands cerulean blue or madder pink, a wild dash of cadmium yellow licking her forehead.
A fun, buzzy atmosphere courtesy of cheery, speedy staff and dashes of bright yellow, the eatery has a menu consisting of unfussy Swedish classics with Mediterranean touches.
Mr. Jensen's jersey sweatshirts and flaring minis were almost nerdish in their sweetness, and his honest-thrill colors -- dashes of chrome yellow and bright red mixed with turquoise -- were on the right wave length.
The quaint phrasing of the song allows that a discouraging word may occasionally be heard, but the few dark accidentals in Hodgkin's version are swept away in a dance of unstoppable energy, the colouring of Matisse-like simplicity, a dazzle of blue dashes above rolling swathes of yellow and orange.
BEIJING — Mix in a caldron: lots of fear of Communist domination, one billionaire property developer with a poet's soul, a dash of James Bond and a soupçon of "yellow peril" — the story of Huang Nubo's bid for a piece of Iceland shows, above all, widespread unease about China's rise, analysts say.
Mine was a pristinely-turned-out, polo-playing gelding named Blondie, looking decidedly bling with his dash of gold flecks and bright yellow mane.
You've got MiMi (light blue), a sort of mix of Tinky Winky's purple and a dash of Laa-Laa's vivid yellow—.
American Indian beading was the favored embellishment, and the preferred colors pink, purple and sunshine yellow — with a dash of eco-friendly green.
