Sentence examples for the dark ground from inspiring English sources

Light areas of the design are painted thickly; gray areas, thinly to allow the dark ground to tone the white pigment.

Some were done primarily in black and white, with white paint twisting in thin lines, like cracks spreading in smashed glass sheets, over the dark ground.

For the first time in memory the shape of his cap, a floppy black beret in an antique style, is clearly visible against the dark ground.

Seen by candlelight, the words, which describe the rewards of Paradise, would have glinted against the dark ground like constellations in a night sky.

The pieces were japanned with a preparation made from linseed oil, umber (a brown oxide of iron), litharge (a lead monoxide), and, for the dark ground on which the colourful decoration is based, asphalt, or coal-tar pitch.

Go to the end of the Hill Giant cave on the light ground, not the dark ground.

Here's how the waves may be getting trapped: The burning of fossil fuels causes more warming in the Arctic than in other latitudes, because the loss of snow and ice means heat gets absorbed by the darker ground, not reflected (as it would by the white snow).

Thus, the dark-ground, or dark-field, condenser illuminates specimens against a black background and is eminently applicable to the observation of structures such as bacteria and flagellated cells in water.

In the Cold Dark Ground shows that MacBride is not interested in repeating himself, even though familiar fingerprints are here.

As reported previously, exposure of type 1 CRYs to blue light causes photoreduction of the flavin to the FAD− anion radical (17, 25), which most likely represents the in vivo dark (ground) state of the cofactor (13).

From his fifth-floor office in Knoxville's City-County Building downtown, Mr. Hill can see across the Tennessee to the South Waterfront development and the freshly turned dark ground where footings are being poured for Cityview at Riverwalk.