"Dyed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... most durable and the strongest is called t'ou-lo-mien; the second quality is called fan-pu or 'foreign cloth'; the third 'tree cotton' or mu-mien; the fourth ki-pu. These textures are sometimes dyed in various colours and brightened with strange patterns. The pieces measure up to five or six feet ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... detective, musingly; "wedding ring—not a new one. Finger nails well cared for, but recently neglected. Hair dyed to hide gray patches; dye wanted renewing. Shoes, French. Night-robe, silk; good lace; probably French, also. Faint perfume—don't know what it is—apparently proceeding from civet fur. Furs, ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... sack dyed brown a fortnight before. It was the one she did her gardening in, and it might have infuriated the cow. And she kept out of the garden ...
— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale
... from the outer darkness,' said the Captain scornfully. 'All wealthy nations know that our finest stuffs are twice dyed—dibaptha. They're only for the robes of ...
— The Story of the Amulet • E. Nesbit
... Edinburgh on 19th January:—"We have here a very diverting lion and sundry wild beasts; but the most meritorious is Miss Lydia White, who is what Oxonians call a lioness of the first order, with stockings nineteen times dyed blue; very lively, very good-humoured, and extremely absurd. It is very diverting to see the sober Scotch ladies staring at this phenomenon."—Life, vol. iii. pp. 38, ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
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