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Sentence Examples
Pure gamboge is completely soluble by successive treatment with ether or alcohol and then water.
All were identified as gamboge, a yellow gum resin that is an exudate from the Garcinia tree found in India, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Among the guilty fugitives, whose departure has made monotone what was polychrome, are indigo, gamboge and brown lake.
The gum-resin from G. hanburyi is often called Siamese gamboge to distinguish it from the similar product from the bark of G. morella Desr., called Indian gamboge.
The tree's juice in its hardened form constitutes gamboge.
The days were shortening, but there was still plenty of light, the top of Table Butte, layered bands of buff, gamboge, and violet, gilded by the setting sun.
Examples from Classical Literature
The greens are composed of indigo, gamboge and burnt sienna, with brown pink.
The sun which had neared the horizon was dying in throes of crimson and gamboge.
For sunrise and sunset clouds, a mixture of gamboge and cadmium yellow will be found useful.
Our indigenous herb celandine yields abundantly, in the same manner, a beautiful yellow juice of the same properties as gamboge.
Perhaps in dyeing, the lead and gamboge solutions might be worth a trial.
Oh, I'm just gamboge, and the missus, she's bright vermilion.
A mixture of gamboge, 10 gr., with carbonate of potassa, 20 gr.
I don't know, but I heard that gamboge ghost of a Fedallah saying so, and he seems to know all about ships' charms.
The coat of gamboge is lastly to be applied in the same way.
If the seeds are seen lay on gamboge, shaded with gall-stone.
Buildings are sometimes tinted with a mixture of lake and gamboge.
I am off, to cultivate the field of public indigestion with the triple plowshare of aloes, scammony and gamboge.
His blood may be gamboge yellow with green spots, for all anybody knows.
