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  • Fentolin was sitting before the open window, an easel in front of him, a palette in his left hand, painting with deft, swift touches.†  (source)
  • Ground, sky and houses melted into a mad palette, my ears throbbed, I was suffocating.  (source)
    palette = range of colors
  • Iona clasped her hands together as the defiant palette glowed.  (source)
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  • Its rear loading dock was down, and as we watched, a large palette was pushed off the back.†  (source)
  • To the left, Langdon saw a suite of studios that resembled Harvard art classrooms—rows of easels, paintings, palettes, framing tools—an art assembly line.†  (source)
  • She had run out of canvases and had begun painting on plywood, so she picked up a piece of wood, got out her palette, squeezed some paints onto it, and selected a brush.†  (source)
  • She's in a yellow-and-pink phase—not a flattering combination, but it's kind of hard to explain color palettes to an eight-year-old—and has pulled on a mustard yellow dress over a pair of pink tights.†  (source)
  • I can see by the palette Cinna has assigned that we're going for girlish, not sexy.†  (source)
  • "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the two upper ones."†  (source)
  • Because — " brow furrowed, tapping out a bit of soft black powder on his palette—"I never dreamed that all that old furniture of Mrs. De Peyster's would be the thing that decided my future.†  (source)
  • There were collected and piled up all Albert's successive caprices, hunting-horns, bass-viols, flutes—a whole orchestra, for Albert had had not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils—for music had been succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and single-sticks—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy's education, i.e., fencing, boxing, and single-stick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cook, and Charles Leboucher.†  (source)
  • I do my makeup first and then my hair: I looked at the brilliant palette of colors on Mandy's smiling face.†  (source)
  • Besides, her two friends, who had pretended to paint while she and Dr. Juvenal Urbino were talking at the window, tittered and hid their faces behind their palettes, and this made Fermina Daza lose her self-control.†  (source)
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