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The internal secretion theory of the process offers, for the first time, an explanation that is coherent and comprehensive, based upon concrete and detailed observations. It provides an adequate interpretation of the numberless hereditary gradations and transitions, blendings and mixtures. It suggests a control of heredity in the future.
It was useless to read; useless to try to admire the varying shades of blue on the sea, tones of green, and tones of deep cerulean, deepening and deepening, as her eye drifted off toward the horizon, like the blendings of a chromatic series. And so Cornelia passed the morning in a mood of joyful discontent.
The English and Americans deal in spices, the French in flavors flavors many and flue, imitating often in their delicacy those subtle blendings which nature produces in high-flavored fruits.
She was clad in flowing, fluffy robes of soft material that reminded Dorothy of woven cobwebs, only it was colored in soft tintings of violet, rose, topaz, olive, azure, and white, mingled together most harmoniously in stripes which melted one into the other with soft blendings.
Then Thorir came on the Heath with his men. 'Gainst eighty we two had play with our spears. Grettir's hands knew how to strike; much deeper the marks that were left by mine. Arms and heads then flew as they tried to gain my rear; eighteen of them fell. The giant-kind and the grim rock-dwellers, demons and blendings fell before me, elves and devils have felt my hand."
Besides his zeal in his profession, Titian was born in that higher rank of life which might be supposed to give him an easier access to the elegant studies of philosophic science; and he had prosecuted, with great ardour, the science of chemisty, the better to understand the properties of colour, their homogeneous blendings, purity, and duration; as well as the properties of oils, gums, and other fluids, which might form the fittest vehicles to convey his colours upon canvass.
Nations rise above nations, as they are endued in a greater degree with these brilliant qualities." This passage is perfectly characteristic of Calhoun, whose speeches present hundreds of such inextricable blendings of truth and falsehood.
Now, so long as he paints only indifferent objects, Nymphs, and Fauns, and mythologic divinities, I had no objection. Light and shadow are beautiful things, capable of a thousand blendings, softenings, and harmonizings, which one loves to have represented: the great Artist of all loves light and shadow; why else does he play such a magical succession of changes upon them through all creation?
She wished it had been near the hour of meeting, yet again was glad to have time to prepare herself. Walking, she drank in the loveliness about her, marked the forms of trees, the light and shade of heavy leafage, the blendings of colour by the roadside, the grace of remote distances; all these things she was making part of herself, that in memory they might be a joy for ever.
And on the splendid palaces in the broad canals the watching Madonna stands glorified in exquisite sculpture and cunningest blendings of color, ofttimes a crown of light above her, or rays of stars, symbolic, beneath her feet, casting her benediction far out on the water, which, ever in motion, repeats it in shimmering, widening circles all-embracing in which the stars of heaven shine, tangled and confused with these stars of a paradise in which earth has so large a part.
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