pale_turquoise colors

Literary analysis:

In literature, pale turquoise is often employed to evoke a serene yet vibrant atmosphere, whether describing vast natural vistas or infusing everyday objects with a distinctive, luminous quality. Authors use it to paint expansive skies and horizons that resonate with calm and mystery—recalling impassive lakes and softly glowing dawns [1, 2, 3]—while also lending a graceful accent to crafted items like porcelain tops [4] and sumptuous fabrics [5]. Its recurring appearance among lists of cherished colors [6, 7] and in depictions of sculptural textures or glazed finishes that merge practicality with beauty [8, 9] showcases its versatility as an evocative and richly nuanced color in literary imagery.

Around, above and beneath, his eyes were conscious of wide air-spaces, overhead deepening into lapis-lazuli down to horizons of pale turquoise.
— from Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
A rapidly widening strip of blended rose and pale turquoise on the eastern horizon gave promise of a fine day.
— from The Luck of the Mounted: A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. (Ralph Selwood) Kendall
Not a ripple awoke the vivid greens and azures of the lake upon the pallor of the surface of pale turquoise.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch
The sake pot was cast-iron, sixteenth-century, with a pale turquoise porcelain top.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover
The furniture is painted a deep cream pointed with blue and green, and the bed covering is of a pale turquoise taffeta.
— from The House in Good Taste by Elsie De Wolfe
Pale pink, brown, pale turquoise, primrose, saffron, sulphure and lemon-yellow were his favourite colours.
— from The Whistler Book A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeill Whistler, Together with a Careful Study of His More Important Works by Sadakichi Hartmann
Pale pink, brown, pale turquoise, primrose, saffron, sulphure and lemon-yellow were his favourite colours.
— from The Whistler Book A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeill Whistler, Together with a Careful Study of His More Important Works by Sadakichi Hartmann
It is of irregular shape and covered with a thick glaze of a pale turquoise blue, faintly crackled.
— from Porcelain by Edward Dillon
A pale turquoise ground is overlaid with white flowers in low relief.
— from Porcelain by Edward Dillon

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