protective colouring

Protective colouring was not the only thing they needed.

I am very glad to have my error corrected about the protective colouring of shells.

Meldola himself was much interested in protective colouring and mimicry of moths.

He had changed into a dark suit as a kind of protective colouring, so that he could sit quietly observing rather than being observed.

Underside: ground-colour on the whole darker than in the dry-season form, but with the same protective colouring.

Protective colouring is your line.

Respect for medieval precedent was a tactical device, a protective colouring to make the constitution respectable to conservative Spain.

Desert animals, and protective colouring.

He was in a Citro n and he had picked up two English hikers as protective colouring.

Here birds, apparently, had few enemies and so no need of a protective colouring, and freed from that restraint they had let themselves go.

Plovers, protective colouring of.

'Protective colouring,' explained Steve.

But that is talent speaking of genius, and it overlooks the protective colouring by which genius can seek to mask its own sensitivities.

Mahmoud, of course, as a Moslem, did not drink alcohol, and Owen, who habitually took on protective colouring, fell into line without thinking.

It was only upon more intimate acquaintance that his effervescent charm and boisterous goodwill revealed themselves as the protective colouring for an outrageous ambition.

As a result of the discretion they were accorded it had become the custom among high-born ladies to adopt the same protective colouring when indulging in illicit liaisons.

Then, in coming out of the scrub into the open, I saw four more cows trotting along three hundred yards away; but, when they stood, they gave a wonderful object-lesson in protective colouring.

There is no more colour in life, no more joy; only one eternal fear of being reported, which forces one to curb every ambition or desire to express oneself and, instead, to take the protective colouring of the great illiterate mass. '

Now, as socialism knocks on the door of Number 10, the Hoorays are preparing to go back underground, adopting once again the protective colouring that has kept the British upper classes safe and sound while heads have rolled all over Europe.

They thought him reasonable and praised his common sense; but he knew that his placid expression was no more than a mask, assumed unconsciously, which acted like the protective colouring of butterflies; and himself was astonished at the weakness of his will.

He slapped the Anglepoise lamp away from him and quickly switched it off, to hide the fierce blush that surged up into his cheeks, and assuming his protective colouring with the dexterity of a cornered animal, said eagerly: "No, was she?

This was coupled with his tendency of hiding that he was a Jewish boy, in view of the prevailing prejudice in the society of his day, which "burdened every step of our lives" and resulted in the need "to bury it beneath some protective colouring, so that we might go our private ways like everybody else"