I

retired to the patio and listened to a blackbird. With no hills to diminish it,

the sky was a great bowl of graduated blues and greens from the palest ____ to

deep indigo.

She

shook her head, tugging the hairbrush vigorously through her tangled ____ locks.

Enjoy the holiday on a ___ island.

And her face went as pink as a _____.

They

replace the fittings every three months, and at the moment there are cherubs,

and angels in rich red, gold and____.

Lusy was a message in a bottle hurled into ____ ocean.

The

park's many waterfalls and cascades flow into a series of mesmerizing, ___-blue

lakes.

His

wife, with ___ hair and laughing ___ eyes, was at least ten years younger.

Next I have some ____ essence to put in the bath.

His head, blood flowed copiously, appearing deep ___ colour under the glow of the red light.