The less evocative Sung and Yuan wares, on the other hand, are notable for their meticulous crafting, arresting colors - greens in every imaginable shade - and understated design and decoration.

Every evening the sun became a ball of fire and with it came every shade of orange, yellow and red imaginable.

Their skins, too, ran the gamut of every imaginable shade from pale to deepest blue-black, and some were even multicolored, splattered in various patterns.

The worst shade of darkness imaginable.

Every imaginable shade from dark green, through dull brown, to fiery reds and startling orange.

On the viewer, Uridi'si's two suns had just risen above the planet's limb, painting the oceans every imaginable shade of green and blue.

The broad belt of vegetation between pole and desert was for the greater part a pale bluish-green, but every imaginable shade of colour could be found some- where on that mottled disc.

The blossoms come in shades of red, purple, pink and "virtually every color imaginable," said Ms. Webb, "ranging in size from one inch to several feet, with their flowers in proportion."

Sitting in a wind tower at sunset, drinking cold beer and watching the play of light on the roofs below - ancient corrugated iron rusted into every fuscous shade imaginable.

Of every imaginable shade and color, of all monstrous forms and malignant purposes, of huge size and flabby volume, they spread over the land.