单词 | tawny-coloured |
例句 | It was realised," says Mr. Hickson, "that only very slow progress could be made in this direction, for the disintegrated tawny-coloured limestone rock was of a most treacherous character. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z The sample I secured was of the kind that in the States is called "Tiger-eye," as I presume, from its general tawny-coloured streaky brilliancy. Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada 2011-02-01T03:00:13.163Z This is the pretty little tawny-coloured butterfly that mixes with the sportive group of "Blues," Meadow Browns, &c. on heaths, downs, and grassy fields. British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species The former is pale tawny-coloured, nearly white, the latter of a dirty pale green. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses But the oddest thing to us are the bunches of fungi, tawny-coloured, piled up in heaps, and evidently very popular! Round the Wonderful World She had a tame white and tawny-coloured owl, which we fed every night, and sometimes brought into the drawing-room. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville And here I am reluctantly compelled to reprove the white and tawny-coloured inhabitants of St. Kitts for a breach of good manners. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The caterpillar is tawny-coloured; but the back, for about the hinder half its length, is whitish; head black. British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species Mr Farquhar then came in, and the question was referred to him; he laughed and told him that painters were a species of panther, not spotted, but tawny-coloured, and at times very dangerous. The Settlers in Canada After a skirmish with some tawny-coloured Hottentots the explorers sailed on, putting "their trust in the Lord to double the Cape." A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole The tawny-coloured, sandy, track is difficult to follow in the dark, and there are posts set up at intervals on the skirts of the way for travellers’ guidance. The Nebuly Coat So saying, the god struck the earth with his cane, and there instantly sprang forth a convenient car, built of curiously carved cedar, and borne by four enormous tawny-coloured owls. The Infernal Marriage He was then about thirty years of age, a fine, handsome man, tall and strong, wearing a full and flowing tawny-coloured beard. The Life Story of an Old Rebel The lower part of her person was hidden from view, but she appeared to be as broad-shouldered as a man, and her bulky person was wrapped in a tawny-coloured robe. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest His short beard was trimmed to a point, his moustache turned upwards at the ends, on his hands were gloves of tawny-coloured leather. Mrs. Day's Daughters Towards the north and west of the solitudes, shapeless ruins of tawny-coloured blocks follow one another in the sands until the dazzling distance ends in a clear-cut line against the sky. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) "And he's got queer eyes—tawny-coloured like a dog's," she wound up, "with a quaint little patch of blue close to each of the pupils." The Hermit of Far End |
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