He was not pale, just noticeably less brown, though everyone was a shade browner from being constantly in the sun. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

And browner than a serf in summer, I swear it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We ended up there in the throng under the thatched roof and I almost screamed when I realized the hand I held was not my mother’s but a thick brown claw, a stranger! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person's mouth was pale brown, with a rose-colored sore at either corner. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The outside is brown brick, and the inside has light brown cement floors, white walls, and white sheets on the beds. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had straight brown hair and strong wrists. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was black, and straight, and long; her skin was as brown as the river. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He was slender, with two long braids that were dark brown, not black like coal, like the hair of the other Lakota boys. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

As we went to the other side of the house, a brown- and-white-speckled rooster came strutting to meet us. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked with envy at where he sat, propped against a bulkhead, lost in a bulky brown volume. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

After two good drinks of whisky, the two brown and glazed turkeys were brought in, carved by our host and served by us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are such a light brown that they look gold. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All of them with deep brown skin like mine. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Each one looked different: skinny, fat, all yellow, yellow and brown, big, small. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anu's voice is lilting and charming, and the candlelight makes her brown eyes sparkle. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The engineer bowed, and his brown monkey dæmon retreated behind his legs at the sight of the golden monkey with the chained hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He forced himself to look directly into her eyes, noticing as he did so that they were precisely the same shade of brown as Ginny’s. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Round brown acorns weighed down the thick branches of oak trees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We kneeled in front of him, as we were not allowed to sit at the table, and watched him unpack a brown paper bag. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three things lay on the doormat: a postcard from Uncle Vernon’s sister Marge, who was vacationing on the Isle of Wight, a brown envelope that looked like a bill, and — a letter for Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Moo-oo,” she moaned again, her brown eyes rolling in her head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were stewed apricots and five or six different cheeses including of course the ever-present gjetost, that tall brown rather sweet Norwegian goat’s cheese which you find on just about every table in the land. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other stuff on my plate was candied sweet potatoes, string beans, and something I didn’t recognize, little brown clumps. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She’d lost her helmet, so her curly brown hair fell around her shoulders. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bailey nearly closed the door again, but Uncle Willie asked, “Who is it?” and Mr. George Taylor’s pinched brown face swam out of the gray and into view. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had stringy brown hair and hard, suspicious eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He looked up in surprise from the counter where he was pouring a foul-looking brown liquid into various beakers and retorts. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mostly, he looked like a big piece of old brown carpet that had been left out in the rain. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian man in the brown suit smiled and offered Hassan his hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A young man with curly brown hair, pebbly eyes dark beneath his straw hat, drove a team of workhorses from the west. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Old men played dominoes as they drank Budweisers wrapped in brown bags. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

His hair was so dirty it looked brown. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At least I think her eyes are brown. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the brown bag of candy on the table. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Rafik ripped open a packet of crackers he had in his pocket and tossed them to three brown ducks who paddled up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces were still the same—I guess those couldn’t get any uglier— but their bodies had shriveled into leathery brown hag bodies with bat’s wings and hands and feet like gargoyle claws. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A red and brown alpaca cloth hung in the doorway. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Then, we went outside to put up luminaria, which is an activity where all our neighbors fill brown paper bags with sand and line the street with them. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But today, instead of her usual greeting, Did you sleep well, Uhmma’s back stiffens and she quickly puts something into a brown paper bag she is holding at her side. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

At first he could only stare, at the body, then at the baby bison, whose large brown eye seemed to be watching them both. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

People often comment on her smooth, brown skin, full lips, and particularly her large, round brown eyes with their long lashes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They grow on this road, Meg, so do combs and brown straw hats.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watch a tugboat pulling a ship, leaves turning orange and brown on the shore, and the sky darkening with rain-filled clouds. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She aims to turn them into brown shiny metal and keep them on the table in Georgia with my baby picture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t gray or brown, like the floor of most caves, but a cherry red so deep it glinted black. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“This is the puppy I really want,” I said, and pointed at a brown Chihuahua. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody went bright brown, like Red Indians, with startling teeth and flashing eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At school he used to wear a brown coat with a belt and shiny sleeves. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four horseheads proclaimed the four Ryswells of the Rills— one grey, one black, one gold, one brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our mother, dressed in green silk flowing pants and a gold boat-neck blouse, assessed Lily coolly when she made her appearance in white capris and a brown sleeveless knit top. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Where the rains had fallen, the grass had grown higher than any other grass she had seen, and now it waved golden brown in the wind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I could tell it wasn’t Henrietta’s because it wasn’t glass; it was like a fancy organic brown chicken egg that rich people buy at the store. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I dug my sneaker into the dirt, crumpling a patch of brown grass. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Glancing briefly into the brown water, she plunged the rod into the creek. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Delicate by nature, with wavy brown hair and hazel eyes, Elizebeth was a tiny presence in that huge family. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’s got flawless dark-brown skin—I don’t think she ever gets a pimple—slanted brown eyes, and long eyelashes that aren’t store-bought. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Ironically it’s the brown recluse spider that’s aggressive and will go after you. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As the plants moved in the breeze, the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil, the white pebbles and weeds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath a tangle of dark brown hair his face was almost feral, with a wide mouth, sharp nose, and pointed chin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His brown hair was combed into a moderately high pompadour and had the slick appearance that came with the overly ambitious application of Wild Root Cream Oil. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother walks into the house that had once been her home, wearing a blue dress, with her hair brown and curled. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kaisa’s dark brown boots were comfortably worn and scuffed, the leather lined and aged. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked as though both Amanda and I had Dad’s curly brown hair, too. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

His face got red again, and he started shoving his papers into a big brown envelope. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The skin on my ankles is dark and I'm wearing a pair of brown work boots. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But add another pair and you have pairs: Two pairs are brown. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the cell-like compartment, a brown book lay against the wall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Inside were canned orange juice and some hard, brown doughnuts. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He concealed the car as best he could beneath a brown tarp, stripped it of its Virginia plates, and hid them. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brown wooden plug fills up his left earlobe. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Standing next to his mother was a tall, chocolate brown man who was looking out of the kitchen window, paying no attention to the nervous conversation or the rich breakfast smells about him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was disturbing to see—among the established plantings—the raw brown earth like a wound in the ground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother leans back in her brown chair, her feet still in the Epsom salts water, her fingers tapping out some silent tune. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” she said gently, “let me see those pretty brown eyes.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled a skinny little cigarette in a brown wheat paper and offered the sack to Tayo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Drink from mugs stained in blotches or in rings, brown from coffee and red from wine. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bony woman with long, unkempt brown hair comes over to me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They played follow the leader and ran up and down the bank and jumped in the cold brown water. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was young, and he looked up often as he read the gospel, his brown eyes piercing the congregation. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the stone hut came the rich brown smell of baked gingerbread. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piled in one corner were some broken ceramic vases, spilling out shriveled brown clumps that might once have been fruit. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once, I stepped on something that at first looked like a small brown stick, but then the stick wriggled, squirmed, and slid away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m brown, definitely not yellow,” I say, staring at my arm. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The flecks of lighter brown in the darker brown of her eyes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Through it Mariam could see that it, like the rest of the house, was sparsely furnished: bed in the corner, with a brown blanket and a pillow, a closet, a dresser. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The other kind of brown. The banned ones.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He had cooked squab in soy sauce so that the skin and meat were a deep, deep brown all the way to the bone. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a white button-down shirt and long brown pants, with shiny brown shoes. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a brown tailored suit with no tie. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He opened the little cupboard over the sink and took out a couple brown bottles, threw some stuff into one of those metal, kidney-shaped trays and stuck his miner’s light on. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On top was a large piece of brown wrapping paper with a note attached. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He’s still wearing his brown robe, gold cape, and silver helmet. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like they were brown people living brown lives in a brown place who made bright colors to sell to America. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly, funnily enough,” I said, looking right into those soft brown eyes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her skin is the lightest brown, silky smooth. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And if a few strands of brown tobacco dropped to the rough flagstones, what of it? Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He handed me the tub of olives, shooing them on me with his large brown hands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its wood was a deep, rich brown, with bulbous bumps on its trunk that reminded him of warts. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My hair was in tangled patches, brown with dirt and matted with blood. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s just your standard brown mouse,” said Brad. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her straight brown hair framed the frown on her face. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Tall guy, long brown hair, civilian clothes. Bloodstained shirt. Name is Florian Beck. He’s probably trying to stay out of sight. Gauleiter Koch has a message for him.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I knelt and scratched behind her ears for a minute, and while I did, I looked into her soulful brown eyes, wishing she could tell me what to do. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The new Miss Spink was wearing green tights, and high brown boots that went most of the way up her legs. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The brown carpet looks like a deep, plush forest floor. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I identify all the smaller pigments—the rich browns and tans and whites—that help make the hue bright and uniform. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Honestly, I think some racists think Islam is a race or ethnicity and not a religion. Like we’re all brown and from Muslimistan.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

That her eyes would be laser-cut for a lifetime of perfect vision, reflective implants inserted under the iris to add sparkling gold flecks to their indifferent brown? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Shades of red, yellow, and brown, different shapes and sizes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the dinged-up bicycle propped against a brown hedge. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I go anyway through the ankle- deep water of flooded street corners, the brown pools slicked with spectral emulsions of engine oil and cooking grease, soot and sweat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mattie regarded me for a moment with her big brown eyes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were slender and brown and very strong. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We stared at each other in the brown evening. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bird was about the size of a pigeon and was grayish brown with a long pointy tail hanging underneath it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a hound’s sad eyes too—brown with white showing above the lower lid and bags of skin below. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced one last time at Amari’s back before she slipped on the brown dress, then hurried over to Tidbit. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the other was a brown paper bag. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a brown suit and thick glasses like mine was sitting at a desk. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was patting the tears off her smooth brown cheeks with a starched white handkerchief. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He got down a small brown bottle and a towel, which he brought over to her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were such a dark brown that it was difficult to tell where the color ended and the center blackness began. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

His brown hair hung down over his ears and neck, scraping the tops of his shoulders. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A brown uniform flew up and landed on the scoreboard controls. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

On the other side of him, Mel Willis’s long brown hair swung gently as willows in a breeze. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At all times, Philip was impeccably groomed, his shock of rich brown hair combed neatly, his demeanor serious and forthright. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stew is kind of a brown blob on a bed of rice. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Kaede glanced down at herself and laughed; the entire front of her, from her chest down to her knees, was smeared with dark brown. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But in real life, Persepolis was brown and rough and imperfect. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We pass the children’s grave with the overflowing brown and crispy flowers, fluttering in the wind like cockroach wings. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She still had on her hijab and her work clothes, dark, long, loose pants and a brown cotton tunic top. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The glass eyes came in shades of green, blue, and light brown, not dark brown or black for African-Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In my room behind the table stands a brown leather sofa. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he was about to cradle it in his big brown loving mitts, it vanished. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a right turn down a residential street and pulled up next to a single-story brown shingle house with overgrown rosebushes out front. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Jacob bends his head over the brown letters. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He flung his pencil down in frustration and grabbed a brown crayon, but this time he paused. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had a lush mane of gold-brown hair like Hazel’s, and the same dark complexion, brown as a roasted coffee bean. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was trying desperately to cultivate a mustache on his upper lip and had filled in the empty areas with what looked like brown shoe polish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s warm in here, but she got a thick brown sweater drooped around her shoulders. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I spit, but his huge brown eyes plead for me to calm down. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His cloak was made of soft brown wool lined with sandsilk, a goodly garment. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She could feel the heat rising from the ground outside, through the wheat brown, splintered planks of the outhouse in the yard, up through the walls and into her room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were girls in hijab, girls for whom English was a second language, girls whose skin made up every shade of brown. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A man in tan pants, a blue shirt, and brown shoes with laces came out of the building. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maryam and an older woman wearing a brown hijah—presumably her mother—were speaking in low voices and pouring tea from a kettle into a pot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The roaring sound instantly fills my vision with brown streaks and slashes, and I look up to see the familiar markings of my father’s chopper. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His face was a deep Indian brown but his hands were bleached and wrinkled from the chemicals in the pool. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Like a child’s drawing, her pale face was floating in a sea of brown fabric. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Her mom seemed to favor blacks and grays, sometimes browns or olives. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He stood up, his legs sturdy and brown. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Princess was always brightest in spring, just after the conifers emerged from the snow, their deep green needles seeming almost black against the tawny browns of soil and bark. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The plants were about three feet tall and partially hidden between their dry brown leaves were many cotton bolls. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One with a buzz cut, brown complexion shades lighter than her own, and another with glasses, fuller brown hair, and light tan skin like Dahlia’s. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes, which are normally a kind of mutt’s mixture of gray and brown and green, have gone dark. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, this makes me curse my nonexistent dad, who must be to blame for my hair, which is straight, brown, and just land of there. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And light brown skin and soft dark curls and cute, knobbly hands. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But the night before he left, his mother, visiting from Montana to say good-bye, took him to JCPenney and bought him a Grateful Dead tie and some brown work shoes. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd grown out his silky brown hair so that it reached his lower back and had sideburns that took up half his face. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And the girl with the llama book really does have a llama, a brown one. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I hug Spot, then look into his brownest eyes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We do group murals on the blackboards or on large rolls of brown paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jacquel turned and looked at him with dark brown eyes as quizzical and cold as a desert dog’s. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A dark brown horse with a white spot on its muzzle trots to the edge of its gate and stops. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Candlelight from the cresset over the great bed threw the faintest flicker of brown light over the stones. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There aren’t any people around here—especially no brown people, except Gregory, our mailman. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The visual image congealed; he saw at once a famous landscape, the old, brown, barren ascent, with tufts of dried-out bonelike weeds poking slantedly into a dim and sunless sky. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had seen the second fin now coming up behind the first and had identified them as shovel-nosed sharks by the brown, triangular fin and the sweeping movements of the tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though near Robb's age, she was slim as a boy, with long brown hair knotted behind her head and only the barest suggestion of breasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some were fat and some were thin; some were browned by the sun and some were paler than Luke himself, who would never be tan again. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hawkers were at every comer, with glass-enclosed cases of akara and suya and browned chicken drumsticks, with trays of peeled oranges, with coolers the size of bathtubs full of Walls banana ice cream. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had brown hair and a square face with a strong, broad jaw. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Squelch grinned his brown grin, blew his nose on a Monster Munch packet, and chucked it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The girl on the computer screen had straight light brown hair while Emma’s was darker and wavy. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had a beard, and his hair was long and dark brown. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her long brown hair blew behind her in the breeze, fuzzy and never quite cooperating with brush and comb. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The setting sun was turning the water from brown to gold. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the hall I pull my brown suitcase from the back of the closet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And next, a large brown dog, with easy gait and dangling tongue, came loping down the road toward them. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's dark skinned, brown eyes, low haircut, full beard, earrings in both ears, no tattoos, average height, average weight, average dude. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He had perfect white teeth and his brown/blue eyes reflected the light of my sword. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She had braided her dark brown hair the day she got the picture taken. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is fanned out around her face, a mixture of gray and misty brown. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Someone even gave me a hat, a brown fedora. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In his lap he carried a brown paper bag. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoons, after high mass, they went to baseball games and ate roasted peanuts from brown paper cones. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esperanza’s parents were well-meaning, but occasionally clueless, certainly unprepared for the complications of adopting a brown girl and raising her in a white home. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Portia stopped peeling her potatoes and her long, brown fingers tapped on the table in time to her words. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The grass is yellow and brown under my feet, and I’m surrounded by thick crowds of people. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Even when the hills were brown and baked in the summer that little patch was green. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

These particular brown girls from Mobile and Aiken are not like some of their sisters. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oblique late afternoon rays turned the ends of his hair a chocolate brown. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Soon their stings were covered with blobs of wet tobacco dripping brown, wintergreen-flavored juice. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

His hair was cut so short Helen could see sweat beading on his pink and brown scalp. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arms were thick with muscle and matted with brown hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The old man saw the brown fins coming along the wide trail the fish must make in the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claudine appears in my head: doughy gray flesh, beautiful round frame, dull brown hair, big eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I thought of Baba’s thick neck, his black eyes, his unruly brown hair. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A rush of dead brown leaves, Asha told herself, bare branches creaking in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She's not a girl, but a woman, I suppose—she curves like a woman, at any rate—but that flawless smooth brown skin only reminds me that I'm getting on in years. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When she described him—kind eyes, brown hair, a glow like a TV in a dark room, white robes—Ellie gasped and said, “Oh my God, you saw Jesus.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The wives and mothers were the ones who found the brown bottles stashed away under pillow and bed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wore a black tunic that had seen better days, and old brown leggings tucked into scuffed work boots. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He’s got a long glass of dark brown stuff in front of him and he’s hardly touched it,’ she reported. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was brown and grey in equal parts and she wore it tied behind her head in a widow’s knot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The kitchen smelled like cumin and smoke, browned onions and fish. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

His eyes are the warmest shade of brown I’ve ever seen. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This strange place was a nightmare, a wasteland of rubble covered with brown slime. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He was dressed up as usual, in khaki pants and shirt and brown shoes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A strange gray dust was trapped in his salt-and-pepper beard, and a thin white film had crawled over his open brown eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a tool bag of coarse brown canvas, such as he had sometimes seen her carrying to and fro at the Ministry. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The seniors at the time had picked on her first—the only brown girl in the room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A cuckoo clock was stopped on the wrong time, the bird out of his little brown house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The only good thing about breakfast on Monday was the return of the brown owl he had sent to Sirius. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"No, not Birgit. She lived on for many years laying her brown eggs." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Isannah stared at him, her beautiful, soft, brown eyes so blank she looked almost blind. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My favorite portrait is of a woman who is thick like me, and dark brown like coffee beans. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But even as he said this, he looked down and noticed the brown specks, and only just stopped himself crying out in alarm. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His library pallor had burned and then browned. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He’s let his facial hair grow in a little, and his hair is longer than I’ve ever seen it—dense enough to show me that it is brown, not black. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Although I had green eyes instead of hazel ones, and my hair was chestnut brown and wavy, I supposed to his mother there must’ve been some resemblance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And behind Javier, a shy boy, young and mousy, his hair black, his skin a light brown, peering out at Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It had no name over its door and its window was empty save for a potted fern and a half curtain of brown linen run on brass rods along the back of it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the small town of Donovan the robins had been wiped out, as had the grackles, starlings, and brown thrashers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She opened a drawer and pulled out a small brown bottle with a glass stopper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our cabin was brown on brown on brown. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Down past where Old Fishfoot’s trident pointed was an alley where they sold fried cod, crisp and golden brown outside and flaky white within. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The visitor, for her part, was teetering on the absolute brink of the brown chair in what Gilly took to be a state of total shock. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He wore creaseless flannel trousers and a brown tweed jacket with patches all over it and bits of dried food on the lapels. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its brown waves tumble right back to his shoulders. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But there was her radiant face, bigger than life, framed by her familiar brown curls. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His curly brown hair was matted around the sides and back from weeks of being crammed under that hat, or perhaps a helmet. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In his hand were two brown paper bags. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I look in the mirror over the washbasin: my face is brown and rounder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His brown hair is tousled, his shirt buttons in the wrong buttonholes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed because Father Amadi’s eyes were so brown I could see my reflection in them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His digging hands were strong and the fur on his back was glossy brown and the fawn-colored fur on his chest was incredibly soft and rich. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bald brown head bounced against the wall behind him. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I stare at the back of her head, at her brown hair, thinking, Look at me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

No paint on her lips or nails, her brown hair cut very short. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There are hash browns, sausages, and heaping baskets of thickly sliced bread. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He had a veil of thinning brown hair and a goatee framing his lips. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The minty smell of his soap, the warmth of his arms, how when our fingers intertwine, the brown of my skin and the brown of his are nearly a perfect match. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Milo sniffed in consternation twice, like a shaggy brown hare. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Kat says it was not just brown but caramel. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really like their breakfast menu, especially the hash browns. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her foragers returned he land was red and dead and parched, and good with gnarled cottonwoods, purple brush, sheaves of brown grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The kind, brown eyes looked as if they could be stern, and though he was unusually merry, she fancied he had found her out, but didn’t mean to let her know it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were not like the brown, heat-baked mountains we had left behind. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was daylight, early morning, and the air was thick with smoke that hung, yellow and brown, above the ground. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lovey asked while I took a seat on the brown couch in the living room. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half fierce, half lazy work of the bracing days. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Very slowly he raised his hand and let the brown weed float back and cover the face. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His light brown face had grown tough with age, cracked but soft, like a pair of well-worn work boots. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Smooth brown skin and eyes that laughed along with her. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Its brown leather was all creased and soft, and it had a yellow woolly collar and yellow woolly stuff at the ends of the sleeves. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The usual cloud that turned the air brown and silty, but this time it failed to dissipate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were yellow and scarlet and crimson and golden and brown. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had pairs in brown, black, rainbow stripes, flowers, and now purple. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was thin, with light brown hair and blue eyes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s small, kinda scrawny, with brown skin and dark hair,” Kaori says. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One brown eye closed in a slow wink. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She had round cheeks and wide brown eyes and dark hair that curled in a rich tangle around her shoulders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had her stained-glass window carefully wrapped in cloth and brown paper inside a box that Father had built for her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gentle brown eyes and slow smile flicker in my memory. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was stacked with small mountains of pottery—not celadon work, but the very dark brown stoneware known as onggi, for storing food. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They were a deep brown, almost the color of the earth in the garden bed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his head upward so his eyes could search out mine, the soft brown irises huge and rimmed in white in a way I’d never seen before. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This deep brown is from the goldenrod shoots, isn’t it?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, looking into her light brown eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now he came in a white shirt, a blue collar, and a brown peaked cap. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brown leather book floats back to the top of my mind. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

What do those kids want with a little brown bear? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But I feel Spot, if he could talk, would say, “That’s a lie,” then blink his big brown eyes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“When I get big,” she thought, “I will have such a brown bowl and in hot August there will be nasturtiums in it.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men who had come to get us smiled as the truck sped along the dirt road, raising light brown dust that covered the bushes on the sides of the road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Kaisa’s green eyes were flecked with brown, and her lips were shining from the water. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mischievous baby, who had just changed from the black fur of the newborn to brown, climbed over the respectable old baboon’s head. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa’s hair was brown, and his whiskers were brown, and she thought brown was a lovely color. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on her head, on her damp hair, and when I squatted beside her, she looked at me with her golden brown eyes and her long black eyelashes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She had black hair and brown eyes and was quick with her hands. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so,” said a wizard with a scrubby brown beard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A moth lands in the corner then flutters away, leaving a brown smudge of wing chalk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a large breath and looked at his wide, brown eyes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The big woman with the brown hair says, Well, you’re not a bit shy, are you? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Its eyes were a soft brown like fall leaves, its steam-puffing snout something like a duck’s beak. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Each of them got half a water glass of the clear brown liquor. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gown had changed in front from black silk to brown dirt. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Startled, I looked up into Ultima’s brown, wrinkled face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her presents were a pair of brown Oxford shoes and a box of cherry candy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The brown mustache, the knobby chin, the sallow yellowed flesh and small dark eyes, all melted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lord Jonos shrugged into a brown woolen tunic with the red stallion of Bracken embroidered on the front. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’d heard plenty of stories about black and brown people getting tossed within those stone walls for no reason at all. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The jacket of his brown suit, the one he’d worn to my graduation, hung over him—too much of Baba had melted away to fill it any­more. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth had asked some passer-by where Pilate lived and was directed to a lean brown house set back from the unpaved road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom packs this food in brown bags for my dad to take to work for lunch. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tough brown grass and weed trees sprouted from the gaps between the cobbles, and the mossy walls of what once might have been a huge stone manse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

More goodbyes, Dicey thought to herself, coiling up the last rope into a dark brown hoop, piling loop upon loop. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Powell’s fingers went to his brown mustache, the unfailing signal of anxiety. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He has a shiny black coat with some brown areas around his face and legs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hazel had straight black hair, odd big brown eyes, and dark brown skin. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of guards, in their red and brown uniforms, ambled across the square, laughing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then a guy with brown hair and a short red beard slides into the empty row in front of us and smiles at me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Plain-faced, with a broad forehead and deep-set brown eyes, she greeted them with a smile as if they were old friends. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment smells strongly of cooking; on the stove, a few large pieces of chicken are browning in a pan full of oil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me a bowl into which the pig’s guts spilled like syrup, quivering pink, blue, and yellow, warm and musky, alive, hard to imagine as solid, piquant, brown sausages. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We can't go to downtown Greenville without seeing the teenagers walking into stores, sitting where brown people still aren't allowed to sit and getting carried out, their bodies limp, their faces calm. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I put on my waitress uniform, the short, tight cream-colored dress and the ironed brown apron. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A white strip of forehead, where his uniform cap kept off the sun, shone between his brown hair and his sunburned face. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s light brown, like sand. A little golden.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have something for you,” he said, handing Alex a brown paper bag. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I threw out the brown sugar too, so there won’t be any sugar for the oatmeal.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the house loomed an immense brown barn, at least five stories tall, topped by a weather vane. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A sea of hovercrafts restlessly prowled the air.The buildings stretched on as far as Matt could see, which wasn’t far because a smudgy brown haze covered everything. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way,” he said, “we’ve had a problem lately with brown recluse spiders in the facility.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the biggest I’d ever seen and she had long brown hair. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually a fine fat pickle, greenish yellow and hard at the ends was fished out and laid on a scrap of brown paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Elinor's eyes widened greedily, Meggie concluded they could only be discussing a book, and she immediately thought of brown paper, a pale green linen binding, and the anger in Mo’s voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A two-hundred-year span was needed to eliminate on the island of Patmos all of the black people—until only brown people remained. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has fairly short brown hair, stands a bit smaller than medium height, and wears a shirt, black jeans, and blue athletic shoes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Jeavons smells of soap and wears brown shoes that have approximately 60 tiny circular holes in each of them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sets the plate of toasted brown bread and a small crock of red jam in front of him and walks away without another word. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Her choppy brown hair was braided down the right side with an eagle’s feather. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The roads were brown with sand and clear of snow, the driving dirty but easy. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He is wearing short black pants and brown ankle boots that lace up. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d be dark brown, almost black, his feathers with a shine to them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Almost all of the rich and famous brown people are artists. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The patches of new skin were dull reddish brown. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They watched him weave unsteadily through the salt bush down to the river willows and tamarics, growing along the river, all the while clutching his brown shopping bag close to his chest. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her long brown hair was out of her eyes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Irises and pupils were one, and very black, but the eyeballs were brown. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I frown at the mess of long brown hair and try to smooth it down, running my fingers through it over and over. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Brinker looked the standard preparatory school article in his gray gabardine suit with square, hand-sewn-looking jacket pockets, a conservative necktie, and dark brown cordovan shoes. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about you?” he asked, his brown eyes soft with concern. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He reaches under a chair to retrieve a brown and red picture. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He lay down and Kehaar’s head flicked from side to side as though he were looking for snails in Hazel’s brown fur. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives this painting more colors: blues and greens, browns and whites, orange. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His sad brown eyes stare back at me, and I reach out, picking him up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the shape of peanuts, and her hair was brown with apricot-blond streaks. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

His big brown eye was full of concern. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was dark, with thick closed curtains, black couches, dim lights, and deep brown wood-paneled walls lined with religious scenes on blacklight posters. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of gray eyes, his irises were as brown as Candice’s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

All about us as we stand jammed on our platform lie the faces of the people of the city, upturned like a shoal of brown, round pebbles, mica-glittering with thousands of watching eyes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

James’ hands were brown with dirt and his nails were black. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom made ham with her not-so-secret ingredient of brown sugar, and all the traditional sides are spread across the table. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath as I looked into his clear brown eyes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a brown corduroy suit with leather elbow patches and carried a worn, overstuffed briefcase. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the minutes tick toward dismissal, the boys fidget, swinging their legs, tapping the floor with their heavy brown shoes, whispering and snickering when their teachers aren't looking. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And under the brown sack-shaped tunic those enormous breasts, the bulge of the stomach, the hips. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a brown, weathered face etched by deep wrinkles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does have beautiful brown eyes that are thoughtful and sad. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Constantin was much too short, but in his own way he was handsome, with light brown hair and dark blue eyes and a lively, challenging expression. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Soon, my mom’s brown and white checkered apron is in front of me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I colored us in with pencils—the brown of Abby’s skin, the pink of my cheeks, the dark red of my hair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

His feet zigzag down two narrow, brown- paneled hallways. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had warm brown skin and hazel eyes and he looked distinctly Middle Eastern. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Just reached up to touch his brown tooth necklace. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two brown eyes, a nose, a head with brown hair on it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see them struggle with a brown leather sofa. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Beneath his window six cherry trees stood sentinel around a marble pool, their slender branches bare and brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s tall, with cropped black hair, a thin mustache, and dark brown skin. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He points to the branches on the brown patch of grass in his yard. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Amber had brown hair, which she said she was going to dye blond when she turned sixteen. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Leave it to Daddy Cool to torture human kids at school all day long and never have his conscience bother him but to feel sorry for a stupid little grayish brown bird. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after three days of rest and the wondrous healing properties of Coach Hedge’s gooey brown gunk, Nico started to dissolve the moment he shadow-jumped. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The shingles look okay, but all the brown panels look like hell. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother served them bowls of hot oatmeal with brown sugar and milk to put on it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor has a bottle with brown stuff in it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I look into her eyes, which are hazy brown with the tiniest hint of green. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where there was nothing, a brown bag’s lying on the ground. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked again at Matilda who looked back at him with large innocent brown eyes. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Along the eastern edge of this, to balance the tunnel, ran a portico lined with thin brown iron beams. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Frozen with fear, I watched the yellow-white flames make a ragged brown line up the pink fabric of my skirt and climb my stomach. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother is at her side now, her brown eyes warm with concern. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided, leaving only a brown stain on the skin above his ankle, his fits of coughing in the early morning had stopped. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That rosy cheeks don’t last forever, that silver threads will come in the bonnie brown hair, and that, by-and-by, kindness and respect will be as sweet as love and admiration now. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lets me pull at the brown paper inside. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I reached for Lovey’s hand as we watched the cars start, smoke blowing from the exhaust pipes, kicking brown and orange and yellow leaves up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His wavy brown hair was clean compared with mine. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He remembered that he had to change shoes and retreated to a comer of the lobby, out of sight of receptionists and guards, to sit on the floor and pull on Eric’s brown Oxfords. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her feet she wore flat-heeled brown brogues with leather flaps. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The air was breezy, the low sky smudged brown and grey. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

All you could see was Ma’s smooth, dark brown skin. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The whole world is brown and blurry on the stairs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the fields, gray buffalos and brown cows graze lazily on the grass. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scuffled through the jars and envelopes and came up with it, an unprepossessing dried brown scrap. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She ruffles up her spiky hair and rolls her wide-set brown eyes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks lighter than when it was wet. But it’s still a fine brown.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about forty, Malcolm thought, with black hair and bright brown eyes, and all his features were clear and easy to see, as if he was a very well-lit photogram. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A brisk October breeze stung the tops of his ears as his sneakers crunched over brown and yellow leaves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And that saddle...the saddle was shiny and silver-studded, not worn and brown like the other riders’. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo took out the last brown candy bar and shared it with her siblings. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Quickly, I change out of my brown jumper and into a yellow short-sleeve shirt and blue shorts I pick up off the floor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He runs back to his car and comes back with a brown whip twisted around his fist. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The whiteness of it stood out from his deep brown tan, making him seem splashed with wave foam. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With the broth came loaves of coarse brown bread, warm from the oven. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Papa used to say they were like stars in heaven. Like apples in a tree. “They are little brown dots, child. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Again, Omakayas remembered the proud, soft radiance of his brown eyes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Its massive head rose above the waves on a long white neck that gave way to smooth brown scales, ancient heavily lidded eyes, and a sharp beak that could snap a man in two. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A long-legged creature with a brown, spare body picks its way across the street ahead of us, almost as tall as the headlights. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“The reds are Aunt Naomi’s. The light browns...well, they were Mr. Lucas’s.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whitby had a thin brown cigar propped between his lips and was puffing away at it merrily, while Frankie held his own cigar unlit at his side. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was sucked in immediately, and the wet brown stain it left behind paled and vanished almost as quickly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her clothes were the same, a brown dress belted at the waist, but her face was flushed, her eyes unfocused. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As we revolved on our towels that summer, self-basting, the Object’s freckles darkened, going from butterscotch to brown. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Harry just caught sight of a pair of bright brown eyes staring at him before it closed with a snap. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The tallest one, his cloud of frizzy brown hair hovering around a pencil-thin neck, stepped in front of the others—the ginger kid who had spoken before, and two big-shouldered blonds that looked like brothers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She crossed her arms, trying to cover her worn brown homespun with the gunnysack. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were brown and gentle, and deep wrinkles spread from their outside corners like tiny furrows. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Helena smiles, then smiles bigger, and when I come home from work the next evening, her brown head is next to Max’s dark one, poring over a dental textbook. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They’d see a girl with dark brown eyes that are full of curiosity. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We all stretch out our legs: my long, skinny, dark brown ones next to Isabella’s tan ones, next to Julia’s much lighter ones. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The outside of the onions is varying shades of greens and browns with white patches of fuzz, but on the inside the flesh is bright and good enough to eat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The river world was all brown and shadowy forms—a universe of nameless undefined matter below the surface. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Emilika was twenty-three, Catholic like me, had brown hair, a freckled nose, and worked in a photography shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I pulled the brown duster around me, thankful for the warmth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His teeth were long and brown, but his laugh was beautiful, Marly thought. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She took off her faded brown dress and put on the new one, and it felt like wearing the weight of spring: soft and warm, with the breath of an evening breeze over her skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell scowled at the ceiling and pulled at his brown mustache. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

With the last of her meager salary she had bought her daughter small presents wrapped in brown paper with colored paper hearts pasted on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All it needed was to heat up and for a scattering of kernels to brown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The brown mouth of a drain, stained black at the lower edge by a thin, dried thread of blood: of rabbit’s blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short, trim man with fashionably slicked brown hair walks crisply to the front. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was what she suspected about herself, as she looked in her green-tinted mirror, with its brown spot, and many-forked streak, and chipped edge — that she really was, after all, just wrong. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled back, his brown eyes crinkling around the edges. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The chestnut was leafless and skeletal, but its bare brown limbs were not empty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From his studies, the big-head scientist knew that black men contained two germs, black and brown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing the same green surgeon scrubs, face mask, and blue gloves that the pre-op nurses wear, but his wavy brown hair is peeking out from under a clear surgical cap. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Drew sat by himself on a brown leather couch under a framed vintage travel poster of Tahiti. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He wore a brown leather duster despite the heat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The honeymoon suite was dank and cold and dirty brown. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Their luxury was teatime, between four and five, when they took down from the wooden slatted shelves their miniature brown teapots inscribed with their names and sat together in a little dayroom off the ward. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A tree with broad brown leaves grew from the middle of what looked like a well, circled with the same stones that lined the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They passed, one after the other, through a small, neatly raked garden, between brown raspberry canes and leafless apple trees, and walked slowly up the few steps to the porch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was white with wavy brown hair, and she wore a gray Smith College T-shirt. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The blue and green houses were brown then, and filled to overflowing with new arrivals. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The light reflected off of her long brown hair and tall frame. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We both had short brown hair and bony elbows and the ability to stare without blinking. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He ducked inside a stationer’s shop briefly and came out carrying a small parcel wrapped in brown paper and two fresh rolls, steaming hot, with butter oozing from their middles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deserted shopping centers with broken storefronts were disturbing enough before we cut into the first neighborhood of little brown and gray and white houses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I say, remembering the sympathetic brown eyes, the gloveless hand. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shoveled the bacon out on a plate and broke the eggs in the hot grease and they jumped and fluttered their edges to brown lace and made clucking sounds. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at Pa sitting on the bench by the hearth, the fire-light gleaming on his brown hair and beard and glistening on the honey-brown fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has bright brown eyes, a smile with dimples, and chestnut hair with purple tips. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In my yellow cell I filled a brown cardboard suitcase with my belongings and carried it down to the discharge officer's station for my final inspection. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was pretty, with wild black hair and huge brown eyes she hid behind square frame glasses. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pretty much identical, because most food is brown. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was another local affiliate directly in front of Moss, but the reporter, a short man with close-cropped brown hair, never once looked at him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thus reassured that the white, the red and the brown would stay where they were—would not explode or burst forth from their restricted zones—he suddenly felt hungry and looked around for his hands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table’s legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of its reflective, dark brown surface. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Laney was the only one looking up at Papa, with glum brown eyes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She would have snorted, but he did look rather good in his knee-high brown boots. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were soft brown, limpid and innocent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped back as they turned to blackish brown, as each one of them seemed to fill with spiders. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Lots of brown and black faces—like you’d see at any mosque. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was the flower in the brown bowl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flecks of gray salt the dark brown bob that curves around her heart-shaped face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We walk from door to door, our brown paper grocery bags filling with candy apples, popcorn balls, peanut brittle, chanting at each door: Shell out! Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I punch my finger into the dirt to make a small hole, and I drop in the brown nut. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Instead it serves only to warehouse poor black and brown people for increasingly lengthy periods of time, often until old age. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She threw down her book, rose from the stale comfort of the old brown sofa, and scrambled for the door. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The tent smells of tar and kapok and brown paper with cheese grease on it, and crushed grass. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a heavy feeling in my chest Connor looks up at me, his warm brown eyes fringed by his long eyelashes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looks strangely familiar, lanky with curly brown hair. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But when the young man, dressed in a crisp brown uniform, stepped out of his automobile, they knew otherwise. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wore the same kind of brown shirt and trousers any farmer around Redding wore, and he spoke pretty good English. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mop of brown hair hung in his eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous brown hawk perched on Dobrynya’s arm, its claws digging into his leather bracers. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-six years old, of medium height and medium build, with smooth, straight brown hair; a good-looking man. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, just as soon as his grandfather drives out of sight, Boy21 reaches into his over-the-shoulder bag and pulls out a brown robe made from bath towels safety-pinned together. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked about at the sky, the sea, the brown swelling sail above him, his friend’s face. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up the flint and striker, brown eyes widening when she realizes what they are. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The big brown eyes gazed up at him, and the spotted body, still sprawled obediently on the floor, quivered with affection. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Their host gave a nasty smile, showing a mouthful of broken brown teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were all the colors you could think of, black, white and brown, but the fire made everyone look like they were different shades of orange. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Deborah had big, soulful brown eyes that could light the whole world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There were various other wooden chairs and rockers for the rest of the family to sit in, but only Aunt Rose sat in that brown leather wing chair. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Heading to the kitchen, I poke my head into my bedroom and spy Keav shoving clothes into a brown plastic bag. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arturo asked, his dark brown eyes penetrating as he looked at me for answers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

An ugly brown carpet lay on the floor, and on it stood a large armchair covered in itchy-looking red material, and several smaller chairs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, Haupt took some money out of his money belt and placed $2,500 in a brown envelope. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He’s got a neatly trimmed brown beard, which I think he hopes makes him look older, but it doesn’t hide his baby face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was young, maybe four years old, and she had white-blond hair, and even in the poor light of the lamp, Edward could see that her eyes were the same gold-flecked brown as Bryce’s. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She had a square jaw and square shoulders, and brown hair cut in a short, squarish way. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tablecloth was bordered with yellow and brown pineapples. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She has the top floor of her family’s mansion, which is a renovated brown- stone in Brooklyn. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A look of revulsion crossed Mr. Derby’s face as he stared at the perfect brown features of the infant. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has pigeon-soft brown eyes and feathery brown hair down to the hollow of her neck. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was clean-shaven and kept his brown hair cut short. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bottoms were pink and near the left heel there was a tiny brown mole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen so much brown before—not a patch of grass anywhere. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Renly was one-and-twenty, the girl no older than Robb, very pretty, with a doe's soft eyes and a mane of curling brown hair that fell about her shoulders in lazy ringlets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mom packs this food in brown bags for my dad to take to work for lunch. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the top chair was a brown paper bag. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Like I’d figured, she snorted and wheeled, so fast that she was just a brown blur against my gunsights. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hat sported antlers hung with bells and long brown flaps of squirrel fur that hung down over his ears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Not a single white person was around, even though some of the men and women had the lightest of brown skin tones. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My pretend mother opened her pocketbook and took out a little brown envelope. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As the sun climbs in the sky, we find ourselves among wide brown pastures. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the brown landscape, like a dark stain, were three black old-fashioned cars and twelve army trucks strung out behind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull flicked her head round and looked carefully at the small girl with dark hair and deep brown eyes sitting in the second row. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tail of his brown robe flared behind him. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horses cropped dead brown grass and weeds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But finally, finally, finally the school clock clicked to noon, and we crammed our sandwiches down our throats, and then Danny Hupfer stood up and approached the brown, light, perfect cream puffs sort of reverently. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She yawns, taking her bun out, her long brown hair falling gently down, over her shoulders. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It's brown and straight, and it's cut on an angle so it grazes the jawline on both sides of her face. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled off a handful of gold and brown leaves and handed them to Stella with a flourish. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He cut off a length—about three-quarters of a yard—wound it into a sort of garland, and wrapped it up first in white and then in brown paper. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs Jenkins took one look at the fat little brown mouse who was still chewing a bit of banana and she let out a shriek that rattled the crystals on the chandelier. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The kids giggled, and a tall boy with reddish- brown hair and glasses said, “Mrs. Granger has kept Nick after school so much that everyone thinks she wants to adopt him.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the two women he’d encountered before, most wore plain brown tunics, and some had even accentuated their attire with brightly colored leaves woven into their kinky white hair. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had opened the first one, a brown leather notebook with a metal clasp, in July 1837. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fresh porgies, dipped in egg, a little cornmeal and flour, and fried in a big pot of hot grease till they were golden brown and crispy on the edges. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When she was awake, she put in the time lying quietly and trying to focus her berry brown eyes on her infinitesimal fist. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pictures of people’s living conditions or of some bodily harm that they suffered because they got jumped just for being brown in this country. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She was a pretty little thing: her blond hair hung in loose curls, and her brown eyes were flecked with green. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Close above me are her bewildering eyes, the soft brown of her skin and her red lips. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were these dark brown loafers, sort of like this pair I have, and they went swell with that suit my mother bought her in Canada. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She wiped her fingers on her thigh, leaving a brown smear. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She served him a plate of pork chops, butter-drenched green beans with bacon, and mashed potatoes with brown gravy, and she got out the piece of lemon cake she’d tucked up in the cupboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A small brown bottle zoomed out of the bag; he caught it and hastened back to Hermione and Ron, whose eyes were now half-closed, strips of white eyeball all that were visible between his lids. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple bobs up and down and the brown liquid lowers by almost an inch. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A plain, brown linoleum, tacked to the floor, took its place, and extended down a corridor lined with shut white doors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The wind raised up brown clouds of dirt from the perimeter road and mixed them with the black clouds of the muck fire. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nan reached over and plopped a handful of mini-marshmallows and a heaping spoon of brown sugar in my bowl when his back was turned, but I still didn’t eat a bite. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

While one writes something on small brown pads of paper with his black pen, the other points at our heads and counts as we climb onto the truck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The center of the mortar bowl was stained a golden brown from all the spices that had been crushed in there. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ms. Burns looked at them, her face both cloudy and sunny, her skin absent of her normal brown. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The baby nursed peacefully at her mother’s breast, her cocoa brown skin a sharp contrast to Mrs. Derby’s pinkness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the sofa in the living room, looking up at me bashfully, is a little brown girl, pretty in pink, very much at home. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was reddish brown, straight, stiff and slick- looking. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brown leather boots were long and somewhat pointy at the tips. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a short shimmery brown dress and is way taller than me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I changed to a brown sports shirt, which made my skin appear lighter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw that it was true there was not beauty of any kind in her face—a brown, common, patient face. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And less black and brown people too, though I wonder if they’ve been boxed in somewhere else, like in Brooklyn. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The first thing he noticed was that the gull’s head was molting and turning white, though a dark brown patch remained behind each eye. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was an indiscriminate shade of brown that had been made and remade, it appeared, as a nest for birds. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her best picture was done in water colors, on brown paper. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Pa’s blue eyes shone down at her, and he said, “Well, Laura, my hair is brown.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in some dark gully in a back corner of a village, her beloved Kaveh lay slaughtered, blood flowing from his neck for stray dogs to lick at, until it turned brown. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ellen stopped her work and stood for a moment without speaking, her rough brown hands resting on the handle of the hoe. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held it in his little hands proudly, like he’d discovered a big brown diamond. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her spirits were greatly improved by the fact that all the hair had gone from her face and her eyes were turning slowly back to brown. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The floor is dark brown tile, and each shower stall has wooden walls and a plastic curtain separating it from the central aisle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Teenie, making crust for a pie, was shuttling back and forth, carefully watching over Polly, who was peeling apples, and Amari, who was stirring a mixture of apple juice and brown sugar over the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The once-perfect grass was brown and the parts that weren’t buried under piles of rotting leaves were about six inches long. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She stepped cautiously over the broken brick paving in her brown felt moccasins. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face glows a rich golden brown against her colorful beads and white head scarf. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes are a dark secret, black or brown or blue—I can’t tell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Angela chose a pale pink dress that draped around her tall frame nicely and brought out honey tints in her light brown hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only the brown of our faces gave away the fact that we were something other than the usual people who would hear such a recruiting speech. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We live on the corner in a little brown house that’s about five blocks from the train station and forty-five minutes from the big city. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was light brown, and it enclosed the area of the bed completely so that not even the metal legs of the bed could be seen. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Laura grabbed the biggest chip, and Mary said: “I don’t care. Aunt Lotty likes my hair best, anyway. Golden hair is lots prettier than brown.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wears ragged brown clothing and skin sags from his jaw. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

From the brown chair Miss Ellis was staring at her with a very nonprofessional glare. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She was holding up a little brown pencil. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the trees waving in the distance, and the gorgeous brown Alabama soil that seemed to be rising to meet me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Shirley was young and pretty and she’d taught my sister, Lily, how to put a smudged brown line in the crease above her eyes and white shadow just beneath her brow. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was a unit in a brown brick building divided into four homes, with a chain-link fence, several feet of grass out front, and three steps leading up to a small cement stoop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was in his seventies and was wearing an old brown suit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hargis always remembered that picture and the softness of those brown eyes as Mike apparently thought he would be shot the second the shutter button clicked. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dreaded brown tint suffused the glaze of every piece; some of them were marred with brown spots as well. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I handed her the loaf of brown barley bread wrapped in a piece of cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The dominant color was brown: brown wooden buildings, brown sandy streets, as if it were a faded photograph. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His warm brown hand wrapped around her wrist. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I look through the tinted windows at the grimy houses and the brown snow that pass us by. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looked around and saw two small brown mice on the carpet. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When she flung the dirty water out the kitchen door, she watched the brown liquid soak into the ground where it left a stain on what remained of the snow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her head down, looking at her phone, and her long brown hair slid forward, hiding her face. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Henry awoke to a face full of brown river water. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It gushed into the creeks, which swelled up and turned a foaming light brown, like a chocolate milk shake. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was funny, sassy, and head-turningly pretty, with creamy brown skin, long straight hair, and a perky, pierced nose. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The more he talked, the thicker they got until the corners of his mouth looked as though they was being helt together by thick, sticky, brown spiderwebs. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

What kept Minli from becoming dull and brown like the rest of the village were the stories her father told her every night at dinner. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Its grass was ragged and brown, and the chalked yard lines had faded to a pale yellow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

No brown rings appear when I slam my door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But after ten minutes of sparking, we see a strange brown pigment slowly streaking the sides of the vessel. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meat was brown and the vegetables had once been green. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Melissa was the name she called herself in the mirror when no one was watching and she could brush her flat reddish- brown hair to the front of her head, as if she had bangs. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Wise Masters had established their slave pens and auction block just south of the Skahazadhan, where the wide brown river flowed into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The other dogs—the black, the brown with the lopped-off tail, the small whitish one, and the droopy orange runt—merely looked alert and regarded her with neutral interest. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Daddy sat in the brown leather chair, reading his newspaper and working his crossword puzzles. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He concentrates on strong lines without shading, using a combination of pencil, pen, brown and black ink, and a reed pen that he made himself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Chiseled jaw, high cheekbones, a mop of wavy black hair, and a deep brow that only magnified his light brown eyes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Koffi hadn’t worked with him in the Night Zoo long, but she recognized his bare face, mahogany brown like her own, framed by tight black curls. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dry leaves flew in a whirlwind beneath churning hooves, as the stallion sped to the brown crest of a hill. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had soft brown hair and small frightened eyes and a strained smile on his tight thin lips. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as he stares at me, it’s like looking into my own wide, dark brown eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I made white bread, brown bread, corn bread, and spoon bread. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her brown feet were bare, her outgrown boots still slung over her shoulder. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the wedding, on a brown upright piano in the church, she’d put a big picture of her dad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What’s left of any snow has melted into brown slush and runs in dirty ridges alongside the street gutters. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had dark hair, beautiful brown eyes, ruddy cheeks and a nicely pointed nose. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She held up a framed photo of two grinning boys with dark brown skin and big afros. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I hated the way she folded the wax paper from her lunch; she did not wad her brown paper bag and her school papers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a world of entwined branches, soft colors in shades of brown and green and yellow. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The monstrous wave was made of a thick brown syrup: molasses. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

His first instinct was to call it a snake, a name largely attributed to its thick serpentine body and dark brown scales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

More to the point at the moment is the state of my clothing, most of which is now residing in the other brown paper bag, the one that serves as a hamper. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that was there, in the lids of his brown eyes, his smooth skin, his lower lip pushed out. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He looked deep into my soul with those liquid brown eyes of his. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Each one was bent at the knee and ended in a bare brown human foot. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He pointed at my hands as he dragged me out toward Old Familiar, and I watched with growing horror as their dark brown color slowly turned transparent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She was a lot taller than I was, with dark brown hair and big dark brown eyes. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The watch part might have been waterproof, but the plain brown leather band didn’t care for soap and hot water. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually Ama and her husband bought the little brown house, and the one right next to it, and painted them blue and green. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I brought his T-shirt, new, only two weeks ago, but already it has brown patches like stains from cashew juice, which never come off. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The brown one was oozing a strange blue liquid. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss McDaniels stops clipping a few browned flowers when I come in. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The preacher stands there, his rheumy brown eyes locked on Katherine's bosom and a smile that borders on indecent on his thin, pink lips. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

With their arms entwined about each other, the black mother and the brown daughter gazed open-mouthed at the trunk in the corner. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be done in a minute,” he said, and Moss was lost in the water droplets, the way his brown skin gleamed under the hallway lamp, the ease with which his muscles flexed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The person staring back at me isn’t some crusty old master of the temple, but a boy with light brown skin and black hair. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Phronsie whispered that it was good if you put a whole lot of brown sugar on it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Under the bones lurked a ruined and wretched creature with cracked brown teeth and a yellow tinge to the whites of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They gathered all their garbage into the brown grocery bag. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beady silver eyes to handsome, intelligent brown eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Silas closed the lid of the brown leather trunk, and began to do up the straps and the buckles. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He got a patchwork piece of toast, splotches of white, splotches of black and various shades of brown. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Open next to foe brown, light, perfect cream puffs so that they wouldn’t get soggy! The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The next field along from our sports field was burnt flapjack brown. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It also smelled musty, like old papers, old books, old newspapers with pale brown edges and little bugs crawling everywhere. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“That gives me some place to start,” old Betonie said, lighting up the little brown cigarette he had rolled. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He fiddles with his brown hair and slows, as if he wants to say something. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And after Finn had eaten more honey clusters than was lawful in the state of Illinois, Mel packed an extra tin for Sean, along with a large jar of honey, in a brown shopping bag. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was as if they'd discovered black and white, then maybe brown, but never thought to look for further colours. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The views are dreary: a bare brown hill, a chain-link fence, searchlights stacked on a pole. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jem had been voted Most Handsome in the senior class, a reasonable assessment: he had his mother’s calflike brown eyes, the heavy Finch eyebrows, and even features. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The brown earth turned dark and the trees glistened. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are turning the church’s beautiful green lawn, where kids play after catechism classes, into a muddy brown lot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It rained every day, and we found ourselves working up to our necks in sticky brown mud. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The leather is cracked and flaking, the thick shoulder strap leaves a brown mark on my blouse where the leather stain is rubbing off. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He is trying to make the darker colors seem light, but he can't help but paint in somber shades of brown and grey. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Military food that comes in slick, brown plastic bags. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were both tall and skinny, with mops of brown hair that hung in their eyes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dead ravens sat on bare brown branches, wings crusted with ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I realized that what people say about living in the ghetto and having brown skin doesn’t have to apply to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of Converse or Vans, he had on dark brown hiking boots. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

So she was surprised at the outburst that followed, from a man wearing a brown safari suit and clutching a book: Odenigbo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He kept his brown, wide eyes on Singer’s face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

With her brown curls strewn wildly about her face, instead of tightly up in a bun the way they’d been all week, Mrs. Asher somehow looked a decade older. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The white spots scattered over its brown back mimicked the dappled light so that one second a fawn lay there, and the next second there was nothing but undergrowth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Reds, browns, yellows...they give the grounds a warm, cozy look. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

How come schools with black and brown kids are mostly poor? Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now muddy boulders clogged the river, and the pool was a dull brown ring. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She glanced again at the scratches oh the young man’s smooth brown arm, and quailed for a moment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Eating lunch. I saw them opening brown bags.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our brown hands entwine beneath moonshine, clasping all the love we'll ever need— Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy held a bundle wrapped in brown paper. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They found Khal Drogo seated before a square window- less temple with thick mud walls and a bulbous dome like some immense brown onion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was smiling, showing the world his brown teeth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

This one looks great with your brown eyes This one makes you look nice and muscular.... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs were crossed, and a brown leather sandal dangled off her big toe. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The wind rose then, taking the brown leaves in a whirl from the trees, and smoke wafted from the chimneys of cottages as fires were fed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a child these colors in the ring of children on the front of the Sunday school missionary paper, yellow children, brown children, all in different costumes, dancing around Jesus. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something in brown paper, the kind you wrap fish in, sitting on the dining-room table. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

From where they stood, he could see most of the East Side, a patchwork of sheet-metal roofs of different shades of rusted brown, silver, and black. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And I had to wear the stupidest uniform on the planet—a brown 100% polyester apron-style wraparound skirt thing with a white blouse underneath. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Girls with short hair and long hair; blond, brown, black, and red hair. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bending over the keyboard, a long strand of brown hair keeps falling down into her eyes, and she keeps trying to hook it behind her left ear. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s Mrs. Kluckowski, short and barrel-chested, wearing a brown blouse and a plaid skirt that reaches almost down to her puffy ankles. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I became a ‘coconut ’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s brown eyes swooped over his body, searching out injuries like an owl hunting in the night. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

This was a tall man of between forty and fifty, lean of figure, brown of skin, with hair slightly grizzled round the temples. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with wrinkled brown skin and a long white beard blocks the path to the elevator. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She marked the way the tight boards were chafing the hard brown wrists. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a photograph of her on the next page, her mouth in a firm line, wisps of brown hair hanging around her face. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But she pulled on her mousy brown wig anyway. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The water is a deep green outlined by dark brown patches of land. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Her skin, usually the smooth brown of groundnut paste, looked like the liquid had been sucked out of it, ashen, like the color of cracked harmattan soil. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Skeeter pull a big brown box out the backseat, then carries it up to the church door, like she dropping off old clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s always startling to see Jack’s big brown eyes in his mother’s wide, soft- featured face. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The kimono was open slightly at the neck and he could see the light brown color of her skin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the King’s Coffee House a suckling pig was so crisp and brown it was fairly bursting. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brown eyes focus on mine for a second, and it feels like a warning. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

With his big money, Bob bought a rusty old car that looked as if it had been painted with brown house paint and invited Roza, Karolina, and Honorata for a ride. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, it is hard to care much about set theory when there are twelve trays of brown, light, perfect cream puffs cooling deliciously on a shelf back in your own classroom. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The louvers, too, had been slipped off and the windows were gaping holes and the dry harmattan winds had blown in so much dust that the walls were now an even brown. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even though it was winter, Reggie wore gym shorts and a ratty, brown, hooded sweatshirt. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“They use only a little grease, and after the chicken pieces brown, they put water in the pan and let it steam.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He was downcast and burdened with self-approach when he stepped without noise from the colonel’s office on his rubber- soled and rubber-heeled brown shoes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Over the lintel was affixed the ancient dragon’s skull, its browning sockets gazing down the corridor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Knew he was the kind of kid who could lose the brown off his skin if he closed his eyes for too long. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Day sat beside me, brown plastic sunglasses shading his constantly tearing eyes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And also there are no yellow things or brown things in a spacecraft, so that would be OK, too. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She loosened the string and unfolded the brown paper from a small radio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, again without thought, he began to row slowly, rowing through the watchful ocean until the blue land changed to gray and then brown and green. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They were a party of three on horseback--Tom and a man named Sloane and a pretty woman in a brown riding habit who had been there previously. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Harpo so black he think she bright, but she ain’t that bright Clear medium brown skin, gleam on it like on good furniture. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he also courted Leanne for another, more strategic reason—her smooth, light brown skin. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His tongue was hanging out from twixt long yellow and brown teeth that were ’bout the size of bear claws. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And with that, the brown spider fell over dead. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was fall, and the grass was getting duller, and the trees were gold and that reddish brown that looks like the color of old bricks. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her aunt had said brown; the beauticians said black but Violet had never seen a light-skinned person with coal-black eyes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young girl holding a sad brown sock doll preceded a young man, maybe eighteen years old, and a man and a woman, each carrying a child. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It’s like we’re all the color of dust and you are gold, and rich brown, in red and purple with dark-lined eyes and shiny red lips. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She has these warm brown eyes that make you believe she really cares. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He is a tall brown man with a watch on his wrist that says he could buy all of the art at this auction and not miss a dime. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His white button-down—bright against his dark brown skin—wrinkles as he moves. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the mirror my skin glows a warm brown and my eyes glitter. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the brown color of his eyes again. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We turn off into the grove of brown winter trees, brushing branches out of our faces. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She lifted his head again, cradling it gently as the blood from his shattered knee flowed between the patio stones, turning the sand in the cracks to red mortar, drying to brown. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Peering through the window, I could see three chickens I didn’t know in the shed, brown with white-and-black speckles, and then I held my breath. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a handful of brown muck and slung it at him, hitting him squarely in the nose. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Day after day the skies quilted over and the houses of Phippsburg shivered and croodled together and the rain spilled down onto leaves that hung brown and heavy with the wet. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The room contained a twin bed under a sloping ceiling, a brown oval rug, a basin with an exposed pipe, and a chest of drawers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His eyes opened unseeing and the whites showed bloodshot as the brown irises rolled one way and the other. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had nice hair—frizzy and golden brown like curls of cinnamon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Only when I saw the spray of brown blood did I understand I’d hit him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed my nose against the glass and cupped my hands around my eyes to stop reflections, and saw a bucket smeared with a dry brown crust. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair was shorter and had some kind of blond highlights that, against the brown and with the black eyeliner she was wearing, made her look harder...but in a good way. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Adrian set up a round of shots, sloshing a dark brown liquid into the glasses, spilling some over the sides. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The grass beneath him was brown and dry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The large raptor had tiny brown speckles on its head and trunk. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On his head was a soiled brown Stetson hat, and he wore high-heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fallen leaves lay about the wide white trunk in drifts of red and brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His hair was cropped short, his skin a deep golden brown, and he had that sort of lean muscle that came easy to some people through the gift of genetics. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Followed by three detective emojis, two white boys and a brown girl. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I was poised to run, but before the bartender could even get out from behind the bar Emma had upended the drink he’d poured her, spilling brown liquor everywhere. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Inside, a girl with light brown skin and a green jumpsuit is replacing the paper that covers the exam table. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He carries a brown paper bag in his hands. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The tops of the striped tents are visible through the trees some distance away, a bright punch of white against grey sky and brown trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When she drew back the hood of her brown cloak, he saw the bruise where the king had struck her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Often, if the day was warm and sun-kindled, they stopped along the way and sat by the river, a snaky, slow-moving, brown piece of the Arkansas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes are ragged but well kept, though his pants are too short and may have once been blue or brown or green but have faded too much to be certain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His garb was plain as well: old boots, brown breeches and blue tunic, a woolen mantle of undyed wool, fastened with a wooden clasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was afraid of being lost, so he repeated trail marks to himself: this is my mouth tasting the salt of her brown breasts; this is my voice calling out to her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had smooth brown skin that matched his powerful bassoon-like voice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Both were clad in boiled leather and mottled cloaks of brown and green and black, with branches, leaves, and brush sewn about their heads and shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Styx pointed to the brown paper sack in my hand. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Sausage” He pulled out a handful of dark brown sausage links. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The dried brown leaves crackled beneath her feet and gave off a delicious smoky fragrance. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A teenager adjusts her sunglasses; her colorful, beaded bracelets slide down her brown forearm. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were brown- colored and shaped like men, and icing had been used to make eyes, noses, and button coats. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would crouch at the foot of the slope and look up—a distance of twenty- five feet or more—at the secret and fantastic anatomies of black, brown, yellow, and ivory men and women. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the breeze died too and there was no noise save the drip and trickle of water that ran out of clefts and spilled down, leaf by leaf, to the brown earth of the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The brown ink came away in flakes when Jon brushed it with his thumb. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m as brown as that ice cream he made me drop. You can see it, on the ground, over there.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It’s tiny and brown and in a bad position, and Jason begins to freak out. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I turn to him, slowly, and his eyes are wide and brown and totally open. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Yoren rode back angry, his horse covered in brown slime up to * the knees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

People of goodwill have been unwilling to see black and brown men, in their humanness, as entitled to the same care, compassion, and concern that would be extended to one’s friends, neighbors, or loved ones. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When she was riding, sometimes she would suddenly glimpse dark brown skin, mottled like lichen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of sandwich that stuck in his curly brown hair, and she knew I couldn’t do anything back to her because I was already on probation. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a house finch; it’s brown and yellow like they are, and female, I think. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He showered, groped around in the dark for his brown pants, a beige shirt, and his new Old Navy baseball cap. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine he did not think I was a beggar, but only an eccentric sort of lady, who had taken a fancy to his brown loaf. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not looking too blooming in her new brown kid shoes with two buttons—the idea! Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

His brown robe is rough against my cheek and there’s a smell of soap. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She’s got a few gray streaks mixed in with her long brown hair, but I never think of her as old. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Right now the Mendozas are visiting. Emilia’s thirteen too, very pretty with black hair and brown eyes.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can’t ever be more anyplace, it turns out, as long as I wear this brown skin. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had pieced together old blankets, one a faded red, one brown. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It has the nutritional value of a brown paper bag, with the added bonus of trace amounts of cyanide. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise his dress was plain: studded leather jerkin over quilted doublet, worn boots, breeches of brown roughspun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Arranged on the seat beside her is a chocolate brown, shearling-lined suede coat, which is what had caused the person in front of Gogol to move on. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s damp fur down and warm on top,” he remarked, poking a brown hand deep into the soil. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames flickered in his one brown eye, and one green. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was brown and white, a sober and respectable room that looked to Shadow as if it had last been decorated in 1920. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I peeped her bare shoulders on the slick—the skin so brown and soft-looking. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A strand of her stringy brown hair was smoldering, but she didn’t seem to notice. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But no day came, only a dead brown twilight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The driveway was empty, two brown tire tracks streaking through the white gravel. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She swished the paintbrush around, watching the brown sludge swirl, revealing wisps of green. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

With brown mud covering our faces, hair, and clothes, we laugh and roll in the sludge like pigs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a painting, the ridges of brown earth, the tepees of dark green tomato plants with their bright red fruits, the bent figures of the pickers and the blue sky overhead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not purple after all but dark brown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I restore her skin color, add more freckles to her nose and cheeks, and deepen the brown of her eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were mysterious and kind and her skin dark brown with a glow, darker than toast and looking a little like it had been buttered. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was driving and smoking with one hand and holding a brown bottle of beer with the other. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clarisse’s stringy brown hair was tied back with a camouflage bandanna. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hodor blinked at him with guileless brown eyes, eyes innocent of understanding. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She has dark brown hair pulled back and twisted into a mess of a ponytail. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her own straight black hair is gathered in a single long braid, and her nimble brown fingers are weaving Ma’s white hair into tidy cornrows. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Devon’s hair is brown and people say his eyes are big and beautiful and brown but really there’s a lot of black and white in his eyes. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were varied in color, flecked with amber, gray, and a soft brown. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It's sad every fall, seeing it turn brown. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tree had a large trunk painted in swirling shades of brown. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Tis a cold & brown day & I can little countenance that I shall be alone this Night. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Si,” the older girl agreed readily, tearing at her long brown hair with both hands. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But as I tie my shoes for school, my mind gets pulled away again: my brown shoelaces remind me of those leather strings wrapping the little brown book tight. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“School,” I say, trying to sound natural, trying to sound like my sudden interest in the old-school indie rock is what all the brown girls are doing these days. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As she moved forward into the room, Mrs. Tonks’s resemblance to her sister Bellatrix became much less pronounced: Her hair was a light, soft brown and her eyes were wider and kinder. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her long, curly brown hair hid most of her face, but it didn’t matter; I knew it was her. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Stepping carefully over the tufts of dusty brown hair, he sat down at my desk. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a glare, which is a little blinding wherever he is, but I can still make out his light brown face. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

To the boy, the sounds were alarm bells ringing off the bricks of the school building, making his stomach ache as he forced down his lunch of a browned biscuit smeared with lard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I always say,” she said, her brown eyes wide. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“How about that one,” Armpit said, indicating a brown owl with huge eyes. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Next we opened gifts, and I received a tiny brown bag of licorice from the three youngest boys, who had pooled their resources to buy it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At the door, now, is a woman in a purple satin dress with cascading brown hair, elegantly nonchalant, waving at the porter with a bejeweled hand as she glides into the foyer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Fiona gave the girls two simple dresses, one of blue calico and the other of brown flannel. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the skin sags over Javier’s brown irises, milky with age. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that I could smell the cabbage and onion from the brown paper bag, I lost that feeling of being calm and brave like Papa. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in his mid-thirties, with perfectly worn denim jeans, a blue plaid shirt, and shaggy light brown hair. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her face, as young and brown and pretty as any Mack had ever seen, that face looking into his touched him again with its soft boldness and the eyes that searched his so intently. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the faded brown recliner, wrapped in her shawl. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I had a large loaf of brown barley bread and a wedge of hard white Dalonir cheese. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wore a faded Hawaiian shirt and nothing for pants except thick brown goat fur. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey carefully buttered a slice of brown bread and put a little strawberry jam on it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I can remember, Ty'ree had sat with Mama at the table, the dim light from the floor lamp in the corner turning them both a soft golden brown. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Keeping his head upright, he reached carefully into the display case and felt around until his hand found the dark brown Hershey’s bars. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A strand of taut brown rope extended up from the water and disappeared into the fog. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Yet there he was, sitting in the Trail Room’s circular corner booth, his lively brown eyes, his square-jawed, genial good looks unchanged by death. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her wide brown eyes meet mine, I nod. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Black cars bounced down the unpaved street, splashing through muddy potholes, sending up jets of brown water, but the drivers paid Joe little heed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Which do you like best, Aunt Lotty,” Mary asked, “brown curls, or golden curls?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now it’s Friday night, and I’m on my second plate of hash browns, and Martin won’t stop asking Abby questions. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

His dark curly hair was cut into a precise top fade, prominent against his brown skin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Just as they had hoped, the back was covered with brown kraft paper. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But then we never did see, although Joon and I asked every day and even packed our clothes in brown paper grocery bags in case we had to move fast. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The artist was discovered at the bottom of the yard drawing the nursemaid Milagros's boy with a brown and a gold and a purple crayon. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He loves Mom when she rattles The bag of cat food, The brown nuggets Raining into his bowl. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her brown shift, shook some leaves off of it, and pulled it down over her head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Huge chunks of brown rubble lay forlorn across the loose rocky ground. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He wore traditional cotton clothes with intricate designs on the collar made of yellow and brown thread, zigzagged vertically across his chest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was nicely browned all over, and how good it smelled! Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squint against the sun and peer between the guards to see David grinning madly and waving, sweat gleaming across his brown skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But now I remembered about how it used to be, sitting on the edge of the rice field as she waded through the brown, clouded water. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yarrow,” she said and set some pale yellow next to the deep brown. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt excited, but a little panicked, too, as I sped down the creek, squinting into the icy spray and scanning the thick tangle of brown brush and newly budding trees along the narrow shoreline. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He looked into the liquid brown, and saw himself. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were thick and awkward as she struggled to lace up her bodice and knot a drab brown cloak about her neck. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He bought himself a brand-new single-breasted suit of brown worsted for this occasion, with a matching brown vest and a brown and yellow- flowered silk tie. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They brought the soapstones in to hotten by the mill’s coal stove and loaded up the sled with bolts of cloth wrapped in brown paper. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She had lustrous black hair and warm brown eyes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hester was no beauty; she was about as plain and scrawny as a hare could be; but her eyes were marvelously colored, gold-hazel flecked with rays of deepest peat brown and forest green. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was the brown of sodden straw, and it stuck out at awkward, seventeen-year-old angles, wet and comb it howsoever much he tried. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the grass had gone brown, long ago, but he was looking at the roots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case these people—Roosevelt called them the Paituna culture, after a nearby village—had ceramic bowls, red- to gray- brown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was tall and had big brown eyes that were kind and inviting. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sayle could only watch in disbelief as Alex pocketed the green, the brown, the blue, and the pink in that order and then, down the full length of the table, the black. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As April turns into May and May into June, the leaves shrivel, the trees turn brown, and the river streams dry up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma had calico for a dress, too; it was brown, with a big, feathery white pattern all over it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand trembled, and worry welled in his brown eyes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Machine gun fire coming from the roof of the dirt brown warehouse across the alley. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In her white lacy bra and light blue underwear, she looked like a Hausa goat: brown, long and lean. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then an ancient shepherd in a dusty brown cloak would pass Sitti's house up in the village, tapping a wooden cane against the stones. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wore pajamas, a rough brown sweater buttoned crooked, and a big apron, not a work apron but a bib. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosey returned to the bed, her hands filled with rolls of gauze and a brown plastic bottle. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Now from the fire his fat blood pudding came, deposited before him by Antinoos—then, to boot, two brown loaves from the basket, and some wine in a fine cup of gold. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brown eyes were as serious as Sunday. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Through three high windows he saw the moorland, bare and brown, snow-patched here and there, in the mild sunlight of winter. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of coquitos, weeds that had a small brown nut at the end of their roots. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He especially loved the warm brown of Mrs. Beale’s thumb, as it appeared from under the creamy white icing that she allowed him to lick away when she was frosting his favorite cake. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there eating the piece of brown toast while she went into the bathroom and flushed the handful of egg, which could not be salvaged, down the toilet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike “The Blue Danube” of Strauss’s waltz, this deep water was mud brown. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman with a round, sensible face and calm brown eyes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four fingers of her slim brown hand grab four fingers of his surprisingly large pale hand. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

His face was wide and brown, and the skin was smooth and soft like an old woman’s. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

You can come with all the Michelin stars in the world, just give me baloney and brown bread and margarine and I’m in heaven. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Desdemona packed his Greek lunch of feta, olives, and bread in a new American container: a brown paper bag. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I got to the meeting room, there were already a bunch of kids inside, and they all looked like they knew each other, and almost none of them were brown. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He has curly brown hair pulled back into a ponytail. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She had long brown hair, which she usually wore pulled back in a straight ponytail, hazel eyes, and a calm way of talking. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It came in brown bottles, like the beer Joao had given Grandmother long ago. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looked at me with her big brown eyes, the inside of my chest felt like it was made of warm, gooey burnt marshmallows from campfire s’mores. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey’s hoof. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A fresh glass was sweating all over the bedside table—something with ice and brown liquid. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The pain in me swells, and when I blink, I’m sinking in water, blue and clear, turning gray and brown the deeper I go, bubbles rising and tickling my skin like the fluttering of wings. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Her complexion was the same golden brown as mine. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Both he and my ma have skin as brown as honey. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walked into John F. Kennedy International Airport with my sweater and oversize brown goose-down jacket, and I walked out into the Cape Town heat with just a T-shirt, shorts, and sunglasses shading my eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A gleam lit Master Hyrrokkin’s faded brown eyes, but when he adjusted his spectacles and looked at the page, the gleam winked out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If I’m lucky, Mama Ya-Ya will make grits or hash browns, too. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Next to him stood a younger girl, about my age, with a sharp jaw and straight brown hair. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When everyone is gone, she looks up and meets my gaze for hardly a second, then jerks her eyes to the brown curtains, pinned tight across the window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The blonde had French braids; the other had short brown pigtails. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A lot of teachers brought in brown, light, perfect cream puffs for their classes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Frieda came toward us, her brown stockings straining at the knees because she had tucked the toe under to hide a hole in the foot. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s also a new framed picture of Lorena’s dad riding a brown horse. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sohrab stayed under the canopy for a moment, then stepped back out into the rain, hands stuffed in the pockets of his raincoat, his hair—now brown and straight like Hassan’s—plastered against his scalp. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The uniform was an ugly mustard shirt with a chocolate-colored skirt and brown shoes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"It's too much," Jeanne says, pushing the last of her brown stew around with a spoon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His brown leather sandals looked new and he carried a staff with carvings of birds, canoes, all sorts of animals, and a lion’s head on the handie. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She gently pushes my head down so that I am looking at the scarf and drags the brown plastic comb with its micro teeth through my hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to cry with frustration until Mama handed me a red box and popped a tiny, wrinkled brown fruit into my mouth. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The other is a tiny, delicate girl, her skin the dappled brown of a doe, her hair a cloud of white around her head, and a miniature pair of blue-gray butterfly wings on her back. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The dingy brown door of house number 804 had no doorbell. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The brown expanse seemed to darken with life, as if an inner agitation played under his thin skin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabiya’s big brown eyes shine as she flips open my notebook and starts to read. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It is hard, so hard, but she sees Dr. Mann in her brown leather chair, urging, and so she takes this kindness, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So complete was the disaster that many of today’s big American mammals, such as caribou, moose, and brown bear, are immigrants from Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The light softens and turns the brown land golden. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Doon saw a curl of brown hair and two wide frightened eyes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded me of my mother, as she had fair skin, freckles, and long brown hair. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“My name is Winky, sir — and you, sir —” Her dark brown eyes widened to the size of side plates as they rested upon Harry’s scar. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of Pippi’s white freckled face, the tattoo girl’s face was brown and round with thick lips and a wide nose. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Chester was asleep on his brown velvet chair, shedding in his sleep, still worn out from the previous night’s activities. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, tell me bout the brown wrapping. And the present.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Omakayas and Angeline admired the intricate way that the snow trimmed the dried reeds of cattails and the brown furry heads were capped with tiny white mounds that made them look... The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I recognize Elsie’s brown curls and white researcher coat in the group and take the spot next to her. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Gilly led the way into the living room and backed up to the couch, sticking a hand out toward the brown chair. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Fist in the air, brown hair mussed from the wind. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And the brown paper crackled behind his back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I think about the shoes of my childhood, the brown Oxfords scuffed at the toes, half-soled, new-heeled, the falling-apart grubby white running shoes, the brown sandals with two buckles that you wore with socks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was a tangle of brown and red and gold, autumn colors, with vines and twigs and withered flowers woven through it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With his smooth pink cheeks, soft hands, and brown curls, he looked more girlish than most girls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Mommy left for work, we dipped white bread in syrup for lunch, or ate brown sugar raw out of the box, which was a good hunger killer. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before I forget—do you think you could sew up the hem on my brown skirt so I could wear it tomorrow? Oh, please?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And he’s not really talking, but he has very expressive brown eyes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Usually he was the least noticeable of boys: He was of average size, of an average pale complexion, his brown hair was of average length, and he wore average clothes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her light brown hair was always pulled back into a thin ponytail, and her pale blue eyes hardly ever connected with anyone else’s. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were green and her brown hair was pulled back into an untidy bun. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I make a bundle out of brown paper and my apron, then take the back way around the ghetto fence to the basement window, avoiding the guarded gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With his dark brown suit, he looked like he might be going to a business meeting. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The surface was swimming with dead bugs: fruit flies, worms, and a soggy brown caterpillar. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The photographer wrapped the pictures in brown paper and tied them with twine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Celia began drawing on her face with what looked like a chubby brown crayon. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When she saw the massive dome of craggy black and brown squares, the word turtle simply did not compute. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Within fifteen minutes the space heater had the place positively tropical, while in the toaster oven their five-pound Thanksgiving chicken was already beginning to brown. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc’s pointed brown beard was damp with perspiration as he worked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A well-worn green cloak, stained by salt and spray and faded from the sun, draped his thin shoulders, over brown doublet and breeches that matched brown eyes and hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As these became adult, only brown and brown, or black and brown, were permitted to many. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves went red and orange and then brown and fell so that they crunched when Father and I walked around on them out in the woodlot, where we were getting up the winter’s wood. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next came fried rice with pork, cooked a delicious brown, with a nutty, meaty flavor. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Qotho's lips skinned back from his crooked brown teeth in a terrible mockery of a smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She untied it, scooped up the brown muddy water, and drank. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juanita just sat back and looked at me smugly, a tiny bit of sisterly pride glinted in her brown eyes, but I didn’t acknowledge it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Seven used to wonder if her mother had gotten her name because of her red hair, which she always thought looked lovely with her deep brown skin and freckled face. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The fruitcake stayed perfect in the tin and the apple juice was fizzy but not totally undrinkable and the dried apricots were fine, as was the huge thick slab of chocolate wrapped in brown paper. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m soriy about that guitar,” I tell the reddish brown waves of hair on Jason’s head. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brown hair fell down over his forehead and his mustache was awry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His white skin is covered with small black, brown, and even red dots. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legal rules adopted by the Supreme Court guarantee that those who find themselves locked up and permanently locked out due to the drug war are overwhelmingly black and brown. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Brockway took a shovel and scooped up a load of brown crystals from a pile on the floor, pitching them skillfully into a receptacle on top of the machine. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pecola backed out of the room, staring at the pretty milk- brown lady in the pretty gold-and-green house who was talking to her through the cat’s fur. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie pulled at her own straggly brown plaits, grateful when attention shifted and the room was once again filled with chattering. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

After he finished both his cookies and the apple had turned brown on the white parts, Gerald looked for something to do. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here it slowly curled and browned, until nothing remained of the writing but the almost illegible signature at the bottom. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair, short and brown, stood on his scalp like needles in a pincushion. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was smiling while he patted a large brown dog, who was not even growling now. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Curling black hair and brown eyes and brown skin, the kind that’s “got a pinching of the Creole in it,” as my mom likes to say. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Such a rich array, compared to this small dresser — what brown was that? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our weekly lunch menu consists of brown beans, split-pea soup, potatoes with dumplings, potato kugel and, by the grace of God, turnip greens or rotten carrots, and then it’s back to brown beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Hogwash, our cowboy says, then spits a brown blob of tobacco. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The new harmattan winds blew dust everywhere, and Baby joined the thin children who ran around with their naked bellies wreathed in brown. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mam turns toward the dead ashes in the fire and sucks at the last bit of goodness in the Woodbine butt caught between the brown thumb and the burnt middle finger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, as I watched her, she seemed quite happy, her two brown braids bouncing jauntily in rhythm to her walk. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His light- brown eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then slowly, like the priest who sometimes visits this place, she moves one dry brown arm in a widening gesture to point out the dry brown landscape before us. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m like that theoretical brown dwarf star or gas giant planet lurking at the far edges of our solar system, way beyond Pluto. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Inside were half a dozen shriveled brown objects, looking more like dried-up kidneys than real stones. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She stood and looked around for a minute, and I held my breath in the shadow behind the barn, and was glad I was wearing a brown shirt and muddy jeans. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The gap-toothed smile faded from the giant's broad brown face, replaced by a confused scowl. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In color it was sandy brown, with dark legs and ears. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although his touch was light, the heaviness in his brown eyes weighed us both down. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her legs were long and brown and perfectly shaped. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He paints a pair of shoes, one sole up, one sole down, browns and tans, with light and white, though he is still using black. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He ate the biggest, brownest and best parts of the chicken at every Sunday meal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made of rough, brown paper twisted into a tube, one end further twisted tight like a candle wick. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were too far away for him to see the brands, and the light brown spots were difficult to make out on their light hides, but they moved like deer, on long thin legs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lamps in people’s houses cast a yellowish light, not cold and greenish but a buttery dim yellow with a tinge of brown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Palla was brown from head to heel, with moss in her hair, breathless from laughter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fear was staring in his round brown eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes were throbbing visibly like brown caterpillars. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The layer of cheese on the top was a toasty brown color, and more cheese bubbled underneath. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

We both had a slew of freckles, but her hair was more brown than red, and she didn’t have zits. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Behind him was a tall, dark brown bookcase full of thick binders and books. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The player is a boy with brown hair, who blinks at the sudden light on him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The men grunted and cursed below as their fancy breeches and overcoats turned brown with the mud and their lovely beaver hats went rolling off down the road. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Morning found Shadow back on the road, driving through a gently undulating brown landscape of winter grass and leafless trees. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Go put your other ones on. The brown ones,” my mother says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took my chin and leaned down to look into my face, so close that I could see the green in her brown eyes, as if they were little round gardens. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

All the buildings are identical—brown brick with dark windows—and they have numbers on their sides. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The spaniel has a skin disease—mange, I think—which makes almost all its hair fall out and leaves it covered with brown sores and scabs. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her brown eyes looked like they could cut right through you. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His quizzical blue eyes dwelt on her brown arms so deliberately that she closed hei fists to hide the calluses on her palms. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His wife, about the same age as he, was dressed in a simple brown cotton dress and a grey wool sweater worn at the elbows and buttoned in the front. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We trudged over a low rise, through a nearby field, to a little brown shed with a rectangular animal pen beyond it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they’d roll down their window, pull in something colorful, place crisp American bills into brown hands and then roll their window back up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A plain brown bottle with a plain brown label, both stylish and salutary. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We unbraid Grace’s hair, which falls down her back in coarse brown ripples, and wind the chains around her head like a crown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But before I came to the door of the first room I noticed that a lot of the flowers were droopy and brown at the edges. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

We sat in his study on stuffed brown leather chairs, surrounded by stacks of dusty, incomprehensible books with huge formulas inset artistically on the page like poems. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jinny, staring at the ragged brown fabric, knew she’d never be able to put things back the way they had been, but at last she had the three large cushions gripped awkwardly in her arms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was wearing jeans and a green T-shirt and her long brown hair was braided with river grass. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her skin was the same deep brown as the carved figures. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I looked at my brown arm and then back at his leg. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes were brown as well, the anger in them poorly hidden. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She would have seen cigar rollers stepping outside windowless factories for fresh air, their faces stained a permanent brown from tobacco dust. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In place of Miss Trixie, a brown paper bag filled with old pieces of material, and a ball of twine occupied the chair. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tufts of brown hair sprouted from each misshapen toe. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her sleeves are rolled to the elbow, showing her brown arms. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were soft and irisless and brown, and suddenly I saw Roskus watching me from behind all his whitefolks’ claptrap of uniforms and politics and Harvard manner, diffident, secret, inarticulate and sad. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

An unruly thatch of brown hair corkscrewed across his forehead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thin but not muscular, with wavy hair that always looks a bit messy, grays sprouting up here and there among the dark chestnut brown, and black-plastic-framed glasses that he prefers to contacts. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He is big as a man, with long brown hair and sandals, size extra-large. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom made dolls instead, gave me brown cloth dolls with big brown eyes. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Today her brown hair is pulled into what my momma would call a messy knot at the back of her head. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And how seen I felt with him, even whenever the brown of his eye was looking elsewhere, because I know he was looking at me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I look down and see that one of my socks has that brown garbage juice all over it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His name was Burden; he was a tall, brown, stooped man and when I was introduced to him I rose and shook his hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had wispy brown hair and green eyes, just like you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Slices of mango glistening on a pie, small brown cakes swelling with raisins. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She’d made it from Miss Lilian’s leftovers, thick and hearty, a treat for all of us, served with chunks of homemade brown bread and cheese. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The boundaries of Ngoma’s Tropic Region were stencilled in dark, wide brown and swept about a gorgeous interior labelled “jungle” and “desert” and “here be Elephants and all Manner of Strange Beasts.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The huge brown eunuch yanked him up one-handed and shook him like a mastiff with a rat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Kat kept winding a brown curl of hair around her finger. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cars go by, black most of them, some gray and brown. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a brown hand, all blocky from being made out of Lego bricks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted in tones of orange and brown and gold. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Bright shiny hair and dark brown skin like mahogany cocoa. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The box is a reddish brown, and he knows it’s made of rosewood because G’ma told him years ago when he first noticed it sitting up on her mantel. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The bottom foot dripped brown mud on them as they passed underneath, the barbed spikes mere inches above their heads. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Helen handed her a brown and green tile ashtray. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eating whole wheat bread and whole grains like brown rice became a symbol of the new movement. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was brown, and got its name from Queen Elizabeth, whose nickname was Bess, because they first used that type of gun a lot during her time. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance down at my own freckled brown arm. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I took me a shower and dressed in the brown pants and white shirt the Brown Cow give me to wear in the store. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, some of the pieces often had brown spots here and there, or even an overall tinge of brown, spoiling the purity of the glaze. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I said nothing for a minute, staring at him a long time, trying to memorize every inch of his cocoa brown face; his wide shoulders; his thick, black hair. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Judging by their brown lawn, their sprinklers have been dry for months, just like most everyone else’s. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-seven years old, a tall man with dark blue eyes and longish brown hair parted in the middle and hanging over his forehead. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you fancy anything in particular?” she asked Obinze, unbuttoning her brown suede coat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Short black-and-gray hair poked out from under his brown cowboy hat. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He owned a lot of diving equipment, a barge on which a crane had been mounted, and—if Ishmael remembered it right—this rust brown Packard. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

From time to time Ma skimmed out the brown cracklings. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is pretty and lively: big brown eyes and a wide smile. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I threw off my seat belt, leaned between the headrests of the brown vinyl bench seat, and slapped my hand on the dashboard. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He held his brown hands out in front of his chest and grinned at the others. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

With his deep brown, almost black eyes, he’d glare so intently at his opponents that some said he was attempting to hypnotize them into making a vapid move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His small brown eyes darted around the room and he took quick, short steps like a duck. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her hair was white and cottony, and her skin was brown and uneven in texture like roughly hewn wood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Half bald but remaining hair is dark brown and slicked back. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Above him on the bank he saw a small brown and white dog barking at him, its tail jerking with each bark, the hair of its back raised. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Trembling and pale, she would hunch over the keys, and this was the signal for a servant to bring her a brown liquid in a beautiful, cut-glass bottle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coarse brown hair started at about his belly button and got thicker as it reached his shoulders. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her thin brown arms were stacked with gold bracelets, a small red circle was painted on her forehead, and the edges of her feet were tinted with a decorative red dye. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sail seemed less a shield to them and more of a fast food billboard, stained brown with her blood and yellow with her plasma where the blood chips flaked away. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them they saw the lower lands dotted with small clumps of trees that melted away in the distance to a brown woodland haze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ruth let the seaweed disintegrate, and later, when its veins and stems dropped and curled into brown scabs on the table, she removed the bowl and brushed away the scabs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

By careful watching, she was able to distinguish the dark brown fur of a muskrat, near the burrow, though they were the same color as the mud along the bank. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of the path there was a wilderness of nettles and blackberry thorns and long brown grass. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them Ash could see the lymer and his dogs running forward at an easy pace, their spotted coats of black and brown on white like sunlight dappling the ground through the foliage. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a knock and we were startled by Ultima’s brown face at the window. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dust rose up through everything, turning the red uniforms, the cannons, the wagons all a greyish brown. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is smooth for her age, but the wrinkles on her neck are like ripples in the ocean; the tiny brown spots above the neckline of her white dress are like small, muted suns. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She plants the brown stuff in our nostrils and we sneeze so hard the women stop crying and laugh till they have to wipe their eyes with their shawls. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Our Lady was covered with hands, every shade of brown and black, going in their own directions, but then the strangest thing started happening. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue under my eye was turning back to brown. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

My friend Chester was curled up on the brown velvet armchair, which years ago he’d staked out as his own. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The suit had brown rubber gloves that were attached by gaskets at the cuffs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just stuff my feet under the metal folding chair stamped Precious Blood and pick on a wad of brown gum that’s stuck beneath the seat. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the menacing green of army uniforms, the shine of boot and gun, he saw a brown caftan and flat slippers and a familiar face that took him a moment to recognize: Miss Adebayo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My brown curls stood up on my head like a field planted with question marks. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Seems like even Miss Dancing Queen had to take a break,” Eddie said, pointing at Susan, who was now in the process of pulling her curly brown hair into a ponytail. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Black and brown youth are the primary targets. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I thought all the time they were khaki, army issue khaki, until I saw they were of heavy Chinese silk or finest flannel because they made his face so brown his eyes so blue. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a brown suit came toward her, puffing little white clouds of breath. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But six of the laughing brown men slid out on the bamboo logs on the windward side, and their weight balanced the huge sail against the pressure of the wind. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His big brown eyes were no longer covered with doggy bangs. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the two booths were sold drinks and bloody brown hamburgers and cotton candy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One was clad in ragged brown and was armed with a bow of horn; it was of a small breed, black-skinned, with wide and snuffling nostrils: evidently a tracker of some kind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then Kat and Kropp seize the masterpiece—the big dish with the brown, roasted sucking pigs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man had appeared through the papyrus stalks, wading up to his calves in the brown water. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Our grandmother tells us this as she sets a small hat with a topaz pin on her head, pulls white gloves over her soft brown hands. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But everyone had brown eyes, so of course she’d assumed the same about her own. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Kira is the one with straight hair, a light brown color like her eyes. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Sorenson shuffled into the kitchen wearing boxers, socks, and an undershirt stained with brown mustard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There was a strange resolve in her brown eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He is handsome, with patrician features and swept-back, slightly greasy, light brown hair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A round young woman with frizzy brown hair kneels on the floor in front of a cloth mannequin, stitching tiny pearls onto a bodice. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wore his thick brown hair parted neatly to the left, and he flashed me his entitled grin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As August wore on, the square of unkempt grass in the middle of Grimmauld Place shriveled in the sun until it was brittle and brown. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They were flat round wafers, slightly browned on the edges and butter-yellow in the center. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Autumn landscapes with deep wine red, vivid green, bright orange to dark brown. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Moo—oo, ” she said, looking for all the world like another May Belle with her big, brown droopy eyes. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her shoes, hat, and handbag were each a brown that almost matched. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had broad shoulders and bulging arms, hands like hammers, and the leathery skin of a man who’d been sunburned so many times his naturally creamy complexion had grown tough and brown as rawhide. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All around him the squat brown men of Sumatra spoke politely—and each carried a creese in the folds of his sarong. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soft brown mud felt good between her toes and helped to soothe her blisters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were probably brown, but people with dark hair sometimes had blue eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The conductor slowed the train to a crawl, waved, and gently dropped a large brown bag in front of us as he went by. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to envision them, two brown bodies curled against each other under a threadbare blanket, both worn out from a hard day’s work in the harvesting fields. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It achieves racial segregation by segregating people in prison—the majority of whom are black and brown—from mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This little brown bird was radiating an implacable ferocity as palpable as heat, and Serafina was afraid of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was Roy: Roy also might have helped him, but he had been stabbed with a knife, and lay now, brown and silent, at his father’s feet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her brown eyes were wide and frightened, her skin pale. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

An old man with dark brown skin, piercing eyes, and slick gray hair had been watching them from the back of the room. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Half of the branches broke off and all the spindly leaves are brown and soggy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyes flickered—sometimes dark brown, sometimes pure red. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Chiron’s eyes were deep brown, full of thousands of years of sadness. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He threw back the blankets and his “thing” stood up like a brown ear of com. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the way her brown eyes spit fire behind those huge glasses...“Yeah. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her hair is like mine—brown and blonde all mixed up like birdseed. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed to the place over the slippery rocks, held himself firmly, and gently reached down and parted the brown algae. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took the cardboard tray of jars filled with little red and brown and purple slices of the organs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

One day Helen came home with something large and flat, wrapped in brown paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She had a very shapely figure, smooth brown hair, and full lips. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Unpacking even just the few things in her brown suitcase always seemed a waste of time to Gilly. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

A mixture of sand and fine brown adobe clays and gray caliche, it had the texture, viscosity, and crippling powers of a tar pit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear and smooth and very brown. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great brown eyes, Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer, leader of a gang of vagabonds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them, like a brown, menacing serpent, stretched a turbulent river. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She took her hand out of the murky brown water that she was washing dishes in and pointed out to a ship in the harbor. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There's a little girl next to me, bobbed mousy brown hair, strawberries on her dress collar. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then she burst into tears, which spilled out of her great brown eyes and splashed down her front, just as they had done at the Quidditch World Cup. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There is a picture on the wall by the range of a man with long brown hair and sad eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wrap the blade part in foil, and the handle in brown packing tape. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Clean air and trees and long brown fields that curved with the hills like patches on a wrinkled blanket. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, there was a line of blue and brown in the distance. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are 19 cows in the field, 15 of which are black and white and 4 of which are brown and white. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s in that old brown shoebox in the pantry with all Ma’s other receipts. Unless you threw the box out.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My mother, who for some reason could not get a permit to work in Johannesburg, could not even afford to buy tea and brown bread. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bees poured out, a singing angry stream, orange, brown, black, yellow. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, I still had a mouthful of braces, a nose my face would never grow into, and ears that stuck out if I didn't cover them up with my frizzy brown hair. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Marigold gathered her brown curls off her shoulders and counted off in her head. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She jumped up, ran to her desk, and brought the brown envelopes to the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had even glimpsed one of them, striped brown, black, and red, and had judged that it was Bill. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

People are parking, walking over, and crossing the street with big Tupperware bowls and fat brown grocery bags. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then huge turkey cutouts were hung up, colored with crayons, brown and black and bright red. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to face Matt Hubbard, and I don’t care that he has nice brown eyes. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She had a vision of herself trapped forever in the dusty brown parlor reading the Bible to Trotter and Mr. Randolph. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the center of the greenhouse, one tall stem stood alone, brown like all the rest of the plants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He dressed in browns and yellows and often perched his tortoiseshell glasses on his forehead, as if he had another set of eyes up there. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the fire became calm again, I saw the rabbit had turned into meat, browned just right. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sat down on this big, brown, beat-up-looking old horse. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The white stockings are new though, and even itchier than the brown ones I wear to school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The buñuelos were golden brown, and the cinnamon Maribel had sprinkled on the top of each while they were still warm had melted into the dough like tiny amber crystals. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The browning grass had recently been clipped short, and the brick path leading to the graveyard was swept clean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears a pair of nicely faded jeans, brown leather boots with yellow laces and thick rubber soles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had brown hair, though it was pretty light, almost blond. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They have the same light brown hair and crinkly eyes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I dabbed them on top of my other hand and swished the brown around on my skin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even if Keeper was June, there was a big difference between writing words on notes in a locker and saying the same words out loud while looking into June’s big brown eyes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had brownish-grayish hair, a short beard, and round brown glasses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sweet molasses smell of brown sugar teased my tongue as I placed the bowl in the microwave. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He’s got a brown shirt like mine, no scars on his head, a book in one hand, and a knife in the other. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His brown eyes were wet-looking and wide open with a dazed expression. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Javier and his mother had the same flat, wide noses, the same deep brown eyes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lee Chong stood in back of the cigar counter and his nice brown eyes were turned inward on a calm and eternal Chinese sorrow. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiting room was all brown carpet and brown overstuffed cloth chairs. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was medium height with brown skin and hair down to her shoulders. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Look at this,” she said, and I saw that it was half filled with a brackish, brown liquid. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He is the epitome of southern gentleman in his creased khakis, plaid pearl-snap shirt, and brown boots. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As she held up her brown hands, her bracelet slid down her arm. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everything served for breakfast at La Posada Restaurant came with a choice of hash browns or grits. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Those big browns were looking up at the Crash Man. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

While they were frying, Francie ran down to the candy store and bought a penny’s worth of brown rock candy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the window I see three sets of tracks paralleling the one we are on, brown and silver, and beyond them broad flat fields of furrowed soil. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, Harry looked up, but there was no sign of white among the mass of brown and gray. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cooke is wearing a scarlet sweater dress, a chunky orange necklace, and brown cowboy boots. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Its brown icing was as full of holes as the binding of a book when bookworms have been gnawing at it for years. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Adrienne comes back, holding what looks like a glass of frothy milk with brown and green stuff floating in it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My new teacher has brown curls looped tight to her scalp like circles in a beehive. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I beat Sneaky to the kitchen, and when I get there, I see a stack of pancakes on the table—golden brown, not burnt and lumpy like the ones Mama makes at Smoky Inn. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Panicked, I look at the towering trees, the brown undergrowth. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was ready to bet that if I shaved his curly brown hair, I’d find tiny horns on his head. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Stella loved the feel of that table—she loved to trace the circular patterns in the warm brown wood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her favorite story was about Kathleen, a pretty girl of sixteen who was betrothed to the village baker's son, a handsome young man with jet-black hair and smiling brown eyes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second, that box nothing but brown wood and wires. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The entire forest was turning brown, an autumn that came in a few min­utes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the lake they were all the same reddish brown color—the color of dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He reached across the table and poured a black substance he claimed was coffee from a stained old enamel pot and smiled, a flash of incredibly white dentures in the old, brown leather face. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A breeze ruffled the weeds growing tall on the lawn, turning brown now, their seed pods emptying into the air. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even though the water spraying out of the borehole was brown and muddy, some of the little boys wanted a drink right away. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at the brown water stain on the ceiling, I counted the droplets plunking from the saturated plaster. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It twiddles along for a minute through the air and lands on the brown ottoman, which enrages my mother because it didn’t fall fast enough or land hard enough. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Fitches Brook is it,” I say, pointing to a cluster of brown contour lines drawn close together which indicate a steep hill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might be broke and pathetic, but she could still scrounge up another brown paper bag. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She snapped a brown leaf off of a plant on the windowsill and tucked it into her pocket. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A mottled brown linoleum sealed off the floor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

On the plate sat a steaming brown lump of mystery meat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Aech’s avatar was a tall, broad-shouldered Caucasian male with dark hair and brown eyes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing jeans and a serious brown cardigan with a white shirt underneath, the tips of the collar fanned out like crisp paper airplanes heading opposite directions. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had sharp brown eyes and a sharp nose, like a hawk’s, and he understood her better than anyone else on earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two young men in plain brown kaftans were running across the lawns and toward them with purpose, their silhouettes blurred against the blood-orange glow of the roaring fire at their back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I pushed the sixteen into the small brown body and pulled the trigger. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my parents were gone, Carl unzipped his brown leather jacket and rested his strong arms on the table. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A man in a black apron reaches into a box and unwraps a package of brown paper to reveal a thick yellow slab of cheese, and my stomach rumbles. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a still, tight moment in the room with just the sound of the brown Timex clock ticking on the shelf. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The tiny creature looked up and stretched its fingers, revealing enormous brown eyes and a nose the exact size and shape of a large tomato. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I noticed there was a little brown speck marking the white part of her right eye. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All around us, the trees are brown, their green leaves, wilted in the heat of the white sky, hang quietly on the branches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other side of the amphitheater was set against what looked like a giant, wrinkled brown wall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My goods assembled and stowed in a brown bag, I debated whether or not to go directly up the hill to the cave or take the long route. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She led me by the hand to a small alley where a girl was selling fried pork and plantains wrapped in brown paper. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They were two girls, one a porcelain-colored blonde, the other also pale, with light brown hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m here every morning by seven-thirty,” Mrs. Garcia continued, still looking at me while I stared at her brown sandals with small purple flowers on the buckles. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

His face was lean, brown, and beautiful, and across that face, I saw the open, easy smile of Prince Carmen Jones. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A boy from the other table with dark spiky hair, brown coppery skin, and slanted eyes groaned. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many were Dothraki horselords, big men with red- brown skin, their drooping mustachios bound in metal rings, their black hair oiled and braided and hung with bells. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Yunkishman moaned, and another flood of brown water gushed down his legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She remembered the book—brown, with a silver title, and the cloth was broken and the boards thick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pull back farther still and the curved horizons of the planet revealed themselves—a beautiful ball of green, white, blue, slate, and brown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, the pulse grew weak, the tongue turned a dry brown, and the victim became depressed, confused, and delirious. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I could see the brown claws curving over the tips of the fingers! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

None of them looked alike; one was redheaded, one a blonde, one had black hair, and there were all different shades of brown. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had always been a dark woman, her skin ruddy and brown when she worked in the fields. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She told him about the brown bowl on the library desk—about the New Year’s night she and Neeley had talked on the roof. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had long, dark hair that she wore tied back behind her neck, and deep brown skin. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to see the bruises because his skin is such a deep brown, but even after a week, they’re still there. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He is panting, his breath rank, his lower jaw punctuated by long brown teeth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her day dress is buttercup yellow and perfectly complements her new skin color—a dusky light brown, like warmed milk with cinnamon and nutmeg stirred into it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In one hand he held a silver tray on which stood five cocktail glasses, each one half filled with a viscous brown substance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Nolan,” he said fumbling with his brown derby, “could I come up here once in a while to talk?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kept on walking through the maze of green, brown, and orange, the weird shapes and smells, sprinklers misting over the flowers, people in green suits spraying and trimming. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One was blue, and the other was brown. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had scaled and cleaned them, sliced the cheeks from ours, and was wrapping hers in brown paper. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her red sari shows beneath her brown Canadian winter coat, her overshoes poking out beneath it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a pair of fingerless gloves knit from a dense navy blue yarn, and a thick pair of brown wool mittens. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She reminded me of Nancy Bobofit, though the camper girl was much bigger and tougher looking, and her hair was long and stringy, and brown instead of red. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You know who I am,” said the first man as he unbuttoned his heavy brown coat and pulled it back to show a shiny metal star pinned to his vest. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sizzles again, then turns the sprouts brown. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mariam could see herself too, reflected in the brown of Jalil’s eyes: her hair billowing, her face blazing with excitement, the sky behind her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting on her bed, the frame her daddy built a golden brown so we might as well be sitting on a throne together. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One of her brown eyebrows ticks up, but she nods. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Dust swirled all around, like a see-through brown blanket. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All of the financial incentives granted to law enforcement to arrest poor black and brown people for drug offenses must be revoked. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And one day he brought home a baby girl, wrapped up inside his brown western-style greatcoat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the Mexican going on for sure: brown skin and thick brown hair that was lighter than Mom’s but darker than Dad’s and that I usually wore in two braids. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As we wait on my lawn—which is still brown, and will never be spray-painted green—Kelton turns to me and asks me a question. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes are dark brown, almost the same color as Christina’s skin. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My mom stared at me with her intense brown eyes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We went out for breakfast, where I ate a bowl of oatmeal with a heap of brown sugar that melted into syrup over the hot mush. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I stroked my purple cake, and a bruise-colored cat and then a brown stick cat darted out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Louis had wildly curling brown hair and wore heavy-rimmed glasses, which he continually pushed up on his nose. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoreline curved down the coast, brown and green. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They’re mostly tan, but the fur around their mouths is darker brown. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was brown, like the boys, wore dark goggles cinched tight through a mane of coiled dreadlocks that whipped about as he got his bearings. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tiny hints of red push against the warm sepia brown of her irises. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The support team was taping her now, running brown sticky tape around her ankles and wrists, and her blowers came on. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing lipstick, a different shade that was more red than brown, and her dress was molded to her lean body. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Other Lakota children had black hair, brown skin, and brown eyes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Today it was three brown eggs boiled hard, with fried bread and ham steak and a bowl of wrinkled plums. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And she knew that Nana would get to do the things that she—brown and tongue-tied and full of the wrong kinds of words—could not. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin is dark brown and shiny against her starchy white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Nana had dumped two fried eggs, three strips of bacon, and hash browns at the bottom. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She had expressive dark brown eyes, and there was a liveliness in her that Kaede liked immediately. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once, though, I watched them get drunk on some foul brown corn brew, stand at the enclosure gate, and shout for me in accented Lingala, their eyes dancing mad. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He took her small brown hands into his large ones, and she felt as delicate as one of the little birds that Kwasi liked to catch and release. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he peers at his reflection, I catch myself studying Nelson: his elbows darkened by use, his skin many tones of brown, like antique mahogany furniture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water soon turned brown with weeks of dirt and sweat. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only seven or so blocks from our homes, drug dealers hang out by the town courts and old men sit around drinking from brown paper bags. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some new people came with bottles wrapped in brown paper bags, and Major blacked out the little basement window with his jacket. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mulberry trees were bare and the fields were brown. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He plants a kiss in the middle of her brown and white head and crosses the little room. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I believe in my little brother's pale skin and my own dark brown. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

His are such a light brown, practically yellow, or copper maybe, and all splintered with green. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Where hers is like fire, my hair is what we call river brown. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

When the wind reached the mountain-top he could see something happen, a flicker of blue stuff against brown clouds. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some two weeks after being stuffed into a trunk, Gabriel Witter sat on the edge of a mostly comfortable bed with a brown and orange quilt draped over his shoulders. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Today I’m wearing my gray Guess jeans with a blue-and-orange argyle polo and a pair of shiny brown penny loafers TJ got me from school. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He stared back at them with wide, brown eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Sorenson was wearing a brown jacket with patches on the elbows and a bow tie. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There is black and of course brown tape for packing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He went to his room and returned and put a faded brown daguerreotype on the table in front of Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His trousers were dark brown, jammed into brown boots. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He has white paint on his dark brown hiking shorts. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Two of the handful of brown kids in the school, heading off to Paris together. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a brown chewing-tobacco stain in the lower left corner of his mouth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hag skin was a smooth blue color against the brown fabric and felt cool when I touched it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We got our breakfast: white bread and hot chocolate for me, brown bread with butter on it and coffee for Richard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lounge at Rosie’s restaurant was filled with overstuffed chairs, couches, and shag carpet, all in dust-covered browns, oranges, and yellows. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They loved the fact that the brown of the backs of their hands was the exact brown of their mother’s stomach skin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t recognize the other girl, a white girl with brown hair and freckles who gives me a shy smile. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A woman with long brown hair and a wet suit was nearby, and after a while she came to sit next to me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountains beyond, brown mountains with a little green on their slopes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I look down at my supper plate, fried beets swimming in a pool of bright pink juice, half-cooked hash browns turned pink where they border the beets and cold oatmeal. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you could use this,” Tony said, handing him a small brown paper bag. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes’ walk, the group arrived at the small river and, beside it, a hill—brown, fly infested, half solid and half liquid—reeking with the fetid smell of feces. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Lots of them had brown hair and brown eyes, and many of those Susan Thomases had freckles. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Quickly they slunk out of sight behind a brown and stunted bush. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As the adults continued their gloomy conversation and Zalmay played with a handheld video game, Fadi shrank back into the fading brown leather seat. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Beneath the window was a brown stain made by the bean seed in its pot on the windowsill. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The view from my room is still brown and dead, but soon it will be new again, as if this stupid winter never happened. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gradually the ferocity left the gaze of the little brown bird, and Serafina could look at her again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

While she waited for the father and son to gain a little distance on them, Sefia pecked at the ground with her fingertips, plucking up twigs and brown leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A small brown mouse was running around on the table top... The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was small, with brown walls, and the metal bars, so thick his hand could not go around one, reminded him of the chimpanzee’s cage at Nsukka’s dismal, forgotten zoo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As it swung wide open, with tremendous force, two tall black policemen in stiff brown uniforms rushed in and immediately blinded me with the glare from their flashlights. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dried brown weeds wilted in the windows of the house nearest him, and barrels of stagnant water and discarded crates filled the alley. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Or what I think Anna might look like: lots of curly brown hair, just like you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bluish brown or sometimes greenish gray, depending on the day. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now Crab leaned the gun carefully against the wall, then plunked the brown paper bag on the table. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

That was the name of the little brown house Mr. Brooke had prepared for Meg’s first home. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Power lay in the brown swell of his forearms: authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even in summer, they never go to swim or to turn brown beneath the sun. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a thin man with a large head and a lot of hair and a brown face. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have no doubt his chiseled brown cheeks are hot to the touch. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Under the pelt he wore brown leather stiffened with iron rings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But a widespread belief that a majority of black and brown men unfortunately belong in jail is compatible with the new American creed, provided that their imprisonment can be interpreted as their own fault. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Inside my head, thousands of monsters played a painful game of catch, but instead of a ball, it was a brown leatherbound missal that they threw to each other. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed at things he said, and turned her brown back in the sun. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Walking confidently, with his shoulders thrown back, Roosevelt waved his hand and tipped his top hat to the crowd, revealing a head full of thick brown hair. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I stared at the little brown crayon face in my hand, then crumpled it up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was slight of build, about five feet ten inches tall, with dark hair and deep-set brown eyes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his time about choosing three brown agates to take with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One wore ankle-high brown hiking boots, as if he were about to go mountain climbing, while another stood ready to play in his socks, which flopped like clown shoes when he ran. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Matt saw, not far down, a patch of brown. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they figured out these were human ears, he bared a line of intermittent teeth browned by tobacco. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She was a small, spare woman with large dark eyes and skin as brown and dry as leather. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had long straight hair on her legs, which everyone said made them even prettier, and small feet encased in plain brown shoes with a low square heel. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Rusty brown hair scrambled every which way on her head, and she walked with an ungraceful limp. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ash dismounted and led Saerla toward the line of hunting horses, where she found a young man dressed in brown with a dark green armband. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers curled and turned brown in the sun. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A brown lark-like parent winged down and stuffed its open beak. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It trapped cows and pigs and sheep and drowned them in its muddy brown water and carried them to the sea. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Heather is small, with faded pink hair and brown skin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, the rake scrapes its metal fingernails along damp brown dirt. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several men and women left their places and hurried over to where the brown package lay half-opened. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as his mother feared, Havens, a broad- shouldered former wrestler with tousled brown hair and a guileless smile, wavered some his freshman year and dated several classmates. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Reed ran his fingers through his thick brown hair, listening to the waves wash against the hull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It passed through the car, dragging a small bevy of tiny brown mariposas into the car. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A little brown house sparrow swoops out of the rafters and lands on the tiles in front of her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The beer was brown, the bread black, the stew a creamy white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Inside was a miniature painted in the vivid Myr- ish style, of a lovely young girl with doe's eyes and a cascade of soft brown hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She took the wallet out of the bag—it was a man’s wallet, brown leather—and grabbing Sammy by the hand, ran back to the long beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts his brown bag to his face and kisses it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His hair, still the color of afternoon sunlight on ripe wheat, fell to his shoulders, revealing a high and wide brow over his frank brown eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her red lips are purple and dry, her cheeks are sunken, there are deep shadows under her eyes, her porcelain white skin is brown and wrinkled from the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” Mom says as she sprinkles brown sugar over her bowl of oatmeal. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I carried trays along the portico of brown metal posts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He lets me go, and as I look up into his beautiful brown face, I want to tell him everything. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bushes had sprung up everywhere; small huts were completely swallowed in browned grass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They stared at the muted brown home, a tall chain-link fence rising up around it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He noticed the peeling paint on the shutters that his dad had repainted just last year, and the brown stain on the driveway where his mom had tried to refinish an old table. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Flanking John Becker were more female faces—brown faces, peering out from the middle distance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She was pretty, with brown eyes and straight black hair that came to a point at her chin. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waved from the doorway, his mustaches went straight up, his brown face was smiling. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I pull out a book from Chantal’s shelf to read—something about a brown girl who wants blue eyes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My brother is holding on to my dad with one hand and clutching a small brown stuffed bunny rabbit with the other. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then out of the shadows stepped another scythe, robed in earth-toned brown and forest green. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning a brown envelope arrived at the Gazette offices addressed to Judy Morgan, and below her name was written “Frindle Story.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s more brown than yellow, but the juice inside is still good enough to flavor my tealess tea. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had broad shoulders and dark golden brown skin that was much like mine, as well as wavy black hair. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She pulls a couple tissues, blows her nose like an elephant, then puts her baby-blue eyes on his brown ones. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Their skin was dark brown like his, but transparent, and their curly dreadlocks were the color of a pale silver-white moon. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I asked the moment I walked out the gate at Reagan Washington National Airport, my hair still in fuzzy summer braids, skin browned by the southern sun. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It scorches a long brown finger oh the newspaper. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way out I might stop by the terraria to look at some shiny frogs glazed bright, bright green, or yellow and deep blue, or brown and pale green. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ides of March dawned on Friday with a green and brown sky, the color of the water in a dying pond. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I looked into his green eye, and then his brown one. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is small in my palm, brown from the sun with black dirt burrows in her nails and the wrinkles around the knuckles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thin lips are painted an angry stroke of red, and in the night her auburn hair looks dark brown—almost black. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The lot is covered in long grass, but it’s brown and trampled, crispy as hay. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Rabiya glares at them both, her big brown eyes blazing, and doesn’t stop dancing. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The grass was mostly dead, the dirt had gone from brown to gray, and the one tree that did still stand was bare and leaning like a creature over a small child’s nightmare bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He turned it about, observing the brown signature. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the oven and took out a pan of her crispy brown biscuits and showed us a pot of milk chocolate on the back of the stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frothy brown liquid rose to the top like the whole thing was filling with soda. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They both had curling, brown hair that grew low upon their foreheads, ruddy faces, and bright blue eyes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rob’s dad smiled at Gerald as he opened the car door, laugh marks making walnut brown wrinkles in the sides of his eyes. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama brought the baby, wrapped in a brown shawl that had the unpleasant smell of ogiri. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The same shoebox that sat on my porch less than twenty-four hours ago; rewrapped in a brown paper bag, sealed with clear packing tape, exactly as I had received it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The Father’s eyes are blue like the sky, his nose long, his hair brown and curly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soles of his boots hit brown grass behind the Palmer Events Center like he’s coming down from a much greater altitude than the back seat of a limo. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“These two white people who rescued the poor brown kid?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Along a dusty brown path in the pine needles, Jenny Simonson was advancing in a red, white, and blue swimsuit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was hurrying off as she talked--her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at the door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

All we have is oatmeal, but I will make him a smiley face with brown sugar. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her short brown hair was tucked behind her ears, and a bit of leaf clung to it on the right-hand side. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She moved the knife to the girl’s smooth brown throat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next, Steve fit a wig of long, dark brown hair over Liddy’s head and snipped the edges to make it look natural. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His shirtsleeves are rolled up and he’s sweating; his shirt’s armpits are brown. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They have smooth brown faces that look unreal—the forehead, eyebrows, and cheekbones of models. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Rab had gone into one of the many stalls and backed out a tall, slender horse, so pale he was almost white, but flecked all over with tiny brown marks. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize Abby’s car—or Abby’s mom’s car, I guess, but today, the driver is a boy with the most gorgeous cheekbones I’ve ever seen—wide eyes, brown skin, maybe early twenties. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A group of ClockWatchers—half of them women, and half of them men—all in matching blue suits, raised brown leather briefcases in an affirmative salute. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She also didn’t style her hair in a flapper bob, but instead let her long, black hair flow over her back, revealing her striking face, with its high cheekbones and big brown eyes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A single mother, she has an angular face and soft curly brown hair. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was a club-like, crudely sculptured foot painted a muddy brown with pale pink toenails. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The outer edges were fringed with yellow and brown, but inside, it was dark green and thick, the leaves hadn't started to fall. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Håkon stood behind him, dressed in simpler clothing that actually fit him: a white rubakha over black pants, which were tucked into brown boots. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

With a sinking feeling, he thought he saw a mane of bushy brown hair whipping out of sight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a light brown suit and a red tie. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A matching brown chair with worn arms slumped at the opposite side of the room. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

There’s a place where his jeans are fraying, and a tiny patch of brown skin is barely visible between the fibers of the denim. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They take a house that’s on the other side of Water Island’s brown hill. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From the bottom of the basket she took the folded brown paper bag into which she poured each night’s pickin’s and put it on the shelf. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tall black man, with eyes so dark brown they looked almost black beneath thick eyebrows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the outside Daniel has brown skin, brown hair, hazel eyes, long fingers, bitten-down fingernails, and he’s very short, and strong. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He also knew that many people living on the wrong side of the “great epi divide” had brown or black skin and were female. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On and on they flew, over countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscape like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway rode with another man in addition to the boy, a tall white man with long brown hair and a necklace of human ears around his neck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a book inside a bag made of two layers of brown paper. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I notice that, in addition to his brown bag lunch, he’s carrying a folder with Hebrew writing on it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He turned to his open window, and an amazing wad of brown juice flew from his mouth. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The reflection from the hearth danced in her bright brown eyes. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She brought brown paper bags filled with clothes we didn’t need and could barely use. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As tall as trolls they were, twelve feet or more in height; their strong bodies, stout as young trees, seemed to be clad with raiment or with hide of close-fitting grey and brown. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A bland, phlegmadc smile hung on his brown face with its heavy- bearded cheeks, and he was buffing the facets of his bald head gendy with the palms of both hands. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were dark brown with spotted wings, whitish throats, and piercing amber eyes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Travis took Bunny off to the Small Livestock tent, and I headed for Domestic Arts with my entry safely shrouded in brown paper so that no one could see it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her hair is uncombed, and her white shirt is dingy, almost brown. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The tanned-looking skin around her brown eyes is red and puffy, her long black and gray hair is splayed across the sidewalk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A slight grin appeared, and her brown eyes brightened. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her face was a brown moon that shone on me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his light brown hair and green eyes, he was definitely the cutest boy in class. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The designs on my palms would take hours to dry, but tomorrow the deep brown Seema painted on would transform into a brilliant orange. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Heat the paper, and the writing will appear, looking as if it were written in brown ink. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their matching yellow shirts and brown jumpers, not to mention the same haircut and daisy barrettes, make them look like twins. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I have never noticed how brown his eyes are, so big you barely see anything other than his pupils. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I helped her straighten up, noticing all the bottles of pills, lined up on the table, a small army of brown plastic soldiers with white caps. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dimly lit and had dark brown wooden tables and chairs that were thick and heavy. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But today I stood in the corner for the first time in six weeks, staring at our used-to-be plants—brown and crisp and dead all over. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Half of something, a quarter of something else, brown skin and black hair like his dead mother, but with weird pale blue eyes like his father. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was the largest fencing club I’d ever been in, and almost everyone there was some shade of brown. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Trotter in the doorway lifted her arms, the brown purse dangling from one of them; the faulty clasp flew open as she did so. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

One of the other men takes something yellow and brown from a bag, goes to Finn, puts it to his head and there’s a sharp crack. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The wildling grinned at him through a mouth of brown and broken teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His mom entered, holding a brown paper bag. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Chiron’s brown beard was shaggier for the winter. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The small brown tubers under the soil would be available throughout the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our potato tikkis have browned beautifully on both sides, sizzling with the aroma of cilantro and olive oil. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When he pulled his hand from the brown cardboard, he wasn't holding no electric blue dopeness. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world’s black, brown, red, and yellow peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede’s eyes were light brown; Taisin saw her pupils dilating as they looked at each other, dusk spinning out around them, cloaking them in shadow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He sits in the seminar room—a man with brown skin, the son of working-class Mexican immigrant parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fields are brown and crisp with dead cotton stalks, defoliated so the machines can get to the bolls. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Gradually, the needles on the pine tree started turning from brown to green. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the sofa, stuck my legs out in front of me, and studied the scabs on my shins, the brown scars of countless wounds and scrapes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She grew into a nimble young girl of seven winters, a thoughtful girl with shining brown eyes and a wide grin, only missing her two top front teeth. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There’s also the protein supplement, a sticky brown goop made of molasses and urea. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Above and below the church were our dwelling places, some forty cottages and huts of wattle and daub, thatch and wood, dirt and mud, all in varying shades of brown. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Coaxing a fresh blaze with a blowpipe, he found tongs and with them held a portion of the collar carefully to the blast, his corded, brown old back gleaming with the heat. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was several feet tall, its front worn rough and browned from age and weather. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It had two big brown buttons sewed on for eyes and six little white buttons sewed on for teeth. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He saw Blount burned a rich, red brown by the sun, his face smooth and hairless, with a bracelet of gold and precious stones on his forearm. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her hair was dark brown and worn in braids upon her head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bright shades of blue, emerald, and soft brown, her gown and matching peacock mask had cost as much as a small house. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A half-dozen flat brown bugs—prehistoric looking—went flying. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The aboatia had a long nose and brown skin that rippled like a forest stream. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tactics that would be political suicide in an upscale white suburb are not even newsworthy in poor black and brown communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He offered me his left hand—strong and brown. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He moved his candle closer, and Lina opened the brown cover. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took the rubber band from a packet of brown envelopes, opened one, and pulled out a photograph. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother sat behind her on the edge of the narrow bed, loosed the dark brown hair, and brushed it to a gloss. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dug and dug until the soft brown pulp beneath the bark began to glow in the sunlight. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As a result of the two laws, nearly eight million children donned the brown uniforms of the Hitler Youth in 1939. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know all that,” Clevinger assured him, his gaunt face pale and his agitated brown eyes swimming in sincerity. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The river’s brown waters would be stained with blood, forever and ever and ever... Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy wore the remainders of a pair of shorts, his fat body was golden brown, and the glasses still flashed when he looked at anything. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with the autumn. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then, he rolled the newspaper up into a tight paper pipe, grabbed the brown bag next to him, and stood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was a bit taller than me, with warm brown skin and a smile too large for his face. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Mami cut it short whenever it grew into my eyes, but I’d seen dark brown wisps by my cheeks and near my temples. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His brown hair isn’t in a buzz cut, either. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He wouldn’t need any clothes in the army, and they don’t want gold watches there either. Everything’s brown.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His brown tangled hair is long like a hobo. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was six feet, with light, mottled skin and sandy brown hair with a streak of even lighter hair near the front. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This opinion was immediately reinforced by his first shelf-mate, a china doll with green glass eyes and red lips and dark brown hair. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It was brown around the edges and squishy in the middle, just the way she liked it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

So I flew to Montana and spent a couple of days with him fishing for brown trout on the Bighorn River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the mathematician says, “No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Omar's dark hair looked almost brown under the bright afternoon sun. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Once he pushed back his hood, I saw that he had a smooth brown face, dimples that threatened to pull out a wide smile, and tight curly hair so black it shone. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You mean that old brown hat? Your grandfather’s hat? As far as I’m concerned, officer, you can keep it. And you!” she said to Clayton. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They knew his clumsy abortions and the little brown pennies he gave sparingly for alms. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes, one a gentle tea brown, the other milky, both rimmed in silver whiskers, watched me with wistful sadness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The girl had long brown hair and dimples. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

One of the men is wearing a black T-shirt, another a short-sleeve yellow shirt with a brown tie. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

My eyes followed the cane up to his good brown hand on the curve and up the long, long white sleeve to his face. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face solemn, he gazed past me, across the brown fields to the bare trees beyond. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The maester looked like a mouse as well, with his grey robes and little brown mustachio. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I remember the pattern of rinds fell in ellife, two white sides and two brown, a definite yes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has big brown eyes that she bats in your direction, two pigtails that go down to her waist, and pink glasses that I think are just for show. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when I’m not even trying to remember, I see those magnolia trees, the blooming white flowers, and the thick brown branches with Negro bodies hanging. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The girl had undone the top strap of her bathing-suit and was browning her back. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She was petite, at least beside him, and she had short brown hair and sincere eyes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Anderson’s floor was a warren of lawyer’s offices, with rich carpets, walls of dark brown wood, and doors inlaid with frosted glass. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The empty land stretches as far as I can see, a brown plane colliding with the horizon. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were dressed in ordinary clothing—brown shirts and trousers and muddy boots. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if you took the brown chunky chili and poured it over rice instead of bread, it would look a lot like fesenjoon. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I could tell it was a book, even wrapped up as it was in brown paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She sees it all—the red scratch on the underside of Kat’s wrist as Kat hands her the Meg Gillian book, the brown and blue shine of the cover. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Maman used to make me tell her all the pigments that made up the deep red of an apple, or the brown of a peanut. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The green of the river passed through a bright orange and turned brown. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last shelf of rotting stone the stream gurgled and fell down into a brown bog and was lost. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The trees in the garden were gold and brown, half of the leaves already dead on the earth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was about six feet tall, even with several inches of slouch, his light brown skin dry and weathered like alligator, his eyes sea green at the center, with deep blue edges. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She held up a roll of brown sticky tape. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the mesh he could see a brown bowl, some greenstuff and the ears of two or three rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a hole in both the wall and the ceiling, and the wallpaper is curling and brown. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The cattail pond now had steel gray and rust brown pipes running up from it toward the groves, like someone had connected straws together in four crooked lines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A jar of peanut butter had crashed to the floor; someone had gotten a running start, jumped into it, and skied a brown, onefooted track to the stove. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer city was in darkness, and below her, the low, brown buildings of Special Circumstances were lit only with the harsh glare of security lights. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Corinthians threw it in the brown paper bag opened for the day’s garbage. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brown field stretched out, the remains of last year’s crop plowed into the soil. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve come from thousands of miles away!” the Centipede shouted back, grinning more broadly than ever and showing his brown teeth. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The windows were all below the surface now, swallowed beneath the brown water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She reached into the hidden pocket sewn into the side of her skirt and took out a book bound in brown paper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Long ago the stains, once red, faded to a rust-colored pale brown. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had they taken the time to really look at us, they would have seen human beings just like themselves: some with blue eyes, some with brown. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am,” I said, shaking the peanuts into my bottle, where they caused a little reaction of foam, then floated on the brown liquid. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Brown is warm. I miss brown. Everything that’s supposed to be brown — tree trunks, rocks, dirt — is all covered up with squashy green stuff here,” I complained. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had the same wavy, brown hair and blue eyes, the same physical alertness, but none of the good humor Matt was used to seeing in the bodyguards face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only their heads show rainbow tones of neutral skin colors from white to dark brown. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Luke studied her face, seeing lines of fatigue that hadn't been there before, noticing that the hair around her face now held as much gray as brown. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I start to look for the brown bag I saw Uhmma with earlier. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her short brown hair is the only thing that makes her look different from other moms at Poplar Springs Middle. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Probably because who would think a kid my age would steal something that looks like brown snot? Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Only difference twixt ’em was that these two eyes were brown, and whilst the other ones seemed staring and empty, these eyes were looking dead at you! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

One, with very bushy brown hair and rather large front teeth, was Harry’s and Ron’s friend, Hermione Granger. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of a lush pasture, the farmer soon has a field full of brown bald spots and plants that cows won’t touch. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She turned to Taisin, whose brown eyes were shadowed as though she had not slept well. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was fifteen, about five feet three, a medium brown color, and definitely wrong. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath their cool exterior, however, was a rugged breed of black man you did not want to cross—tough, grizzled men whose strong brown hands gripped hammers tightly and whose eyes met you dead on. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rope is thick and brown and smells of tar. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course, Garrett, who ordered scattered, smothered, and covered waffles with sausage and hash browns, leaves literally a dollar. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He was young and brown with smooth, round, muscled arms. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe that the sweater, brown with bands of pale red and green highlights, cost half as much as the sleeping bag, which was threadbare and patched. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The mountains went from burgundy to pink to green and brown. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The bed is narrow, covered by a solid brown quilt. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin darkens from ivory to honey brown. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I was having dinner, that evening, hamburger balls and hashed browns. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's light brown with thick black eyebrows and Mama's nose. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When not glazed, his eyes were lively and intelligent, his hair an artless tumble of brown locks that many a maid might have envied. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A roll of brown paper towels stood in the center of every table, along with various bottles of hot sauce. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They don’t look much alike, except for their hair color, which is a medium brown, but Shauna’s is chin length, like mine. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A coarse stubble covered his sunken cheeks, and thin brown hair was blowing across his little yellow eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The teacher was a young woman in her early twenties, straight brown hair, freckles, with a name like Miss Haven or Havishaw. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom was a brown stream which they crossed on stepping-stones set deep in a carpet of what looked like miniature water parsley. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I think he is very beautiful, with his brown skin and brilliant white teeth and his dark appalled eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She has found it: a crinkled brown cocoon, anchored on a branch like a sailor’s hammock. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had light brown dreadlocks tied in a bunch with a hank of yarn, and intense blue eyes that shone like high beams. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The aircraft’s final pass pulled all the litter of their lunch out into the field, brown crusts and brown paper fluttering in the blue smoke like the devil’s confetti. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She spit out the brown seed, iris after all. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I offer to let Mami sell my brown oxfords and old-fashioned jumpers I don’t like. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were so brown they were almost black, and for once her hair was down. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Gilly willed the woman not to look, not to stare at the funny little brown face poked up above the faded quilt, the mouth gaped and trembling with each noisy breath. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

A tall man, elderly, with a brown peaked cap and an old-fashioned collar. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have never known anyone who would even venture to stick his toe in its polluted brown waters, which seethe with sewage, industrial waste, and deadly insecticides. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped his dark brown overalls into a hamper. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The owl’s pure-white plumage was broken only by a few brown bars on the wing and some dark spots on the crown. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His light brown skin is more red than tan, which is how he got his nickname, Red Jack. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Looking like the Devil himself, a shiny brown eel slithered out and made for the pond. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the Missouri on the Mandan side, it is pure west, with brown grass and water scorings and small outcrops. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat, a tiny thing with brown and gray stripes, wound around Roza’s legs, joined her in the pile of hay, curling up next to her face, breathing the same breath. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He said eighty-seven seconds got them to be perfect golden brown, and I must admit, most of them were perfect. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Winky did stop crying, but when she sat up she was glaring at Hermione through her massive brown eyes, her whole face sopping wet and suddenly furious. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Still the sleek brown head bent mesmerized over the list. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was not deep brown, either, like his companions’. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I remember staring at her while these words came out of her mouth, and thinking, Your skin is light brown. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

In her reflection, Sarai saw the way her brown cheeks went crimson instead of lavender, while Lazlo beheld the reverse in his own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was a dozen years older than Sherman, with sparse gray hair and sad brown eyes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Senora Garra walked back over with a small brown bag and dropped the polish inside. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She climbed the fence with the letter in her hand and went through the brown, rattling flowers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a brown leather suitcase and a seabag stuffed with two quilts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they landed in adult court, young black and brown offenders were also much more likely to serve time. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Trip’s eyes met hers, level and clear and deep brown. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

George indicated the brown paper packages he was carrying under his arms. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My friend brought the bulb to me, a little brown thing like an onion. I doubted it would grow here, but it just seemed determined to keep on trying and look what has happened.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen orange shirts before, but this guy’s shirt has the nerve to be covered in orange and brown feathers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She’s overdressed for a day spent with toddlers, maybe a bit too professional-looking in her pale yellow skirt and white cotton blouse, her thick, dark brown hair twisted into a low bun. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But the shambler caught in the bobbed wire looked almost normal: a white woman with long brown hair pinned up on her head, wearing a day dress of green linen. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I step back, not wanting to be so close to her that I can see the ring of lighter brown around her pupils. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I held up the brown paper Safeway bag with its big red S printed smack in the center. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faye twisted around in her chair to reach a piece of brown panocha studded with walnuts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

While every player on mine, the Fulton Firebirds, has some shade of brown skin, all of the Stockwood Sharks girls are white. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Christ, look at this mud,” said Francis as we bounced through yet another pothole, brown spray striking the window with a thick rataplan. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But even with only a few hours in the sun each day, her already brown arms gradually deepened in color. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t really blame him, I don’t think I’d be real happy about sharing my brown sugar and my folks with any strange kids either. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Under Dinah’s headscarf, the little patch of hag skin was gone, leaving a paler brown piece of cloth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She says she named me Sparrow because I was so small and brown, almost breakable, but so strong. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Inside the bag, two flattened strips of white cotton, each banded with black and carrying a dark brown stain. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His hands were huge and very brown against the white sheet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They climbed one hill, and then another, and the red soil covered everything until even her hands were tinged a rusty brown. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dense brown forest on either side never seemed to vary, and ahead there was only a new bend in the river to tantalize her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I remember quite clearly what he looked like: tall, slightly stooped, dark hair cut short, brown eyes that seemed to focus two inches behind the bridge of my nose, and that acne. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the doors opened, I was the last to step out into a large open room with brown leather couches. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ren looks the most frazzled out of us all, with his short brown hair sticking out in every direction and his eyes hidden behind a pair of white sunglasses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each kabob looked like a soft brown log, shiny with oil and fat, dimpled where Dad had pinched it to seal it onto the skewer. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, far off in another field, a man shouted to his horses, and the shout died away in a cry that ran frightened over the brown water of the creek and into the darkening woods. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole country seemed to have withered and browned under the searing sun. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The massive walls had been plastered with red clay mud, but the weather had exposed the straw in the plaster; under a broken tin rain gutter, plaster was peeling away, exposing brown adobe bricks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’s tall, about my age, dark brown hair in a severe crimped bob, a bit old-fashioned. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The cheese was hot and runny all the way through, the bread fried crisp and brown. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z