| 单词 | dun-colored |
| 例句 | At the edge of the dry riverbed, in a thicket of saltbush not far from where they had parked, a large object was concealed beneath a dun-colored tarpaulin. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to come out of a dun-colored recruiting house on the far side, with blue and white "Join the Navy" posters stuck up on billboards round it and all over the inner walls. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Barges and boats dot the water, and just beyond the eastern banks sits the city of Serra, its dun-colored walls imposing even from a distance of miles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Whenever I was alone, though, I went all out on the eggplant front, stewing it down with olive oil, garlic and herbs into a dun-colored mush that looked suspect but tasted fantastic. When Eggplant Meets Eggs 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The final stretch of gravel road to the beach goes from the drab to the dramatic, with a steep ascent filled with hairpin turns up one side of a dun-colored mountain. A Carefree Getaway Just Off the Persian Gulf 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The orchestration is plain and dun-colored, without the Third’s excited gleam. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Entering Prowl’s space at the Alcova exhibition, visitors will encounter a strange sight: a dun-colored plastic stacking chair disassembled, in dirt. New Ways to Take a Seat at Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Resourceful types resort to penlights to read the small type on the brief menu and closely-spaced wine list, both printed on dun-colored stock. Well-prepared, inventive fare showcased at the new Marjorie on Capitol Hill 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z The other day, looking from a great distance on Interstate 15 toward the same lake bed, a few pinpoints of brightness were visible, neon anomalies against the dun-colored scrubland. Building an Artist’s ‘Magic Mountains’ to Draw Visitors to the Desert 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Clad in uniformly dun-colored garb, with little differentiation and definition among them, they also seem oddly generic, at least in appearance. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z But the cumulative reductionism of his work, the austerity of its dun-colored palette, dulls the mind more than it sharpens the eye. Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in The movie opens with a fixed, perfectly framed shot of a dun-colored, gently sloping terrain. ‘Earth’ Review: Humanity Is Digging Its Own Grave 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z When we saw images of the war dead from Iraq or Afghanistan, they were surrounded by an architecture that seemed odd, often low-rise buildings made of dun-colored concrete. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Aurel renders the barren, dun-colored camp sequences largely through still drawings that are given slightly shimmering contours, rather than extended animated action. ‘Josep’ Review: Escaping a Civil War 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Absent having a specific chief executive to write to, he’s writing to us, hoping we’ll look beyond the dun-colored conventions of conservationist arguments — statistics, abstractions — when we consider our despoiled planet. Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z “It’s a ‘Hunger Games’ moment,” she was quick to remark when a shapeless dun-colored dress appeared on the runway. Mamie Gummer Wants to Make a Name for Herself 2012-10-05T20:45:19Z Bright, contemporary objects punctuate rooms full of dun-colored antiquities. Three years and $56 million later, Seattle Asian Art Museum is reinvented and set to reopen 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z On the far side of the Sinai Peninsula, about a six-hour drive from Cairo through a largely empty Egyptian desert, the Rafah crossing is a dun-colored expanse of sand, concrete and not much else. The fate of many Gazans lies with the Rafah crossing, and Egypt. 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Bare tree carcasses are strewn across the dun-colored hills. California forests are vanishing as wildfires burn larger and more intensely 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Piping plovers, dun-colored shorebirds that lay their eggs in tiny scrapes in the sand, are easy to miss as they dart over the beach. Threatened Birds Have a Defender on N.Y. Beaches: The Plover Patrol 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z On the ground, it’s hard to get a fix on the Central Valley; it flashes by as dun-colored monotony — a sun-stunned void beyond the freeway berms. Mark Arax’s ‘The Dreamt Land’ traces California’s fear of a handful of dust 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Enninful works from a modest office on the fifth floor of Vogue House, a 1958 dun-colored brick and stone building whose exterior is neither as elegant nor as stylish as its name would imply. Is Edward Enninful the next Anna Wintour? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “There is a silent majority out there, and that’s why he won,” Arpaio said at an event at a dun-colored retirement community here in February. In Arizona, Joe Arpaio’s Senate bid tests the strength of Trumpism 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z One, a dun-colored draft horse named Duncan, never liked getting into horse trailers, and he was particularly resistant that night. California woman rescues horses, yaks and cows from deadly wildfires 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Stacks of the dun-colored blocks freeze and dry in the winter. Tiny Country Cuts Carbon Emissions by Planting Bogs 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Magellan never had to steer a vessel from the confines of a dun-colored rental office, let alone stay at the helm long enough to qualify for a senior discount at the McDonald’s next door. The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The Hablehrood river, which flows down dun-colored hills to the north, is too salty to use for irrigation, they say. As drought grips Iran, farmers lament loss of a way of life 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The hulking, dun-colored vehicle lumbered to an intersection. The Grinding Fight to Root Out ISIS in a Battered Libya 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z One, a dun-colored draft horse named Duncan, never liked getting into horse trailers, and he was particularly resistant that night. California woman rescues horses, yaks and cows from deadly wildfires 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z From above, it looked like the remains of an island — a dun-colored triangle with so many small ponds and streams it seemed like a large perforated leaf floating on a glassy green sea. Should the United States Save Tangier Island From Oblivion? 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Officers with the Department of Homeland Security arrivedThursday night at a dun-colored apartment complex here near the college, where Mr. Mercer was reported to have lived. Investigators of Oregon Shooting Seek Answers as Victims Are Mourned 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Hernandez sat in a gray shirt and tie and dun-colored slacks, his shoulders drooped. Suspect’s Mental Ability Is at Fore as Jurors in Patz Trial Prepare to Get Case 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Images from Dawr, which is south of Tikrit, broadcast on television showed empty streets and dun-colored homes damaged by the fighting. Iraqi forces make advances against Islamic State near Tikrit 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z In June, as the harvest started, Chinese buyers arrived in this town of 10,000 people, which sits at 13,555 feet above sea level on a bleak plain surrounded by windswept, dun-colored hills. Vegetable Spawns Larceny and Luxury in Peru 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Richter filled a dun-colored Post-It in his jagged hand: “Art as part of our insane capacity for hope makes it possible that we cope with our permanent madness and our boundless brutality.” Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Curator Who Never Sleeps 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z In the winter, the majestic mountains to the west turn snowy white, throwing the dun-colored, aging buildings in the city below into sharp relief. Tales from Survivors of Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z As we drove to the stadium, the landscape spread low in the distance, small undulations on top of one another, layers of the same dun-colored flatness. Seahawks fan behind enemy lines in K.C.: We're still louder 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Dominating the dun-colored horizon a few miles to the south is Nissan’s massive new 21-million-square-foot factory. America's Car Capital Will Soon Be ... Mexico 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The dam itself, backed by a turquoise lake and surrounded by dun-colored mountains, was in fine condition, with little evidence of damage either from the fighting or from two weeks in militant hands. In Retaking of Iraqi Dam, Evidence of American Impact 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z He was waiting on the street outside his house, a multistory, dun-colored building, when I arrived; he looked relaxed and greeted passing neighbors. A Conversation With Abu Khattala in Benghazi before his capture 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Today, the pump jacks of the Kern River Oil Field, now operated by Chevron, are bobbing black flecks scattered across a dun-colored plateau. Preservationists Aim to Save Merle Haggard’s Childhood Home 2014-02-26T17:34:59Z “Stay haw, stay haw,” Mr. Leslie said in a low, calm voice, reminding the dun-colored horses to bear right as they neared the end of the field. Horses as Farm Equipment 2013-05-15T20:00:13Z And beyond these stretches the yellow sand, not white and heavy, like our own, but dun-colored and fine, like dust, and over it amethyst skies bare of clouds, and tall palms. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z I had gone down the steps, and I was regarding a red rubber cap and a dun-colored raincoat. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z Maybe these aerial shots of Mesa, Arizona, which looks like a dun-colored office park, will help. What You Missed While Not Watching The Last GOP Debate Before Super Tuesday 2012-02-23T10:00:00Z The wharves and dun-colored houses of Culberton were already far astern. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z Jack went in and pitched his rope on a sleepy-looking, pot-bellied, dun-colored pony that would weigh in the neighborhood of eight hundred pounds, and led him into the street. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Then again I saw that arm, and it was covered with a sleeve that looked wonderfully like that of the taller tramp’s coat, a dun-colored affair.” The Outdoor Chums on the Lake Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island 2011-09-22T02:00:23.407Z Soon there was a vast expanse of dun-colored desert below. At War Blog: Into the Air in Libya, With Hope and a Prayer 2011-09-06T20:34:53Z On the left, in the middle distance, a brown and a dun-colored ox are lying down. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z To the south of us, a misty orange flush suffused the dun-colored sky. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Across the roads the fields were dry and dun-colored, but in places the grass was still green, and over all the bright blue sky with its floating clouds. Randy's Summer A Story for Girls 2011-06-16T02:00:16.550Z Near by the other two girls were milking—each with her forehead against the soft flank of a dun-colored cow whose hoofs were stained with the juice of wild strawberries. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z The edge of the Semipalatinsk Test Site is a two-hour drive from the nearest large city, across an expanse of dun-colored, featureless steppe. Old Soviet Nuclear Site in Asia Has Unlikely Sentinel: The U.S. 2011-05-22T00:56:13Z She spoke to him, but he rose, showed his fangs, and stalked out of the room, the bristles stiff on his dun-colored back. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z It was a large, comfortable home on a quiet street, with a little courtyard hidden behind a dun-colored wall. Magazine Preview: On Libya?s Revolutionary Road 2011-03-30T14:23:43Z It was well that he did so, for as he held his candle aloft, the huge, dun-colored body, which lay on the ground directly in front of him, made a convulsive spring. The Boy Scouts On The Range 2011-01-27T03:00:45.810Z Between them walked a line of men in dun-colored garments. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z It stood there with bare, dun-colored plastered walls. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Below a sharp dun-colored bluff stretched the brick and cement factories of Helwan. Helwan Journal: Looking for a Heavenly Sign to Start Ramadan 2010-08-11T21:27:00Z The house looks comfortable, but gloomy, and that is precisely what it is, this dun-colored spring day, comfortable, but gloomy. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Life dropped its dun-colored cloak and stood suddenly garlanded in pink, wire-stemmed roses. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Thus the city, with its dun-colored walls, swam in the poppies like an island against whose battlemented shore blue waves surged and tossed. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Green against the livid sky in their square dun-colored towers hang the bronze bells of Castile. A Pushcart at the Curb It was observed that the driver of the small, dun-colored yoke of cattle attached to the cart used no whip, and he was mentally commended for his humanity. The Pearl of India Melissa got up and wandered toward the edge of the ca�on, and Lysander, aroused from the plentitude of his recollections by her absence, completed his load and drove the dun-colored mule leisurely after her. Stories of the Foot-hills Wily and uncertain of temper, nervous because of the lightning, the dun-colored cayuse would not let Matthews secure her. The Plow-Woman Early Yellow, Early Black, and Quaker, or dun-colored, are also early and good. Soil Culture And clearly could the boys see that these men were garbed in the dun-colored uniforms distinguishing the Kaiser’s troops. The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France Out in the cold, a little distance away, a fresh mound lay, dun-colored, under the oblique rays of the setting sun. The Wilderness Trail Lysander Sproul, driving his dun-colored mules leisurely toward the mesa, looked back now and then at the winery which crowned its low hill like a bit of fortification. Stories of the Foot-hills Sally! for your sake....” ... still upward, until the cannon fumes broke as a dun-colored wave over pennant and plume ... and grimy troops fell as spring blossoms in a balmy south breeze.... The Missourian He glanced toward a dun-colored curtain evidently concealing shelves and dishes. Outside Inn Come close, Phil found that a dun-colored canvas had been thrown over the top of it, making an adequate camouflage in daytime. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 It is built upon the face of a lofty dun-colored rock, upon whose precipitous side the fortification is terraced. Due South or Cuba Past and Present At daybreak the next morning, Lysander harnessed the dun-colored mules and drove to Los Angeles. Stories of the Foot-hills This was a dun-colored beast about the size of a wolf and not unlike one in many of his attributes. Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School I knew it would be impossible to sight him for his dun-colored coat blended perfectly with the surrounding bowlders. A Mountain Boyhood Near by lay a dun-colored horse on its side, tied fast. The Coyote A Western Story Ja Ben led the way straight to the low but vast building of dun-colored stone that I knew was the administration building of the Control City. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 As he spoke, a long, low emigrant wagon, or “prairie schooner,” drawn by three yoke of dun-colored oxen, toiled up the road. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas Bristles whacked the dun-colored beast soundly, as he made a ferocious leap up toward his throat, and had the satisfaction of seeing him whirl headlong. Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School The roads were almost dry now, and in the dun-colored fields and the purple-gray woods there was an air of expectancy, as though the earth knew that a great change was near. Treasure Valley He left the house and in a few minutes reappeared from the direction of the barn, riding his dun-colored horse. The Coyote A Western Story Out from a runway some thirty or forty yards up the glade stepped a huge, dun-colored bull, 189 with horns like scimitars each as long as Grôm’s arm. In the Morning of Time We are eagles, you and I. Your mother is a sparrow, gentle and dun-colored. The Calm Man Far stretching on either side were azure seas, with dun-colored islands dotting their broad expanses. The Love Story of Abner Stone She sat on the front bench, with Rosie on one side and Eppie on the other, and rapturously swung her feet and laughed and talked, all oblivious of her dun-colored clothes. 'Lizbeth of the Dale When the man, mounted on a lean, dun-colored horse, first looked up at a turn of the narrow trail and saw the sign, he grunted. The Coyote A Western Story Far away on the vine-covered slopes a few peasants were lazily bending over their work, the bright garments of their picturesque attire standing out like little specks of brilliant coloring against the dun-colored background. The New Tenant It is built upon the face of a lofty, dun-colored rock, upon whose precipitous side the fortification is terraced. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands The girl closed her eyes upon the dusty, dun-colored landscape. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Then Elizabeth was clothed in a long, spotlessly clean, dun-colored pinafore, starched to the extremity of discomfort, and her spirits, always colored by her surroundings, were also subdued and confined. 'Lizbeth of the Dale There were horses old and young, and foals running beside their mothers; horses brown, dun-colored, black, and white; and all of them were so bright and shiny and fat and skittish! Lisbeth Longfrock Then, in the dun-colored fog, a red flame darted out, splitting the air with a deafening crash, and the thunder-clap of the cannon-shot shook the earth under our hurrying feet. The Reckoning There was a thin thread of white that ran across the dun-colored range and reached that half-ball and then ended. Space Platform The black abysses, the valleys and coves, show dun-colored verges and grow gradually distinct, and on the slopes the ash and the pine and the oak are all lustrous with a silver rime. 'way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895 Far to the south-west, the dull, dun-colored roofs and walls of the post could barely be discerned, even with the powerful binocular, against the brown barren of the low "bench" whereon it lay. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War They were even more numerous than we had imagined, for huge dun-colored forms slunk off in all directions through the bush as we neared the water. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa When Brion looked down, the sand car was just a dun-colored bump in the desert, already far behind him. Planet of the Damned "We came across that lame pet yearling, the dun-colored one you thought so much of; and there was mighty little left of the poor beast but a torn hide, not worth lifting." The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave The councillor, two first secretaries and the senior attaches gathered around the ambassador, their ornate uniforms bright in the vast dun-colored room. The Yillian Way The ripe seeds are dun-colored or dark-drab, usually with a greenish line encircling the eye, kidney-shaped, five-eighths of an inch long, and about a fourth of an inch thick. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Following faint clews, Ramsey made long walks into the country, toiling from ranch to ranch over the dun-colored, lonely hills, dogged, persistent, with lips set grimly. Wayside Courtships There to the south, full thirty miles away, the land was overlaid by a dull, heavy, dun-colored cloud, and traversed by black streaks or blotches that were recognized at once as running buffalo. Warrior Gap A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. There's something on the ground, and I can catch a glimpse of what looks like a dun-colored hide through the tufts of buffalo grass. The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave The entire heavens ahead were hidden under dun-colored clouds which in places seemed to be gathering themselves together into formidable leaden arrangement. Around the World in Ten Days Offshore the dun-colored sails of the fishing fleet dipped and fluttered where the sturdy men of Douarnenez were engaged in their task of getting the herring from the sea. One Woman's Life East and west, north and south, far as the eye could reach, hemmed by low, dun-colored ridges or sharply outlined crests of remote mountain range, in lifeless desolation the landscape lay outspread to the view. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila But of pictures, ornamentation, or relief of any kind the gloomy box was destitute as the dun-colored flat of the parade. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier He smoothed the calico, untied a shoestring from the sack's mouth, and let a stream of dun-colored dust run out. The Emigrant Trail They were ignorant women, hollow-chested and wrinkled like witches because they had spent lives against dun-colored backgrounds, but they were wise in the matter of "yarbs" and simple nursing. A Pagan of the Hills Far off to the southwest was sweeping a dun-colored curtain—the departing sand-storm, but that was all. The Border Boys Across the Frontier One of the two outriders who had started with her husband and niece at dawn, was mounted on a dun-colored cow pony, with white face and feet. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier One dresses for a motor as one would for driving in a carriage and those dun-colored, lineless monstrosities invented for motor use have vanished from view. Woman as Decoration A slight adjustment brought into sharp focus the closed features of the three men and three women in dun-colored coveralls, under escort. The Universe — or Nothing And the sergeant pointed out across the plain, lying like a dun-colored blanket far towards the southern horizon. Foes in Ambush All about stretched a dull, dead picture of desolation, a dun-colored plain, unrelieved by vegetation, matching the skies above, extending in every direction through weary leagues of dismal loneliness. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier Snow clouds were scurrying in from over the dun-colored waters of the lake, bringing with them an early twilight. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West The desert, which had lain vast, dun-colored and unbroken before their eyes, had vanished; instead, a sapphire sea sparkled in the sunshine, its white-capped waves breaking upon the beach. The Black Pearl He then dished up two huge supplies of steaming beans and bacon, two monster cups of coffee, black as tar, and cut a giant pile of dun-colored bread. Bruvver Jim's Baby On week days he threw off this finery, and contented himself, if the season were summer, with appearing in a dun-colored shirt, which resembled a noun-substantive, for it could stand alone. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three She could still unbind her dun-colored hair and shake it in the sun. New Faces From the pale yellow surface of her dress, below the neck, protruded a strange, edged something, dun-colored, sharply defined and alien, which the man's surprised eyes failed to identify. Success A Novel Guy went back to England and heard that a terrible dun-colored cow had appeared in Warwickshire. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Slowly I plodded homeward across the somber moorland, where the gorse stems glimmered with a dull metallic green, and the heather, no longer violet and purple, hung drenched and dun-colored among the dreary rocks. Famous Modern Ghost Stories It is a great change in so short a time from the dun-colored shore and the frozen river to the waving verdure of the Cuban coast and the sparkling blue and white of the water. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 As they came out from behind the key they discovered the sharpie far away to the west, careening over under a brisk morning breeze, and looking like a dun-colored frightened bird. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf Soon she discovered him and, looking up, he saw her standing clear-cut against a cavernous, dun-colored cloud, which, gathering all lesser drift into its gulf, drove low towards the plateau. The Rim of the Desert Gales but serve thee for swifter flying, Foam crested waves with thy wings thou dost sweep, Wonderful dun-colored, down-covered body, Living thy life on the face of the deep! The California Birthday Book Robben Island looked like a dun-colored hillock as we shot past it within a short distance, and a more forlorn and discouraging islet I don't think I have ever beheld. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 She was a woman now, with a trained mind which took in the saddening significance of these lives, not so much melancholy or tragic as utterly neutral, featureless, dun-colored. Hillsboro People He was only a sorry dun-colored mongrel to outsiders, but Esther learned to see him almost through Dutch Debby's eyes. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People She was like a spirit new-born to another world, with all the dun-colored ties of a darker existence swept away, and only a residue of thought and feeling left of its former experience. The Purple Heights "We have cut down our expenses so much," I said, looking around on the drab walls and the dun-colored carpets, "don't you think we might have a few flowers?" As Seen By Me We reached the cedars however at seven o'clock, and as the sky was overcast with low dun-colored clouds and the air cool, we were sure it was not too late. Tales of lonely trails The wind grew heavier, and with it came a fine, dun-colored dust. Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life It was bare, somber, ridgy desert, covered with dun-colored greasewood and stunted prickly pear. Desert Gold To-day, however, the white summits were invisible; their heads were muffled in sullen clouds and the valleys beneath them curtained in dun-colored mist. Roderick Hudson Once, through a break in the trees, we saw a clear shoulder of green hill some distance away, and across this a large dun-colored animal was traveling at a considerable pace. The Lost World In and out with her black and dun-colored threads she spun her future. Men, Women, and Ghosts They are diminutive in size, dun-colored, docile in habits, and excellent milk producers. Norwegian Life In the bow the old dun-colored blanket stirred but he did not see it. A Man and His Money From the lower branches of the tree depended a couple of dun-colored hams, and a painted board, with the words, "Good Family Butter." Dotty Dimple at Play You will know them by the penitential, dun-colored garment—they wear no other…. The Prince of India — Volume 01 A monstrous dun-colored cloud marked the course of this new storm-titan. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" A big, dun-colored squirrel leaped in the air, fell over, and disappeared in the grain. The Little Lady of the Big House Steam was up; a faint dun-colored smoke swept, pennon-like, from her white funnels. A Man and His Money The foliage along the roadsides grew dun-colored from the dust, and those who rode or drove on thoroughfares were stifled by the irritating clouds that rose on the slightest provocation. Nature's Serial Story His kind old aunt, too, had her full share of his thoughts as he reclined on the dun-colored leaves of the previous year and reviewed the past and planned for the future. His Sombre Rivals Casting their eyes in that direction the wretched wayfarers saw far away a dun-colored haze through which small black specks seemed to be moving. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" As the heavy dun-colored merchantman came slowly to its berth and the anchor fell with a rattle and a splash, the motley crowd cheered shrilly. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days You'll look lots better in blue because I'm going to wear my dun-colored dress. The Inspector-General On the table are displayed clothes, a pair of velveteen trousers, a shooting-jacket of maroon-colored velveteen, an old straw hat, and a pair of dun-colored leather boots. Within an Inch of His Life One stood alone in the centre of the place, under the light, and round it were gathered some two thousand dun-colored soldiers, almost lost in the immensity of that imperial building. Ten Days That Shook the World A judge of horses and a sportsman, he had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him. War and Peace It was a country of rolling moors, lonely and dun-colored, with an occasional church tower to mark the site of some old-world village. The Adventure of the Devil's Foot See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-colored houses. The Sign of the Four When I awakened, a long, pale line showed out of the dun-colored clouds in the east. The Last of the Plainsmen Her dun-colored garments seemed to have all the hue bleached out of them with wind and weather. A Mountain Woman There are many other varieties of American fox, such as the gray, the white, the cross, the silver, and the dun-colored. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains He rose, and looked into the river, whose swift race of dun-colored waters seemed the very spirit of futility and oblivion. Night and Day A vivid greenness marked these changes, which merged into a dun-colored smudge and again into the brilliant green; then the moor would begin once more. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu Low dun-colored sandhills waved from him down and down, in slow, deceptive descent. The Last of the Plainsmen He saw the dun-colored race of waters and the blank shore. Night and Day |
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