| 单词 | dun-coloured |
| 例句 | Born in 1935, Brink grew up in a succession of "small dun-coloured villages" in South Africa's interior, where his father, Daniel, worked as a magistrate. A life in writing: Andr? Brink 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The repellant appearance of the dun-coloured dung on show in the museum belies its true significance as one of the crowning glories of 20th century science. Myoglobin: turd of the century? 2013-04-19T06:29:00Z Standing outside one of the family's previous homes, a modest dun-coloured house opposite a row of trailers, it's clear the place brought up uncomfortable memories for Dakota, who had spent his early teenage years there. Oath Keepers: ‘How I escaped my father’s militia’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z After black spots on dun-coloured spiky-looking fur flashed past me, the hyena stopped in the vegetation bordering the track I was running along. Running with the hyenas of Addis Ababa - BBC News 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z I had to give him up in despair, though I believe if I had had a dun-coloured Smut he would have taken it. Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies 2012-04-02T02:00:23.697Z And all the time in spring you can hear the wild musical note of the curlew, and see the dun-coloured birds flitting against the green of the woods. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z Mrs. Bindle retired a yard or two, her eyes still on the dun-coloured head. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z On the dun-coloured horizon appear the dim outlines of cities with towers turned upside down, whole palm-forests with their crowns reversed. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z The dun-coloured string which fell down over the wall no one was likely to notice in the dark. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z Among this herd were several most beautiful dun-coloured cows—dun being a colour in cattle which Noquala was particularly partial to. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The flare of the pulsing coals resuscitated the dim scene and the long dun-coloured shadows. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Writers will continue to go to the dreary moorlands, the dun-coloured skies of England for tragedy settings, and for the atmosphere of tradition and history. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z Remains of horses indistinguishable from E. caballus occur in the Pleistocene deposits of Europe and Asia; and it is from them that the dun-coloured small horses of northern Europe and Asia are probably derived. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The dun-coloured plaster had given place to a broad sandstone fa�ade adorned by the busts of eminent artists; and gilded railings gleamed where once the sorry-looking iron staircase had been. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z It turned out to be one of the dun-coloured stock he had recently purchased out of the proceeds of the sheep, and which had been brought down from the Drakensberg. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z Parroquets, breaking the dun-coloured mist with the scarlet and blue and green of their wings and breasts, dashed over the clearing, chattering hoarsely. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Most of the journey is through Arabia's Empty Quarter - hundreds of kilometres of flat, dun-coloured desert. 2010-02-09T10:59:00Z He stared against the dull, dun-coloured parent body whence it came—the sea. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath He stroked the donkey and the dun-coloured pony and watched the fantail pigeons in snowy circles against the pale blue sky. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Then Noquala drove home to his kraal the dun-coloured cows which, with several other cattle slightly inferior, although of fairly good quality, had now become his property. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z He watched her swing into her saddle and ride out along the flat, dun-coloured road to the hills. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z And they certainly were hideous, with their huge, dun-coloured, ungainly bodies, their bullet heads, their grizzly beards, their terrible tusks, and their bulging eyes. The Wreckers of Sable Island After that there was an interim of the usual dull, unaccented civilian monotony, mitigated at rare intervals by this dun-coloured ebb and flow from Plattsburg. The Moonlit Way She turned her head with an involuntary scrutinising glance, and had an impression of a long, lean jaw, dun-coloured hair, and a line of eyebrow, unexpectedly dark. An Unknown Lover The noble, dun-coloured bull still stalked about majestically, breathing love and defiance in his low. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The dun-coloured tops of huts arose above the tall corn and millet everywhere. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa In imagination she entered a great restaurant, heard the babble of voices, the flare of the band, and beheld in a corner the dun-coloured figure of Mary, seated in solitary state at a flower-decked table. Lady Cassandra As the path declines its mountainous sides rise higher and higher until overhead only a narrow streak of sky is revealed, like a soft-toned ribbon set in a background of some dun-coloured material. In the Brooding Wild Dallas and Marylyn were each intent upon Clark's, lying far ahead, and to the left, a dun-coloured line which seemed scarcely to get nearer as the time went. The Plow-Woman The dun-coloured bull was the last to die. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z And as she took in these details Sally hurried on, and found herself in a narrow dun-coloured passage, where brown doors with numbers upon them indicated the bedrooms. Coquette In all her dun-coloured life Jan-an had never seen anything so wonderful as the girl on the doorstep. At the Crossroads Underneath his loose, dun-coloured vest he wore a soft shirt, and in place of a linen collar he had a red bandana tied about his neck. The Hound From The North When the dun-coloured line resolved itself into two, and they saw the cow-camp: A narrow street flanked by low shanties of canvas and board. The Plow-Woman Just the dun-coloured bull and a few cows. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z She turned to Ursula, as she pushed up her frizzed, flat, dun-coloured hair. The Rainbow It wasn’t the woman with the dun-coloured ending to her story that mattered; it was the story. At the Crossroads Leading the cavalcade, rode a mounted constable dressed in a blue tunic, with silver buttons, dun-coloured, corded riding-breeches, top-boots, and a blue shako. The Tale of Timber Town Now and then squads marched up and down, monotonously clad in khaki and dun-coloured helmets. The Rough Road Through the dun-coloured fog the sun shone red like a buckler in the forge, and seemed to have lost its beams. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt The two former were mounted on beautiful white horses gorgeously trapped, and the latter on his favourite dun-coloured Arabian. Coronation Anecdotes On one side the sloping valley was filled with a dun-coloured mist. Love of Brothers These horses of the old time were clumsy at the fetlock and dun-coloured, with a rough tail and big head. Tales of Space and Time But all this period of his life was but a dun-coloured monotony, with but few happenings to distinguish week from week. The Rough Road The dusty mist was produced by the army on the march, and hovered above it like a dun-coloured cloud. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt While the target was still veiled in its dust the second four-point-seven spoke, and the minaret disappeared from view behind a dun-coloured shroud. Pan-Islam Over it leant the dun-coloured cloud which was a part of the grey heavens. Love of Brothers Herds of beautiful white or dun-coloured oxen gave animation to the scenery. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century The cart was closed and locked like a chest, and painted with blue, red, and white tulips; it was drawn by two dun-coloured bullocks, and Jörgen was allowed to drive them. The Sand-Hills of Jutland She was a small, dun-coloured Italian greyhound, and very fond of her master, whom she never quitted but when he went out, and then she laid herself down on his couch. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. As he leaned over the parapet, gazing down into the dun-coloured waters, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a cheery voice said,— 'Eh, Tom, my lad, what are you dreaming about? Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century Round the Southern and Western horizon ran the broad belt of light under the sapphire cloud, while to North and East the dun sky met the dun-coloured mist. Love of Brothers It seems that not very long ago a wild breed of dun-coloured horses with a spinal stripe was preserved in the royal parks in Prussia. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. A squall arose and the ships had to part company and we lay for two days tossing and rolling in a dun-coloured atmosphere. In Mesopotamia The sea, heaving with a strong ground-swell, reflected the pale blue of the sky in millions of pools of light on the dun-coloured surface. The Privet Hedge Away to the southward the sun was glancing upon the broad expanse of white sand; and several tall objects, like vast dun-coloured towers, were moving over the plain. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Lord God!" sighed the citoyenne, showing her son a loaf baked of heavy dun-coloured dough, "bread is too dear for anything; the more reason it should be made of pure wheat! The Gods are Athirst The dun-coloured body, with dark, shaggy mane—the broad, full face, and wrinkled jaws—the fierce, yellow eye, and bristled, cat-like snout, were not to be mistaken. Ran Away to Sea The atmosphere became dun-coloured, thickened at places into opaque and rushing veils. In Mesopotamia It is a scene of wildness and grandeur; on the left lies the blue sea, on the right the dun-coloured moors. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland By stretching necks it saw a roof of smoke, dun-coloured, hiding pandemonium. The Long Roll With light-like speed Dreda shed her dun-coloured garments on to the floor, and in a trice was arrayed in her prettiest, most becoming costume. Etheldreda the Ready A School Story There were middle-aged buildings, low and small and dun-coloured, exactly like those of every other French-Algerian settlement, but big new blocks of glittering white gave an air of almost ostentatious prosperity to the place. A Soldier of the Legion And Arthur and Owain marvelled at the tumult as they played at chess; and, looking, they perceived a knight upon a dun-coloured horse coming towards them. The Mabinogion Vol. 1 A sharp penetrating wind swept across the sea and sung eerily about the dun-coloured funnel. The Red Horizon She was like a powerful if small electric lamp, purposely veiled by a dun-coloured shade. The Guests Of Hercules How far more subtle the appeal of these grey and dun-coloured opacities, these tent-cloths of fog pressed out into uncouth, dumbly pathetic shapes by the struggle for existence that seethes below it always—always! Wandering Heath They were grey and dun-coloured, pale in the face. Lore of Proserpine And if she heard now that he was alive, had only seemed dead for her safety and his own, would she come to him and share the dun-coloured life of the In-Place? The Place Beyond the Winds He hated the domestic woman—Lucretius's dun-coloured wife, for instance—on whom no man except her mate would cast an eye. Roads from Rome "You wore dun-coloured spectacles when you took your walks abroad," she said, smiling. A Lost Leader Hitherto you have only seen life through dun-coloured spectacles. The Survivor The town walls were dun-coloured, the shrubs were grey, the young buds were pale and closed. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross He motioned me towards a larger cage wherein a bevy of dun-coloured piglets were holding a soviet. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04 Already the early bloom of the orchard had dropped, and the freshly ploughed fields, with splashes of henna in the dun-coloured soil, were surrounded by the budding green of the woods. One Man in His Time The sun was above their heads, red and leaden; all round stretched the scorched scrub; the creek lay to their right but the five trees had vanished, swallowed up in a thick, dun-coloured fog. Captivity It was a chance, perhaps, or a mood, which made him look out upon a scene, ordinary enough and inoffensive, through dun-coloured spectacles. The Survivor Revealed by the disorder of her habiliments, and contrasting strongly with the extreme whiteness of her skin, a dun-coloured mole was discovered upon her breast. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest On his way, he happened to meet with Sir Murrough O'Brien, driving for the capital in a handsome phaëton, with six prime dun-coloured horses. The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection There were all Miss Churchill's gang of great dames, muslin, rustling, marriageable daughters, a continual twitter of voices, and a sprinkling of the peasantry, dun-coloured and struck speechless. The Inheritors Mr. Tegetmeier informed Mr. Darwin that the young of white, yellow, or dun-coloured pigeons are born almost naked, whereas other coloured pigeons are born well clothed with down. Darwinism (1889) The smoke of chimneys arose straight on the "cessile air," making a soft dun-coloured haze through which the light of the declining day was filtered in streams of yellow—pale lemon-yellow, golden-yellow, orange, orange-tawny. Hocken and Hunken At any rate, whatever the reason, nothing can be conceived more bare than the dun-coloured rounded hills between the town of Die and the Col de Vassieux, towards which we were making our way. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland Old Malakh went up two steps of this old stairway, turned aside, and slipped away so swiftly that his amazed pursuer caught no more than an after-flutter of his dun-coloured garments. Romance Island The men wore dun-coloured garments, and the women were not much livelier. The Conqueror The tide was in and the great mudbanks had disappeared, save that here and there their dun-coloured convexity rose above the surface like the back of a sleeping leviathan. The Firm of Girdlestone Some of them were on horseback, and actually had their steeds smeared with dun-coloured clay so as to resemble the background and the rocks. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion At the same moment he reined up his dun-coloured mare. The Delectable Duchy The brilliant blue fades out of the sky, and the sun just glimmers through layers of dun-coloured vapour. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine This was done with all solemnity, and immediately the ocean became convulsed—the waters hissed loudly, and the waves rose mountains high, "Twisting their arms to the dun-coloured heaven." Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 He had abandoned the Missionary Child and was reading a little dun-coloured book, and marking passages with a pencil. Mr. Standfast No. 77B, Brook Street, was one of those dingy and yet imposing houses, dun-coloured and flat-faced, with the intensely respectable and solid air which marks the Georgian builder. Tales of Terror and Mystery The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation. The War of the Worlds It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops, looking like the reflection of the mud-coloured streets beneath. A Study in Scarlet Driving through an ancient gate-way of dun-coloured stone, spanned by the high-shouldered Tudor arch, they found themselves in a spacious court, closed by a facade on each of its three sides. A Pair of Blue Eyes Her heavy, dun-coloured hair was coiled on top of her head. Sons and Lovers The old red-brick Grammar School bears the date 1583, and is a pleasant relief from the dun-coloured monotony of the greater part of the city. Yorkshire Then the ore was sifted out, melted down, and poured into the mould, whence it emerged as the "brick," a dun-coloured rectangle, rough-edged, immensely heavy, which represented anywhere from two to six thousand dollars. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors. A Study in Scarlet In front of us and on either side the great uneven dun-coloured plain stretched away to the horizon, without a break in its barren gorse-covered surface. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 My dun-coloured dress did well enough under a paletôt on the stage, but would not suit a waltz or a quadrille. Villette The day wore on; the storm rolled away towards other hills; and woods; and a rent in the dun-coloured clouds showed the bright blue above them. The Golden Calf The sun was shining obliquely through a dun-coloured haze when I reached the village of Échourgnac in a cultivated valley. Two Summers in Guyenne Then he would watch the snow falling from the little patch of dun-coloured sky crossed by bars, and tell himself that that was all he was to see of the world henceforth. The Christian A Story It was a gloomy afternoon—one of those dun-coloured afternoons that seem all the more dismal for coming in the midst of Spring. Monsieur Maurice The picnic had palled; and Tom, shouting rebukes, orders, and suggestions from behind a tree, showed by his dun-coloured skin that he had been dragged ignominiously through the freshly tilled soil. My Tropic Isle Proceeding to the spot, we found a tropilla of eleven or twelve dun-coloured horses feeding near the river. The Purple Land His highness was served with his coffee by Pasha Bey, his generalissimo, a giant, with the tall crown of a dun-coloured beaver-hat on his head. The Life of Lord Byron A brace of sun-dogs following the pale God of Day across the narrow field of primrose that bordered the dun-coloured west. The Magnetic North Dead ahead of us, up through a bank of dun-coloured mist rose the moon, a great orb of crimson, spreading down the oil-like, still river, a streak of blood-red reflection. Travels in West Africa She was a silent, dun-coloured creature, whose most violent expression was an occasional deep, unctuous laugh at Mrs. Bannister's nonsense. Martie, the Unconquered While he was holding up the wheels and craning his neck around the back of the buggy to see if his efforts were successful, Jim Russell came into the yard, riding his dun-coloured pony Chiniquy. Sowing Seeds in Danny As they were passing round the shore they heard the barking of dogs, and a shout from a shepherd, and on looking round saw a large dun-coloured wolf, galloping slowly through the bushes. The Life of Lord Byron His life had sailed like some battered, dun-coloured vessel into a fair harbour of sunlight and blue, and hands were busy giving to it a brave new aspect. Thyrza Day was breaking; the moon, but an hour back a globe of polished silver, had now no light left in her, and stole, a misty ghost, across the dun-coloured sky. Australia Felix He took the plate from Cameron's hand, looked at it narrowly for a moment, then with thumb and forefinger drew from the butter with great deliberation a long dun-coloured hair. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail On the dun-coloured plains before the town, the long thin lines, with an occasional shifting sparkle of steel, showed where Hamilton's and Grimwood's infantry were advancing. The Great Boer War I think there is nothing in our dun-coloured civilisation prettier than that habit the ladies have in Saratoga of going out on the street after dark in their bare heads. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga They were trained to pick out of shadows birds that were themselves dun-coloured shades, and to see among trees the animals that are coloured like the bark of trees. Irish Fairy Tales The dun-coloured bull bellowed, glad to be free, and pawed the ground with his forefeet. The Witch and other stories It drew a new colour from the dun-coloured marshes, the masses of emerald seaweed, the shimmering sands. The Vanished Messenger A thick fog rolled down between the lines of dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Like a stately poplar, he bestrode his dun-coloured steed, and many heroic deeds did he perform. Taras Bulba and Other Tales |
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