| 单词 | fawn-coloured |
| 例句 | By now he was "quietly dressed" in a dark lounge suit and a fawn-coloured overcoat, and could have been a commercial traveller arriving ahead of business on Monday. World War One: German dressed as woman to avoid capture 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Miss Thompson, in her fawn-coloured coat and skirt, feathered hat and spotted veil, was a tall, slim, graceful figure, ready now to adorn the hired landau from Mr. Young's livery stables. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z They are bluish, fawn-coloured birds about a foot long. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The hair is short in summer, and of a fawn-coloured grey; in winter it is thick, rigid, and of a reddish grey, with some white about the muzzle, throat, and under the belly. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z The curtains of the bed were drawn;—the fawn-coloured moreen curtains with a black velvet edge, which I sometimes stroked for a treat. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z Then came fully one hundred magnificent hunting dogs of English breed, wearing upon their collars, still in honour of St. Hubert, big knots of fawn-coloured and scarlet ribbon. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z Though the day was warm, he wore his fawn-coloured coat, with the triple cape, and had turned up the collar about his ears. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Underneath the third layer suddenly appeared a sort of green earth, very curious-looking, dense and compact as stone, of a dirty cloud-colour and filled with fawn-coloured veins. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z In place of the black feathers of the normal bird, there was a fawn-coloured plumage, darkest on head and neck; lightest at bottom of back, back of flippers, and on shoulders. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z She was clad after the fashion of her native land in a “kabaai,” or robe of delicate, fawn-coloured silk, and a “sarong” or skirt of the same material, cerise-coloured. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Two barouches, each drawn by four magnificent horses driven by postilions in fawn-coloured satin jackets, followed the hunters. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z He stripped off his fawn-coloured trousers, thereby revealing the unusual circumstance that he wore two pairs—one of corduroy. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z This mane is usually concealed to a great extent by the fawn-coloured ridges of hair between which it lies. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The long and bushy tail in the northern species has a white tip and a dark gland-patch near the root, but the backs of the ears are fawn-coloured. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z But in addition to this is a blue mantle, and a white kerchief bound tightly round the head, and then over this, if the woman is unusually well-to-do, a fawn-coloured shawl. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Then, with a quick gesture, Onawa put out her fawn-coloured hand, and touched his right eye with the tip of one finger. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z "In a blue serge suit, with a hard, fawn-coloured hat," said Mrs Jeal, glibly. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z His calm moustache points to the ironies, And a fawn-coloured laugh sucks in the night, Full of the riant mists that turn to white In brief lost battles with banalities. Sonnets from the Patagonian A tea-girl in fawn-coloured cr�pe under a cherry tree all blossom. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel His features were not easy to describe in detail, they gave one the impression that they had been cut with insufficient premeditation by the hand of his Creator, from some pale fawn-coloured material. The New Warden "The witch is fair," the Puritan muttered, standing over and regarding her fawn-coloured skin, her even features, and large dark eyes. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Normally, he is a flattish, fawn-coloured beast, with a turtle-shaped body, little round head, and small legs with unusually strong claws. The Story of the Trapper In The Story of Eva, Mr. Payne announces that Eva climbed out of a cab in “a fawn-coloured jacket,” conspicuous by reason of its newness, and a hat “with an owl’s head upon it!” Threads of Grey and Gold They were dressed in neat little tweed suits with fawn-coloured overcoats, and they carried ladies' reticules of black leather and nickel platings. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel She saw such things occasionally in Regent Street, and loved to look in at the windows of motor broughams upholstered in fawn-coloured corduroy, with arm straps and little hanging vases of fresh flowers. Coquette She wore a blue and white gingham, and a fawn-coloured coat. Two Little Women When last heard of he wore a fashionable suit of pearl-grey, and boots with fawn-coloured tops. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) The female bird has a light yellow and fawn-coloured tail, more delicate in colour though not so brilliant as her mate's plumage. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Beyond it, in sharpest contrast, rise the bare, fawn-coloured mountains, savage, intractable, desolate; away to the west, the snow-crowned bulk of Hermon; away to the east, the low-rolling hills and slumbrous haze of the desert. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Dreams of luxurious motor-cars, and footmen with fur capes and long fawn-coloured overcoats, holding fur rugs to cover her knees, were now constant in Sally's mind. Coquette It is fawn-coloured or mouse-coloured, or black and covered with little white spots; a very pretty little animal. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Still, the gown was well cut of fawn-coloured stuff, which her stockings and shoes matched. Anthony Lyveden Originally fawn-coloured it had been liberally camouflaged with bizarre circles, squares and triangles painted in a medley of colouring. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force We have had only a few showers, but in one, on Loch Katrine, my poor fawn-coloured dress suffered. Vixen, Volume II. "Oh, I have nothing to say against them," said Lady Mabel, shrugging her pretty shoulders in her fawn-coloured silk gown. Vixen, Volume I. A light fawn-coloured or white cotton cloth, almost exclusively worn at one time in our ships on the India station. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The three walked away together; and the Complete Sportsman was left to share with the quiet couple a compartment in which there was now ample room to stretch his fawn-coloured limbs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 She was clad in some soft fawn-coloured garment, cut very much in the fashion; her hair was closely rolled and twisted about her lightly-balanced head; everything about her was neat and fresh and tight-fitting. Robert Elsmere When he had gone Mattie went around to the classical porch and sat herself down under the honeysuckle festoons that dangled above her smooth braids of fawn-coloured hair. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 They have long, slender necks, and rich fawn-coloured coats, with patches of white across the shoulders and inside the legs. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America It had a reddish-brown plumage, with a fawn-coloured breast spotted with black. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting The former is a fawn-coloured bird, with a black moustachial streak. Birds of the Indian Hills Under the rug one knee was bent upward and the fingers of one hand were swiftly undoing the buttons of one fawn-coloured spat. From Place to Place The first is a large, smooth dog, generally black, sometimes fawn-coloured, with a square heavy head, most resembling the Danish boarhound. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II She was on her way to a tea, and looked exquisitely pretty in a fawn-coloured crêpe de chine embroidered with wild roses, and a bonnet of pink tulle crushed about her face. The Californians One with fawn-coloured wings came flying and lighted on her shoulder; another followed. The Black Cross These were fawn-coloured, with sleek, soft fur, which, like the chinchilla, was blueish next to the skin. Wild Nature Won By Kindness Encircled by his children, each of whom held alternately a white or fawn-coloured gazelle, an Arab clothed in his blue bornouz, led by a thick cord of crimson silk a tall and tawny giraffe. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity He wore a cloak, broad striped, of white and crimson, a white frilled shirt of lawn showing above a vest of crimson velvet, fawn-coloured baggy trousers, and soft sheepskin boots. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Its recoiling proboscis and its slim, fawn-coloured legs quivered. The Danger Mark Altogether the room really looks pretty with a fawn-coloured paper and the few water colours up—round table, etc., etc. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books He said: "He says: A fawn-coloured heifer, pure and rich in tone, the admiration of beholders!" Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Mrs. Lightmark smiled a little absently as she sat smoothing the creases out of her pretty, fawn-coloured gloves. A Comedy of Masks A Novel He had enormous fawn-coloured silky paws, and was so soft and floppy he seemed as if he had hardly a bone in his body. Fanny Goes to War Sir Chichester, with larger mother-of-pearl buttons on his fawn-coloured overcoat than ever decorated even a welshing bookmaker on Brighton Downs, led Hillyard up to Lady Splay. The Summons The carpet she bought brand new—it was a sea of stormy crimson, with fawn-coloured islands rioted over with roses and blue tulips. Joanna Godden He took up the glove—a thick, fawn-coloured riding-glove—and remembered it for one of his own. Verner's Pride And here the uplifting of an angry guttural voice caused him to turn and run hurriedly towards a figure vehemently signalling with a huge fawn-coloured sun-shade lined with green. Desert Love He saw families of awkward little fawn-coloured squawkers force their way out of their shells under his very eves, while indignant mothers told him what they thought of him from a safe distance. A Maid of the Silver Sea There was an exquisitely graceful fawn-coloured kid, with a scarlet collar and bells, bounding about playfully on the narrow ledges of the rocks. From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry In his hand he held two little volumes with crimson edges, bound in fawn-coloured calf. Là-bas As they lay sleeping, a tangle of large limbs and supine strength, the fire shone over them till their fawn-coloured coats gleamed almost like satin touched with gold. Flames In summer, too, the chibouque of cherry-wood, brought from the Balkan, is exchanged for the lighter jessamine tube of Damascus or Aleppo, covered with fawn-coloured silk and fringed with silver. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 The twisted portions, and especially the roots of the latter, yield veneers of unusual beauty, dark wavings and blotches, almost black, being gracefully disposed over a delicate fawn-coloured ground. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 He leaned his bare arms on the great fawn-coloured flanks of Orlando, and his forehead on his arms, which grew wet with hidden tears. The Waters of Edera Her mind turned to them: to Gwinnie, dressed in their uniform, khaki tunic and breeches and puttees, her fawn-coloured overcoat belted close round her to hide her knees. The Romantic The sleeping dogs, heaving gently in fawn-coloured beatitude, set upon it the best hall-mark. Flames The nest "contained four eggs," which are described as "whitish, with spare and faint fawn-coloured spots," and are figured as measuring 0·65 by 0·47. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 The range that we had ascended consisted of porphyry, having a base of fawn-coloured compact felspar, with grains of quartz, and crystals of common felspar. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 Gorgeous are Mr Dombey's new blue coat, fawn-coloured pantaloons, and lilac waistcoat; and a whisper goes about the house, that Mr Dombey's hair is curled. Dombey and Son It was a big, open car, and all the way to Laipnik the girl, looking priceless in a fawn-coloured dress, sat by my side. The Brother of Daphne She wore a long, fawn-coloured dust-cloak, a black, close-fitting toque, and a dark veil which concealed the greater part of her face. Tales of Terror and Mystery Had it not been for the courage of the fawn-coloured dog, which, clinging to the boar, prevented it making a full dash at the man, he must have been gored. Vivian Grey A great square of white light, smooth and pure, fell upon the frame over which Hubertine and Angelique were bending, with their delicate profiles in the fawn-coloured reflection of the gold. The Dream Mr Toots informs the Chicken, behind his hand, that the middle gentleman, he in the fawn-coloured pantaloons, is the father of his love. Dombey and Son In strength and endurance, the brindled dog, or the brown or fawn-coloured one, is the best. The Dog She was dressed in fawn-coloured satin, with large pearls. Life in Mexico Here the precipice of fawn-coloured limestone overhangs like a wave, curling and about to break. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe All fawn-coloured stallions, sleek—their manes to their knees, their tails to their hoofs…. A Desperate Character and Other Stories Going up to the house, he met the lady's poodle in a fawn-coloured wrap coming out in charge of a footman for its daily walk round the square. The Christian A Story Clytie passed her hand down the side of her thick fawn-coloured skirt and readjusted her toque. Under the Skylights She wore a light fawn-coloured dress and a hat covered with Parma violets. The History of David Grieve He cantered forward with greetings on a fat little fawn-coloured pony, with a long white mane and white flowing tail, and the wickedest eye in the world. Coningsby Hazel had her mother's eyes, strange, fawn-coloured eyes like water, and in the large clear irises were tawny flecks. Gone to Earth A small-growing species, rarely over 6 feet high, with elliptic leaves that are fawn-coloured on the under sides. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs This is the cry of the kookoor ghēt, a bird not unlike a small pheasant, with a reddish-brown back and a fawn-coloured breast. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter Above them, and among them, rise stiff upright shrubs, with pairs of pointed leaves, a foot long some of them, pale green above, and yellow or fawn-coloured beneath. At Last Dressed in grey tweed suit, over which he wore a fawn-coloured overcoat. The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation A neat fawn-coloured bird this, with a long tail and dark markings on his wings. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign These jets of gas, hanging from the glazed roof whereon they cast spots of fawn-coloured light, shed around them circles of pale glimmer that seem at moments to disappear. Theresa Raquin The fawn-coloured hat was restored to its shape, or nearly. The Heart of Rome "Well, yes," she answered, gazing down at her fawn-coloured dress with a half-suppressed smile of self-satisfaction, "I flatter myself I CAN get through about as much work in a day as anybody!" Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose Her fawn-coloured mantle, her hat with the yellow flowers, were the same as yesterday. Eve's Ransom On the lower part of the face there is a larger dark-brown area than in the ordinary eland, although there is a rufous fawn-coloured patch on each side above the nostril. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures Its materials were of a fawn-coloured stone, common in the Mowbray quarries. Sybil, or the Two Nations She obeyed, and he made her as comfortable as he could, a forlorn little figure in her fawn-coloured hat, wrapped in his grey tweed coat, that looked utterly shapeless on her. The Heart of Rome Sir R. Heron crossed during many years white, black, brown, and fawn-coloured Angora rabbits, and never once got these colours mingled in the same animal, but often all four colours in the same litter. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 She wore a stiffish fawn-coloured dress that seemed to be cut a little too tight round her substantial hips, for it quite neglected to embrace her knees. The Patrician Her complexion had been ruined by long residence in India, and might unkindly have been called fawn-coloured. Villa Rubein, and other stories He was pure white, with a fawn-coloured saddle just behind his neck, and a fawn diamond at the root of his thin whippy tail. Actions and Reactions As for Sabina, she had tried to take off the fawn-coloured hat, but it had in some way become entangled with her unruly hair, and it was hanging down her back. The Heart of Rome I told him I wanted six pairs altogether—three suede, fawn-coloured, and three cream-coloured—kids. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow The latter, having undone his parcel, was holding out a pair of elegant, fawn-coloured shoes. Fire-Tongue Then she saw the edge of a fawn-coloured cloth skirt on the red carpet by an armchair. The Heart of Rome I told him I wanted three pair cream and three pair fawn-coloured, and the fawn-coloured were to be swedes. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow |
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