clay-coloured

The clay-coloured, earthy nondescript animal of the field here erects himself and with infinite ingenuity and effort puts up a fight against the green woods and green fields and sheep advancing with measured tread, munching.

The Waves 2003

They were slipping out past the clay-coloured, loose stony edges of the land, through a surge of ripples, into the wide white light of the lake.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

While the wounded captain lay on the bed, with his clothes on, and the coverlet over him, and that clay-coloured apathetic face, with closed eyes, upon the pillow, without sigh or motion, not a whispered word escaped him; but his brain was appalled, and his heart died within him in the unspeakable horror of death.

Wylder's Hand 2003

The cliff overlooking the beach was honeycombed with untidy dug-outs; the beach itself rough and dirty, the water still dirtier, clay-coloured and coated with a thick scum of straw, grain, and other light debris from the barges that were unloading -- all that could honestly be said in its favour was that it was wet.

The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison

He could clearly perceive that the little blue lights were borne by dwarfs, whose pale clay-coloured faces, with their huge noses and red eyes, disfigured, too, by birds 'bills and owls' eyes, were supported by misshapen bodies.

Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian Various

We ought not to have read these dismal stories just before retiring to rest, as the consequence was that we were dreaming of dangerous rocks, storms, and shipwrecks all through the night, and my brother had toiled up the hill at the back of the town and found Bessie Miller there, just as Sir Walter Scott described her, with "a clay-coloured kerchief folded round her head to match the colour of her corpse-like complexion."

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

From every small stream and gully a volume of clay-coloured water flowed into the main stream.

Grey Town An Australian Story Gerald Baldwin

A carbon filter is a tube with a wad of compressed carbon inserted, through which the water is sucked, but as a rule clay-coloured water is comparatively innocuous, but beware of the bright, limpid water of long stagnant rock water-holes.

Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

On either side ran clay-coloured walls, with painted wooden doors here and there, and green shutters.

V. Book Five: “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On 1922

One rode a clay-coloured horse, and the figure of a kingfisher was stamped in blue on its shoulder.

Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians 1920