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  • On the wall of the cave are three hands, outlined in copper-hued red ochre.

    Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

  • And she saw in her mind a tiny copper-hued baby, fists clenched, arms flailing.

    Spirited Nancy Holder 2004

  • And she saw in her mind a tiny copper-hued baby, fists clenched, arms flailing.

    Spirited Nancy Holder 2004

  • Two copper-hued eyes regarded her above a slender muzzle.

    Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

  • His face was long and angular, with copper-hued skin stretched taut over jutting cheekbones and a prominent chin.

    Date With Death Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren 1984

  • Above them, the small, glittering sun slid down the copper-hued sky slowly toward the west.

    Rebels of the Red Planet Charles Louis Fontenay 1962

  • O thou of copper-hued eyes, O thou of red neck, O thou whose path is marked by a black colour, save us by going along any remote route, as indeed, the ocean saveth the house on its banks! '

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • O thou of copper-hued eyes, O thou of red neck, O thou whose path is marked by a black colour, save us by going along any remote route, as indeed, the ocean saveth the house on its banks! '

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Thoughts of another night, when Injun was not in a long, narrow bunk-house room, surrounded by booted cowboy friends, but in a tepee, dimly lighted by a central fire, around which squatted his serious-faced, copper-hued kinsmen, smoking their long pipes, and telling of their deeds and mishaps.

    Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

  • We had three boats and the Indian canoes and hands enough, white and copper-hued.

    1492, 1922

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