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  • “That pea-green doublet, slashed with orange-tawny, those ostrich plumes, blue, red, and yellow, those party-colored hose and pink shoon, became the noble baron wondrous well,” Fatima acknowledged.

    Burlesques 2006

  • A medical student was trying one of the doublets of orange-tawny and silver, slashed with dirty light blue.

    Burlesques 2006

  • “That pea-green doublet, slashed with orange-tawny, those ostrich plumes, blue, red, and yellow, those party-colored hose and pink shoon, became the noble baron wondrous well,” Fatima acknowledged.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • And he took off his orange-tawny cap and bowed low.

    A Legend of the Rhine 2006

  • And he took off his orange-tawny cap and bowed low.

    Burlesques 2006

  • A medical student was trying one of the doublets of orange-tawny and silver, slashed with dirty light blue.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • I will discharge it in either your straw-colour beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow.

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2004

  • I will discharge it in either your straw-coloured beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • In her hand she carried various vines and lichens that had maintained their orange-tawny stains under the winter's snow, and the black hair that was folded closely over forehead and temple was crowned with bent sprays of the scarlet maple-blossom.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • They were of all colours -- gay orange-tawny, tortoise shell with the becoming white patch over one eye, delicate tints of grey and fawn and lavender, brindle, glossy sable; and yet the gloom and dampness of the place seemed to mildew them all so that their brightness was glaring and their softest gradations took on a shade as of rusty mourning.

    Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

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