liver-color

Still, such colors as liver-color, goose-shit green, or Paris mud — names suggesting intense if not exactly sparkling shades — also had a recognized place in the eighteenth-century palette.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

There is every variety of shade in the leaves — yellow, purple, copper, liver-color, and even inky black.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The clear gray sky, a faint glow in the dull liver-color of the east, the cool fresh odor and the moisture—the cattle and horses off there grazing in the fields—the star Venus again, two hours high.

Hours for the Soul. Specimen Days 1892

But as noon approaches the color gets lighter, quite gray for two or three hours—then still paler for a spell, till sun-down—which last I watch dazzling through the interstices of a knoll of big trees—darts of fire and a gorgeous show of light-yellow, liver-color and red, with a vast silver glaze askant on the water—the transparent shadows, shafts, sparkle, and vivid colors beyond all the paintings ever made.

The Sky—Days and Nights—Happiness. Specimen Days 1892

The clear gray sky, a faint glow in the dull liver-color of the east, the cool fresh odor and the moisture -- the cattle and horses off there grazing in the fields -- the star Venus again, two hours high.

Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

The clear gray sky, a faint glow in the dull liver-color of the east, the cool fresh odor and the moisture -- the cattle and horses off there grazing in the fields -- the star Venus again, two hours high.

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

The breed includes orange and white dogs and liver-color and white dogs.

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