olive-coloured

But those maybe-imagined looks from her … her skin, all soft-looking and olive-coloured … Something stopped me from going.

Forbidden Sights 2010

The kitchen garden was dark with the enormous, olive-coloured warts of jackfruit clinging to the sides of the tall trees.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

The kitchen garden was dark with the enormous, olive-coloured warts of jackfruit clinging to the sides of the tall trees.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

The kitchen garden was dark with the enormous, olive-coloured warts of jackfruit clinging to the sides of the tall trees.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

A neat, olive-coloured species, somewhat resembling in form the

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

A kind of olive-coloured velvet, and fine brocaded waistcoat.

Pamela 2006

Some approach closely to the Caucasian type: one old man, with olive-coloured skin, bald brow, and white hair curling round his temples, and occiput, exactly resembled an

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

I concentrated, trying to remember, and he said, ', slightly hairy trousers, olive-coloured sweater over a mustard shirt.

PROOF Francis, Dick 1984

In this way they came at last to what looked like an impenetrable wall of dark evergreen trees, trees of a kind that the hobbits had never seen before: they branched out right from the roots, and were densely clad in dark glossy leaves like thornless holly, and they bore many stiff upright flower-spikes with large shining olive-coloured buds.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

_Burnt Verdigris_ is what its name expresses, and is an olive-coloured oxide of copper deprived of acid.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field