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  • He was dressed, as for a gala, in peach-colour and silver; his breast sparkled with stars and was bright with ribbons; for he had held a levee in the afternoon and received a distinguished personage incognito.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • As I lay and looked through the eastern window of my room, a faint streak of peach-colour, dividing a cloud that just rose above the low swell of the horizon, announced the approach of the sun.

    Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

  • From the ferry of the Bou-Regreg we looked backward on a last vision of orange ramparts under a night-blue sky sprinkled with stars; ahead, over gardens still deep in shadow, the walls of Salé were passing from drab to peach-colour in the eastern glow.

    In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899

  • They were handsome animals, as Moroccan horses go, and each of a different colour, and on the bay horse was a red saddle embroidered in gold, on the piebald a saddle of peach-colour and silver, on the chestnut, grass-green encrusted with seed-pearls, on the white mare purple housings, and orange velvet on the grey.

    In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899

  • He was dressed, as for a gala, in peach-colour and silver; his breast sparkled with stars and was bright with ribbons; for he had held a levee in the afternoon and received a distinguished personage incognito.

    Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Now it was a green paroquet, with long slender tail and head of the most delicate peach-colour or of

    Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Requiem was sung, down the broad staircase lined with peach-colour and yellow marble, into the shadows below.

    Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

  • Surrounded by the whole official world of Rosenmold, arrayed for the occasion in almost [139] forgotten dresses of ceremony as if for a masquerade, the new coffin glided from the fragrant chapel where the Requiem was sung, down the broad staircase lined with peach-colour and yellow marble, into the shadows below.

    Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

  • As I lay and looked through the eastern window of my room, a faint streak of peach-colour, dividing a cloud that just rose above the low swell of the horizon, announced the approach of the sun.

    Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women George MacDonald 1864

  • The peach-colour was gone from her cheek; it was pale and thin.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

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