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Before the prison-door stand “a throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats. . .”

A rose kept alive in history 2009

Before the prison-door stand “a throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats. . .”

Archive 2009-07-12 2009

Wailing sadly, sad-colored mangrove-hens ran off across the mud into the dreary dark.

Westward Ho! 2007

Suddenly rosy-tinged signals stood among the sad-colored torn clouds above her head.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

With and under the old oaks and birches rest the sad-colored houses that have held life and experience, -- birth, death, and old historic adventure.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

We cannot tell among the men who pass us, all clad alike in dull, sad-colored clothes, who is a knight and who is a merchant, who is a shoemaker and who is a baker.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

= This class of silks is generally purer than black and sad-colored silks.

Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

Like the gentleman first described, he was dressed in sad-colored garments, differing but little from them, except that instead of a ruff, he wore a plain white band, falling upon his breast, cut somewhat like those worn by clergymen at the present day, but longer, and passing round the neck and covering the collar of the coat.

The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams

These, in turn, leaned gingerly on a sad-colored schoolhouse.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

Moreover, I could have vowed he was wearing the same sad-colored drab clothes he used to appear in then, so entirely unchanged were both cut and color.

The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon