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saffron-coloured

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  • Local people are now forced to fly saffron-coloured flags outside their homes to identity themselves as Hindus and prevent attack.

    Holy war strikes in India: 35 Christians killed and 50,000 forced from their homes 2008

  • So they brought the lute in a bag of red satin, with tassels of saffron-coloured silk: and she opened the bag, and took it out and behold on it was graven,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Hymen blew his torch out, put it into the cupboard for use on a future day, and exchanged his garish saffron-coloured robe for decent temporary mourning.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • For a moment or two he remains silent as sibilantly he purses his lips and drinks some saffron-coloured tea from the saucer which the splayed fingers of his right hand are balancing on their tips.

    Through Russia 2003

  • Hamilcar counted them one after another with the tip of his finger; then he hid his face in a saffron-coloured veil, and, falling on his knees, stretched himself on the ground with both arms extended.

    Salammbo 2003

  • Beautifully dressed and wearing a saffron-coloured gown

    Lysistrata 2000

  • Beautifully dressed and wearing a saffron-coloured gown ...

    Lysistrata 2000

  • _Beautifully dressed and wearing a saffron-coloured gown ....

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • _Beautifully dressed and wearing a saffron-coloured gown ....

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • With the dried tail of a herring sticking out of their saffron-coloured, shrivelled chops, Lord! how they gaped when I passed by, hurriedly, like

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

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