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  • On the floor was a grass rug of green and wood-colour, and against the walls stood several long low settees of brown rattan, backs and seats cushioned in cretonne of soft greens and cream-colour, and a few chairs of like pattern were scattered about.

    The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story 1883

  • As the sun's yellow rim comes into sight, fine thin lines of warmer tone -- spectral violets and opalines-shoot across the flood, treetops take tender fire, and the unpainted faþades of high edifices across the water change their wood-colour to vapoury gold through the delicious haze.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • There was the dark fine bright red of some pepperidges shewing behind the green of an unchanged maple; near by stood another maple the leaves of which were all seemingly withered, a plain reddish light wood-colour; while below its withered foliage a thrifty poison sumach wreathing round its trunk and lower branches, was in a beautiful confusion of fresh green and the orange and red changes, yet but just begun.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • There was the dark fine bright red of some pepperidges shewing behind the green of an unchanged maple; near by stood another maple the leaves of which were all seemingly withered, a plain reddish light wood-colour; while below its withered foliage a thrifty poison sumach wreathing round its trunk and lower branches, was in a beautiful confusion of fresh green and the orange and red changes, yet but just begun.

    Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852

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